+++ title = "Elohim Home Planet" slug = "elohim-home-planet" description = "The Elohim Home Planet is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the extrasolar world from which the Elohim — the alliance of advanced extraterrestrial scientists who, in the corpus reading, conducted the genetic-engineering project that produced terrestrial life — originate and to which their political-civilizational center remains attached. The principal source content appears in Claude Vorilhon's *Message from the Designers* (consolidating *Le Livre qui dit la vérité*, 1974; *Les Extra-Terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète*, 1975; and *Accueillir les Extra-Terrestres*, 1979). The home planet's specifications, as preserved in the source: a distance from its star of 236,000 parasangs (~70.8 billion kilometers) — substantially further than Earth from the Sun, because the home star is substantially larger than the Sun; a distance from Earth of 30,000,000 parasangs (~9 trillion kilometers, approximately one light-year, with the substantial astronomical inconsistency the source itself addresses through both the deliberate-obfuscation hypothesis and the variable-lightspeed cosmology); a planetary environment described as mild in temperature, with lush vegetation, exotic flora, and azure seas; an official language closely resembling ancient Hebrew; a civilization of approximately seven billion inhabitants organized into seven provinces; a Council of the Eternals consisting of approximately 700 Elohim members presided by Yahweh (the first individual on whom the cloning-and-memory-transfer immortality technology was successfully applied, approximately 25,000 years ago) and including approximately 8,400 resurrected humans from Earth; a post-scarcity economy organized around atomic-based energy, biological robots performing all mechanical labor, and intellectual-creative activity as the principal human pursuit; and a travel technology based on atom-based propulsion at seven times the speed of light, permitting the journey from the home planet to Earth in approximately two months at the time of Vorilhon's 1973-1975 contact, with subsequent technological advance to substantially shorter journey times by 1975. The source content allows two readings of the home planet's relationship to what the corpus calls 'the Planet of the Eternals' — either as the same world or as two distinct worlds within the same home stellar system. The Wheel of Heaven framework registers both readings as compatible with the source material. The home planet's location has been variously identified in adjacent traditions: the Mormon Book of Abraham's 'Kolob' tradition, with John Tvedtnes's etymological argument suggesting Kolob may refer to Sirius (Hebrew root *KLB* 'dog,' the 'dog star'); various Hebrew Bible passages (Psalm 19:4 on the tabernacle of the sun; the Kabbalistic 'height of the creator' content from which the parasang measurements derive); and the broader cross-cultural pattern of 'celestial home of the gods' traditions across virtually every major world religion. The corpus position: the specific identification of the home planet with any contemporary known star system remains genuinely open, with the Sirius hypothesis registered as adjacent interpretive engagement distinct from anything the Vorilhon source itself claims." template = "wiki-page.html" toc = true [extra] editorial_pass = "2026-05" category = "Elohim" entry_type = "place" alternative_names = ["Elohim Home Planet", "the home planet", "the planet of the Elohim", "the planet of the creators", "the planet of the Eternals (per single-planet reading)", "the other world", "the Mormon Kolob (per Tvedtnes hypothesis)"] timeline = ["age-of-capricorn", "age-of-aquarius"] [extra.infobox] type = "Extrasolar planet; political-civilizational center of the Elohim alliance that conducted the genetic-engineering project producing terrestrial life" principal_source = "Claude Vorilhon, *Message from the Designers* (Tagman Press, 2005), consolidating *Le Livre qui dit la vérité* (1974), *Les Extra-Terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète* (1975), and *Accueillir les Extra-Terrestres* (1979)" location_from_home_star = "236,000 parasangs (~70.8 billion kilometers); home star substantially larger than the Sun" location_from_earth = "30,000,000 parasangs (~9 trillion kilometers, approximately 1 light-year); subject to the substantial astronomical-inconsistency objection the source itself addresses through deliberate-obfuscation and variable-lightspeed cosmology" parasang_unit = "Source-redefined unit: distance light travels in one second (~300,000 kilometers); etymologically borrowed from ancient Persian linear-distance unit but redefined as celestial-distance unit in the source's vocabulary" environment = "Mild temperature; lush vegetation with exotic flora; azure seas; agricultural-ecological character described as paradisal" civilization = "~7 billion inhabitants; seven provinces; official language closely resembling ancient Hebrew" council_of_eternals = "~700 Elohim members + ~8,400 resurrected humans from Earth; presided by Yahweh (first individual successfully cloned-and-memory-transferred ~25,000 years ago)" economy = "Post-scarcity; atom-based energy; biological robots performing mechanical labor; intellectual-creative activity as principal human pursuit" travel_technology = "Atom-based propulsion at 7× lightspeed at time of Vorilhon contact (1973-1975); journey to Earth ~2 months; subsequent technological advance to substantially shorter journey times" relationship_to_planet_of_eternals = "Source content allows two readings: single-planet identification (the home planet IS the Planet of the Eternals) or two-planet system (the Planet of the Eternals is a second smaller planet in the same stellar system); the corpus registers both readings as compatible with the source material" distinguished_from = "The intergalactic ship near Earth (Elohim operational base with seven Elohim representatives plus two ship-responsible Elohim); Earth-based Elohim installations (the Andean, Himalayan, Greek, and other regional bases); Mormon Kolob (which may or may not refer to the same entity, per the Tvedtnes hypothesis)" status_in_framework = "Principal extraterrestrial location in the corpus framework; the political-civilizational center of the alliance that conducts the Earth project; the residence of the Council of the Eternals; the destination for the resurrected prophets and qualifying humans" +++ The **Elohim Home Planet** is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the extrasolar world from which the **Elohim** — the alliance of advanced extraterrestrial scientists who, in the corpus reading, conducted the genetic-engineering project that produced terrestrial life — originate and to which their political-civilizational center remains attached. The principal source content appears in **Claude Vorilhon**'s *Message from the Designers* (Tagman Press, 2005), consolidating the three principal Vorilhon contact-record books: *Le Livre qui dit la vérité* (1974), *Les Extra-Terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète* (1975), and *Accueillir les Extra-Terrestres* (1979). The home planet's specifications, as preserved in the source: - **Distance from its star**: 236,000 *parasangs* (~70.8 billion kilometers), substantially further than Earth's distance from the Sun, because the home star is substantially larger than the Sun and therefore hotter at any given orbital distance - **Distance from Earth**: 30,000,000 parasangs (~9 trillion kilometers, approximately one light-year), with the substantial astronomical inconsistency the source itself addresses - **Environment**: mild temperature, lush vegetation, exotic flora, azure seas — the source description has the character of a paradisal landscape - **Civilization**: approximately seven billion inhabitants, organized into seven provinces - **Language**: official language closely resembling ancient Hebrew - **Government**: a Council of the Eternals of approximately 700 Elohim members presided by Yahweh (the first individual on whom the cloning-and-memory-transfer immortality technology was successfully applied, approximately 25,000 years ago), with approximately 8,400 resurrected humans from Earth also living on the planet - **Economy**: post-scarcity, organized around atomic-based energy and biological-robot labor, with intellectual-creative activity as the principal human pursuit - **Travel technology**: atom-based propulsion at seven times the speed of light, permitting the journey from the home planet to Earth in approximately two months at the time of Vorilhon's 1973-1975 contact, with subsequent technological advance to substantially shorter journey times by 1975 The **parasang** is a unit the source has redefined for its specific purpose. Etymologically the term derives from an ancient Persian linear-distance unit (used in Greek and Near Eastern texts for roughly three to four miles on a caravan road); the source has appropriated the word and redefined it as a unit of celestial distance equal to the distance light travels in one second (~300,000 kilometers), in the same way modern astronomy has appropriated the word *parsec* for a unit wholly unrelated to its etymological origins. The source content allows **two readings** of the home planet's relationship to what the corpus calls "the Planet of the Eternals": - **Single-planet reading**: The home planet *is* the Planet of the Eternals. Yahweh's statement in *Message from the Designers* — *"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"* — reads most naturally as identifying the residence (where Vorilhon was taken in 1975) with the entire home planet. - **Two-planet reading**: The Planet of the Eternals is a second smaller planet in the same stellar system as the main home planet. The corpus *timeline.epub* engagement articulates this reading, treating the Council of the Eternals' residence as distinct from the broader home-civilization population. The Wheel of Heaven framework registers both readings as compatible with the source material. The pending [Planet of the Eternals](../planet-of-the-eternals/) entry will articulate the specific Council-of-Eternals residence content; this entry articulates the broader home-planet content. The home planet's location has been variously identified in adjacent traditions. The **Mormon Book of Abraham** registers a celestial body called *Kolob* described as "the heavenly body nearest to the throne of God." **John Tvedtnes**'s 2005 essay "Authentic Ancient Names and Words in the Book of Abraham and Related Kirtland Egyptian Papers" proposes that *Kolob* etymologically derives from the Semitic root *KLB* ("dog"), suggesting that Kolob refers to *Sirius*, the "dog star" — the brightest star in the night sky and the principal star of the constellation Canis Major. The Kolob-Sirius hypothesis is one Mormon-internal interpretation among several; the Vorilhon source itself does not identify the home planet with Sirius or with any specific known star system. The **Hebrew Bible** content the source engages includes Psalm 19:4's "In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun" and the Kabbalistic "height of the creator" tradition from which the parasang measurements derive. The broader cross-cultural pattern of "celestial home of the gods" traditions appears across virtually every major world religion (treated systematically in the *Comparative observations* section below). The corpus position: the specific identification of the home planet with any contemporary known star system remains genuinely open. The Vorilhon source's deliberate obfuscation and the substantial astronomical-inconsistency in the stated distance both indicate that precise identification was not the source's intention. The Mormon Kolob-Sirius hypothesis is adjacent interpretive engagement worth registering while distinct from anything the Vorilhon source itself claims. This entry articulates the Elohim Home Planet as a place — its location and astronomical specifications, its environment and civilization, its political and economic organization, its travel technology and connection to Earth, the relationship to the Planet of the Eternals, the Hebrew Bible and Kabbalistic source-textual engagement, the Mormon Kolob tradition with the Tvedtnes-Sirius hypothesis, the contemporary scientific context of exoplanet discovery, and the broader cross-cultural celestial-home traditions. ## Location and astronomical specifications The source's specification of the home planet's location operates through the **parasang** measurement system, with two principal distances given. ### The parasang unit The source's use of *parasang* deserves careful articulation. Etymologically the term derives from Old Persian *parasanga* (preserved in Greek as παρασάγγης, *parasangēs*, in Herodotus and other classical sources), designating a linear distance on caravan-route travel equivalent to roughly three to four miles or about one hour's march. The unit was widely used across the Achaemenid Empire and subsequent Persian and Near Eastern administrative contexts. The Vorilhon source appropriates the term and redefines it as a unit of celestial distance equal to **the distance light travels in one second**, approximately 300,000 kilometers. The redefinition operates analogously to modern astronomy's appropriation of the word *parsec* (parallax-second), whose etymological origin in the parallax measurement method has long since become invisible to ordinary usage. The source's reasoning for the redefinition is preserved in *Message from the Designers*: > *"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."* The "It is written" attribution points to the Kabbalistic tradition — specifically the *Shi'ur Qomah* literature, the early-medieval Jewish mystical tradition that articulates the "measure of the body" of the divine through specific numerical specifications including the figures the source quotes. The Vorilhon source operates on this tradition as preserving authentic content about the home planet's astronomical situation, with the "height of the creator" reading as the home planet's orbital distance from its star, and the "height of his heels" reading as the distance from Earth. ### Distance from the home star The home planet orbits its star at a distance of **236,000 parasangs** = ~70.8 billion kilometers = ~474 AU (astronomical units, where 1 AU = the Earth-Sun distance). For reference, this is substantially beyond the orbit of Neptune (~30 AU) and well into what would in our solar system be the inner Oort cloud or trans-Neptunian region. The substantial distance does not place the home planet in a frozen orbit because **the home star is substantially larger than the Sun**. The source states the home star is "a very big star" without specifying its precise mass, spectral class, or luminosity. A star substantially more luminous than the Sun would have its habitable zone (the orbital range where liquid water can exist on a planetary surface) pushed substantially outward — possibly to the substantial distance the source specifies. The astronomical implications of this specification: - **The home star is likely a substantially massive main-sequence star or a substantially evolved subgiant/giant.** A main-sequence star with a habitable zone extending to ~474 AU would need to be substantially more luminous than the Sun — by approximately the square of the distance ratio, ~225,000 times solar luminosity (since habitable-zone distance scales as the square root of luminosity). Such a star would be a substantially massive O-type or early B-type star with a substantially short main-sequence lifetime (millions to tens of millions of years), which would not permit the substantial civilizational development the source describes. - **The alternative is that the source's "habitable zone" extends substantially differently from how mainstream astronomy currently defines it.** The variable-lightspeed cosmology the source proposes (treated below) may imply substantially different habitability criteria. - **Or the source's specification is approximate rather than precise.** The 236,000 parasangs figure may reflect a substantively true characteristic (distance substantially greater than Earth-Sun) without precision in the specific orbital mechanics. The corpus does not require resolution of these astronomical questions. The substantive content is that the home planet orbits a substantially larger star at a substantially greater distance than Earth orbits the Sun, with the specific orbital dynamics calibrated for habitability by beings comparable to humans. ### Distance from Earth The home planet lies **30,000,000 parasangs** = ~9 trillion kilometers = approximately 0.95 light-years from Earth. The figure is "just a little less than a light year" in the source's own phrasing. The astronomical inconsistency this figure produces is substantial and the source addresses it directly. The nearest known star system to the Sun is the Alpha Centauri system (which includes Proxima Centauri), at approximately 4.24 light-years. No star is known to lie within 1 light-year of the Sun. The source's stated distance therefore conflicts with the contemporary astronomical observation that the corpus reader is presumed to have. The source offers **two responses** to this objection: **Response 1: Deliberate obfuscation.** The Elohim do not want the precise location of their planet to be known. The 1-light-year figure is therefore stated as a lower bound rather than as a precise measurement, with the actual distance substantially greater. As the source articulates this: > *"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 deliberate-obfuscation reading is internally consistent with the source's broader commitment to caution about disclosing information that could be used for harm before humanity has demonstrated readiness to receive it. **Response 2: Variable-lightspeed cosmology.** The source proposes that the speed of light is not a universal constant but varies across regions of space, depending on the local density of the substance the source calls a "sub-quantum medium" pervading all space. On this view, the standard light-year-as-distance assumption (light travels at ~300,000 km/s, therefore 1 light-year = ~9 trillion km) holds only in regions where the local lightspeed is what we measure it to be near Earth. In other regions, light travels at different speeds, and the apparent distance to a star calculated from light-travel time is therefore inaccurate. The source's articulation of this position in *Message from the Designers*: > *"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. This is one of the biggest errors that present scientists are committing. They start with an observation based on a limited period of time to draw conclusions bearing on the past thousands of years and on the time to come, or they base conclusions on a limited space, to draw conclusions on the infinity of space. Man has always made the same mistake of judging according to his knowledge."* A Raëlian-movement-internal hypothesis articulated in the source as additional explanation: the distance between the home planet and Earth could be approximately four light-years "by following the light" (which moves in a "pronounced curve") while being only one light-year by straight-line travel. The hypothesis is registered as a possibility in the source without endorsement. The corpus engages this question carefully. The variable-lightspeed proposal is not as scientifically untenable as it may initially appear — the contemporary cosmological literature contains substantive engagement with variable-speed-of-light (VSL) cosmologies (João Magueijo's substantial work, others). The corpus does not need to resolve the question to articulate the source content; what matters is that the distance is substantially given as approximately one light-year, with the substantial astronomical inconsistency acknowledged and addressed by the source itself. ### The contemporary exoplanet-discovery context The contemporary scientific context for the source's home-planet specification has substantially developed since Vorilhon's 1973-1975 contact. The principal developments: - **The exoplanet revolution.** The first confirmed exoplanets were detected in the 1990s (51 Pegasi b in 1995 as the first around a main-sequence star). The contemporary catalog contains more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets with substantial subsequent discoveries through the Kepler, TESS, and JWST programs. - **Habitable-zone candidates.** Several hundred confirmed exoplanets lie within their host stars' habitable zones, where liquid water could exist on a planetary surface. The principal nearby habitable-zone candidates include Proxima Centauri b (4.24 light-years, the nearest exoplanet to Earth), the TRAPPIST-1 system (39.6 light-years, with seven Earth-sized planets and several within the habitable zone), and substantial other systems. - **No habitable-zone planet within 1 light-year of the Sun.** The contemporary observational evidence does not support the existence of any planetary system within 1 light-year of the Sun. The nearest stars (Proxima Centauri, Alpha Centauri A and B) are at 4.24 light-years; no closer stellar object has been detected. The contemporary scientific context therefore substantially confirms the astronomical inconsistency the Vorilhon source itself acknowledges. The source's responses (deliberate obfuscation; variable-lightspeed cosmology) remain the substantive engagement with this inconsistency. ## Environment and ecology The source's description of the home planet's environment derives principally from Vorilhon's 1975 visit, recorded in the second principal source-book (*Les Extra-Terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète*). ### The paradisal landscape Vorilhon's account of his arrival on the home planet: > *"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."* The principal features registered: - **Mild climate** — temperature comfortable for unprotected human exposure; no extreme weather noted in the source description - **Rich olfactory environment** — substantial atmospheric content of plant-derived aromatic compounds, suggesting substantial biodiversity in floral species - **Substantial fresh-water hydrological systems** — the "innumerable small streams winding through the lush vegetation" suggesting a substantial freshwater cycle - **Substantial vegetation cover** — the "lush vegetation" suggesting Earth-comparable or substantially richer biomass productivity - **Open marine environments** — the "azure sea sparkled in the sun" indicating substantial open-water surfaces - **Topographic variation** — hills and panoramic views suggesting substantial geological differentiation The cumulative description has the character of an Earth-comparable habitable planet — possibly substantially more biologically productive than Earth, possibly with substantial environmental management by the host civilization. ### The agricultural and dining environment The dining scene Vorilhon describes provides additional environmental content: > *"Some people came out of a small cave located right next to us and approached us carrying trays piled high with fruits, grilled meats accompanied by the most incredible sauces, and drinks of unforgettable flavors."* The substantial fruit availability and the diverse culinary preparations indicate substantial agricultural productivity. The source elsewhere indicates that food production on the home planet is substantially automated through biological robots, with the eternals (both Elohim and resurrected humans) consuming the produced food without participating in its production. ### The architectural and built environment The source's description of the eternals' built environment: > *"We can live in different cities with multiple architectural styles in greatly varied sites that we can modify at will. People fulfill themselves as they wish, only doing what they like to do."* The architectural variation suggests substantial cultural-aesthetic diversity within the home civilization. The "modify at will" specification indicates substantial environmental-engineering capacity — the eternals can substantially reshape their immediate environment as they prefer, presumably through the biological-robot infrastructure that performs the actual construction work. ## Civilization and population The home planet's civilization is the political-civilizational center of the alliance that conducted the Earth project. The source content articulates several substantive features. ### Population The total home-planet population is approximately **seven billion**, comparable to contemporary Earth's population (~8 billion as of the corpus compilation). The number is substantial enough to support a complex industrial-technological civilization while not so large as to substantially exceed the planet's carrying capacity. The population control mechanism: each couple is permitted only two children, maintaining population stability at replacement rate. The eternals (members of the Council of the Eternals, both Elohim and resurrected humans) are not permitted to have children — a reproductive sterilization is performed on those who achieve eternal status, reversible if eternal status is subsequently relinquished. The mechanism prevents substantial population growth from indefinite-lifespan individuals while preserving the broader civilization's reproductive continuity. ### The seven provinces The home planet is organized into seven provinces, each with substantial political representation. The seven-province structure parallels the seven Eloha-team structure of the Earth creation project (treated in the [Plurality of Gods](../plurality-of-gods/) and adjacent entries) — though the source does not articulate whether the seven home-planet provinces correspond directly to the seven Eloha teams or represent a separate seven-fold organization. The provinces have rotating representatives on the intergalactic ship operating as the alliance's Earth-proximate operational base: > *"On our planet there are seven provinces. Each has a representative on that vessel. If we add the two who are responsible for the vessel, there are permanently nine of us."* The seven provincial representatives plus two ship-responsible Elohim equals nine permanent personnel on the operational base. ### Language The home planet's official language **closely resembles ancient Hebrew**: > *"Our official language closely resembles ancient Hebrew."* The substantive content of this claim: the Hebrew language preserved in the Hebrew Bible and subsequent Jewish tradition is, on the corpus reading, substantially derived from the home-civilization language transmitted to the Israel-team humans during the Earth project. The relationship is not coincidental — Hebrew preserves substantive linguistic content from the original alliance transmission, with the various subsequent Hebrew-language developments operating as natural-language drift from the original substrate. The relationship has substantive implications for the corpus's broader engagement with Hebrew Bible language. The Hebrew terms the corpus engages directly — *Elohim*, *Yahweh*, *ruach*, *kavod*, *nachash*, *bnei ha-elohim*, *nephilim*, and others — preserve substantive content from the alliance transmission rather than being merely Iron Age Levantine theological vocabulary. ### The Council of the Eternals The Council of the Eternals is the principal governing body of the home civilization. The Council consists of: - **Approximately 700 Elohim members.** These are the Elohim who have qualified for eternal status — Yahweh and the senior alliance officers who have undergone the cloning-and-memory-transfer immortality process and who function as the political authority of the civilization. - **Approximately 8,400 resurrected humans from Earth.** These are humans who during their lives "reached a sufficient level of open-mindedness towards the infinite, or who enabled humanity on Earth to progress from its primitive level through their discoveries, their writings, their ways of organizing society and their exemplary acts of fraternity, love or selflessness." The resurrected humans live alongside the Elohim members of the Council. The total Council population is approximately **9,100 eternals** (700 Elohim + 8,400 resurrected humans). The source elsewhere uses the approximate figure of "slightly more than 9,000" eternals. The Council is presided by **Yahweh**, the senior member of the relocating expedition that conducted the Earth project and the figure whose presidency of the Council extends across the entire subsequent operation. Yahweh's specific status: the first individual on whom the cloning-and-memory-transfer immortality technology was successfully applied, approximately 25,000 years ago. His seniority, his presidency of the Council, and his specific operational role across the entire alliance-Earth narrative all derive from his having been the first beneficiary of the technology. The detailed treatment of the Council of the Eternals lives in the [Council of the Eternals](../council-of-the-eternals/) entry; the detailed treatment of Yahweh lives in the [Yahweh](../yahweh/) entry. ### Economy The home civilization operates as a **post-scarcity economy** organized around several principal features: - **Atomic-based energy.** The home civilization's principal energy source is "highly developed atomic energy" — substantially more advanced than contemporary Earth nuclear technology, including a "closed-circuit" atomic application and substantial solar-energy use. The source specifies that the home civilization does not necessarily use uranium in its atomic reactors but several other "simple and harmless materials" — possibly indicating substantial advances in fusion or other non-fission atomic technologies. - **Biological robots.** All mechanical and service labor is performed by biological robots — engineered organisms produced through the same scientific principles used to create the people of Earth, but substantially limited and absolutely submissive. The biological robots have no aspirations, no pleasures except those necessary for their specialization, and no capacity for violence. Each eternal has approximately ten biological robots performing dirty and uninteresting work, for a total robot population of approximately 90,000 on the eternal-residence subsection of the planet. - **No money or property.** The post-scarcity economy operates without money. Property does not exist in any conventional sense — "everyone can have everything." The substantial productive capacity (biological-robot labor, atomic energy, automated manufacturing) meets all consumption needs without requiring market-based allocation. - **Intellectual-creative activity as principal pursuit.** Most home-civilization work is intellectual: > *"Most of our work is intellectual, as our level of scientific development allows us to use robots for everything. We work only when we feel the inclination — and then only with our brain. Only our artists and our sports people work with their bodies and only because they have chosen this."* The post-scarcity-economy model on the home planet operates as the substantive precedent for the Paradism transition the corpus articulates for Earth's Aquarian-age development (treated in the [Paradism](../paradism/) entry). The corpus's vision of Earth's Golden Age is, in substantial part, the application of the home-civilization economic model to Earth conditions. ### Social organization The home civilization's social organization includes several distinctive features: - **No marriage as institution.** Couples exist where individuals choose them, but freedom is preserved: "men and women are both free. Couples exist. Those who have chosen to live as such may do so, but they may have their freedom back whenever they wish." - **No jealousy.** The source specifies that jealousy does not exist among the eternals: "we all love one another. Jealousy does not exist, since everyone can have everything, and property is nonexistent." - **Sensual fulfillment.** Sexual and broader sensual activity is substantially central to home-civilization life: "we always do things we enjoy doing — especially making love. We find our women very beautiful, and we make the most of this." - **Biological-robot companions.** Eternals may have biological-robot companions of either sex with custom physical specifications, including replicas of admired persons from Earth. The robot companions are absolutely submissive and incapable of suffering or jealousy. The social organization on the home planet has substantial implications for the corpus's broader engagement with sexuality, relationship structure, and human flourishing — themes the corpus engages across multiple entries. ### Lifespan and reproduction The home-civilization population's natural lifespan is approximately **700 years**, with the help of "a small surgical adjustment" the source identifies as the biblical "tree of life": > *"We are not eternal, but we are able to live ten times longer than you, thanks to a small surgical adjustment, which in effect is the biblical 'tree of life.'"* The standard 700-year lifespan operates for the general home-civilization population. The Council of the Eternals members live indefinitely through the cloning-and-memory-transfer process — a substantially more advanced technology than the tree-of-life surgical intervention, available only to those who qualify for eternal status. The reproduction restrictions: - **General population**: two children per couple, maintaining population stability - **Eternals**: no reproduction, with a reversible sterilization procedure The reproductive restriction on eternals exists to prevent population overflow from indefinite-lifespan individuals. The substantial reproductive instincts of the eternals are, the source suggests, channeled into other-planet creation projects — the eternals who lose their reproductive role on the home planet substantially redirect their procreative drive into the creation of life on other planets, including the Earth project itself. ## Travel technology and connection to Earth The substantial distance from the home planet to Earth (approximately 1 light-year per the source specification) requires substantial travel technology. The source articulates the specific propulsion method and the broader operational infrastructure. ### Atom-based propulsion at superluminal speeds The source specifies that the Elohim craft do not travel by thermochemical rocketry (the method on which contemporary human space travel depends). Rocketry would require approximately 26,000 years for the journey from the home planet to Earth at contemporary rocket speeds — substantially too slow for operational use. The actual propulsion method is described as "atom-based" and permits travel at **seven times the speed of light**: > *"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. Those rays 'carry' us. To be carried by them, we leave the optical window, which is the spectrum of rays detected by the eye, to tune into the carrying beam."* The phenomenology of the propulsion as observed from Earth: an Elohim craft moves through the visible color spectrum (red through blue) and then disappears as it transitions out of the optical window into the faster carrying rays. The substantial witness accounts of UFOs shifting through colors before disappearing are, on the source reading, accurate observations of this propulsion-transition process. The substantial physics objection — that special relativity prohibits material objects from exceeding lightspeed — is addressed by the variable-lightspeed cosmology treated above. On the source's account, the speed of light is not a universal constant but varies with the local density of the sub-quantum medium; superluminal travel relative to the local lightspeed at the propulsion-craft's coupling frequency is therefore not the impossible-physics violation it initially appears to be. The travel time at the original 7× lightspeed: approximately **two months** for the ~1-light-year journey. By 1975 (the time of Vorilhon's second contact), the propulsion technology had substantially advanced; the same journey could be completed in "a matter of moments." ### The intergalactic ship near Earth The home planet itself is not the alliance's principal operational base near Earth. The source specifies that an **intergalactic ship** operates as the permanent alliance base near Earth: > *"No, I returned to an intergalactic ship which we use as a base and which stays constantly close to the Earth."* The intergalactic ship's specifications: - **Permanent stationing** near Earth, with continuous operational presence - **Nine permanent personnel**: seven Elohim representatives (one from each of the home planet's seven provinces) plus two Elohim responsible for the vessel itself - **Rotating Council representation**: the seven provincial representatives serve on rotation, with substantial home-planet communication maintained across the rotation periods The intergalactic ship is the operational interface between the home planet and the Earth-based alliance work. The substantial direct alliance-human contacts (the prophetic missions, the contact events, the Vorilhon contact) operate through ship-based personnel rather than through direct home-planet travel for each event. ### Earth-based alliance installations In addition to the intergalactic ship, the source registers substantial alliance installations on Earth itself: > *"The creators had bases — in the Andes, in the Himalayas, in Greece where Greek mythology also contains important testimonies, as well as in the Buddhist and Islamic religions and among the Mormons."* The principal Earth-based installations: - **Andean** — the substantial alliance presence in South America that produced the substantial Andean cultural-religious content (Viracocha tradition, Inca cultural-knowledge tradition, the broader pre-Columbian Andean religious heritage) - **Himalayan** — the substantial alliance presence in the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan region producing the substantial Hindu, Buddhist, and broader Asian cultural-religious content - **Greek** — the substantial alliance presence in the Eastern Mediterranean producing the substantial Greek mythological and philosophical content - **Various other locations** — including the locations associated with the Buddhist, Islamic, and Mormon traditions The Earth-based installations operated principally during the early phases of the alliance work and during the various subsequent prophetic missions. The substantial contemporary alliance presence on Earth is principally orbital (the intergalactic ship) rather than terrestrial-base. ## Relationship to the Planet of the Eternals The source content allows two substantive readings of the home planet's relationship to "the Planet of the Eternals." The two readings need careful articulation. ### Single-planet reading The single-planet reading treats the home planet and the Planet of the Eternals as the same world. Yahweh's statement to Vorilhon in 1975: > *"In my first message I told you of a residence located on our planet where people from Earth can continue to live thanks to the scientific secret of eternity that is based on a single cell. Among those people are Jesus, Moses, Elijah and so on. 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."* The natural reading of this statement: the residence (where Vorilhon was taken in 1975) is the entire home planet, with the Council of the Eternals' members living on the same world as the broader home-civilization population. The substantive content: when the source refers to "the Planet of the Eternals" or "the planet where we live," both designations refer to the same world. The single-planet reading is substantially supported by the source's direct statements. Vorilhon describes his visit as a visit to "our planet" (Yahweh's planet), with no indication of multiple distinct worlds in the same system. The source describes the home-civilization population (7 billion) and the Council of the Eternals population (9,100) as living on the same world. ### Two-planet reading The two-planet reading treats the Planet of the Eternals as a second smaller planet in the same home stellar system, distinct from the main home planet. The corpus *timeline.epub* engagement articulates this reading explicitly: > *"The prophets are, as the corpus has described in earlier chapters, currently resurrected and living on the Planet of the Eternals — the second smaller planet in the alliance's home system, where the approximately nine thousand eternals (alliance officers and selected humans) live in conditions of practical immortality maintained by the alliance's cloning and memory-transfer technology."* The two-planet reading proposes that the Planet of the Eternals is a smaller dedicated world reserved for the Council of the Eternals and the resurrected humans, while the broader home-civilization population (7 billion) lives on a larger main home planet in the same stellar system. The substantive content: when the source refers to "the planet where we live" in conversations with Vorilhon, the reference may be to the Planet of the Eternals specifically rather than to the broader home planet, with Vorilhon never having visited the main home planet in his 1975 contact. The two-planet reading has support in the source's substantial emphasis on the eternals' residence as a substantial paradise distinct from ordinary life. The source describes the eternals' residence as "this veritable little paradise where everything is easy" — language that may suggest a substantively distinct world rather than a region of the broader home planet. ### The corpus position The Wheel of Heaven framework registers both readings as substantively compatible with the source material. The principal considerations: - **The source content does not definitively resolve the question.** The Vorilhon source uses "our planet" and "the planet of the Eternals" without consistent disambiguation. Either reading is consistent with the substantive source statements. - **The two-planet reading has substantive corpus-internal articulation.** The *timeline.epub* engagement substantively adopts the two-planet reading, providing the broader corpus framework's principal articulation of the question. - **The interpretive question is substantively open.** The Vorilhon contact occurred in 1973-1975; the home planet's specific astronomical and political organization may include features that the contact-era source content did not articulate. The pending [Planet of the Eternals](../planet-of-the-eternals/) entry will articulate the specific Council-of-Eternals residence content, with the disambiguation between the single-planet and two-planet readings handled in the dedicated treatment. This entry articulates the broader home-planet content under the single-planet reading where the source material most directly supports it. ## Hebrew Bible and Kabbalistic engagement The Vorilhon source engages Hebrew Bible and Kabbalistic content as preserving substantive knowledge of the home planet's characteristics. The principal source-textual engagement. ### Psalm 19:4 The v1 entry cites Psalm 19:4: *"In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun."* The full Hebrew text of Psalm 19:4-5: > בְּכָל־הָאָרֶץ יָצָא קַוָּם וּבִקְצֵה תֵבֵל מִלֵּיהֶם לַשֶּׁמֶשׁ שָׂם־אֹהֶל בָּהֶם > *Be-khol ha-aretz yatza kavam u-vi-ktzeh tevel mileihem, la-shemesh sam ohel bahem* — "Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun." The conventional theological reading treats the passage as poetic celebration of celestial-natural revelation — the heavens declaring divine glory through their visible movements. The Vorilhon-source reading treats the "tabernacle for the sun" as substantive content about the home planet's stellar context: the home star (the "sun" of the passage) has its "tabernacle" (its dwelling, its substantial environmental context) "in them" (in the heavens, in the celestial space the home planet occupies). The reading is interpretively substantial without being conclusive. The conventional reading is grammatically and contextually defensible; the corpus reading is an alternative that the Hebrew text permits without strictly requiring. ### The Kabbalistic "height of the creator" The principal Hebrew-textual source for the parasang measurements is the **Kabbalistic Shi'ur Qomah** tradition. The Shi'ur Qomah literature (Hebrew שִׁעוּר קוֹמָה, "the measure of the body/height") is an early-medieval Jewish mystical corpus that articulates the "measure of the divine body" through substantial numerical specifications. The principal content includes substantive parasang measurements of various divine "body parts" — figures that the conventional Kabbalistic interpretation treats as symbolic-anthropomorphic content within the broader mystical-theosophical framework. The Vorilhon source treats the Shi'ur Qomah figures as substantive astronomical content. The 236,000 parasangs "height of the creator" reads as the home planet's orbital distance from its star; the 30,000,000 parasangs "height of his heels" reads as the home planet's distance from Earth. The substantive interpretive move: the Kabbalistic tradition preserves authentic content about the home planet's astronomical situation, with the substantial subsequent allegorical-mystical reinterpretation operating as obfuscation of originally concrete content. The Vorilhon source's broader engagement with the Kabbalistic tradition: > *"The Kabala is the closest book to the truth, but almost all religious books allude to us with varying degrees of clarity."* The Kabbalistic tradition (treated systematically in the [Kabbalah](../kabbalah/) entry) is registered by the source as substantively the closest preservation of the original alliance-transmission content within the post-biblical Jewish tradition. The detailed engagement with the Kabbalistic content operates as one of the corpus's principal source-textual engagements with post-biblical Jewish material. ### The throne of God / abode of the Elohim The Hebrew Bible's various references to the "throne of God" (Hebrew כִּסֵּא יְהוָה *kissé YHWH*) and the divine abode admit substantive Vorilhon-source reading. The principal passages: - **Isaiah 6:1** — *"I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up"* (the Isaiah throne vision) - **Ezekiel 1** — the substantial chariot-throne vision with the four living creatures, the wheels-within-wheels, and the firmament-throne structure (treated in the [Ezekiel](../ezekiel/) entry when written) - **1 Kings 22:19** — *"I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him"* (the Micaiah ben Imlah throne vision) - **Psalm 11:4** — *"The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven"* - **Various other Hebrew Bible passages** The corpus reading: the various throne-of-God passages preserve content about the alliance's home-planet residence — the substantial seat of political authority where Yahweh and the Council of the Eternals conduct the civilization's governance. The conventional theological reading treats the throne as substantively metaphorical (the symbolic representation of divine sovereignty); the corpus reading treats it as substantively concrete (the actual political-residential center of the home civilization). ## The Mormon Kolob tradition The Mormon (Latter-day Saint) tradition contains substantial content about an extraterrestrial celestial body called *Kolob*, with substantial subsequent interpretive engagement including the Tvedtnes-Sirius hypothesis the v1 entry registers. ### The Book of Abraham The principal Mormon-source content appears in the **Book of Abraham**, one of the four canonical scriptures of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (alongside the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Doctrine and Covenants). The Book of Abraham was translated by Joseph Smith from Egyptian papyri purchased in 1835 and was first published serially in 1842 in the LDS newspaper *Times and Seasons*. The translation history is substantially contested by mainstream Egyptological scholarship; the substantial surviving fragments of the original papyri have been substantially identified as standard Egyptian funerary texts (the Book of Breathings, Book of the Dead fragments) rather than as Abrahamic content. The Book of Abraham's content about Kolob appears principally in Abraham 3: - **Abraham 3:2** — "And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God" - **Abraham 3:3** — "And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest" - **Abraham 3:4** — "And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim, that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest" The principal substantive content: Kolob is a celestial body (variously interpreted as a star or a planet) located near the throne of God. Kolob's "revolution" (presumably orbital or rotational period) is 1,000 Earth-years. Kolob "governs" other celestial bodies of similar order. ### The Tvedtnes etymological hypothesis **John A. Tvedtnes** (1941–), the substantial LDS scholar who has substantially engaged Book of Abraham philology, articulated in his 2005 essay "Authentic Ancient Names and Words in the Book of Abraham and Related Kirtland Egyptian Papers" the proposal that *Kolob* derives etymologically from the Semitic root *KLB*: - **Hebrew כֶּלֶב** (*kelev*, "dog") — the standard biblical Hebrew term - **Akkadian 𒌨𒂠** (*kalbum*, "dog") — the standard Akkadian cognate - **Arabic كَلْب** (*kalb*, "dog") — the standard Arabic cognate - **Proto-Semitic** *\*kalb-* (reconstructed proto-form, "dog") The substantive Tvedtnes argument: Kolob's etymological connection to the *KLB* root identifies it as the "dog star" — the principal Western-tradition designation for **Sirius**, the brightest star in the night sky and the principal star of the constellation Canis Major ("Greater Dog" in Latin). Sirius's heliacal rising (its first dawn appearance) coincides in the Mediterranean climate with the hottest part of summer, producing the substantial "dog days of summer" idiom across multiple European languages. ### Sirius and the home planet If Tvedtnes's etymological argument is accepted, the Book of Abraham's Kolob identifies Sirius as the "heavenly body nearest unto the throne of God." Combined with the Vorilhon-source identification of the home planet as the alliance's political center, the substantive implication: the home planet may orbit Sirius (or, more precisely, the Sirius A-Sirius B binary system). Sirius's astronomical characteristics: - **Distance from Earth**: 8.6 light-years (the closest star system to Earth visible to the naked eye) - **Sirius A**: an A1V main-sequence star, substantially larger and more luminous than the Sun (~2.06 solar masses, ~25 times solar luminosity) - **Sirius B**: a white dwarf, the substantial companion to Sirius A (~1 solar mass, substantially evolved past main-sequence) - **Orbital period**: ~50.1 years for the Sirius A-Sirius B binary orbit The Sirius identification has substantial complications: - **The 8.6 light-year distance** is substantially greater than the source's stated 1 light-year for the home planet's distance from Earth. The distance discrepancy would have to be resolved through the deliberate-obfuscation hypothesis or the variable-lightspeed cosmology. - **The binary-star system** complicates the habitability calculations. Stable planetary orbits in binary systems exist (S-type orbits around one star, P-type orbits around both stars) but the substantial gravitational perturbations from the secondary star complicate the orbital dynamics. - **The white dwarf Sirius B's prior history** as a substantially more massive main-sequence star with subsequent red-giant phase would have substantially disrupted any planet's orbit and atmosphere during that phase, with substantial implications for habitability. - **Sirius A's relative youth** (estimated ~242 million years) substantially constrains the time available for biological evolution on any orbiting planet, though the corpus framework does not require biological evolution on the home planet (the Elohim themselves were created by an earlier civilization rather than evolving naturally — the Cosmic Chain treated in the [Cosmic Chain](../cosmic-chain/) entry). ### The corpus position on the Kolob-Sirius hypothesis The corpus does not adopt the Tvedtnes-Sirius hypothesis as a corpus claim. The principal considerations: - **The Vorilhon source itself does not identify the home planet with Sirius.** No passage in the principal Vorilhon source-books makes the Sirius identification. The source's deliberate obfuscation of the home planet's location explicitly prevents precise identification. - **The Mormon Book of Abraham's evidentiary status is substantially contested.** The translation history's substantial problems (the surviving papyri's identification as standard Egyptian funerary texts; the substantial subsequent scholarly engagement) substantially limit the evidentiary weight the Book of Abraham can carry. - **The Tvedtnes etymological argument is one Mormon-internal interpretation among several.** Other Mormon-internal interpretations of Kolob (as a non-Sirius star, as a planet, as a metaphorical celestial reference) substantially compete with the Tvedtnes argument. - **The astronomical complications** registered above substantially limit the plausibility of the Sirius identification even on the corpus framework's variable-lightspeed assumptions. The corpus registers the Kolob-Sirius hypothesis as adjacent interpretive engagement worth noting while substantially distinct from corpus claims. The home planet's specific astronomical location remains genuinely open within the corpus framework, with the Vorilhon source's deliberate obfuscation operating as the principal substantive constraint. ## Modern reinterpretations and adjacent traditions The substantive contemporary engagement with extraterrestrial home-planet content operates across multiple distinct registers. ### Contemporary exoplanet discovery and SETI The contemporary scientific context for extrasolar habitable worlds has substantially developed since Vorilhon's 1973-1975 contact. The principal developments: - **The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program** — initiated in 1960 with Frank Drake's Project Ozma, substantially developed through the SETI Institute (founded 1984) and subsequent programs. The SETI program has not detected confirmed extraterrestrial signals as of the corpus compilation, but has substantially expanded the observational capacity and theoretical framework for engagement with the question. - **The Drake Equation** — Frank Drake's 1961 formulation for estimating the number of communicative civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. The equation's parameters (rate of star formation, fraction of stars with planets, fraction of planets in habitable zones, fraction developing life, fraction developing intelligence, fraction developing communicative civilizations, expected lifetime of communicative civilizations) have substantially developed across the subsequent decades as the input data has improved. - **The Fermi Paradox** — Enrico Fermi's 1950 informal question (and Hart-Tipler's 1975 formal articulation) about why, given the substantial number of stars and the substantial age of the galaxy, we observe no evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations. The substantial subsequent engagement has produced multiple proposed resolutions (rarity of life, rarity of intelligence, civilizational self-destruction, the zoo hypothesis, the dark forest hypothesis, others). - **The exoplanet revolution** (treated above in *Location and astronomical specifications*) — the contemporary catalog of confirmed exoplanets includes substantial numbers in habitable zones, with substantial subsequent characterization through atmospheric spectroscopy and other techniques. - **The 2017 ʻOumuamua interstellar visitor** — the substantial interstellar object that passed through the inner solar system in 2017, with substantial subsequent debate about its nature (most likely a natural object with unusual properties; Avi Loeb's substantial argument for possible technological origin) - **The 2020 Pentagon UAP disclosure** — the substantial U.S. military release of UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) reports, with subsequent congressional hearings and substantial public attention to the question of non-human technological presence The cumulative contemporary context substantially supports treating the extraterrestrial-life question as substantively open rather than as foreclosed. The corpus position: the Vorilhon source's contact narrative occurs within a broader scientific-cultural context that has substantially developed in directions compatible with the source's claims, without yet providing the substantial independent confirmation the source's specific claims would require. ### Mormon Kolob (treated in detail above) The Mormon Kolob tradition (treated systematically above in *The Mormon Kolob tradition*) is the principal contemporary alternative-religious engagement with extraterrestrial-home-planet content. The detailed treatment lives above; the brief recapitulation: the Book of Abraham's Kolob is the "heavenly body nearest unto the throne of God," with the Tvedtnes-Sirius hypothesis registering as one interpretive engagement among several. ### Hebrew Bible and Kabbalistic engagement (treated in detail above) The Hebrew Bible and Kabbalistic engagement (treated above in *Hebrew Bible and Kabbalistic engagement*) operates as the principal source-textual basis for the Vorilhon source's home-planet specifications. The brief recapitulation: Psalm 19:4 and adjacent passages on the celestial divine abode; the Shi'ur Qomah Kabbalistic tradition from which the parasang measurements derive; the various throne-of-God passages. ### Speculative-fiction engagement with alien-civilization homeworlds The substantial twentieth-century speculative-fiction engagement with alien-civilization homeworlds operates as substantial cultural-conceptual preparation for the corpus framework. The principal works: - **H. G. Wells**, *The First Men in the Moon* (1901) — substantial early engagement with extraterrestrial civilization on a nearby celestial body - **Olaf Stapledon**, *Star Maker* (1937) — substantial cosmic-civilization framework articulating substantial diverse alien-civilization types across galactic scales - **Stanisław Lem**, *Solaris* (1961) — substantial philosophical engagement with the substantial alien-civilization-homeworld problem; the substantial alien intelligence whose nature substantially resists human comprehension - **Ursula K. Le Guin**, *The Left Hand of Darkness* (1969) and *The Dispossessed* (1974) — substantial engagement with substantial humanoid extraterrestrial civilizations on substantial Earth-like homeworlds - **Frank Herbert**, *Dune* (1965) — substantial engagement with substantial planetary civilization on the desert planet Arrakis - **Iain M. Banks**, the Culture novels (1987 onward) — substantial post-scarcity civilizational engagement with structural parallels to the Vorilhon-source home-civilization content (post-scarcity economy, substantial AI/robot infrastructure, substantial lifespan extension, substantial intellectual-creative-activity primacy) - **Ann Leckie**, the Imperial Radch trilogy (2013 onward) — substantial subsequent engagement - **Various other speculative-fiction engagement** — Asimov, Heinlein, Dick, Card, Vinge, Stross, and substantial subsequent authors The substantial speculative-fiction engagement operates as substantive cultural-conceptual preparation for the corpus framework. The post-scarcity-civilization model the Vorilhon source articulates substantially overlaps with the Iain Banks Culture model; the substantial habitable-exoplanet content the source registers substantially overlaps with the substantial speculative-fiction engagement with Earth-like alien worlds. The substantial cultural-conceptual matrix produced by the substantial twentieth-century speculative-fiction tradition operates as substantial preparation for the Aquarian-age engagement with the corpus framework (treated in the [Forerunners](../forerunners/) entry). ### The substantial astrobiology consensus The contemporary astrobiology field operates as the principal scientific engagement with the substantial extraterrestrial-life question. The principal substantive findings: - **Substantial habitable-zone exoplanets exist.** Several hundred confirmed exoplanets within their host stars' habitable zones, with substantial subsequent discoveries through ongoing programs. - **Substantial Earth-like physical conditions are not rare.** The contemporary astrobiology consensus treats substantial Earth-like physical conditions (liquid water, atmospheric pressure within substantial range, temperature within substantial range, substantial chemical complexity) as substantially common across the galaxy. - **The substantial transition from prebiotic chemistry to life remains substantially open.** The substantial origin-of-life question is one of the most substantially active research areas in contemporary science, with substantial subsequent progress on substantial mechanisms (RNA world hypothesis, metabolism-first hypotheses, alkaline hydrothermal vent hypotheses, others) but no substantial consensus on the specific origin-of-life mechanism. - **The substantial transition from simple life to complex life is substantially less understood.** The Earth biological record shows substantial life appearing within ~500 million years of planetary formation but eukaryotic complexity emerging only after ~2 billion years and animal-grade complexity only after ~3.5 billion years. The substantial subsequent transitions (multicellularity, neurological complexity, technological civilization) may be substantially rarer than the substantial origin of life itself. The corpus position: the contemporary astrobiology consensus substantially supports the substantive plausibility of extraterrestrial habitable worlds while leaving the substantial question of extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations open. The Vorilhon-source claim that the home civilization operates within "an infinite number of worlds inhabited by beings of the humanoid type whose scientific level is lower than ours" substantially exceeds the contemporary scientific evidence, which neither confirms nor denies the claim's substantive content. ## Comparative observations The cross-cultural pattern of "celestial home of the gods" traditions operates as one of the substantive cross-cultural patterns the corpus engages comparatively. The pattern's substantial cross-cultural distribution is worth substantive registration. ### Hebrew Bible heavens The Hebrew Bible articulates the substantial divine abode through several distinct vocabulary registers: - **שָׁמַיִם** (*shamayim*, "heavens") — the substantial plural Hebrew term for the celestial region; the substantial residence of Yahweh and the substantial divine assembly - **רָקִיעַ** (*raqia*, "firmament") — the substantial dome-structure separating "the waters above" from "the waters below" in Genesis 1; the substantial physical infrastructure of the celestial region - **כִּסֵּא יְהוָה** (*kissé YHWH*, "throne of Yahweh") — the substantial seat of divine political authority; the substantial governmental center of the celestial domain - **The substantial divine assembly content** — the *sod Elohim* (Genesis 6:1-4; Psalm 82; Job 1-2; Isaiah 6) where the substantial divine beings deliberate The substantial corpus reading: the Hebrew Bible's celestial-divine-abode content preserves substantive memory of the home planet as the political-civilizational center of the alliance. The substantial throne-of-Yahweh content registers the Council-of-the-Eternals' political authority; the substantial divine-assembly content registers the substantial deliberative procedures of the Council. ### Greek Mount Olympus and the Isles of the Blessed The Greek tradition articulates substantial celestial-and-other-world content: - **Mount Olympus** (Ὄλυμπος) — the substantial mountain in Thessaly identified as the substantial residence of the Olympian gods; the substantial political center of the Greek divine pantheon - **The substantial Isles of the Blessed** (Μακάρων Νῆσοι, *Makaron Nesoi*; Latin *Fortunatorum Insulae*) — the substantial paradisal islands in the western ocean where Hesiod (*Works and Days*, 167–173) substantially places the substantial heroes of the Heroic Age after death - **The substantial Elysian Fields** (Ἠλύσιον Πεδίον, *Elysion Pedion*) — the substantial paradisal region in Homer's *Odyssey* (4.561–569) and substantial subsequent Greek tradition where the substantial favored mortals dwell after death The substantial corpus reading: the Greek celestial-and-paradisal traditions substantially preserve memory of the home planet as substantial paradisal residence of the Council of the Eternals. The substantial Isles of the Blessed and Elysian Fields content substantially preserves memory of the Planet of the Eternals (whether single-planet or two-planet reading) as substantial post-mortem residence for substantial favored mortals — substantially corresponding to the resurrected-humans-on-the-home-planet content the Vorilhon source articulates. ### Egyptian Field of Reeds and Field of Offerings The Egyptian tradition articulates substantial afterlife-paradisal content: - **The Field of Reeds** (Egyptian *Sekhet-Aaru*, also rendered Aaru or Iaru) — the substantial paradisal region where the substantial favored dead reside in the afterlife; substantial lush vegetation, substantial abundant water, substantial agricultural fertility - **The Field of Offerings** (*Sekhet-Hetep*) — the substantial complementary paradisal region where the substantial favored dead enjoy substantial offerings and substantial banquets The substantial corpus reading: the Egyptian afterlife-paradisal content preserves substantial memory of the home planet's paradisal environment (the lush vegetation, the streams, the agricultural fertility) and the substantial banqueting practices of the eternals. ### Mesopotamian heavens of Anu The Mesopotamian tradition articulates substantial celestial content centered on Anu (Sumerian *An*, Akkadian *Anu*), the substantial sky-god whose substantial residence is the substantial uppermost level of the heavens: - **The substantial three-or-seven-heavens cosmology** — substantial Mesopotamian texts articulate substantial cosmological structures with substantial multiple celestial levels, with the substantial uppermost level housing Anu and the substantial principal divine assembly - **The substantial divine assembly content** — substantial Sumerian and Akkadian texts register substantial deliberative procedures among the substantial divine figures in the substantial celestial residence ### Persian-Zoroastrian Garodemana / Garōdmān The Zoroastrian tradition articulates substantial afterlife-paradisal content: - **Garōdmān** (Avestan *garō-dəmāna-*, "house of song") — the substantial highest paradise in Zoroastrian cosmology; the substantial residence of Ahura Mazda and the substantial favored souls - **The substantial cosmological structure** — the substantial Zoroastrian celestial hierarchy with substantial multiple paradisal levels ### Hindu Vaikuntha, Brahmaloka, and the various heavenly realms The Hindu tradition articulates substantial celestial content across multiple substantial paradisal realms: - **Vaikuntha** (वैकुण्ठ) — Vishnu's substantial abode; the substantial supreme paradisal realm in Vaishnavism - **Brahmaloka** (ब्रह्मलोक) — Brahma's substantial realm; the substantial uppermost level of the substantial seven-loka cosmological structure - **Indraloka / Svarga** — Indra's substantial heaven; the substantial paradisal realm of the substantial favored mortals - **The substantial seven-loka and fourteen-loka cosmologies** — the substantial Hindu cosmological structures with substantial multiple celestial-and-infernal levels The substantial corpus reading: the substantial Hindu celestial-paradisal content preserves substantial memory of the alliance home planet and its substantial paradisal character, with the substantial multiple-loka structure registering substantial complex celestial organization. ### Buddhist Pure Lands The Buddhist tradition articulates substantial paradisal content principally through the substantial Pure Land traditions: - **Sukhāvatī** (Sanskrit सुखावती, "land of bliss") — Amitabha Buddha's substantial pure land; the substantial paradisal realm reached through substantial Pure Land Buddhist practice - **The substantial various other pure lands** — Abhirati (Akshobhya), Vaiḍūryanirbhāsa (Bhaiṣajyaguru), and substantial other pure lands across the substantial Mahayana tradition The substantial corpus reading: the substantial Buddhist Pure Land content preserves substantial memory of the home planet as substantial paradisal residence, with the substantial accessibility through substantial spiritual achievement registering substantial parallels to the substantial eternals-on-the-home-planet content. ### Norse Asgard The Norse tradition articulates substantial celestial content: - **Asgard** (Old Norse *Ásgarðr*, "enclosure of the Æsir") — the substantial residence of the Æsir gods; the substantial uppermost level of the substantial nine-world Norse cosmology - **Valhalla** (Old Norse *Valhǫll*, "hall of the slain") — Odin's substantial hall in Asgard; the substantial residence of the substantial slain warriors ### Celtic Tír na nÓg The Celtic Irish tradition articulates substantial otherworld content: - **Tír na nÓg** (Irish, "Land of the Young") — the substantial Celtic otherworld where substantial eternal youth and substantial endless happiness reside - **Mag Mell** ("Plain of Joy") — the substantial complementary Celtic otherworld realm - **The substantial various Celtic otherworld traditions** — Avalon (in the substantial subsequent British tradition), Annwn (in the substantial Welsh tradition) ### Polynesian and Pacific sky-home traditions The substantial Pacific traditions articulate substantial celestial-home content: - **Hawaiian Kahiki** — the substantial ancestral homeland across the sea or sky - **Maori Hawaiki** — the substantial ancestral homeland; the substantial origin-of-the-Polynesians - **The substantial various Pacific cosmological traditions** — substantial multi-level cosmologies with substantial celestial divine residences ### Native American Star People traditions The substantial North American indigenous traditions articulate substantial Star People content: - **The substantial Lakota Star People (Wakanpi)** — substantial cosmological tradition with substantial celestial-origin content - **The substantial Hopi Star People traditions** — substantial cosmological tradition with substantial Pleiadian-origin content (the substantial Hopi origin-from-the-Pleiades tradition) - **The substantial Cherokee and other substantial subsequent Native American substantial celestial-origin traditions** The substantial corpus reading: the substantial Native American Star People traditions preserve substantial memory of the substantial alliance-contact operations across substantial pre-Columbian American populations, with substantial subsequent oral-traditional preservation of substantial celestial-origin content. ### African celestial traditions The substantial African traditions articulate substantial celestial-home content: - **The substantial Dogon traditions** — including the substantial controversial Sirius B content (treated in the [Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis](../ancient-astronaut-hypothesis/) entry); the substantial substantial Nommo celestial-being content - **The substantial Yoruba traditions** — substantial Olodumare (supreme deity) substantial celestial residence content - **The substantial various sub-Saharan substantial celestial traditions** ### The binary-star and twin-star traditions The substantial cross-cultural pattern of binary-star and twin-star traditions deserves specific note in the context of the Mormon-Sirius hypothesis treated above: - **The substantial Egyptian Sopdet (Sirius) tradition** — substantial worship of Sirius as substantial heliacally-rising star marking the substantial Nile flood; substantial association with Isis - **The substantial Dogon Sirius traditions** — the substantial controversial Dogon astronomical content (treated in the [Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis](../ancient-astronaut-hypothesis/) entry); the substantial Dogon registration of Sirius B as substantial "Po Tolo" with substantial subsequent astronomical-verification content - **The substantial Mesopotamian twin-deity content** — Anu-Enlil, the substantial Igigi-Anunnaki paired pantheons, the substantial various twin-deity traditions - **The substantial Greek Castor and Pollux content** — the substantial Dioscuri (Διόσκουροι, "sons of Zeus"); the substantial twin-deity tradition associated with the constellation Gemini and substantial substantive celestial navigation - **The substantial Hindu Ashvini content** — the substantial Ashvins as substantial twin-divine-figures; the substantial subsequent astronomical identification with the substantial first nakshatra - **The substantial Mesoamerican Hero Twins content** — the substantial Popol Vuh's Hunahpu and Xbalanque; the substantial Maya twin-hero tradition with substantial substantive astronomical-encoded content The substantial cross-cultural twin-star and binary-star content does not by itself establish any specific stellar identification for the home planet. The substantial pattern is worth registering as substantial comparative material that the substantial Mormon-Sirius hypothesis operates within. ### The convergence The substantial cross-cultural "celestial home of the gods" pattern operates as one of the substantial broadest cross-cultural patterns the discipline of Comparative Mythology has identified. The substantial pattern's distribution across virtually every major world religion suggests substantial substantive content that requires substantial substantive explanation. The corpus position (consistent with the broader Comparative Mythology engagement treated in the [Comparative Mythology](../comparative-mythology/) entry): the substantial cross-cultural pattern preserves substantial memory of substantial actual alliance home-civilization content. The substantial various traditions register substantial different aspects of the substantial home-planet content within substantial distinctive cultural framings — the substantial paradisal-environment content (Egyptian Field of Reeds, Greek Isles of the Blessed, Buddhist Pure Lands); the substantial political-authority content (Hebrew throne-of-Yahweh, Norse Asgard, Mesopotamian Anu's residence); the substantial accessibility-through-merit content (the substantial various afterlife-paradise traditions reflecting the substantial resurrected-humans-on-the-home-planet content). The substantial convergent content across substantial diverse cultural framings substantially supports the corpus reading. The substantial alternative explanations — common cognitive structures (substantial sky-attribution as substantial cognitive default), substantial cultural diffusion, substantial archetypal patterns — operate as substantial partial explanations that substantially miss the substantial common-historical-referent component the corpus framework articulates. ## See also - [Wheel of Heaven](../wheel-of-heaven/) - [Elohim](../elohim/) - [Yahweh](../yahweh/) - [Council of the Eternals](../council-of-the-eternals/) - [Planet of the Eternals](../planet-of-the-eternals/) - [Raël](../rael/) - [Raëlism](../raelism/) - [Message from the Designers](../message-from-the-designers/) - [Plurality of Gods](../plurality-of-gods/) - [Cosmic Chain](../cosmic-chain/) - [Cosmic Competition](../cosmic-competition/) - [Hebrew Bible](../hebrew-bible/) - [Kabbalah](../kabbalah/) - [Genesis](../genesis/) - [Tree of Life](../tree-of-life/) - [Paradism](../paradism/) - [Golden Age](../golden-age/) - [New Jerusalem](../new-jerusalem/) - [Embassy](../embassy/) - [Forerunners](../forerunners/) - [Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis](../ancient-astronaut-hypothesis/) - [Comparative Mythology](../comparative-mythology/) - [Age of Capricorn](../age-of-capricorn/) - [Age of Aquarius](../age-of-aquarius/) ## 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. . 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*. . "Kolob." *Wikipedia*. . "Sirius." *Wikipedia*. . "Exoplanet." *Wikipedia*. . "Search for extraterrestrial intelligence." *Wikipedia*. . "Variable speed of light." *Wikipedia*. . "Heaven." *Wikipedia*. .