Raëlism, Elohim, & Claude Vorilhon

Prior to December of 1973, Claude Vorilhon was a French race-car test driver and an ex-pop star. Of recent date, Vorilhon is best known for establishing the Raëlian Movement which led to changing his name to “Raël”; allegedly meaning “messenger of the Elohim”. Well, actually he was a singer as a teenager and a test driver as a young adult.  You see, during his mid and late teens, he was known as “Claude Celler” who released 6 singles, one of which was a minor hit (Honey and Cinnamon) prior to 1970; then stemming from his desire to purchase a race-car, in his early 20’s he first wrote about race-cars and eventually fulfilled his desire to own one, with test driving them instead of buying one.

You might say that Vorilhon worked as a sports journalist to gain access to the world of auto racing; later he began his own publishing house.   According to his publication The Book That Tells the Truth, at the tender age of 27 he witnessed an event that dramatically changed his life; he observed a flying saucer landing in south central France and interacted with its occupant, when an extraterrestrial exited from the spacecraft and spoke to Vorilhon. This creature gave its name as “Yahweh”, not to be confused with the Hebrew God of the same name, and identified itself as a member of a race of beings called the “Elohim”.  The alien was well over a meter (a bit under 4 feet) tall, had long dark hair, eyes shaped like almonds, olive colored skin, and the being “radiated both harmony and humor”.

Yahweh promptly explained to Vorilhon that the Elohim race had created all human life on Earth some years back via genetic engineering; that this event had been long forgotten by humanity throughout the world and that many of the sacred texts of mankind mistakenly speak of ‘creator-gods’ that came from the sky such as Jupiter of ancient Rome or the other Yahweh (the Hebrew / Christian God).  

Further, he explained that the good Elohim folks had been watching humanity for sometime now and guided human progress from time to time through specially-chosen prophets whom they educated.  Such profits include well known individuals such as Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, and Jesus (who was a human-Elohim hybrid by the way, and whose miracles were accomplished through alien technology).  

Yahweh proceeded to point out to young Claude that in lite of the fact that humanity had reached such a high level of scientific development, so as to allow man-kind to understand this factoid, the Elohim folk had devised plans to reveal their existence, and, you guessed it, they’d chosen Vorilhon to be their ambassador so to speak.

Today the religion of Raëlian claims a minimum of 70,000 members in 97 countries.  It is most noted for its enthusiasm for genetic engineering and human cloning; allegedly an attempt to follow in the footsteps of our alien creators several thousand years ago. The Raëlian front group, “Clonaid”, made world wide news in 2002 with their claim to have successfully cloned a human being. Unfortunately, no evidence for this was ever presented, and the claim is widely thought to be a hoax.

According to a recent book by Raël (formerly Claude Vorilhon) Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers; research and development by the Elohim beings have proven scientifically no less, that our universe is merely one atom of a much larger cosmos, and that each atom in our universe contains a smaller universe in turn, and so on, some say without end.

It may be of some interest to know that Raëlism officially describes itself as an atheist religion, this being the case because it does not demand belief in one or more supernatural beings. However, in every other respect, it resembles traditional religion, right down to the miracles performed with a little help from advanced alien technology. For example, years ago, the “repulsion beam” parted the Red sea so that  Moses and the Israelites could cross to the opposite side, thus escaping from their Egyptian captors; yep, that was Elohim technology, and you should know that all manner of prayer is said to put an individual in telepathic communication with the Elohim folk. Life after death is easy because Raël claims the Elohim can recreate an entire individual including personality and memory from a single cell of a dead body.  Fact is this has been going on for several thousand years – in addition, according to Raël, the Elohim scientists have for years now, recreate the wicked as well as the good, so that they (the wicked folk) can be punished for their misdeeds.

Sources:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2009/07/strange-and-curious-sects-vi/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Vorilhon_%28Rael%29 http://www.behindthename.com/name/yahweh                                                                                                                             Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers by Claude Vorilhon / Raël

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