RAELIAN MOVEMENT: THE LATEST MESSAGE
The French cult leader, Claude Rael, claims to have received messages from
extra-terrestrials called the Elohim, which he says denotes “those who came from
the sky”, who purport to have scientifically made the human race. He founded the
Raelian Movement which apparently has 40,000 members in 80 countries (page 11
and 197, The Final Message, Tagman Press, London, 1998)
The foundational doctrine of Raelianism is that an Embassy must be created in
Israel where the spacemen can meet with us in peace.
Rael got a new message on December 13, 1997 which is in the book, The Final
Message. In it the Elohim say they love all people but the Raelians are dearest
to them. They complained about the authorities in Jerusalem not given them a
site for the Embassy and granting the site extra-territorial status. They said
they chose Jerusalem for the Embassy because they appeared there before and it
was of sentimental value for them. This contradicts their claim that they were
the gods reported by the pagan religions and they did not appear as much there
as they do in other places. They say they appeared to Joseph Smith the founder
of the Mormons so why don’t they have their Embassy in Palmyra in Upper State
New York for Smith had more visions than took place in Jerusalem? Why did the
Elohim tell Smith that Independence, Missouri was to be the New Jerusalem next
the old one? The Elohim can’t make up their minds about anything. The Elohim
then stated that Israel was getting its last chance and that if nothing was done
the Embassy will be constructed in another place (page 203). One would think
that with their power and the fact that political status is dependent on luck
and pulling strings that the Elohim could have pulled a couple so as to have the
right people running Israel who would let the cult build.
The Elohim said, “The hour of our Great Return is near and we will support and
protect the most devoted ones among you. Your enemies will increasingly see our
all-powerful arm strike them, particularly the usurper of Rome, his bishops and
all those who act in our name without our mandate” (page 203).
Why then can’t they do anything about the Israeli authorities who won’t let Rael
build the Embassy near Jerusalem?
Rael is described as the Way, the Truth and the Life (page 203). It should be
that the Elohim are the Way, the Truth and the Life for Rael is only a
messenger. The Bible stresses that revelation should not glorify the prophet but
the one who uses the prophet to speak through.
And the Elohim state that Buddhism is closest to Raelianism and even that
Buddhism stripped to the essentials is Raelianism and that therefore Raelianism
will be most popular among Buddhists (page 203). This is totally wrong for
original Buddhism repressed the desires of the flesh and never spoke of aliens
and spaceships and its Nirvana is a mystical state beyond all our comprehension
and full of paradoxes or contradictions while Raelianism boasts that it offers
no mystical and religious paradoxes.
The more Raelians love Rael the more they love the Elohim and that nobody can
turn against Rael without being unloving towards the Elohim (page 204). They
even present Rael as a mediator who persuades them to forgive what they find
unforgivable. Rael then is taking religious devotion to himself and trumpeting
his own importance. I know this because if he were humble and the Elohim were
sensible they would say that Rael should be loved as all people should be loved
for the Elohim love all and are hurt if we do not do this. They should stress
that Rael’s teaching is more important than Rael. The Elohim irrationally value
Rael more than anybody else when he can claims he persuade them to forgive.
But the Elohim say that anybody who sincerely prays to God prays to them so the
world prays for mercy. So Rael's input isn't needed at all.
