[RAELIAN DISINFO] The GATE OF PISCES or the FISH GATE?

You will date your writings counting the year 1946 as “year one”, after Claude Rael, the last of the prophets. Then 1976 is therefore year 31 after Claude Rael, or year 31 of the era of Aquarius, or year 31 of the age of the Apocalypse, or year 31 of the golden age. (Intelligent Design, p. 206)

The Bible quote from Zephaniah 1:10 does NOT refer to the Constellation of Pisces but an actual gate to the Old Temple called the "Fish Gate". It acquired its name from where fish were sold, or the fish market. The actual verse reads:

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills. (Zephaniah 1:10)

Rael's books were originally written in French and he certainly quoted from a French version of the King James Bible and therefore conflating the French word for fish with Pisces of the zodiac. The current English version of Rael's books contains a footnote (number 19, p. 379) admitting that Rael had deliberately distorted the English KJV Bible verse by leaving the French word pisces in order to claim a connection to the Age of Pisces. In French, both "fish" and "Pisces" are "poisson".

The Bible verse is NOT a prophesy of the creation of the State of Israel, nor the birth of the Messiah.

Furthermore, 1946 is NOT the beginning of the Age of Aquarius. It was Jean Sendy who is among the very few who asserts that the Age of Aquarius began in 1950. Check out Jean Sendy's books comparison with those of Claude Vorilhon Rael.

If an "Age" lasts 2,160 years and most scholars place Jesus' birth between 6 and 4 BCE, then the Age of Aquarius should begin on the years between 2154 to 2156 CE. LOL




References:
http://laise.org/?page_id=45
http://www.jewish-history.com/palestine/jerusalem.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_age#The_Age_of_Pisces_.28The_Piscean_Age.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Aquarius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Zephaniah

Note: Initially, the Raelian Movement counted the years using the notation A.R. (after Rael). But now, they use the notation A.H. (after Hiroshima) with 1945, the year when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, as year 0.