Jules Doinel

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Jules Doinel, circa 1890.
Frontispiece from Doinels Lucifer Démasqué , Paris, 1895.

Jules-Benoît Stanislas Doinel du Val-Michel ( 8. December 1842 in Moulins , Allier - 16th or March 17th 1902 in Carcassonne ), shortly Jules Doinel , was a French archivist , spiritualist and founder of the first Gnostic Church of the modern era . The founding of the church was ordered to him by the Cathar bishop Guilhabert de Castres (approx. 1165–1240) during a spiritistic necromancy . He then saw himself as the direct successor and last guardian and heir of the “true” knowledge - namely the Gnosis - of the Cathar Church, which died out 700 years ago, and acted as a patriarch .

Life

Jules Doinel was born in 1842. He was trained as an archivist at the École nationale des chartes . After a phase towards the end of the 19th century in which he turned intensely to Catholicism , he joined the Freemasons . He worked in the Grand Orient de France Lodge as a librarian and archivist. Finally he converted back to Catholicism and published under the pseudonym Jean Kotska the pamphlet Lucifer démasqué directed against his former lodge brothers . In the book he denounced the alleged shamefulness of the Freemasons. During his stay in Paris he joined esoteric circles, for example the theosophists and spiritualists of the direction founded by Helena Blavatsky . Sometimes he also appeared under the pseudonyms Nova-lis, Kostka de Borgia, Jules-Stanislas Doinel, Jules-Stany Doinel, Jules Doinel Du Val-Michel.

During one of the spiritualistic sessions, the spirits were summoned by Cathar bishops. Doinel is said to have been the probably best-known Cathar bishop, Guilhabert de Castres , who is said to have commissioned Doinel to immediately found a Gnostic church. Doinel promptly complied with this request. To this end, he was given an apostolic ordination by a bishop of the Utrecht Union of Old Catholic Churches . Doinel then appointed himself the first patriarch of his church and gave himself the name Valentinus II (based on one of the greatest Gnostics of late antiquity). Doinel portrayed his Gnostic Church as a direct successor to the Cathar ecclesia Dei by means of a spiritualistic spirit transfer .

When Doinel turned to Catholicism again for a short time, the movement he founded split into the Catholic Gnostic Church (Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica) and the Modern Gnostic Church . For Doinel, the Cathars were the "true" Christians who were persecuted for guarding the "true" knowledge of Gnosis. Doinel died in Carcassonne in 1902 , whether as a Catholic or a New Cathar is not known.

Publications (selection)

  • Histoire de Blanche de Castille (1870)
  • Discours sur l'histoire de la Franc-Maçonnerie orléanaise (1887)
  • Joan of Arc telle qu'elle est (1892)
  • Lucifer démasqué (1895) ( online ).
  • Hymnarium gnosticum oratorii Electensis et Mirapiscencis dioceseos, editum jusu ("sic") illustrissimi et honoratissimi DD, episcopi (1901)
  • Première Homélie. Sur la Sainte Gnose (1890).
  • Études gnostiques (février 1890-mars 1893): “La Gnose et l'Inquisition”, Revue L'Initiation , août 1891. Recueil: Études gnostiques , Cariscript, 1983
  • Études gnostiques: "Les Philosophumena", Revue L'Initiation , août 1892 [1]
  • Études gnostiques: "La Gnose Ophite ou Naassénienne", Revue L'Initiation , 1892
  • Études gnostiques: “La Gnose d'Amour”, Revue L'Initiation , 1893
  • Études gnostiques: "Rituel gnostique de l'appareillamentum", Revue L'Initiation , 1894.

literature

  • S. Nelli: Les neo-gnostiques. Jules Doinel, évêque gnostique de Montségur In: Catharisme: l'edifce imaginaire (= Collection Heresis. Volume 7). Carcassonne 1994, pp. 121-129.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniela Müller : Heretic and Church: Observations from two millennia. Lit-Verlag 2014. p. 341.
  2. ^ Daniela Müller: Heretic and Church: Observations from two millennia. Lit-Verlag 2014. p. 342.
personal data
SURNAME Doinel, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doinel du Val-Michel, Jules-Benoît Stanislas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French archivist and church founder
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Moulins , Allier
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1902 or March 17, 1902
Place of death Carcassonne