Editing Raël (section)

==The Raëlian messages==
{{further|History of Raëlism}}
On December 3, 1973 in a secluded area within a French volcanic crater, Vorilhon claimed to see a strong flashing light and saw "something like a bell" made of shiny metal coming out from the sky slowly without any noise. A trapdoor opened under the craft, and an extraterrestrial being came out of a craft. The being told him, in French, that he had come for the sole purpose of meeting with him. Raël said he was given a message by this alien and told that it was his mission to pass this message on to the people of Earth. According to Vorilhon, the face of the extraterrestrial was "full of love."<ref name="Raël, Intelligent Design, 11-109.">Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 11–109.</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyQ-9qKxnQE |title=Maitreya Rael: The Encounter of December 13th 1973 |date=2019-12-12 |last=Rael: The Last Prophet's Official Channel |access-date=2025-02-17 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

The book states that advanced human scientists from another planet with 25,000 years of scientific advances created all life on Earth through [[DNA]] manipulation.<ref name="Raël, Intelligent Design, 90, 107, 113, 159.">Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 90, 107, 113, 159.</ref><ref name="COMPENDIUM">Harvey, Neil, [https://archive.today/20130201162042/http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/wb/xp-83888 AND NOW THIS A COMPENDIUM OF NEWS], ''[[The Roanoke Times]]''. 23 September 2006. Retrieved 20 December 2007.</ref> These scientists, Raël said, were originally called Elohim or "those who came from the sky".<ref name="Raël, Intelligent Design, 11.">Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 11.</ref> He wrote that around 40<ref name="Raël, Intelligent Design, 161-5.">Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 161–5.</ref> prophets in Earth's history were sent by Elohim,<ref name="Close Encounter of the Raëlian Kind">Segall, Rebecca, [http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0135,segall2,27678,1.html Close Encounter of the Raëlian Kind] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315174032/http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0135,segall2,27678,1.html |date=15 March 2008 }}, ''[[The Village Voice]]''. 4 September 2001. Retrieved 20 December 2007.</ref> but their messages were distorted<ref name="Raël, Intelligent Design, 11, 33, 88, 293, 332.">Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 11, 33, 88, 293, 332.</ref> by humans, largely because of the difference in the level of civilization between the advanced race and Earth's primitive one.<ref name="Raël, Intelligent Design, 73.">Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 73.</ref>

Raël said he was given the mission to inform the world of humanity's origins in anticipation of these extraterrestrials' return by building a residential [[embassy]] in [[neutral territory]].<ref name="Raël, Intelligent Design, 101-104.">Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 101–104.</ref> He stated that certain mysteries were explained to him based on new interpretations of sacred texts such as the [[Bible]].<ref name="Raël, Intelligent Design, 10-79.">Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 10–79.</ref> He claimed that, on 7 October 1975, he was contacted by one of the Elohim, who took him to another planet to meet [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]], [[Moses]], [[Jesus]] and [[Muhammad]]. He stated that his second book, ''Les extra-terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète'' (''Extraterrestrials Took Me To Their Planet''), relates the teaching he received from these people. In this book, Raël describes harmonious and peaceable beings free of money, sickness, and war.<ref name="Raël, Intelligent Design, 163-4.">Raël, ''Intelligent Design'' 163–4.</ref>

In 1974, Raël decided to give up his automobile magazine, ''Autopop''.<ref name="AutoPop"/> That September, the last issue, number 34, was published.<ref name="AutoPop"/> Raël then devoted himself to the task he said was given by his "biological father", an extraterrestrial named [[Yahweh]].<ref name="Raël, Intelligent Design, 290-1.">Raël, ''Intelligent Design''; 290–1.</ref> Shortly after a first public conference, Raël founded MADECH, a group of people interested in helping him in his task, which later became the [[International Raëlian Movement]].<ref name="Raël, Intelligent Design 139-40.">Raël, ''Intelligent Design'' 139–40.</ref>