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Custodians of Truth: The Continuance of Rex Deus

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There is always the sense of the familiar when reading books dealing with the bloodline of Christ. The exposition of the real facts concerning the origin of Priory of Sion, as well as the exposure of errors of more recent revelations tend to make one leery of yet another book on this subject. This book provides a good read, and if you are not over fed with the story of the bloodline of Christ, it is interesting, if not quite believable.

The story of the development of the Christian religion, as told in this book, is worth reading in any event. Having recently been reading more scholarly works on the Egyptian development of Judaism I found this book gives a good description of the subject.

It is worth spending some time reading through in the library, if not buying for reading in your home.

When this info was subjected to the Inquisition over and over again, it is hard to be able to "cite your sources" easily; but having made this my main topic of research for years now, I can say that this book summarizes the story of what happened to the Essenes and their gnostic branch of spirituality. And it covers enough of the scope of the story, that you begin to see why this info is so volatile to a church system that has hinged it's very existence on the dogma that "since we've concluded Jesus was a son of God and therefore synonymous with God" and "died to save you from Sin, if you'll just follow that dogma". The older spiritual systems, the ancient mysteries, that taught that we are all a part of God and the universe is multi-dimensional naturally were deemed "heretical". How sad, for a world that has always needed more toleration and love, not less!! But, thank heavens, those mystery traditions have survived, and will be seeing some great, altho always tinged with Hollywood glitz, light of day in Tom Hanks new upcoming movie about the DaVinci Code. The filming in historic Roslin Chapel, which has preserved all this history, will be great to see. Great to see the history subjected to the Inquisition over and over again coming to the surface again now in the New Age of Enlightenment, and great that the Quantum physicists are coming on board, saying the same things about our ability to participate freely in our multi-dimensional worlds!!! -- read The Yoga of Time Travel by Fred Alan Wolfe for the scientific backup of a spiritual world view!!-- that doesn't include the old "sin" stuff!! Great book here of what really happened to some of our history, ancestors, and original pythagorean teachings of spirituality, then. .

I purchased this book after personally meeting the author. After reading this book, I ordered all of the other books written by Mr. Wallace-Murphy. Book is very well written, and is supported by facts. When information is not easily corroborated, author clearly states that upfront. This book will be not a pleasant reading for many people, but those who do, will gain a very valuable knowledge.

Since the main tenet of the Priory of Scion as proposed in "Holy Blood Holy Grail" and novelized in "The Da Vinci Code" has been effectively discredited, I was intent on sticking to real proto-Christian scholarship like that of Bart Ehrman and Ahmed Osman, but since the authors indicated that they had a true Sang Real/Royal Blood descendant as a source implying an actual interview, I gave this book a chance. There is little detail from the interviews with "Michael" in which he was to "verify some of [the authors] allegations". He apparently did not provide the authors with any documentary evidence to support his claims. Instead the authors mostly tell us what other alternative authors got correct and incorrect, which only really amounts to more presumption and conjecture. I tried to find some means to correspond with the authors but they are as unavailable to us as their source. You can learn what these and other authors say about Rex Deus through Wikipedia.com.

As I have not had the opportunity to read the first book on the Rex Deus (out of print), I cannot comment, but as to this particular book, I found it quite interesting and it possibly filled in a few blanks for me or rather, another perspective concerning a scholarly paper on the Veronica or Veil of Veronica that I have been working on for the past few years and am also a Templar fan. After just visitng Chartres Cathedral and following the historic footprint of the Jewish community of Medieval days in this small city, this book was a great help in locating certain Templar and Crusade information. The labryinth inside Chartres Cathedral, also mentioned in this book is quite fascinating in itself and pretty much denied by modern clergy. Take the pilgrimage to Southern France and decide for yourself. The book is an easy read and if the reader wants to know more, my suggestion would be read more scholarly books and papers and go on the treasure hunt!

Continuing excellent research, readable and in depth. The Custodians of Truth further examines the Rex Deus theories in detail, although the research will always challenge conventionmal religion, "Blessed is he who gains understanding".

There is only one piece of new information in this book if you have already read the 1st one - Rex Deus - which is that Hugh de Payan, who founded the Templars was a descendant of Prophet Mohammad who was descended from the brother of Jesus. Yet no source is given for this, typically. The implications of this are lost on the authors.

Does their new informant exist ? I am beginning to doubt it. Why are the 'differences between rituals in different Rex Desu families' not revealed? Why are the extracts from the Rex Deus gospel and prayers not added to in this 2nd volume? I sense they would reveal unpalatable material for modern Holy-Blood-hounds.

Worst of all there are identical sentences and even paragraphs in both books. It is a rework of background info as given before. MONEYMAKING RIPOFF