Wallace-Murphy, Tim

(Timothy Wallace-Murphy)

PERSONAL: Male. Education: Studied medicine at University College, Dublin, Ireland.

ADDRESSES: Home—11 Dukes Rd., Totnes, Devon TQ9 5YA, England. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari, 65 Parker St., Ste. 7, Newburyport, MA 09150. E-mail—twallace-murphy@supanet.com.

CAREER: Lecturer, author, and psychologist. Cofounder of the European Templar Heritage Research Network (ETHRN).

WRITINGS:

An Illustrated Guidebook to Rosslyn Chapel, The Friends of Rosslyn (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1993.

The Templar Legacy and Masonic Inheritance within Rosslyn Chapel, The Friends of Rosslyn (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1994.

(With Trevor Ravenscroft) The Mark of the Beast: The Continuing Story of the Spear of Destiny, S. Weiser (York Beach, ME), 1997.

(With Marilyn Hopkins) Rosslyn, Guardian of the Secrets of the Holy Grail, Element (Boston, MA), 1999.

(With Marilyn Hopkins and Graham Simmans) Rex Deus: The True Mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau, Element (Boston, MA), 2000.

(With Marilyn Hopkins) Templars in America: From the Crusades to the New World, Weiser Books (Boston, MA), 2004.

(With Marilyn Hopkins) Custodians of Truth: The Continuance of Rex Deus, Weiser Books (Boston, MA), 2005.

Cracking the Symbol Code, Watkins Publishing, 2005.

WORK IN PROGRESS: The Enigma of the Freemasons, for The Disinformation Company; What Islam Did for Us and The Knights Templar, the Myth and the Reality, both for Watkins Publishing.

SIDELIGHTS: Perhaps Tim Wallace-Murphy's most controversial work is 2000's Rex Deus: The True Mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau, written with Marilyn Hopkins and Graham Simmans. In it, the authors explore the theory that Jesus Christ did not perish on the cross, but instead lived on to marry and have children with Mary Magdalene, who settled in France after his death. Direct descendants of this bloodline, who are rumored to have kept it pure to the present day, are referred to as Rex Deus, meaning "king God."

The Rex Deus did not originate with Jesus, the authors suggest, but can be traced further back to the twenty-four high priests of the Temple of Jerusalem. According to the authors, the Rex Deus were forced to keep the "true" teachings of Jesus secret for about two thousand years to avoid being persecuted by the Catholic Church, which desired to propagate its own fabricated version of the truth unhindered. The book explores the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau and the physical and spiritual secrets that may be hidden within the French village. Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins took the investigation of the subject further with Custodians of Truth: The Continuance of Rex Deus. One Publishers Weekly contributor felt that the book provides a "readable—if not fervent—overview of this controversial theory." Dina Komuves, contributor to the Library Journal, wrote that the book offers "more than enough viable detail to poke a few substantial holes into the credibility of strict fundamentalism."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kindred Spirit (Devon, England), July-August, 2005, review of Cracking the Symbol Code.

Library Journal, October 1, 2005, Dina Komuves, review of Custodians of Truth: The Continuance of Rex Deus, p. 87.

Publishers Weekly, May 2, 2005, review of Custodians of Truth, p. 193.

Watkins Review (London, England), September, 2005, review of Cracking the Symbol Code.

ONLINE

Pagan News, http://www.pagannews.com/ (February 1, 2006), interview with Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins.