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[[Image:Let's welcome the Elohim to earth!.jpg|thumb|<center>Japanese Raëlians in the 2006 [[Hiroshima Flower Festival]].</center>]]
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According to the [[History of Raëlism]], in [[December 13]], [[1973]] began the upbringing for what would become the '''Raëlian Church'''. This is believed to be consisted of a man's six purported [[Close encounter#Fifth kind|CE-5]] encounters with an extraterrestrial human, Yahweh Elohim, who explained the contents of the [[Bible]] as involving the influence of advanced people from [[terrestrial planets]] revolving around a very large star one light year away from our Sun.<ref name="Book 1">Book 1 of 2 in the following compilations: ''The Message Given to me by Extraterrestrials'' (1986), ''The Message Given by Extraterrestrials'' (1998), ''The Final Message'' (1998), ''True Face of God'' (1998). Book 1 of 3 in the compilation ''Intelligent Design'' (2006).</ref> In opposition to this idea is the current assumption of a [[flat]] [[Euclidean]] nature of interstellar space, where NASA scientists have barely set afoot, saying that the nearest star lies much further, at 4.2 light years (see [[List of nearest stars]]). However, the founder of the [[Raëlian Church]] would compare this to the mistake of deducing a flat world according to what lies in front of one's horizon.
Nevertheless, the purported [[contactee]], [[Raël|Claude Vorhilon]], who soon became known as [[Raël]], founded was to be called the Raëlian Church or Raelian Movement ("the movement" for short), after a series of conferences in France which had attracted thousands, many of which criticized Vorhilon's message.<ref name="Book 1"/> Vorhilon's small movement steadily grew in size from its beginnings in September 1974 as the small organization in France, MADECH,<ref name="Rael: Messenger of the Elohim">[http://rael.org/rael_content/rael_bio.php?prophet Rael: Messenger of the Elohim], ''The International Raelian Movement''. Retrieved [[1 December]] [[2006]].</ref> into the International Raelian Movement which it became by 1976.<ref name="Raelians and Cloning: Are They for Real?">[http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=30054 Raelians and Cloning: Are They for Real?], ''Zenit News Agency''. [[16 January]] [[2003]]. Retrieved [[25 March]] [[2007]].</ref> Starting from that year, the International Raelian Movement was spreading the word about the contents in the first two Raëlian books concerning [[Raëlism|what they believe]] to be a restoration of meaning of biblical text, an update on the future of the Christian Church,<ref name="Book 1"/> and the philosophy and directives Yahweh Elohim taught Rael in second set of [[Close encounter#Fifth kind|CE-5]] encounters.<ref name="Book 2">Book 2 of 2 in the following compilations: ''The Message Given to me by Extraterrestrials'' (1986), ''The Message Given by Extraterrestrials'' (1998), ''The Final Message'' (1998), ''True Face of God'' (1998). Book 2 of 3 in the compilation ''Intelligent Design'' (2006).</ref><ref name="History of Raëlism#Second encounters">See [[History of Raëlism#Second encounters]].</ref> The first two Raëlian messages have since been retranslated at least 33 times<ref name="The Raelian Movement: Downloads">[http://rael.org/download.php The Raelian Movement: Downloads], ''The International Raëlian Movement''. 2007. Retrieved [[3 April]] [[2007]].</ref> and five new primary books now serve as its additions.<ref name="History of Raëlism#Raëlian messages">See [[History of Raëlism#Raëlian messages]].</ref>
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