The Elohim Home Planet is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the extrasolar\nworld the Elohim come from — the planet Claude Vorilhon\nreports being taken to in 1975, and the seat of the\nCouncil of the Eternals that governs their\ncivilization. It is described across the three Raëlian source books consolidated\nas Message from the Designers: a world roughly one light-year from Earth, mild\nand lush and ringed by azure seas, home to some seven billion people whose\nofficial language is close to ancient Hebrew, and organized as a post-scarcity\ncivilization far in advance of Earth's. The corpus reads it as the political and\ncivilizational center of the makers who, on its account, engineered terrestrial\nlife — the place the Yahweh-led Council directs the long Earth\nproject from, and the home the resurrected prophets are said to inhabit. (This\nentry also covers what the source calls the Planet of the Eternals, treated\nbelow as a reading of the same material.)
\nThe account of the home planet comes principally from Vorilhon's second book,\nLes Extra-Terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète (1975), the record of a\nreported visit, together with the exposition Yahweh gives across the three\nvolumes.
\nThe source fixes the planet's position with two numbers, both lifted from the\nKabbalah and both stated in a unit it calls the parasang.\nEtymologically the parasang is an ancient Persian measure of road distance —\nthree to four miles, about an hour's march — but the source redefines it as the\ndistance light travels in one second, roughly 300,000 kilometers, on the analogy\nof modern astronomy's parsec:
\n\n\n\"It is written that the 'height of the creator' is 236,000 'parasangs', and\nthat 'the height of his heels' is 30,000,000 'parasangs'. The parasang is a\nunit of measurement just like the parsec, which stands for the distance that\nlight can travel in one second, which is about 300,000 kilometers.\"
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On this reading the \"height of the creator,\" 236,000 parasangs (~70.8 billion km,\nabout 474 AU), is the planet's distance from its star; and the \"height of his\nheels,\" 30,000,000 parasangs (~9 trillion km), is its distance from Earth — just\nunder one light-year. The great orbital distance does not leave the planet frozen\nbecause its star is, in the source's words, \"a very big star\": a more luminous\nstar pushes its habitable zone outward. Whether any real star fits the figures is\na separate question, taken up under Scientific context below.
\nVorilhon's account of arriving on the planet describes a temperate, cultivated\nworld:
\n\n\n\"The temperature was very mild, and the air was perfumed with countless scents\nof exotic flowers. We walked towards the top of a hill, and a marvelous\npanorama began to appear. Innumerable small streams wound through the lush\nvegetation, and far off an azure sea sparkled in the sun.\"
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Streams, dense vegetation, open sea, and a mild climate give the description the\ncharacter of a paradise — an Earth-like or richer biosphere, shaped by its\ninhabitants, who can \"live in different cities with multiple architectural styles\n... that we can modify at will.\"
\nThe planet holds roughly seven billion people — close to Earth's own population —\nkept stable by a two-child limit, and organized into seven provinces. Its\nofficial language, Yahweh tells Vorilhon, \"closely resembles ancient Hebrew,\"\nwhich the framework reads as no coincidence: on the corpus's account the Hebrew\nof the Bible descends from the makers' own tongue rather than the reverse.
\nManual work is done by biological robots — engineered, obedient organisms — and\npowered by a highly developed atomic energy that the source says need not use\nuranium. With production automated, the economy is post-scarcity: no money, no\nproperty, \"everyone can have everything,\" and most work is intellectual or\nartistic and undertaken by choice. The ordinary lifespan is about ten times a\nhuman's — some seven hundred years — extended by \"a small surgical adjustment\"\nthe source identifies with the biblical tree of life. The corpus reads this\ncivilization as the working model behind its vision of Earth's own Golden Age\n(see Forerunners).
\nAt the planet's political center sits the Council of the Eternals: about 700\nsenior Elohim who have undergone the cloning-and-memory-transfer process that\ngrants practical immortality, presided over by Yahweh — the first person on whom\nthat process succeeded, some 25,000 years ago. Living alongside them are about\n8,400 humans resurrected from Earth, among them the figures remembered as\nprophets. The full treatment of that body belongs to the\nCouncil of the Eternals entry.
\nThe distance would be prohibitive by rocket — tens of thousands of years — so the\nsource describes a different method:
\n\n\n\"We have the means to travel to Earth from our planet in less than two months\nwith an atom-based propulsion method, which enables us to move at the speed of\nrays that are seven times faster than the speed of light.\"
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A craft is said to shift out of the visible spectrum as it couples to these\ncarrying rays, which the source offers as an explanation for UFO reports of\nobjects changing color before vanishing. By 1975 the technology had improved\nenough, on the account, to cross the same distance \"in a matter of moments.\" The\nhome planet is not the makers' forward base, though: that role belongs to an\nintergalactic ship kept permanently near Earth, crewed by nine — one\nrepresentative from each of the seven provinces plus two responsible for the\nvessel.
\nThe framework reads the home planet not as a symbol but as a real place whose\ntraces survive, distorted, in scripture and myth.
\nThe figures come from the Kabbalah. The two parasang measurements are not\ninvented; the source takes them from the Shi'ur Qomah (\"Measure of the\nStature\"), an early Jewish mystical text that enumerates the vast dimensions of\nthe divine \"body\" in parasangs. Where the tradition reads these as apophatic\nanthropomorphism — numbers so large they defeat any literal picture of God — the\ncorpus reads two of them as preserved astronomy: the creator's \"height\" as the\nplanet's distance from its star, the \"height of his heels\" as its distance from\nEarth. This is why Yahweh tells Vorilhon that \"the Kabala is the closest book to\nthe truth, but almost all religious books allude to us with varying degrees of\nclarity.\" The fuller argument is set out in the Explainer\nThe Book Closest to the Truth, which\nreads the text through the\nShi'ur Qomah — Wheel of Heaven Translation.
\nThe same reading extends to the Hebrew Bible's \"throne of God\" and celestial-abode\nlanguage — Isaiah's throne \"high and lifted up,\" the \"host of heaven\" standing\naround Yahweh, Psalm 19's \"tabernacle for the sun.\" The conventional reading\ntakes these as metaphors of sovereignty; the framework reads them as compressed\nmemory of an actual seat of government on an actual world.
\nOne planet or two. The source is not consistent about whether the home planet\nand the \"Planet of the Eternals\" are the same world. Yahweh's own words point\ntoward identity — \"This residence is, in fact, very large, since it is an entire\nplanet where the members of the Council of the Eternals live as well\" — and the\nsingle-planet reading takes the residence Vorilhon visited to be the whole home\nworld. A two-planet reading, developed elsewhere in the corpus, instead treats\nthe Planet of the Eternals as a smaller second world in the same system, reserved\nfor the Council and the resurrected humans while the seven-billion population\nlives on the larger planet. The framework treats both as compatible with what the\nsource actually says, and does not force the question.
\nKolob and Sirius. One adjacent tradition offers a candidate location. The\nMormon Book of Abraham names a celestial body, Kolob, \"nearest unto the throne of\nGod\"; the LDS scholar John Tvedtnes has argued that Kolob derives from the\nSemitic root KLB, \"dog,\" pointing to Sirius, the Dog Star. If so, and if\nSirius is where the makers are from, the home planet would orbit that system. The\ncorpus notes the Kolob–Sirius reading as worth mentioning but does not adopt it:\nthe Raëlian source never names Sirius, the Book of Abraham's own provenance is\nheavily disputed, and Sirius sits 8.6 light-years away — far outside the source's\nstated one — around a young binary star poorly suited to a settled biosphere.
\nWhy the location is vague. That vagueness is, on the source's account,\ndeliberate. The Elohim do not want the planet found:
\n\n\n\"The Elohim do not want us to know exactly where their planet is located. This\nis quite understandable when we consider man's persistence towards destruction,\neven though the level of technology on Earth is still fairly primitive.\"
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The framework therefore treats the one-light-year figure as a floor rather than a\nfix, and reads the recurring \"celestial home of the gods\" motif across\ntraditions — the Egyptian Field of Reeds, the Greek Isles of the Blessed, Norse\nAsgard, the various Pure Lands and heavens — as scattered, culturally reshaped\nmemories of the same world, without claiming that any one of them pins down its\ncoordinates.
\nRead against contemporary astronomy, the source's figures raise real\ndifficulties, and the framework does not pretend otherwise.
\nThe most direct is distance. No star lies within one light-year of the Sun; the\nnearest, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.24 light-years away, and the exoplanet\ncatalogue — more than 5,000 confirmed worlds since the first detection around a\nSun-like star in 1995 — contains nothing in the gap the source describes. Several\nhundred of those planets sit in their stars' habitable zones (Proxima Centauri b,\nthe seven-planet TRAPPIST-1 system, and others), so the broad claim that\nhabitable worlds are common is consistent with current evidence; the specific\nclaim of one within a light-year of Earth is not.
\nThe source offers two answers. The first is the deliberate obfuscation noted\nabove: the stated distance is a lower bound, not a measurement. The second is\ncosmological — that the speed of light is not constant across the universe but\nvaries with the local medium, so that distances inferred from light-travel time\nare unreliable:
\n\n\n\"I might add that light does not move at the same speed in all strata of the\nuniverse, because nothing is invariable, neither in space nor time.\"
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Variable-speed-of-light proposals are not unknown in professional cosmology —\nJoão Magueijo and others have developed them seriously — though none is\nmainstream, and none was framed to rescue this particular claim. The framework\ndoes not need the physics settled; it notes that the source raises the objection\nitself and answers it in its own terms.
\nThe orbital figures pose a subtler problem. A habitable zone reaching some 474 AU\nwould require a star hundreds of thousands of times more luminous than the Sun —\na massive, short-lived star whose few million years of life would not obviously\nallow the long civilizational history the source describes. The most economical\nreading is that the parasang distances are approximate or symbolic in origin\n(they are, after all, inherited from a mystical text) rather than exact orbital\nmechanics. On the corpus's own account the point they carry is qualitative: a\nlarger star, a farther orbit, a world calibrated for life much as Earth is.
\nThe home-planet material draws the same objections as the broader Raëlian\naccount, and several specific to it.
\nThe Shi'ur Qomah reading is the weakest link for critics. Mainstream\nscholarship of Jewish mysticism (Gershom Scholem and after) treats the text's\nparasang figures as theosophical and deliberately unimaginable — a via negativa\nin numerical dress — not as veiled astronomy; reading two of the numbers as a\nstar-distance and an Earth-distance is, on that view, a selection from a long\nbody-catalogue rather than a decoding of it. The Book of Abraham fares worse as\nevidence: the surviving papyri Joseph Smith worked from have been identified by\nEgyptologists as ordinary funerary texts, so the Kolob material carries little\nexternal weight, and the Tvedtnes etymology is one LDS-internal proposal among\nseveral.
\nThe cross-cultural \"celestial home\" pattern the framework reads as shared memory\nis, in mainstream folklore and comparative religion, more simply explained:\nsky-dwelling gods are a near-universal default of human cosmology, and\nparadise-beyond-death motifs arise independently, without any common historical\nreferent. And the core astronomical claim remains unmet — no observation supports\na populated planet within a light-year of Earth, and the source's own defenses\n(obfuscation, variable lightspeed) are, by design, not testable. The framework's\nhonest position is that the home planet is a claim internal to the canon:\ncoherent within it, tied to the source's reading of scripture, and not\nestablished by any independent evidence.
\nVorilhon, Claude (Raël). Le Livre qui dit la vérité. 1974.
\nVorilhon, Claude (Raël). Les Extra-Terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète. 1975.
\nVorilhon, Claude (Raël). Accueillir les Extra-Terrestres. 1979.
\nVorilhon, Claude (Raël). Message from the Designers. Tagman Press, 2005.
\nThe Hebrew Bible. Masoretic Text. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 5th edition, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1997.
\nPsalm 19:4 and adjacent passages on the celestial divine abode. Various translations cited in context.
\nThe 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.
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