Custodians of Truth - these authors arent.September 5, 2005 3 out of 6 found this review helpful
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
Interesting read - but it covers familliar groundJune 22, 2005 7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
