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and occultist orbiters, including Armand
Barbault, Jean de Foucault, Victor Michon, Vincent Planque, Pierre de Ribaucourt, Maxime de Roquemaur, and Jean Roux. Later inclusions were Jean Soucasse, then Robert Chabrier, Bernard Wiernick, and Georges Sourp. Roquemaur claimed she was a descendant of a
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and Breyer as "the three chums who spoke of esoteric things" during these early meetings. The OTS had inherited from Breyer's works occult-apocalyptic themes, along with those of Origas. In late 1987 he dissociated himself from the group and its two leaders, Joseph Di Mambro and
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Willermoz Lodge of Lyon (related to the
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branch of the original
Templars, who had survived, and the two then proceeded to found the Sovereign Order of the Solar Temple (OSTS), members of which founded several other Masonic organizations in France. Breyer's actions in Arginy lead to a second, independent branch of
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in its dungeon. That year he met a journalist attempting to write an article on the site, Marcel Veyre de Bagot, who he befriended and attempted theurgy alongside. Breyer viewed this as the start of a rebirth of the
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organizations that had existed for many years). Breyer resigned from the OSTS in 1964, after which the OSTS was embroiled in crisis; they reorganized again in 1966 and 1973.
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by members of the group in 1994, he strongly condemned their actions, saying what they had done was incompatible with his system of belief and his works.
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