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"In His Image" weaves an engrossing and ingenious story around the biggest possible subject the cloning of Jesus Christ. James BeauSeigneur brings to bear a fine mix of scientific, political, and religious knowledge to illuminate this powerful tale. -- Charles Sheffield, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction author . . . a refreshing, well thought out, and methodically researched look at the end of the age. And not since, C.S. Lewis have we seen such creativity and imagination in its presentation. Bravo! More! -- Jeremy Nordmoe, Vanderbilt University Library ...a lively three-part novel dramatizing the end-times described in Revelation...BeauSeigneur's "Christ Clone Trilogy" livens things up with a sci-fi premise -- The New York Times, December 27, 1998, Alex Heard and Peter Klebnikov ...grabbed me by the throat and never let go...C.S. Lewis couldn't have done it better! -- Tickled by Thunder, November 1998 Building on the idea that the Shroud might hold the actual DNA of our Lord, James BeauSeigneur has written a fascinating Christian science fiction series. -- "Update" Vol. 8, No. 8, August 1998, Lambert Dolphin, Physicist I'm so impressed with this intriguing and captivating series. I'm also encouraged to note the careful research Jim has done. The validity of the message is enhanced greatly by it. -- E.Brandt Gustavson, L.L.D President, National Religious Broadcasters If you are having trouble making sense of end-time prophesy and enjoy fiction, you must read The Christ Clone Trilogy by James BeauSeigneur. . . . If you're debating between reading The Christ Clone Trilogy or the Jenkins/LaHaye Left Behind series, this is way better. -- Free Methodist World Mission People Magazine, 8-17-98, Dan Runyon In the three books of "The Christ Clone Trilogy," James BeauSeigneur has accomplished what scores of other writers have attempted. He has written an intelligent, well-researched, and flawlessly executed end-times story that both Christians and non-Christians give high marks. In fact, even New Agers sing the books' praises. . . . I HIGHLY recommend these books. I enjoyed them greatly and they sucked me in like no other book of their ilk ever has. If you have been reading Tim LeHaye's books, and have been enjoying those, I KNOW that you will enjoy this series. My advise is to buy all three at the same time, because as soon as you finish one, you will want to jump right into the next. -- "PropheZine" #63, August 17, 1998, Ray Gano Pulling together apocalyptic prophecies, science, military detail, current events and Jewish and Christian Scripture and traditions, BeauSeigneur weaves together an almost believable, ingeniously constructed tale. -- "NAPRA ReVIEW," New Age Publishing and Retailing Association, Vol. 8, No. 6, Holiday 1997 WOW! . . . I couldn't put the book down. Although I know this is 'fiction,' the book really reinforces some of my own beliefs. . . . I have called at least 20 people and told them to order both books. -- Barbara Meister Vitale, author of "Unicorns are Real: A Right Brained Approach to Learning" From the Publisher Science fiction has always been a vehicle for dealing with controversial material. Rarely has the science been so well researched, the story so well told, or the message so controversial as it is in The Christ Clone Trilogy. This is a landmark series and SelectiveHouse is proud to be a part of it. What begins as a scientist's plan to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life by cloning live cells found on the Shroud of Turin, turns into a nightmare of worldwide destruction and the ultimate battle between good and evil. Tightly woven around the fulfillment of every major and minor `end-times' biblical prophecy, as well as major prophecies from more than a dozen other world religions, the Trilogy is so closely tied to actual events, it includes more than 200 footnotes. Recounting the actual events of a 1978 expedition of American scientists to examine the Shroud of Turin (believed by millions to be the burial shroud of Jesus), author James BeauSeigneur takes you to the origins of a conspiracy that will change the world forever. For unknown to the rest of the team, one of the scientists, Professor Harold Goodman, makes a startling discovery: a cluster of dermal cells, still alive after 2000 years. Based on his discovery and the theories of real-life Nobel Prize winner, Francis Crick, Goodman sets about to prove that the man on the Shroud was actually a member of an alien race, four billion years advanced to life on earth. The incredible plan to prove his theory: clone Jesus! The cloning of Jesus from the cells found on the shroud sets in motion forces which trigger worldwide cataclysms, precipitating the end of life as we know it and ushering in a New Age for the planet. Though other books and films -- "Rosemary's Baby," "The Omen," "The Stand," "The Seventh Sign" -- have played off end-times themes, none have attempted to hold faithfully to the prophetic texts. Books and films on the subject written for the religious market are more attentive to prophecy but generally show little regard for reality and present a distorted `Sunday-school' view of the world, and are so maudlin in their presentation that they have little appeal outside the religious market. The Christ Clone Trilogy is the first serious treatment of the events of the biblically prophesied end times for the general reader. The scholarship in all areas covered (science, history, medicine, geography, politics, astrophysics, the Bible, the New Age, etc.) is impeccable. Formerly involved in politics on a full-time basis, James BeauSeigneur has managed several campaigns and in 1980 ran for U.S. Congress against Al Gore. He has four years of experience in military intelligence, including two and a half years as a linguist and analyst with the National Security Agency. BeauSeigneur's published works include technical manuals on strategic defense and military avionics; newspaper and magazine articles; speeches for U.S. Congressional and Senatorial candidates; and lyrics for several songs. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. From Chapter 3, Body of Christ: "I am not crazy!" Goodman shot back. Decker stood up, ready to leave. "I'm sorry, Professor. You don't want me. You want someone from the National Enquirer!" Goodman stood and placed himself between Decker and the door. Damn it, I know how crazy it sounds, but when you see what I've found on the Shroud you'll understand." Finally, here was something solid Decker's curiosity could relate to. He no longer hoped to find the news story of the millennium, but he might at least find out what had made Goodman's conservative scientific mind turn to mush. In the lab Goodman opened a locked cabinet and pulled out a clear plastic case with several dozen slides in it. Decker recognized it as the case of tape samples taken from the Shroud of Turin. "As I told you earlier," Goodman began, "I borrowed the slides in order to examine further the dirt particles that were found in the left heel area of the image. I hadn't even thought about the Shroud for the last few years but when it was announced that they were going to do the carbon 14 dating, it reminded me of something. I wondered if there was anything about the dirt that would indicate that it had originated in the Middle East, or, conversely, was there anything that would instead indicate that the dirt was from either France or Italy or perhaps even somewhere else? "If it was from the Middle East, or even from Jerusalem itself, it would not necessarily prove anything about the Shroud, of course. A forger who went to all the trouble of placing dirt on the Shroud in such minute amounts that it took a twentieth century macroscope to see it, might just as well have thought to import the dirt from Jerusalem. It makes about as much sense, which is to say: none at all. I just wanted to get another look at it." Goodman sat down in front of a microscope, turned on its lamp and placed a slide on the scope's stage. "In the car I told you that Dr. Heller had avoided using too much magnification because of what it was he was looking for." Goodman paused, looked through the eyepiece lens, and adjusted the scope's objectives and focus. "In my case," he continued as he looked up at Decker, "I used between a 600x and a 1000x." Goodman stood up and motioned for Decker to look through the scope. "This first slide is the sample taken from directly over the left heel." Decker moved the slide around on the stage, refocusing as necessary. "There's not much there," he said, still scanning the slide. "Exactly," Goodman said. "At first I was rather disappointed. I checked the grid but the only other samples from the feet were from the nail wounds in the right foot." Goodman took the slide from the microscope and carefully placed it back in its designated slot. "You remember that the right foot actually had two exit wounds, indicating that the feet had been nailed left over right. The right foot was nailed down first, with the nail exiting through the arch of the foot. The left foot was then nailed on top of the right with the nail passing through both feet, leaving an exit wound in the arch of the left foot and the heel of the right. Neither of these samples seemed very promising though, because any dirt that had been in the wound areas would likely have been bonded to the cloth by the blood." Goodman took a second slide from the plastic case. "This particular sample is from the blood stain of the right heel. I really didn't expect to find any dirt there, but I looked anyway." Goodman paused. "That's when I found it." Goodman reached around Decker and shut off the microscope's lamp and handed him the slide. Decker took the slide and placed it on the microscope's stage. He adjusted the mirror to compensate for the loss of light from the lamp and focused the lens. Goodman rotated the objective to 800x. On the slide before him, Decker could see a group of several strangely familiar disk-shaped objects surrounded by and imbedded into crusty blackish-brown material that he assumed to be blood. After a moment, he looked up at Goodman. His eyes had grown wide and his mind raced in disbelief and confusion. "Is that possible?" he asked finally. Goodman opened a large medical text book to a well marked page and pointed to an illustration in the upper left corner. What Decker saw there was an artist's representation of something very similar to what he had just seen through Goodman's microscope. The caption below the picture read, "human dermal skin cells." Decker looked back through the microscope to be sure. They appeared to be perfectly preserved. He felt Goodman reach around him again, this time to turn the lamp back on. The brighter light made the small disks appear transparent and Decker could clearly see the nucleus of each cell. Within a few seconds the lamp began to gently warm the slide. Decker looked away to rub his eyes and then looked back. In the warmth of the artificial light, the nuclei began to move. Read more
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- Recounting the actual events of a 1978 expedition of American scientists to examine the Shroud of Turin (believed by millions to be the burial shroud of Jesus), author James BeauSeigneur takes you to the origins of a conspiracy that will change the world forever. For unknown to the rest of the team, one of the scientists, Professor Harold Goodman, makes a startling discovery: a cluster of dermal cells, still alive after 2000 years. Based on his discovery and the theories of real-life Nobel Prize winner, Francis Crick, Goodman sets about to prove that the man on the Shroud was actually a member of an alien race, four billion years advanced to life on earth. The incredible plan to prove his theory: clone Jesus! The cloning of Jesus from the cells found on the shroud sets in motion forces which trigger worldwide cataclysms, precipitating the end of life as we know it and ushering in a New Age for the planet.
