Good morning, everybody.
Thank you, Elohim.
Thank you for everything.
Thank you for making us be ourselves.
Thank you for your love, your compassion.
Thank you for showing us the way.
Thank you for showing us what it means to be.
Thank you for guiding us toward peace.
Thank you for showing us the path toward harmony.
Thank you for showing us the way to happiness.
And above all, thank you for treating us as equals. Thank you Elohim. Thank you Elohim. Thank you.
So, this morning, I want to speak to you about the most important thing in our hearts: compassion.
Us, Raelians, we are not normal. For everything, there is a normal standard, a normal way of being. But Raelians do not want to be normal. You want to be better. You want to be special. You want to be the black sheep among the white flock. You want to be. No, you do not want to be. You are. Because if you merely want to be, then you are not.
And in everything, we cannot be satisfied with remaining at a normal level. Being Raelian means striving for excellence. Better than normal. Because normal is not enough for us. We want to be exceptional. You want to excel. To be better than yourself. It is a competition with yourself, not with other people. Every day, you want to be better than yesterday, in every way.
And the most important thing, of course, is love. Love contains many things, but the most beautiful expression of love is compassion. Compassion means supporting people who suffer.
Like Gandhi: when somebody was killing him, his immediate reaction was compassion for the killer. When somebody is killing you, the normal reaction is anger, insults, hatred. That is the reaction of ordinary people. But if you are inhabited by love and compassion, like Gandhi, your first reaction becomes: “Poor man… poor man. You will have to live with the guilt of having killed me.” I die, no problem. But you will continue to live with this guilt. You will never forget that you killed Gandhi. And Gandhi immediately thought: “Oh, poor you.” That is not a normal reaction. That is what you want to be. Real compassion is compassion for people who suffer.
Giving love even to people who kill you. Even to people who insult you.
It is easy to feel compassion for people you do not know, like the people in Gaza. The whole world has compassion for the people of Gaza. But the real compassion should also be for the Israeli people. They will have to live with this guilt. And more and more Israeli people feel it. More and more Jewish people around the world and in Israel feel deep pain about what has happened in Gaza.
For a very, very long time, Jewish people, especially Israelis, will suffer from this tragedy. More and more Jewish and Israeli people are rejecting what is happening. The whole world shows compassion for the victims in Gaza. That is easy. But the deeper suffering may remain with those who must continue living with the consequences of violence and guilt.
The killers suffer longer than the dead because they continue to live carrying the weight of guilt for what they have done. And this suffering can remain for a lifetime. More and more Jewish people are now afraid to travel. For a long time, there was deep sympathy toward Jewish people because of the suffering inflicted by the Nazis. Jewish people were seen as victims, and there was profound compassion for them. It’s finished; it is no more.
Jewish people feel ashamed to travel, ashamed to be Jewish, because of what is happening in Gaza. The image has shifted from victim to criminal
The first reaction when people were meeting Jewish people before, was to say that what the Nazis did is terrible. Now for Jewish people who travel around the world, the people they meet will say: “why do you kill so many people in Gaza?” They don’t have any more this image of victims. They have the image of killers. That creates a lot of suffering. So, I wish that we all show compassion for Jewish people, especially Israelis.
Israeli people are originally dreamers. I remember when Israel was created, the beautiful image of people returning to Israel, creating collective farms, building a new life after the horrors of the Nazi era. They created kibbutzim, collective farming, making vegetables grow in the desert. It was a beautiful image.
But now, they are ashamed to be Israeli. They are, even if they don’t want to say it. Now, 60% of Israelis reject their government. They feel ashamed and this shame will stay for a very long time. Not a long time, but forever. They cannot be anymore the victim saying help us, we were killed by the Nazis. Now they travel and they are the killers. Many restaurants, many countries, many hotels refuse them. And that will be for a long time. Not for a long time but forever. They destroyed this beautiful image of victim to becoming the worst criminal on Earth.
Many Jewish and Israeli people are human beings like us. They are dreamers. They have this beautiful dream of creating the third temple, the third temple which is the embassy to welcome back Elohim. That’s the basic reason of being Jewish. A real Jew is praying Elohim every day trying to spread the beautiful values of the Jewish philosophy. And some people in Israel and Jewish people around the world are very pure and full of love.
They are deeply suffering because of the image the Israeli government gives to the world of what it means to be Jewish. So, while the world shows compassion for the Palestinian people, like Gandhi showed compassion for his killer, I want Raelians also to show compassion for Israeli people. The Palestinians are dying or already dead, but Israeli people will continue living with the consequences.
I remember a fictional book I really loved. The author imagined that Adolf Hitler had been found alive somewhere in Brazil. And the question was: If we find him alive, what would be the right punishment? The death penalty? No, the author said, that would not be enough. Instead, he imagined condemning Hitler to live freely in Israel, changing homes every day, knocking at people’s doors and saying: “I am Adolf Hitler. Can you give me a place to sleep and something to eat?”
It was a beautiful image: to condemn someone not to death, but to live forever with guilt. To condemn him to live with his guilt, alive, free, but carrying that guilt in his mind. So now, the guilt is on the Israeli people. The victims have become the killers. So please, send love and compassion to the Israeli people. They are suffering. Some are not yet conscious of it, but they are suffering. And they will suffer forever. So, they truly need compassion.
What is, I cannot say funny, but spectacular… spectacular… is that to be Jewish is to wish to welcome the Elohim. To wish to welcome the Messiah. It is beautiful. It is our dream as well. In the book that created the Jewish religion, the Elohim clearly say to the Jewish people that it is forbidden for them to have a nation, a country. And many religious Jewish people reject the idea of a country called Israel. And they protest. They refuse military service in Israel.
There is a group called Neturei Karta, but not only them. Most truly religious Jewish people are against Israel, against the State of Israel. The mainstream media does not talk about it. For a true Jew, having a state, a nation, a country, is forbidden.
One of the most beautiful values of the Jewish religion is: “You shall not kill.” Clearly written: “Do not kill.” That is what it means to be a religious Jew. What is happening in Israel is quite different. It is a complete betrayal of being Jewish. The mission of the Jewish people is to spread love on Earth. To prepare humanity to welcome the Elohim. Not to kill. Not to steal the land of other people.
The deep values of Judaism are so beautiful. They are the chosen people, the most talented, chosen by the Elohim. But for what purpose? To help humanity. To give the best of themselves to make humanity better. Not to dominate. “I am Jewish. I accept to live in other countries, and I will help this country become better.” That is the deep philosophy of Judaism. Clearly written in the religious books: you must not have a country. You must help all nations of the world make great progress. In other words: to serve humanity. Not to dominate. Not to steal. Not to kill.
So, the true Jews, and there are many, cry. They cry when they see how Israel is betraying their religion. So, I wish that all Raelians send their love and compassion to the Israelis. Once again, the whole planet shows compassion for the people of Gaza. Good. But those who need even more compassion are the criminals of Israel.
In the same way that the man who killed Gandhi needed compassion. He lived his entire life with the guilt of having killed Gandhi. Think about the suffering of the killers, because they carry this suffering forever.
Thank you, Elohim, for the teaching of compassion, which is the most beautiful way to show love.
I wish you a beautiful eternity. Not one day, eternity. One day is too short.
Enjoy this life! It is the only one you have on Earth.
