The Book of God: An Encyclopedia of Proof that the Black Man is God
The Book of God: An Encyclopedia of Proof That The Black Man Is God explores the most fundamental question in religion: Who—and what—is God?
Taking the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as its point of departure, Dr. Wesley Muhammad challenges the conventional conception of God as an immaterial, formless spirit and documents instead an ancient theology of divine humanity: God as Man, and ultimately the Black Man as God.
Across twenty-seven chapters, the book ranges through the Bible and Qur’an, ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian and Iranian traditions, African religion, Jewish mysticism, Islamic esotericism, Christianity, and the hidden traditions of the West, arguing that beneath their different names and symbols—Yahweh, Atum, Brahma, Ahura Mazda, Allah—lies the memory of a primordial Black, self-created Man-God and his descendants.
At its center is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s extraordinary account of God emerging from the darkness of primordial space, evolving from the first atom into conscious biological life, creating Woman as his “second self,” and establishing a lineage in which divinity continues through the Original Black Man and Woman.
But The Book of God is not simply a work of comparative religion. It brings ancient cosmology into sustained conversation with physics, evolutionary theory, genetics, DNA, carbon chemistry, biophotonics, and the science of melanin, proposing that what ancient peoples encoded as theology and sacred symbolism actually preserves realities that modern science is only beginning to describe.
From the primordial Atom/Atum and DNA as the “Throne of God,” to the divine luminous body, bioelectricity, and the remarkable properties of melanin, the book constructs a scientific as well as scriptural case for the divinity latent in Black humanity. In doing so, it demonstrates that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s most controversial teaching is not merely a doctrine of racial pride but is a radical theology of human origins and a verifiable Knowledge of Self.
When the Black Man and Woman look within themselves, the book argues, they encounter not the distant descendants of an inferior beginning, but the living descendants and present manifestation of God.
