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   On Monday, December 14, 2009 at 9:06:24 AM UTC-6, Van Smith wrote:   
   > Hi all,   
   >   
   > I am writing an article on the Georgia Guidestones and may have   
   > discovered a few interesting items.  I've never posted in this   
   > newsgroup before, but given the probable connection of the Guidestones   
   > with Alice A. Bailey, I figure some of you might have insight into the   
   > relevant occult issues.   
   >   
   > It appears that R.C. Christian, the mysterious sponsor of the   
   > monument, might be more fable than reality.  Instead, the Georgia   
   > Guidestones were probably the result of collaboration between three   
   > Elberton residents: Joe Fendley, Wyatt Martin and Francis Merchant.   
   >   
   > Fendley was a wheeling-dealing salesman who owned Pyramid Quarries,   
   > Elberton Granite Finishing Company and Pet Memorials.  Fendley was   
   > also a high ranking Freemason, reaching the 32nd degree ten years   
   > before the Guidestones were erected.  He also had connections into the   
   > Atlanta Shriners (the Shriners is an organization that only accepts   
   > the highest ranking Masons).   
   >   
   > Martin was the banker who facilitated the Guidestones fable and   
   > essentially laundered the money.  I do not have information yet about   
   > whether or not he was a Freemason, or a member of the Lucis Trust,   
   > Kappa Sigma, Order of the Eastern Star or other secret society.  If   
   > any of you know, please respond with that information.   
   >   
   > Dr. Francis Merchant, who is identified in Elberton Granite Museum   
   > material as "the message interpreter" for the Guidestones, is the key   
   > but nearly invisible figure behind the scenes.  Merchant and his wife   
   > were both Alice A. Bailey disciples and both taught in her Arcane   
   > School.  This is far too coincidental to be an accident.   
   >   
   > Bailey, herself a Madame Blavatsky disciple, was one of the most   
   > influential figures in 20th Century theosophy.  Alice Bailey is   
   > usually considered the founder of the New Age religious movement.  She   
   > and her husband, another high ranking Freemason, formed Lucifer   
   > Publishing Company, now called the Lucis Trust.   
   >   
   > The Lucis Trust has very strong ties into the United Nations.  As   
   > bizarre and broadly offensive as some of Bailey's teachings are, the   
   > Lucis Trust's World Goodwill group is an officially recognized U.N.   
   > NGO.  Lucis Trust is also a member of the United Nations Economic and   
   > Social Council.   
   >   
   > The Georgia Guidestones harmonically recite Bailey's beliefs while   
   > serving as a passive advertisement for the United Nations' world   
   > government aspirations.  Additionally, the Elberton Granite Museum has   
   > material that discloses the UN was involved in providing language   
   > expertise for the different Guidestone translations; this was likely   
   > obtained through Merchants' Lucis Trust links.   
   >   
   > Bailey's occult beliefs and symbolic impulses are also represented in   
   > the Guidestones.  The height of the monument is misleadingly   
   > represented in all Guidestone materials because those measurements all   
   > include the buried support stones.  The dimensions are also reported   
   > in English units even though R.C. Christian specified them in meters.   
   > The actual height of the monument is 5m for each of the four   
   > Guidestones and 0.5m for the capstone.  5.5m is 18.0 ft. which is 6 +   
   > 6 + 6 ft., an encoded "666" for Lucifer.  It is difficult to for me to   
   > fully understand, but Bailey venerated Lucifer, hence the original   
   > name for Lucis Trust.   
   >   
   > There also appears to be a date encoded in the dimensions of the   
   > guidestones.  Each guidestone is 0.5m x 2m x 5m establishing the   
   > proportion 1: 4: 10.  This may indicate that some event is planned for   
   > 1 / 4 / 2010.   
   >   
   > This date is consistent with a prediction made by an Atlanta psychic   
   > in 1981 who maintained that the secrets of the Guidestones would be   
   > revealed within 30 years.  The 30th anniversary of the Guidestones is   
   > March 22, 2010.  The psychic may have been a member of the Merchants'   
   > theosophical circles and therefore privy to inside information.   
   >   
   > BTW, March 22 was probably selected for the monument completion date   
   > because 322 is a very important occult number, specifically to the   
   > Masonic Skull and Bones organization.  322 possibly refers to Genesis   
   > 3:22, the passage where God catches Adam and Eve eating the Forbidden   
   > Fruit in the Garden of Eden:   
   >   
   > "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to   
   > know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also   
   > of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever"   
   >   
   > And the year, 1980, possibly is another encoding for "666" in that   
   > 1+9+8+0 = 18 = 6 + 6 + 6 as in the height of the monument.   
   >   
   > I am trained as a scientist (physicist) and work as an engineer /   
   > writer / analyst.  Occult symbolism, numerology, and secret societies   
   > are hard for me to wrap my mind around.  What are your thoughts about   
   > this information and analysis?  Does anyone here know anything more   
   > about Francis Merchant?  He died in 1981.  In fact, only Martin is   
   > still living.  Do any of you have additional insight into the Georgia   
   > Guidestones that you can share with me for my article?  Does the date   
   > 1 / 4 / 2010 have any astrological or numerological significance?   
   >   
   > BTW, the Burj Dubai is scheduled to be opened on 1 / 4 / 2010.   
   > Following down the numerological bunny hole, the date "9/11" might   
   > have been selected as an upside down (therefore hidden in plain sight   
   > in occult fashion) reference to Genesis 11:6, where God observes the   
   > construction of the Tower of Babel (Burj Babil) and remarks:   
   >   
   > "And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one   
   > language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be   
   > restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."   
   >   
   > The only difference is that man tore down the towers this time around,   
   > possibly in a lead up to another attempt for a new, unified world in a   
   > new attempt to become God.   
   >   
   > Man becoming God seems to be a central theme of many secret societies,   
   > so the two Genesis passages, 3:22 and 11:6, are remarkably symmetric   
   > bookends for an occult conspiracy.  Could Burj Dubai be the new Tower   
   > of Babel?   
   >   
   > I want to state that I am simply trying to logically follow leads with   
   > a dispassionate and scientific mindset.  I am not endorsing these   
   > ideas; in fact, numerology and occult symbolism seem crazy to me.   
   > However, I readily recognize that many powerful people place great   
      
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