Books : Rex Deus: The True Mystery of Rennes-Le-Chateau
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by: Marilyn Hopkins, Tim Wallace-Murphy, Graham Simmans
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 200
EAN: 9781862044722
ISBN: 1862044724
Label: Thorsons
Manufacturer: Thorsons
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: February 01, 2000
Publisher: Thorsons
Sales Rank: 962858
Studio: Thorsons
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Product Description:
Rex Deus is an account of a modern Grail quest with all the accouterments of mystery, cryptically coded documents and tales of secret societies, persecution and genocide.
All the threads in the quest lead to Rennes-le-Chateau, a French hilltop village with a turbulent history long associated with religious and political intrigue, secrets and stories of buried treasure. Many claims have been made about its secrets but the true mystery is the most unlikely claim of all-the existence of a group of families descended from the twenty-four high priests of the Temple in Jerusalem.
The Rex Deus story is the first full examination of this shadowy dynasty who have repeatedly conspired together to alter the course of history, and the key role it played in the succession of the House of David to the throne of Jerusalem after the first Crusade. It reveals the real influence of this tradition on the development of European culture and the American constitution; and shows how the true teachings of Jesus Christ have been kept in trust for our benefit in the troubled times that mark the beginning of the third millennium.
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Rating:  - More Muddle on Rennes-Le-Chateau
The mystery surrounding Rennes-Le-Chateau is endlessly fascinating and has spawned innumerable books attempting to unravel the secret and explain how an impoverished country priest became a wealthy mover and shaker and spent tons of dough converting his little church into a giant puzzle box. Most of these books are fascinating nonsense recounting a secret bloodline descended from Jesus, Templars, Masons, Rosicrucians and secret Kabalistic wisdom. "Rex Deus" is no different.
The problem ... Read More
Rating: - Another chance at truth
This book makes many suggestions, many heard elsewhere. What was the Grail? What of the bloodline of Jesus? Why the secrecy? I prefer the novel approach in Defenders of the Holy Grail. Agori's work is a zippy read and more entertaining. CAn we really know the truth?
Rating:  - A dissapointment
There are better books that deal with the Rex Deus' subject, definitely.
Ninety percent of RD is compiled from various other books. The rest is a story told to authors by one man who claims to be a member of the so called Rex Deus family line, that allegedly originated from priests of the Jerusalem Temple. He has no documents to support his claim, just a story told to him by his father.
In a nutshell, authors retell a story already told in The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, and numerous similar ... Read More
Rating: - Promising but inherently flawed.
This was an interesting book that claims it has the "truth" of the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery. The authors lambast "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" in many instances and yet their own work is based on an informant that they cannot divulge the identity of and thus the whole basis of the Rex Deus families is brought into question.
The book looks at the history that the Rex Deus families claim to be part of by looking at the early times of the Christian era and then jumps to the Templar era to show the continuation ... Read More
Rating:  - Another Hit
This another wonderfully readable book by Tim Wallace-Murphy et al, my favorite by the author being "Rosslyn". If you are a student of the Heresy, a laic person, as myself, of above average intelligence and of curious mind, no doubt you've found a lot of the literature on this subject....er-uuuummmm- 'challenging'. I find the big three on the Heresy: Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh- to be somewhat dry and verbose. Yaddah, yaddah, yaddah...well, you know those British (lol). I find myself having to read their paragraphs ... Read More
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