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An enigmatic manuscript. A secret lost for 2,000 years. The discovery that shines new light on Christianity.Jesus said: “I have cast fire upon the world…”The Thomas Code uncovers and explains the mathematical secret of the Gospel of Thomas. This fascinating book takes the reader on a journey of discovery involving an ancient mathematical code, sayings of Jesus that are riddles we must solve, and a Gospel whose structure is more advanced than anything else known from antiquity. The book demonstrates how this extraordinary Gospel is earlier than the four gospels in the bible.The Gospel of Thomas was esteemed among early Christians. But after it was declared heretical by the church, all copies were destroyed. Long thought to have been lost, it was recovered in 1945 from a codex buried in a jar in the Egyptian desert. Unlike the New Testament gospels, Thomas is a list of sayings spoken by Jesus. Some are familiar, while others are strange and mysterious. Even odder is the bizarre way in which the sayings are organized, seemingly without any rhyme or reason. Scholars have searched for a structure, but nothing has been found. Until now!The Thomas Code shows how the Gospel is organized using a mathematical formula and how the clues to this formula have been hiding in plain sight. The abundant evidence is set out simply and clearly with the help of diagrams. Remarkably, the Thomas Code is also the key to the miracle of the loaves and fishes and enables us to understand this miracle for the first time.The Thomas Code shows a Gospel that delights in paradoxes and riddles. But this is not all. The Gospel of Thomas is structured to reach a climax at which a secret will be told. That secret is a shocking revelation about the nature of Jesus himself.Includes a complete translation of the Gospel of Thomas organized and renumbered according to the Thomas Code.S.P. Laurie studied mathematics at the University of Oxford and is the author of The Rock and the Tower.

Jesus said: "I have cast fire upon the world..." An enigmatic manuscript. A secret lost for 2,000 years. The discovery that shines new light on Christianity. The Thomas Code uncovers and explains the mathematical secret of the Gospel of Thomas. This fascinating book takes the reader on a journey of discovery involving an ancient mathematical code, sayings of Jesus that are riddles we must solve, and a Gospel whose structure is more advanced than anything else known from antiquity. The book demonstrates how this extraordinary Gospel is earlier than the four gospels in the bible. The Gospel of Thomas was esteemed among early Christians. But after it was declared heretical by the church, all copies were destroyed. Long thought to have been lost, it was recovered in 1945 from a codex buried in a jar in the Egyptian desert. Unlike the New Testament gospels, Thomas is a list of sayings spoken by Jesus. Some are familiar, while others are strange and mysterious. Even odder is the bizarre way in which the sayings are organized, seemingly without any rhyme or reason. Scholars have searched for a structure, but nothing has been found. Until now! The Thomas Code shows how the Gospel is organized using a mathematical formula and how the clues to this formula have been hiding in plain sight. The abundant evidence is set out simply and clearly with the help of diagrams. Remarkably, the Thomas Code is also the key to the miracle of the loaves and fishes and enables us to understand this miracle for the first time. The Thomas Code shows a Gospel that delights in paradoxes and riddles. But this is not all. The Gospel of Thomas is structured to reach a climax at which a secret will be told. That secret is a shocking revelation about the nature of Jesus himself. Includes a complete translation of the Gospel of Thomas organized and renumbered according to the Thomas Code. S.P. Laurie studied mathematics at the University of Oxford and is the author of The Rock and the Tower.

The revolutionary book that will change the way you think about Christianity.How is it possible for Jesus to be the Son of God? Why is it that only Christianity has a founder who is also the subject of the religion? And if Jesus were really a peasant preacher from Galilee, then why do all the earliest sources speak of him as the divine saviour and as God himself?Conventional scholars, locked into the failed paradigm of the historical Jesus, have no answers to these questions. This book develops a radical new approach by looking at how new religions form. The typical pattern is that a shaman founder brings revelations from a divine figure, a “visitor from heaven”. The shaman paradigm applies this model to Christianity, showing that Jesus must have been the “visitor from heaven”, crucified in the distant past, but resurrected and reborn spiritually through the shaman.The Rock and the Tower is the search for the identity of the shaman. It uses the earliest sources to look for the signal of historical truth that has been lost under the noise of storytelling and theological elaboration. It shows how the supposedly heretical Gospel of Thomas (originally called the Gospel of the Twin) represents the original Christianity and how it was used and abused by all four of the New Testament Gospels.The conclusions are extraordinary. The shaman was a woman called Mary who has always been the object of adoration by Christians. The Gospels turned the shaman into the fictitious characters of Mary the Magdalene and the Virgin Mary, and she is also the mysterious person called Cephas in Paul’s letters.This book uncovers the story of the remarkable woman who was both the Rock and the Tower, from her first spiritual encounter with Jesus, through her role as “mother” to the movement, and her eventual martyrdom at the orders of Nero, the Antichrist. It shows that Christianity originated as an esoteric sect who believed that each person had a spirit “twin”, a heavenly wife or husband. The Christ came to redeem the twin from the fallen angels who were believed to rule the world, and to reunite the person into a new spiritual whole, the kingdom of heaven. And the spiritual twin of Mary was Christ himself.The Rock and the Tower is the first volume in the Shaman Paradigm series.

The revolutionary book that will change the way you think about Christianity. How is it possible for Jesus to be the Son of God? Why is it that only Christianity has a founder who is also the subject of the religion? And if Jesus were really a peasant preacher from Galilee, then why do all the earliest sources speak of him as the divine savior and as God himself? Conventional scholars, locked into the failed paradigm of the historical Jesus, have no answers to these questions. This book develops a radical new approach by looking at how new religions form. The typical pattern is that a shaman founder brings revelations from a divine figure, a “visitor from heaven”. The shaman paradigm applies this model to Christianity, showing that Jesus must have been the “visitor from heaven”, crucified in the distant past, but resurrected and reborn spiritually through the shaman. The Rock and the Tower is the search for the identity of the shaman. It uses the earliest sources to look for the signal of historical truth that has been lost under the noise of storytelling and theological elaboration. It shows how the supposedly heretical Gospel of Thomas (originally called the Gospel of the Twin) represents the original Christianity and how it was used and abused by all four of the New Testament Gospels. The conclusions are extraordinary. The shaman was a woman called Mary who has always been the object of adoration by Christians. The Gospels turned the shaman into the fictitious characters of Mary the Magdalene and the Virgin Mary, and she is also the mysterious person called Cephas in Paul’s letters. This book uncovers the story of the remarkable woman who was both the Rock and the Tower, from her first spiritual encounter with Jesus, through her role as “mother” to the movement, and her eventual martyrdom at the orders of Nero, the Antichrist. It shows that Christianity originated as an esoteric sect who believed that each person had a spirit “twin”, a heavenly wife or husband. The Christ came to redeem the twin from the fallen angels who were believed to rule the world, and to reunite the person into a new spiritual whole, the kingdom of heaven. And the spiritual twin of Mary was Christ himself. The Rock and the Tower is the first volume in the Shaman Paradigm series.