RC Christian and Covid-19 HARVARD VERITAS

IN June of 1979, a man going by the pseudonym of RC Christian approached the Elberton Granite Finishing Co. in the state of Georgia in the United States with the task of building a monument. He said no one was to ever know his true identity or that of the group he was representing. When arranging payment, Christian explained that he represented a group, which had been planning the guidestones for 20 years and intended to remain anonymous. He seemed to have an endless supply of money to fund the project and by the terms of the legal contract, all plans had to be destroyed after completion and all information about him withheld from the public.

Christian delivered a scale model of the guidestones and 10 pages of specifications. The 5-acre land was apparently purchased by Christian on Oct. 1, 1979 from farm owner Wayne Mullinex. Mullinex and his children were given lifetime cattle grazing rights on the guidestones site.

The monument was unveiled on March 22, 1980, before an audience variously described as 100 or 400 people. Christian later transferred ownership of the land and the guidestones to the Elbert County. They would be known today as the Georgia Guidestones — a granite monument erected with a set of 10 guidelines inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages and a shorter message inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient language scripts. They carry a tablet in front proclaiming, “Let these be Guidestones to an Age of Reason.”

They are written in eight different languages, English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Russian, and the commandments preach to:

– 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.”

The Georgia Guidestones also serve as an astronomical calendar and every day at noon, the sun shines through a narrow hole in the structure and illuminates the day’s date on an engraving.

The names of four ancient languages are inscribed on the sides near the top: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit and Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

Are the engraved guidelines meant to be instructions in reestablishing the planet and society, perhaps after an apocalypse, a catastrophic pandemic?

It is eerie to see how timely the coronavirus disease 2019 ( Covid-19) outbreak is happening, 50 years exactly after its erection.

I am not preaching, but how I perceive the direction of humanity before the pandemic is that the world seemed to be degenerating morally, like on a downward spiral, where profit and pleasure are the paramount goals of each person whatever the cost to nature and human civility would be.

The 10th inscription on the

Georgia Guidestones reads “Be not a cancer on the Earth. Leave room for nature. Leave room for nature.” And sadly we never did.

We, instead, ruthlessly mine the earth for its oil, minerals, diamonds and everything and anything we can get and monetize as much as we can;

We, instead, heartlessly cut the trees and unsparingly flatten the ground to build tall pigeon holes for human beings to live in, and make as many boxes as we can to sell as much as we can.

We callously fly people by seating them as close to each other, even changing original plane configurations, so we can maximize profit.

We uncaringly ferry people at sea by overloading them, not minding their safety so long as we make more money.

We transport people by land by squeezing as much as we can, leaving them with no elbow room, no legroom, with armpits on covered faces and bodies pressed hard to each other — again, for more ticket sales.

We also herd as many students as we can fit in a small classroom, where they stay locked in all day, looking forward for the bell to ring so they can get out and play outdoors.

I can go on and on and give examples of what direction we are going. But I think you are all intelligent and wise to understand the point I am making.

Now, we are facing this Covid-19 pandemic and the world has no choice but to pause, to stop what it has been doing.

One death is a death too many, but you see nature has a funny way of getting what it needs to do to preserve itself.