Rael
From The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project
Raël (born Claude Vorilhon on September 30, 1946) is the founder and spiritual guide of the Raelian Movement. He was born in Vichy, Allier, France.
Before founding the Raelian Movement, Vorilhon was a sports journalist and a singer. He founded his own car racing magazine, Auto Pop.
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Revelation
Claude Vorilhon claims that he has experienced two extra-terrestrial encounters, which are the foundation of his ideology. The first of these encounters was on the morning of December 13 1973. Whilst walking in Puy de Lassolas, Vorilhon claims to have seen a flying saucer that was landing slowly. An extraterrestrial being came out of the craft, and told him (in French) that he had come to meet him and give him a message and that it was Vorilhon's mission to pass this message on to people in every nation.
Vorilhon was given the prophet name Raël, which means The Messenger of the Elohim. His meetings with the human extra-terrestrial (named Yahweh) lasted for six consecutive days, one hour each day, and are described in his first book "Le Livre qui dit la vérité" (The Book That Tells the Truth), in which he claims that every life form on Earth was created by the Elohim (which was wrongly translated from Hebrew into the English word "God" but means those who came from the sky) - advanced human scientists from another planet with 25,000 years of scientific advances; every prophet in Earth's history was sent by the Elohim, but their messages were misunderstood and distorted by humans, largely because of the difference in the level of scientific understanding between the advanced race and our primitive one. Raël was given the mission of informing the world of humanity's true origins and building an embassy in preparation for the return of the Elohim. The extraterrestrials explained certain mysteries to him (which he recounts in his book), based on new readings of sacred texts such as the Bible. On October 7 1975 he claims he was again contacted by the Elohim who took him to their planet. There he met Buddha, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad and received many teachings which are passed on in his second book "Les extra-terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète" (Extraterrestrials Took Me To Their Planet). He claims that he discovered wonderful, harmonious and peaceable beings who taught him a philosophy based on pleasure, love, knowledge and conscience, free of money, sickness and war.
Interestingly, the rock band Genesis also recorded the concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in 1973, which they released in 1974, chronicling a New York City streetwise Puerto Rican from the ghettos named Rael who went on a journey through his subconscious to eventual self-discovery.
Career in the arts and sport
Under the pseudonym Claude Celler, Vorilhon released a few records between 1966 and 1971, widely inspired by his idol Jacques Brel. They included songs like :
- Le Miel et la cannelle (honey and cinnamon)(1966)
- Madam' Pipi (Mrs. toilet attendant) (1966)
- Monsieur votre femme me trompe (mister, your wife is cheating on me)(1966)
- Quand on se mariera (when we'll get married)(1966)
- Mon amour Patricia (My love Patricia). (1971)
Later, in Clermont-Ferrand, he founded a motor racing magazine which became quite successful. In 1974, following his UFO encounter, he almost developed a stomach ulcer before finally deciding to give up his much loved career as a sports-car journalist and devote himself fully to the task assigned to him by Yahweh - the extra-terrestrial that he had supposedly met. Shortly after a surprisingly successful first public conference, he founded MADECH - a group of people interested in helping Rael in his huge task, which later became the International Raelian Movement.
Bibliography
- 1973 : Le Livre qui dit la vérité ("The Book Which Tells the Truth")
- 1975 : Les extra-terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète ("Extraterrestrials Took me to Their Planet")
- (collected in English as "The Message Given by Extra-Terrestrials") ISBN 4900480053
- 1978 : La géniocratie ("Geniocracy")
- 1979 : Accueillir les extra-terrestres ("Let's Welcome the Extraterrestrials") ISBN 4900480061
- 1980 : La méditation sensuelle ("Sensual Meditation") ISBN 1903571073
- 2002 : Oui au clonage humain ("Yes to Human Cloning") ISBN 1903571057
- 2003 : Le Maitraya ("The Maitraya")
- 2006 : Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers -recompiled English compilation of the 1973,1975 and 1979 books above) ISBN 2940252203
See also
External links
- Rael.org - Official Raelian Website with free e-book downloads.
- Raelianews.org - Official Raelian News & Views Website
- RaelAfrica.org - Official Raelian Website dedicated to Africa
Footnote
- Rael (Claude Vorilhon) has no relation known to the Hispanic Surname "Rael."
Copyright
"Original data received from Wikipedia on April 21, 2006. Credit given to original authors can be seen Here."
