Jules Doinel

Jules Doinel (1842-1903) was the founder of the modern 'Gnostic Church'. He proclaimed '1890' the beginning of a new gnostic era, and took for himself the name Valentin II, after Valentinius, the second century Christian gnostic thinker.

For a time after 1895, he converted to Roman Catholicism and began a collaboration with Léo Taxil, an anti-freemasonic writer who was subsequently exposed as a serial hoaxster. He wrote an entitled book "Lucifer unmasked" in 1895 in which it unveils the returned worship to Lucifer in the Freemasonry. He was member of the Grand Orient de France. Reprint in French at Augustin Barruel Publishing http://www.barruel.com