(Note: As you read through this nutshell version of
Raelian teaching, please notice the biblical references. These
references were specifically explained by the "alien" as it
reinterpreted the Bible in its discussions with Mr. Claude Vorilhon.
I have inserted parenthetical comments to designate the aliens
reinterpretation of biblical statements.)
About 22,000 years ago aliens from another
world had reached a very sophisticated level of technological
advancement. On their home planet they had been experimenting
with the creation of life. The result of one experiment was a
creature that escaped and killed several of their people. So,
they decided to find a planet suitable for their experiments.
They found earth and their experiments in DNA manipulation continued.
They created all life on earth, both plant and animal. In fact,
some of the scientists created monstrous life forms which are now
known as dinosaurs. But ultimately, they created human beings who were
"made in their image." They grew in intelligence and
knowledge.
But, the humans were kept in ignorance
regarding advanced technical knowledge particularly how to prolong
their life spans (called the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the
Bible) because some of the alien
creators thought that the humans shouldn't know too much lest they become
dangerous. On the other hand, there was a group of alien creators
(called the serpent in the Bible) who thought that
the humans should know as much as possible. So, they helped the
humans gain a great deal of knowledge. Unfortunately, this
displeased the home world government who then exiled these alien
creators to earth for a period of time and sent the others home.
Nevertheless, when the humans learned that they had the
capacity to be like their creators (be like God), they realized they
had been kept in ignorance and became angry. This upset the
research and development on earth even more. Therefore, their
ability to gain more knowledge was stopped (kicked out of Eden) and alien soldiers with atomic disintegration weapons
guarded the entrance to the creators' residence (Tree of life) to prevent human
beings from getting more scientific knowledge.
But, later some of the aliens who were in exile on
earth took for themselves wives among the
human women (Genesis 6). Their offspring were mighty and strong and desired
to gain the same level of knowledge as their creators. But this
displeased the leaders on the home world who then decided to destroy
all life on earth with nuclear missiles. But the creators who
had been exiled on earth heard of this plan and instructed Noah to
build a spaceship in which he could keep people from every race as
well as all the genetic information, in cellular form, safe (Noah's
Ark).
This he did and while the earth was destroyed by nuclear weapons (the
flood was a giant tidal wave resulting from the explosions), Noah
hovered above the earth in his spaceship, preserving life. He
then landed after the radioactive levels had dissipated sufficiently
to allow him to return to earth and reestablish life on it. The
creators eventually learned that the humans meant no harm to them, so
the creators promised to never again destroy the earth.
After the races were reestablished, the most
intelligent of them, the Jews, built a space ship (The Tower of Babel)
in order to travel to the distant home world. But this
frightened them. So, they took all of the most intelligent of
people and scattered them among primitive tribes so as to confound
their language and prevent further technological development.
From this point on, communication with the people on
earth was kept to a minimum. The exiled creators were allowed to
return to their home world. But, the creators kept in contact
with humans by sending them different "prophets" at different times
and places. These prophets (Abraham, Moses, Muhammad, Jesus,
etc.), were specially prepared by the creators to have abilities above
those of normal humans.
A spaceship appeared to Moses to give him messages, to help
him escape the oppression of more numerous oppressive tribes who had
not suffered the scattering of their people as had the Jewish people.
Samson was a telepathist and was instructed to not cut his hair
because hair functions as antennae which aided telepathy. It was
through telepathy that the aliens kept in contact with and guided
Samson. The Ark of the Covenant was a small nuclear device.
Jonah's great fish was a submarine. Women with flying suits
appeared to Zechariah.
Ultimately, the aliens will return to earth and reveal
themselves as the true creators of life on earth, establish a one
world government, one language, and one currency. But, earth
isn't the only place where life was created. In fact, there were
three worlds. "Of the
three worlds where life has been created, the one which makes the most
progress will receive the inheritance. The ones which have not
progressed, will be dominated by the other, and eliminated. This
is also true on Earth between nations," (Rael, Claude Vorilhon, The Message give by
Extra-Terrestrials: At last science replaces religion, (Canada:
The Raelian Foundation), 2001, p. 68).