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 taken to in 1975, and the seat of the Council of the Eternals that governs their civilization. It is described across the three Raëlian source books consolidated as Message from the Designers: a world roughly one light-year from Earth, mild and lush and ringed by azure seas, home to some seven billion people whose official language is close to ancient Hebrew, and organized as a post-scarcity civilization far in advance of Earth's. The corpus reads it as the political and civilizational center of the makers who, on its account, engineered terrestrial life — the place the Yahweh-led Council directs the long Earth project from, and the home the resurrected prophets are said to inhabit. (This entry also covers what the source calls the Planet of the Eternals, treated below as a reading of the same material.)

What the source describes

The account of the home planet comes principally from Vorilhon's second book, Les Extra-Terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète (1975), the record of a reported visit, together with the exposition Yahweh gives across the three volumes.

Location and the parasang

The source fixes the planet's position with two numbers, both lifted from the Kabbalah and both stated in a unit it calls the parasang. Etymologically the parasang is an ancient Persian measure of road distance — three to four miles, about an hour's march — but the source redefines it as the distance light travels in one second, roughly 300,000 kilometers, on the analogy of modern astronomy's parsec:

"It is written that the 'height of the creator' is 236,000 'parasangs', and that 'the height of his heels' is 30,000,000 'parasangs'. The parasang is a unit of measurement just like the parsec, which stands for the distance that light can travel in one second, which is about 300,000 kilometers."

On this reading the "height of the creator," 236,000 parasangs (~70.8 billion km, about 474 AU), is the planet's distance from its star; and the "height of his heels," 30,000,000 parasangs (~9 trillion km), is its distance from Earth — just under one light-year. The great orbital distance does not leave the planet frozen because its star is, in the source's words, "a very big star": a more luminous star pushes its habitable zone outward. Whether any real star fits the figures is a separate question, taken up under Scientific context below.

Environment

Vorilhon's account of arriving on the planet describes a temperate, cultivated world:

"The temperature was very mild, and the air was perfumed with countless scents of exotic flowers. We walked towards the top of a hill, and a marvelous panorama began to appear. Innumerable small streams wound through the lush vegetation, and far off an azure sea sparkled in the sun."

Streams, dense vegetation, open sea, and a mild climate give the description the character of a paradise — an Earth-like or richer biosphere, shaped by its inhabitants, who can "live in different cities with multiple architectural styles ... that we can modify at will."

The civilization

The planet holds roughly seven billion people — close to Earth's own population — kept stable by a two-child limit, and organized into seven provinces. Its official language, Yahweh tells Vorilhon, "closely resembles ancient Hebrew," which the framework reads as no coincidence: on the corpus's account the Hebrew of the Bible descends from the makers' own tongue rather than the reverse.

Manual work is done by biological robots — engineered, obedient organisms — and powered by a highly developed atomic energy that the source says need not use uranium. With production automated, the economy is post-scarcity: no money, no property, "everyone can have everything," and most work is intellectual or artistic and undertaken by choice. The ordinary lifespan is about ten times a human's — some seven hundred years — extended by "a small surgical adjustment" the source identifies with the biblical tree of life. The corpus reads this civilization as the working model behind its vision of Earth's own Golden Age (see Forerunners).

At the planet's political center sits the Council of the Eternals: about 700 senior Elohim who have undergone the cloning-and-memory-transfer process that grants practical immortality, presided over by Yahweh — the first person on whom that process succeeded, some 25,000 years ago. Living alongside them are about 8,400 humans resurrected from Earth, among them the figures remembered as prophets. The full treatment of that body belongs to the Council of the Eternals entry.

Reaching Earth

The distance would be prohibitive by rocket — tens of thousands of years — so the source describes a different method:

"We have the means to travel to Earth from our planet in less than two months with an atom-based propulsion method, which enables us to move at the speed of rays that are seven times faster than the speed of light."

A craft is said to shift out of the visible spectrum as it couples to these carrying rays, which the source offers as an explanation for UFO reports of objects changing color before vanishing. By 1975 the technology had improved enough, on the account, to cross the same distance "in a matter of moments." The home planet is not the makers' forward base, though: that role belongs to an intergalactic ship kept permanently near Earth, crewed by nine — one representative from each of the seven provinces plus two responsible for the vessel.

The Wheel of Heaven reading

The framework reads the home planet not as a symbol but as a real place whose traces survive, distorted, in scripture and myth.

The figures come from the Kabbalah. The two parasang measurements are not invented; the source takes them from the Shi'ur Qomah ("Measure of the Stature"), an early Jewish mystical text that enumerates the vast dimensions of the divine "body" in parasangs. Where the tradition reads these as apophatic anthropomorphism — numbers so large they defeat any literal picture of God — the corpus reads two of them as preserved astronomy: the creator's "height" as the planet's distance from its star, the "height of his heels" as its distance from Earth. This is why Yahweh tells Vorilhon that "the Kabala is the closest book to the truth, but almost all religious books allude to us with varying degrees of clarity." The fuller argument is set out in the Explainer The Book Closest to the Truth, which reads the text through the Shi'ur Qomah — Wheel of Heaven Translation.

The same reading extends to the Hebrew Bible's "throne of God" and celestial-abode language — Isaiah's throne "high and lifted up," the "host of heaven" standing around Yahweh, Psalm 19's "tabernacle for the sun." The conventional reading takes these as metaphors of sovereignty; the framework reads them as compressed memory of an actual seat of government on an actual world.

One planet or two. The source is not consistent about whether the home planet and the "Planet of the Eternals" are the same world. Yahweh's own words point toward identity — "This residence is, in fact, very large, since it is an entire planet where the members of the Council of the Eternals live as well" — and the single-planet reading takes the residence Vorilhon visited to be the whole home world. A two-planet reading, developed elsewhere in the corpus, instead treats the Planet of the Eternals as a smaller second world in the same system, reserved for the Council and the resurrected humans while the seven-billion population lives on the larger planet. The framework treats both as compatible with what the source actually says, and does not force the question.

Kolob and Sirius. One adjacent tradition offers a candidate location. The Mormon Book of Abraham names a celestial body, Kolob, "nearest unto the throne of God"; the LDS scholar John Tvedtnes has argued that Kolob derives from the Semitic root KLB, "dog," pointing to Sirius, the Dog Star. If so, and if Sirius is where the makers are from, the home planet would orbit that system. The corpus notes the Kolob–Sirius reading as worth mentioning but does not adopt it: the Raëlian source never names Sirius, the Book of Abraham's own provenance is heavily disputed, and Sirius sits 8.6 light-years away — far outside the source's stated one — around a young binary star poorly suited to a settled biosphere.

Why the location is vague. That vagueness is, on the source's account, deliberate. The Elohim do not want the planet found:

"The Elohim do not want us to know exactly where their planet is located. This is quite understandable when we consider man's persistence towards destruction, even though the level of technology on Earth is still fairly primitive."

The framework therefore treats the one-light-year figure as a floor rather than a fix, and reads the recurring "celestial home of the gods" motif across traditions — the Egyptian Field of Reeds, the Greek Isles of the Blessed, Norse Asgard, the various Pure Lands and heavens — as scattered, culturally reshaped memories of the same world, without claiming that any one of them pins down its coordinates.

Scientific context

Read against contemporary astronomy, the source's figures raise real difficulties, and the framework does not pretend otherwise.

The most direct is distance. No star lies within one light-year of the Sun; the nearest, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.24 light-years away, and the exoplanet catalogue — more than 5,000 confirmed worlds since the first detection around a Sun-like star in 1995 — contains nothing in the gap the source describes. Several hundred of those planets sit in their stars' habitable zones (Proxima Centauri b, the seven-planet TRAPPIST-1 system, and others), so the broad claim that habitable worlds are common is consistent with current evidence; the specific claim of one within a light-year of Earth is not.

The source offers two answers. The first is the deliberate obfuscation noted above: the stated distance is a lower bound, not a measurement. The second is cosmological — that the speed of light is not constant across the universe but varies with the local medium, so that distances inferred from light-travel time are unreliable:

"I might add that light does not move at the same speed in all strata of the universe, because nothing is invariable, neither in space nor time."

Variable-speed-of-light proposals are not unknown in professional cosmology — João Magueijo and others have developed them seriously — though none is mainstream, and none was framed to rescue this particular claim. The framework does not need the physics settled; it notes that the source raises the objection itself and answers it in its own terms.

The orbital figures pose a subtler problem. A habitable zone reaching some 474 AU would require a star hundreds of thousands of times more luminous than the Sun — a massive, short-lived star whose few million years of life would not obviously allow the long civilizational history the source describes. The most economical reading is that the parasang distances are approximate or symbolic in origin (they are, after all, inherited from a mystical text) rather than exact orbital mechanics. On the corpus's own account the point they carry is qualitative: a larger star, a farther orbit, a world calibrated for life much as Earth is.

Critical perspectives

The home-planet material draws the same objections as the broader Raëlian account, and several specific to it.

The Shi'ur Qomah reading is the weakest link for critics. Mainstream scholarship of Jewish mysticism (Gershom Scholem and after) treats the text's parasang figures as theosophical and deliberately unimaginable — a via negativa in numerical dress — not as veiled astronomy; reading two of the numbers as a star-distance and an Earth-distance is, on that view, a selection from a long body-catalogue rather than a decoding of it. The Book of Abraham fares worse as evidence: the surviving papyri Joseph Smith worked from have been identified by Egyptologists as ordinary funerary texts, so the Kolob material carries little external weight, and the Tvedtnes etymology is one LDS-internal proposal among several.

The cross-cultural "celestial home" pattern the framework reads as shared memory is, in mainstream folklore and comparative religion, more simply explained: sky-dwelling gods are a near-universal default of human cosmology, and paradise-beyond-death motifs arise independently, without any common historical referent. And the core astronomical claim remains unmet — no observation supports a populated planet within a light-year of Earth, and the source's own defenses (obfuscation, variable lightspeed) are, by design, not testable. The framework's honest position is that the home planet is a claim internal to the canon: coherent within it, tied to the source's reading of scripture, and not established by any independent evidence.

See also

• Elohim
• Yahweh
• Council of the Eternals
• Kabbalah
• Cosmic Chain
• Cosmic Pluralism
• Forerunners
• Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis
• Plurality of Gods
• Tree of Life
• Paradism
• Golden Age
• Message from the Designers
• Raël
• Shi'ur Qomah — Wheel of Heaven Translation
• The Book Closest to the Truth (Explainer)

References

Principal Raëlian source

Vorilhon, Claude (Raël). Le Livre qui dit la vérité. 1974.

Vorilhon, Claude (Raël). Les Extra-Terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète. 1975.

Vorilhon, Claude (Raël). Accueillir les Extra-Terrestres. 1979.

Vorilhon, Claude (Raël). Message from the Designers. Tagman Press, 2005.

Hebrew Bible and Kabbalistic engagement

The Hebrew Bible. Masoretic Text. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 5th edition, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1997.

Psalm 19:4 and adjacent passages on the celestial divine abode. Various translations cited in context.

The Shi'ur Qomah tradition. Various early-medieval Jewish mystical texts; principal modern critical edition Martin Samuel Cohen, The Shi'ur Qomah: Texts and Recensions, Mohr Siebeck, 1985.

Scholem, Gershom. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. Schocken, 1941.

Mormon Book of Abraham engagement

Smith, Joseph. The Pearl of Great Price. 1851 (compilation); the Book of Abraham included from earlier 1842 serial publication in Times and Seasons.

Tvedtnes, John A. "Authentic Ancient Names and Words in the Book of Abraham and Related Kirtland Egyptian Papers." Fair Latter-day Saints conference paper, 2005. https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2005-John-Tvedtnes.pdf.

Gee, John. An Introduction to the Book of Abraham. Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2017.

Contemporary astrobiology and SETI

Drake, Frank, and Dava Sobel. Is Anyone Out There?: The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Delacorte Press, 1992.

Sagan, Carl, and I. S. Shklovsky. Intelligent Life in the Universe. Holden-Day, 1966.

Webb, Stephen. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... Where Is Everybody?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life. 2nd edition, Springer, 2015.

Loeb, Avi. Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.

Variable-speed-of-light cosmology

Magueijo, João. Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation. Perseus, 2003.

Speculative-fiction homeworld engagement

Stapledon, Olaf. Star Maker. Methuen, 1937.

Lem, Stanisław. Solaris. MON, 1961.

Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. Ace, 1969.

Le Guin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed. Harper & Row, 1974.

Banks, Iain M. Consider Phlebas. Macmillan, 1987. (And subsequent Culture novels.)

Cross-cultural celestial-home traditions

Eliade, Mircea. Patterns in Comparative Religion. Sheed & Ward, 1958.

Couliano, Ioan P. Out of This World: Otherworldly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein. Shambhala, 1991.

Web resources

"Planet of the Elohim." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism#Planet_of_the_Elohim.

"Kolob." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob.

"Sirius." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius.

"Exoplanet." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet.

"Search for extraterrestrial intelligence." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_extraterrestrial_intelligence.

"Variable speed of light." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light.

"Heaven." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven.

Elohim Home Planet. (2026). Wheel of Heaven. https://www.wheelofheaven.world/wiki/elohim-home-planet/

"Elohim Home Planet." Wheel of Heaven, 2026, https://www.wheelofheaven.world/wiki/elohim-home-planet/.

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