A new version is available
Topics · Tradition
Raëlism
The Raëlian canon from 1973 onward — the Messages and the movement that carries them, the corpus's interpretive centre.
Wiki entries 35
- Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis The ancient astronaut hypothesis — also called the paleocontact hypothesis, or, in its popular form, 'ancient aliens' — is the interpretive tradition…
- Cosmic Competition Cosmic Competition is the framework concept developed in the Wheel of Heaven corpus to organize the Raëlian source material's account of the broader…
- Council of the Eternals The Council of the Eternals is the principal governing body of the Elohim civilization: a 700-member political authority of senior Eternals —…
- Cyberparadism Cyberparadism is a contemporary aesthetic-cultural movement — formalised on the Aesthetics Wiki and set out in the Cyberparadism Manifesto (2023)…
- Dhorme Bible translation The Dhorme Bible is the French translation of the Old Testament prepared by the French Assyriologist and Semitologist Édouard Dhorme (1881–1966),…
- Elohim Home Planet The Elohim Home Planet is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the extrasolar world the Elohim come from — the planet Claude Vorilhon reports being…
- Erich von Däniken Erich von Däniken (born 1935) is a Swiss author and the principal populariser of the ancient-astronaut idea. His Chariots of the Gods? (1968) sold in…
- Four Levels The Four Levels are the Raëlian rule for weighing any situation — against infinity, against the Elohim who created us, against human society, and…
- Fractal Cosmology Fractal Cosmology is the Wheel of Heaven corpus's name for the spatially self-similar structure of the cosmos across an infinite hierarchy of scales:…
- Genesis Toolbox The Genesis Toolbox is the corpus's collective name for the integrated stack of sciences and technologies the Raëlian canon describes the Elohim as…
- Geniocracy Geniocracy is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the Raëlian doctrine of government — a form of democracy that weights political participation by…
- Golden Age The Golden Age is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the form of life that becomes available to humanity if it navigates the Aquarian-age threshold…
- Great Return The Great Return is the Wheel of Heaven framework's name for the anticipated official arrival of the Elohim on Earth — the culminating event the…
- Humanitarianism Humanitarianism is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the Raëlian doctrine of property and inheritance — the second of the seven New Commandments…
- Infinity Infinity is the foundational cosmological framework of the Wheel of Heaven corpus. It holds that the cosmos is infinite along three mutually…
- Jean Sendy Jean Sendy (born Dimitri Abelson; Petrograd, 16 November 1910 – Coulommiers, 24 April 1978) was a Russian-born French author and translator whose…
- Living Earth Living Earth is the Wheel of Heaven corpus's name for the Raëlian claim that the Earth — and every other planet and larger cosmic structure — is a…
- Message from the Designers Message from the Designers (in full Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers, Nova Distribution, 2005) is the consolidated English-language…
- Nephilim The Nephilim (Hebrew: nephilim, conventionally 'the fallen ones,' rendered gigantes — 'giants' — in the Greek Septuagint) are the figures introduced…
- New Commandments The New Commandments are, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the seven political-religious-cultural directives Yahweh delivered to Claude Vorilhon…
- Paradism Paradism is the Raëlian doctrine of a post-scarcity, fully automated, moneyless society modeled on the home world of the Elohim — the socio-economic…
- Petra Petra (Greek Πέτρα 'rock'; Nabataean Aramaic רקמו Raqmū; Hebrew רֶקֶם Reqem; Arabic ٱلْبَتْرَاء al-Batrāʾ) is the rock-cut capital of the Nabataean…
- Raël Raël (Claude Vorilhon, born September 30, 1946, Vichy, France) is the French former motor-sports journalist who, on the morning of December 13, 1973,…
- Raëlian Symbol of Infinity The Raëlian Symbol of Infinity is the principal emblem of the Raëlian movement and the Wheel of Heaven framework, presented to Raël by Yahweh at the…
- Raëlism Raëlism is the religious-philosophical movement founded by Raël (Claude Vorilhon) in 1974-1976 following his reported December 13, 1973 contact with…
- Reference corpus of the Raëlian canon A catalogue of the texts, traditions, and figures that the three canonical books of the Raëlian corpus — The Book Which Tells The Truth (1974),…
- Religion Religion (Latin religio, most plausibly from religare, 'to bind, to tie, to link') is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the cultivated bond between…
- Shi'ur Qomah The Shi'ur Qomah (Hebrew שִׁעוּר קוֹמָה, 'the Measure of the Stature') is a text of the pre-Kabbalistic Hekhalot / Merkavah literature in which the…
- Star of David The Star of David (Hebrew מָגֵן דָּוִד, Magen David, 'Shield of David') is a six-pointed star formed by two interlocked equilateral triangles — a…
- Swastika The swastika is one of the oldest religious symbols, with archaeological evidence extending back at least 12,000 years to Paleolithic Europe. It is a…
- The Truth The Truth (French la Vérité; Hebrew אֱמֶת emet) is the foundational opening chapter of Claude Vorilhon's The Book Which Tells the Truth (1974), in…
- Tree of Life The Tree of Life (Hebrew: עֵץ הַחַיִּים, ʿēṣ ha-ḥayyîm) is the figure introduced at Genesis 2:9 as one of the two named trees in the garden of Eden,…
- Ufology Ufology is the study of reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — since the early 2020s more often called unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) —…
- Watchers The Watchers (Aramaic ʿîrin, 'wakeful ones'; Greek egrēgoroi; Slavonic Grigori) are the heavenly beings of the Enochic tradition — most fully…
- Yahweh Yahweh (Hebrew: יהוה, YHWH) is the proper name of the principal divine figure of the Hebrew Bible, conventionally read by mainstream tradition as the…
Articles 13
- The Forty Chairs The Raëlian canon asserts a bounded prophetology — forty-or-so guests at Yahweh's table, 'all beings representative of the religions created…
- The Dragon Curve Genesis 1:21 creates the great tanninim — the Hebrew Bible's dragon-class word, softened to 'whales' and 'sea creatures' by two millennia of…
- Sendy and the Raëlian Messages Jean Sendy and the first Raëlian Message share a substantial cluster of particular readings of Genesis, including forbidden knowledge as scientific…
- Six Mornings, Six Years The Raëlian canon was received in six mornings and one October night, and released over six years — 1973, 1975, 1979 — by a speaker who kept…
- The Signature and the Designers At the 2008 premiere of a documentary about the persecution of design theorists, Richard Dawkins said on camera that life on Earth might have been…
- The Shape of Humanity In a single sentence of the second Raëlian message, Yahweh asks Raël to consider «each human to be like a cell of the great being in gestation, that…
- Unsealed in Year One The companion to 'The Scrolls That Woke in Year One': that Explainer tells what happened to the jars — the discovery, the forty-year publication…
- The Man Who Bet the Bible on the Moon Jean Sendy (1910–1978) — Russian-born Parisian, wartime correspondent, translator of Raymond Chandler, amateur joiner, monocled dandy of the 1930s…
- The Religion of Religions Raëlism has been filed, by four governments, under four incompatible headings — a danger to the public, a non-religion, a tax-exempt religion, and a…
- The Scrolls That Woke in Year One In the winter of 1946/47 — the first year of the calendar the Raëlian canon counts from the flash over Hiroshima — a Bedouin shepherd broke open a…
- The Translator's Wager For roughly two decades an unassuming scholar from the Susa Valley translated the Hebrew Bible, word under word, for Edizioni San Paolo — the…
- The Archdeacon and the Dragon In 2020 a serving archdeacon of the Anglican Church in Australia published a book arguing that the Elohim of Genesis are 'the Powerful Ones' — a…
- The Book Closest to the Truth In The Book Which Tells the Truth, Yahweh names the Kabbalah 'the book closest to the truth' and cites two figures from it: the height of the…
Dispatches 2
- The Bible the Canon Quotes, Translated On November 1, 2026, the Wheel of Heaven library published its own English translation of 87 biblical chapters cited in The Book Which Tells the…
- Library: The First Audio Plays Are Live The Wheel of Heaven library hosts its first multi-voice audio plays. The Book Which Tells the Truth (1974) is now available in English, German, and…
Library 4
- Extraterrestrials Took Me to Their Planet Raël's second foundational book (1975): the account of his second encounter with the Elohim and his visit to their planet.
- Let's Welcome the Extraterrestrials Raël's third foundational book (1979): frequently asked questions, new revelations, the atheist religion, and Raëlian testimonials.
- Qur'an — early-manuscript selection Qur'an 21:1–5, 54:1 and 56:15–24, the three passages the Raëlian canon cites, translated from the oldest Hijazi-script manuscripts of the 7th…
- The Book Which Tells the Truth A revelation book containing 7 chapters of sacred teachings and dialogues.
Most-cited sources 11
- The Book Which Tells The Truth
- Extraterrestrials Took Me To Their Planet
- Let’s Welcome The Extraterrestrials
- Aliens Adored: Raël’s UFO Religion
- La Bible (traduction Dhorme)
- Restored Name King James Version (RNKJV)
- Raelian Movement | The true origin of life on Earth: Extraterrestrials created us in their image
- The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds