Statistics on the complete vocabulary of Luther’s 95 theses.

Copyright 2004 by Frank Jakubowsky

Frank Jakubowsky discovered that Luther’s 95 theses was written in the counterclockwise, and clockwise, and number patterns. Three types of sequences. The counterclockwise sequence is eight cycles with eleven parts. It was numbered by Luther and so gives validity to the sequence. The clockwise sequence is one and a half cycles. It has ten parts. The number sequence is twenty five cycles. It has ten parts.

Column one is the vocabulary. Column two is the number of words. Column three is the part with the highest number of words for the counterclockwise sequence. In case of a tie, the part is assigned to the part with the lower word count. This is the counterclockwise sequence: inadequacy=in; expansive=ex; fruitful=fr; authoritative=au; communication=co; reject=re; sociable=so; spiritual=sp; action=ac; self=se; enlighten=en. Those marked with an asterisk, I believe can be considered to describe the part.

Column four is the results for the clockwise sequence. This is the clockwise sequence: spiritual, sociable, reject, communication, authoritative, fruitful, expansive, inadequacy, enlighten, action.

Column five is the results for the number sequence. The number sequence is: spiritual, fruitful, action, enlighten, communication, reject, sociable, inadequacy, expansive, authoritative.

Since the sequence for the three tests are exact and the chance is one in ten, then the probability is astronomical for each test. For number test there are 250 correct matches, or 240 if you consider the first cycle to define the sequence.