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Maitreya Rael, Raelian Gathering, February 8, 80\u00a0aH (2026), Okinawa, Japan<\/p>\n
Good morning, everybody. Arigatou gozaimasu!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a little before eleven, but we can do what we want. We don\u2019t have to be exactly on time.<\/p>\n
I have a little meditation for you. It\u2019s an exercise. Imagine you discover the Message today. You are in your home, in your town, and today you discover the Message for the first time. There is no website, there is no movement, you are alone. What do you do? Because if you are touched by the Message, you know there is a prophet somewhere who wants to welcome the Elohim, to build an embassy. You know all this story, but there is no movement. What do you do?<\/p>\n
Try to imagine. You read the book exactly like you did. You are crazy enthusiastic. \u201cI want to help!\u201d I hope. That\u2019s what you experienced, I hope. That\u2019s why you are here today.<\/p>\n
But there is nobody. No movement, no organization, no website. What do you do? Cry? No.[ \u201cI make the Raelian Movement\u201d]. \u201cHow?\u201d That\u2019s interesting, right? [\u201cI talk to friends, one person at a time\u201d] . And they all laugh, nobody follows you. That\u2019s what happened to me. Any other suggestions?<\/p>\n
Who wrote the Message, the book? Do you wish to come and meet me? Better than crying.
\nSo, do you come? Do you try to find where Maitreya is? Where is he?<\/p>\n
Maybe you don\u2019t know, but I don\u2019t know either, maybe you want to come and meet me? Is it OK? [Yes!] Imagine you take a train, a car, anything, and you go to where Maitreya is.<\/p>\n
I was in a house in the city of Clermont-Ferrand, and I remember the first Raelian coming to meet me. It could have been you. There was no organization, nothing. He came and said, \u201cHow can I help?\u201d Beautiful. He was the father of Jarel, Job Aymonier. \u201cWhat can I do?\u201d There wasn\u2019t even a book published yet.<\/p>\n
I spoke on TV before the book was made, and they send thousands of letters to the television. The postman brought bags, like garbage bags, full of letters to my house. I took my pen and answered each person. Many Raelians still have my answers.<\/p>\n
He sent them to the TV because nobody knew my address. I answered one by one. Of course, I cannot write ten letters at the same time, each of them. It took hours.<\/p>\n
And they knew my address from my replies, and Job Aymonier came. \u201cWhat can I do? How can I help?\u201d Imagine you are in this situation. No committee to welcome you, no angels, no place prepared, nothing. What can I do?<\/p>\n
The first thing: we need to print the book and I don\u2019t have the money to print them. He said, \u201cI will pay.\u201d It could have been you.\u00a0\u201cHow much does it cost to print the book?\u201d About two thousand dollars. And Job Aymonier said, \u201cI will help. I will pay.\u201d That\u2019s how it started.<\/p>\n
After that, I moved to the place of the second encounter, a beautiful old farm in the southwest of France, with many holes in the roof. Why did I move there, leaving the city of Clermont-Ferrand for this almost destroyed farm?<\/p>\n
Because another Raelian came, and I said, \u201cI want to change place because I stop my work as a journalist. I want to promote the book, and I need a place to stay.\u201d He said, \u201cI have an old farm in the southwest of France. No heater, but there is an open fire, old style, with wood.\u201d I said, \u201cOk, I need to move.\u201d Other Raelians came and said,\u00a0\u201cI have a truck. I can help you move.\u201d We went there and made a fire immediately.<\/p>\n
I remember the first guide, Jean Gary, who is with the Elohim. He came to meet the last prophet, to meet Rael himself. He entered through the small gate. There was a garden; and I love gardening. I was eating my own vegetables, raising my own chickens. I had rubber boots, turning the soil, not too deep, just a little. If you turn too deep, nothing grows. You must keep the topsoil on top and the bottom soil at the bottom. If you want to have a garden one day, don\u2019t turn it completely, just a little bit, because the bacteria which make the vegetables grow are at the top.<\/p>\n
So, I\u2019m there, in jeans and rubber boots, working the ground. Jean Garry comes and says, \u201cI want to see Rael.\u201d I say, \u201cIt\u2019s me.\u201d He was expecting someone dressed all in white, with a strange hat. Instead, there was a gardener covered in mud. It could have been you.<\/p>\n
The surroundings matter when you meet someone for the first time. Today, if a new Raelian arrives, there is a gate, security, beautiful rooms. The image is easy. Maitreya arrives all in white.<\/p>\n
But back then? In the garden, mud everywhere. \u201cWhere is Rael?\u201d \u201cWhat? It\u2019s me?\u201d \u201cI want to help.\u201d \u201cOk, welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Behind my farm, there was a small field with grass, good for cows. I said, \u201cIn one month, I want to organize the first Happiness Academy in this field.\u201d \u201cCan you help me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Imagine it\u2019s you. You have to organize everything: the tent, the place. I will speak, but you organize everything. Imagine it\u2019s you. Many people would leave, saying, \u201cThis man is crazy.\u201d But Jean Gary stayed in my farm. There was one room available, full of pigeon droppings. It was a pigeon house, a hole in the roof, rain falling inside, but not on the bed. And he stayed with me and organized because I just wanted to speak and do gardening.<\/p>\n
There was no sound system, no microphone, no toilets. People dug holes in the ground. That was the first Happiness Academy, organized by Jean Gary. That could have been you.<\/p>\n
So, your first question, I want to meet Rael, where is Maitreya?\u00a0And you go,\u00a0full of dreams and expectations. He might be a prophet\u00a0all white\u00a0but he is a farmer. And you follow\u00a0your decisions\u00a0and the prophet asks you to organize the field to make the first Happiness Academy. Imagine, because becoming Raelian today\u00a0is\u00a0very easy. There is a website, national guides, regional guides, beautiful Happiness Academies in big hotels. Very easy. That\u2019s why I want you to imagine being the first. Imagine.<\/p>\n
A funny detail because it\u2019s good to laugh: the first thing Jean Gary did was offer me a cigarette. That was very kind of him. That\u2019s my best memory. \u201cDo you want a cigarette?\u201d That was Jean Gary. At that time, he was addicted to smoking. My farm was in the middle of nowhere, ten kilometers from the village. Every day he drove to buy cigarettes.<\/p>\n
I asked him, \u201cDo you want to continue smoking forever?\u201d \u201cNo, I saw the message, I want to stop.\u201d \u201cWhy not today?\u201d \u201cOk, I try but I cannot.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, I will help you, let\u2019s go to the village together. We went to the shop where he bought cigarettes. They sell packages with ten\u00a0packs of cigarettes.\u00a0I said, Jean, instead of coming every day, buy the big package.\u00a0If you want to stop, buy the package. And he bought it. When we came back, I said, \u201cSee this garbage? Throw your package out. Oh, the emotion! Throwing away 10 packs is not as easy as throwing one pack. All this money!\u201d He threw it away. That\u2019s how he stopped smoking. The first guide of the Raelian Movement offered me a cigarette. Unforgettable.<\/p>\n
So, imagine you are the first. Now come back to today. Look at all of you. I\u2019m sure you if you had been the first, you would still be here. But it\u2019s interesting to feel it. How lucky we are to have each other.<\/p>\n
The Message is a treasure, but the greatest treasure is you.<\/p>\n
The first letter from Lotus, the first contact with Shizue, still here. I remember every one of you. The first contact with Tony.\u00a0\u201cYou should come to Okinawa\u201d. \u201cWhat is Okinawa?\u00a0Is it a food?\u201d\u00a0For all of you,\u00a0there was a first contact\u00a0and we are together.\u00a0I have no family\u00a0on Earth,\u00a0no father, no mother, no grandmother, nobody.<\/p>\n
You are my family. And I am very lucky, to have no mother and no father on Earth. But to have you, you are all my children, and this feeling of oneness together\u00a0from China, Portugal, France,\u00a0from everywhere. In this small room we share a beautiful love in the light of the Elohim. Feel it.<\/p>\n
Thank you all for your beautiful love. I feel your love. Every love story has a beginning. Would you have fallen in love immediately with a farmer full of mud? Would you have stayed? Would you have organized with me?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Raelian Movement is you.<\/p>\n We are and I really love us. You are my family. And the gift is this: you have a father with the Elohim. The love of Yahweh for you is the love of a father.<\/p>\n Feel it. Wherever you go on Earth, the love of the Elohim is guiding you, is always there. You can go and travel to the other side of the Earth, alone, no other Raelian around, but you carry the love of the Elohim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s the feeling. That is our family.<\/p>\n Thank you, Elohim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maitreya Rael, Raelian Gathering, February 8, 80\u00a0aH (2026), Okinawa, Japan Good morning, everybody. Arigatou gozaimasu! It\u2019s a little before eleven, but we can do what we want. We don\u2019t have to be exactly on time. I have a little meditation for you. It\u2019s an exercise. Imagine you discover the Message today. You are in your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":388140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-address"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388170,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388138\/revisions\/388170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}