The Commandments of the Anti-Christ

A friend stumbled me this earlier today and it piqued my interest so figured I just had to write an article about it. It concerns an esoteric granite monument in Georgia, USA which contains a set of 10 instructions inscribed onto stone tablets in eight modern languages and four ancient languages. Those languages being English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Russian with inscriptions in Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The monument was built in 1980 and no-one has any idea where the money came from or who commissioned them. Because of the secrecy, conspiracy theories have naturally grown up around them especially in light of how controversial the instructions are. The instructions on the English glyph are as follows:

• 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.

Looking at the 'commandments', they all seem pretty sensible to me. So it would seem that even though I'm not personally aware of Satan's existence, I am nonetheless in perfect agreement with him. People are naturally going to be critical of them as the first two propose very radical changes to human society as a whole. I don’t believe they’re wrong because they’re not – they’re very sensible. But as with all idealistic musings, the problem would come if someone tried to implement them to the letter. For example, a world population of 500 million is a very sensible idea – it would allow every human being alive to enjoy a comfortable western lifestyle without raping the living shit out of the planet. Currently the world population is 13 times higher than this and already putting a massive strain on resources to such an extent that ecological catastrophes are becoming the norm. There is no way to implement this instruction in an ethically acceptable manner but it’s not wrong is it? Similarly instruction two is also very sensible – guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity. For anyone who doesn’t realise why this is probably a good idea – Jeremy Kyle and Jerry Springer may prove educational – never thought I’d hear their names in the same sentence as educational. Critics have suggested this promotes a National Socialist ideology but I can’t remember the Third Reich ever being particularly big fans of diversity which kind of craps on that argument somewhat. As for the rest they deal with promoting environmentalism, establishing a world political system and new age spirituality. So naturally they must be the work of Satan.

All this logically leads to the question – where did they come from and why? Both questions that have unknowns attached to them although the commissioning can be traced to a man called R.C. Christian but the name is a pseudonym and the trail immediately goes cold. According to some sources the guidestones are of "a deep Satanic origin" and the man who commissioned them - Christian belongs to a Luciferian secret society related to the new world order. The only problem with a view like this as I see it is that none of these things has ever been proven to actually exist and this would seem kind of important if the theory is to have any merit. Another theory posits that the stones were commissioned by a super secret society called the Rosicrucian Order - this one actually has some pull since the stones are very much in line with their ideology. The most ironic thing about these stones is they seem to inspire exactly the kind of the behaviour they warn against especially in people who subscribe to the above and have consequently suffered innumerable attacks of vandalism and graffiti over the years.

Unfortunately I tend not to buy into all this conspiracy theory shit. I think the truth is that an eccentric millionaire commissioned the stones for shits and giggles. How do I know this? Well I don't for certain but it's the kind of thing I would do if money was no object - create weird shit like this just to wind people up. Still the stones do create an aura of mystery and intrigue even being referred to as "an American Stonehenge” so perhaps they weren’t a waste of money after all.