Spartacus Paraclete wrote:
‘When his father first broached the subject of Rex Deus, Michael was in his mid-teens and was therefore capable of understanding the broader terms of the story he was to hear and, more importantly, was of an age when an oath of secrecy would have some meaning. After taking the oath he heard, for the very first time, the story that [Hopkins, Simmans, and Wallace-Murphy] are now about to tell. He was informed that appropriate documentation in the form of family genealogies was hidden in a secret drawer in an old family bureau and that after his father’s death it would be Michael’s sacred duty to keep the genealogies up to date and to pass on the secret to the most suitable of his children. He was also to prepare himself and his chosen child to act in collaboration with other members of the Rex Deus families when asked to do so. His obedience to their requests was to be total and unquestioning. All this under an oath of secrecy, within which the penalty for transgression would be death. This was an enormous burden to lay on the shoulders of one so young. Sadly, Michael’s father died suddenly some years later and by the time he returned to the family home he found that the bureau and all it contained had been appropriated by a brother. Bound by his oath of secrecy, he could never explain why he wanted it back and, despite his best efforts, he has not seen that piece of furniture nor its contents from that day to this and he has reason to believe that his brother sold the bureau, an antique of some value, blissfully unaware of its contents’
This dovetails quite nicely with Lafosse's public account of his own background.
Spartacus Paraclete wrote:
Is it just me, or does this tale told by ‘Michael’ about the ‘lost genealogies’ seem utterly preposterous?
Anyone having a look at Laurence Gardner's
Bloodline of the Holy Grail might find the assertion preposterous that these "lost genealogies" were ever truly lost. By the time
Rex Deus was published, however, Gardner's work had been thoroughly discredited. I guess you can't blame them for running it up the flagpole a second time, as though a second source might add luster to the tarnished credibility of the first.
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Graham Simmans as George Smiley ? hmmm.... 'The mole' - double entendre ?....hmmm (twice over). I remember from Henry Lincoln's guided tour of RLC last summer Henry told us about a Brit who tunnelled throughout the village, he didn't name the person but described him as a 'maniac'.
