Background

I am Robert  W. North, the owner of the site and right now, the principle author of its books.  I am an ex-Jesuit scripture scholar. After leaving that Catholic group of priests and brothers, I earned a Ph.D. in Counseling. 

I discovered the literary methodology that Biblical and other ancient authors used to organize their compositions. I call it “Semitic Parallelism.”  It is explained in my book on this site, the Semitic Secret. 

I then applied Semitic Parallelism to the Gospel of Thomas, a first-century book discovered buried in Egypt in 1945.  I found that the work consisted of 131 wisdom poems organized in a 26 Chapter arch.  

Because the poems are ingeniously organized on nine levels, 

Because over half of them present the sayings and parables of Jesus as found in the New Testament, 

Because only the author of the poems could arrange them so intricately.

Because it is difficult to imagine that more than a single author could lay out the core theory of personal and spiritual development so logically and consistently, and 

Because the first  three-part poem states that Jesus composed the book and dictated it to his disciple Thomas, 

I concluded that only Jesus could have been the author. 

Therefore, I renamed the book, the Gospel of Jesus.  You can download a free condensed version of the book or a paid full version on this site. 

The Divine Way 

In his book, Jesus presents himself as a therapist, not a theologian. He perceived intuitively that people are born soul Divine and in healthy oneness with everyone and everything, including their Divine Mother and Father. We become psychologically “dark” (full of emotional problems) when we allow the “world” to prevent us from being who we are. 

Fortunately, within the DNA of the universe is the Divine Way back to being our healthy selves. Many ancient wise ones “discovered” that Way. In his Gospel, Jesus builds on their insights, includes his own, and empowers each one of us to use that information to “reveal” one’s unique version of the Divine Way to psychological, spiritual, and social well-being. 

This Site 

This site hosts books, lesson guides, and other materials related to Semitic Parallelism and the Divine Way (symbolized by the site’s URL—7771).