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| - Jules-Benoît Stanislas Doinel du Val-Michel (December 8, 1842, Moulins, Allier – March 16 or 17, 1903), also simply Jules Doinel, was an archivist and the founder of the first Gnostic church in modern times. More information on the Wikipedia page [1]
- For a time, after 1895, he converted to Roman Catholicism and began a collaboration with Léo Taxil, an anti-Masonic writer who was subsequently exposed as a serial hoaxster. Doinel wrote a book entitled Lucifer Unmasked under the name Jean Kostka in 1895, in which he associated many of his prior activities with the diabolic. Taxil unveiled his hoax in 1897, and in 1900 Doinel was readmitted as a bishop in the Gnostic Church.
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| - Jules-Benoît Stanislas Doinel du Val-Michel (December 8, 1842, Moulins, Allier – March 16 or 17, 1903), also simply Jules Doinel, was an archivist and the founder of the first Gnostic church in modern times. More information on the Wikipedia page [1]
- For a time, after 1895, he converted to Roman Catholicism and began a collaboration with Léo Taxil, an anti-Masonic writer who was subsequently exposed as a serial hoaxster. Doinel wrote a book entitled Lucifer Unmasked under the name Jean Kostka in 1895, in which he associated many of his prior activities with the diabolic. Taxil unveiled his hoax in 1897, and in 1900 Doinel was readmitted as a bishop in the Gnostic Church.
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