The making of the Messiah

Historical Fiction

We know the beginning and the end of this story; it's the bit in the middle that has taxed scholars and believers for two thousand years. Stan Law's take on the awakening of Jesus between age 12 and 30 in Asia Minor, India and Egypt is fascinating, educational and entertaining.

It's not a light read, immersing the reader in a raft of interconnected philosophies including Torah, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Buddhism, Zarathustra, Nirvana, Krishna right through to Time and Space and the power of positive thinking. These, and Jesus/Yeshua's relationship with the narrator, Satya, are all threads in the weave that ultimately return him to his mixed-up Judeans. Inspired by the revelations of the psychic Edgar Cayce, Law has drawn on plentiful research and/or a deep spiritual awareness to bring us this enlightenment, though his use of modern vernacular (`mom', `dad', `on the house', `wow, `you're kidding' etc.) is courageous - as youths, Yeshua and Satya would have had their own teenage language but we have no way of knowing what it would have been.

Will you get more than just a good read? Yes. Even more if you have a little faith - it might change your life for the better. But rest assured, Law's excellent story is NOT preachy!