В ночь с 16 на 17 марта 1902 года умер Жюль Дюанель

On the night of March 16-17, 1902, Jules-Benoît Stanislas Doinel du Val-Michel, died. He was born in a Catholic family, began to study in a theological seminary, but left it because of a change in worldview. Working as an archivist in the years 1860–70, he published various works on medieval history. In 1888, Doinel was visited by a vision in which “Eon Jesus” appeared before him and inspired him to work on the restoration of the Gnostic church. He spiritually consecrated Doinel to the rank of "Bishop of Montsegur and Primaus of the Albigenses." Doinel declared the year 1890 as the beginning of the "Era of the Restored Gnosis." He took the office of Patriarch of the Gnostic Church under the mystical name of Valentin II, in deference to Valentin, the founder of the Gnostic school of Valentinians, who lived in the II century AD. Many prominent figures of the French occult school, in particular Dr. Papus, belonged to the Gnostic Church.
Earlier, at the end of 1884, Doinel was ordained to the degree of Apprentice of a free-mason in one of the lodges of the Grand Orient d'France, in April 1886 he was initiated to the degree of Master Mason. However, by 1890, he was moving away from Freemasonry, taking the initiation to the Order of Martinists from Papus in the same year.