Georgia Guidestones Text

Main Inscription
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.

Unite humanity with a living new language.

Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.

Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

Balance personal rights with social duties.

Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.

Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.

Explanatory Text
The Georgia Guidestones

Center cluster erected March 22, 1980

Let these be guidestones to an Age of Reason

Astronomic features
Author: R.C. Christian (a pseudonyn)
 * 1) Channel through stone indicates celestial pole
 * 2) Horizontal slot indicates annual travel of sun
 * 3) Sunbeam through capstone marks noontime throughout the year

Sponsors: A small group of Americans who seek the Age of Reason

Time Capsule
Placed six feet below this spot on

To be opened on

Physical Data

 * 1) Overall height – 19 feet 3 inches.
 * 2) Total weight – 237,746 pounds.
 * 3) Four major stones are 16 feet, Four inches high, each weighing An average of 42,437 pounds.
 * 4) Center stone is 16 feet, four- Inches high, weighs 20,957 Pounds.
 * 5) Capstone is 9-feet, 8-inches Long, 6-feet, 6-inches wide; 1-foot, 7-inches thick. Weighs 24,832 pounds.
 * 6) Support stones (bases) 7-feet, 4 inches long 2-feet wide. 1 foot, 4-inches thick, each Weighing an average of 4,875 Pounds.
 * 7) Support stone (base) 4-feet, 2½ inches long, 2-feet, 2-inches Wide, 1-foot, 7-inches thick. Weight 2,707 pounds.
 * 8) 951 cubic feet granite.
 * 9) Granite quarried from pyramid Quarries located 3 miles west Of Elberton, Georgia.