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that the prophecies throughout the [Bible] fit
both Elvis and Jesus like a glove.”
Among the similarities: Both Jesus and
Elvis are called The King. Jesus was the
Rock; Elvis (at least according to Go d f re y )
i n vented rock. Jesus was the Son, and El v i s
began his re c o rding career on the Sun label.
“The name numbers for Jesus and Elvis both
equal nine,” she says. “In fact, their namenumbers
match exactly, letter for letter and
number for number: Jesus = 15363, Elvis =
53613.” Their followers worshipped and
a d o red them. Both could heal and re a d
minds, and both had powe rful enemies who
sought to stop them. Go d f rey claims that
like Jesus, Elvis was Jew i s h .
She also notes that the Bible frequently
refers to the Voice of God on many occasions.
“Is there any voice more spectacular than Elvis
Presley’s?” she asks. The Psalms even predict
that Presley one day would disappear: “I am
shut up and I cannot come forth” (Psalms
88:8) and “How long, Lord? Wilt thou hide
thyself forever?” (Psalms 89:46). Isaiah 4:2
states that when the Messiah comes, “In that
day shall the branch [Messiah] of the Lord be
beautiful and glorious.” Godfrey remarks,
“Now, picture Elvis at his Aloha from Hawaii
concert, resplendent in his jeweled American
Eagle jumpsuit. Curiously enough, the eagle
is also a symbol for Christ” (Godfrey, 2000).
According to Godfrey (as well as more
mainstream Presley biographers such as Peter
Guralnick), Presley had a religious vision in
the Arizona desert in March 1965. Just outside
Flagstaff, as Presley was driving his bus
with his spiritual advisor Larry Geller sitting
next to him, he saw a cloud in a clear sky and
swore that he could see the face of the late Soviet
dictator Josef Stalin in it. The image faded
as the cloud’s shape changed, so Presley imagined,
into the face of Jesus. He pulled the bus
over to the side of the road and ran into the
desert, feeling a sense of deep spiritual transformation.
Geller would claim that Presley
later wondered if maybe he was indeed Christ.
Godfrey contends that Elvis Aron Presley’s
own name proves his godhood. “El” means
Emmanuel 93
God, “vis” from power—thus “God Power.”
“Presley” derives from “priestly.” She goes on,
“In fact, all three of Elvis’ major residences
contain the prophetic ‘EL’: Graceland, Tupelo
and Bel Air. Furthermore, according to the
Bible, since Jesus’ crucifixion, we are living in
the Dispensation of ‘Grace’—that 2,000 year
period of time when sins are pardoned by the
sacrificial death of Christ. The name of Elvis
Presley’s mansion: ‘GRACE-LAND’!” And,
she adds, did not Jesus say, “I am Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the ending,” just
as Elvis said, “I am and I was”?
Godfrey goes outside Scripture to delve
into esoteric literature for further evidence,
citing among other sources the prophecies of
Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce. Noting one
occultist interpretation of the Great Pyramid
(not shared by Egyptologists), she writes that
the Great Pyramid was a monument to
Christ, allegedly known to the Egyptians as
“Orion.” The pyramid’s structure, read properly,
foretells the return of Christ sometime
around 2000. “Elvis Presley has been mentioned
in connection with the name Orion on
many occasions,” she observes, “including
Gail Giorgio’s 1978 bestseller, Orion, about a
godlike singer who faked his death and disappeared”
(Godfrey, 2000).
Further Reading
Godfrey, Cinda, 2000. The Elvis-Jesus Mystery—The
Shocking Scriptural and Scientific Evidence That
Elvis Presley Could Be the Messiah Anticipated
throughout History. New Philadelphia, OH: Revelation
Press.
Guralnick, Peter, 1999. Careless Love: The Unmaking
of Elvis Presley. Boston, MA: Back Bay Books.
Emmanuel
First seen clairvoyantly as a “being of golden
light” (Rodegast and Stanton, 1985), Emmanuel
was a popular channeling entity during
the New Age boom of the 1980s. Emmanuel,
who spoke through Pat Rodegast, did
not ever explain exactly who or what he was,
insisting only that he was physically real but
hinting that he had a body that human beings
might not be comfortable seeing. He made a