Education
École Nationale des Chartes.
École Nationale des Chartes.
Clergy were both male and female, having male bishops and female "sophias."
Doinel was "spiritually consecrated" in a spiritual experience in 1888 and not into a line of apostolic succession. In 1895, Doinel resigned from the Église Gnostique, leaving the leadership of the church to a council of bishops. A. East. Waite described Lucifer Unmasked and revealed the real identity of its author in Devil Worship in France his exposé of the anti-masonic movement Taxil inspired.
Taxil unveiled his hoax in 1897.
Doinel was readmitted as a bishop in the Église Gnostique in 1900.