On March 22, 1944, Chevillon was brutally assassinated by soldiers of Klaus Barbie's occupation forces. The E.G.U. was revived after the war; and in 1945 Tau Renatus was elected as the successor to the martyred Chevillon. Renatus was succeeded in 1948 by Charles-Henry Dupont (Tau Charles-Henry), who stepped down in 1960 in favor of Robert Ambelain (Tau Jean III), who had achieved considerable prominence through his writings. Ambelain finally put l'Église Gnostique Universelle to rest in favor of his own Église Gnostique Apostolique. Tau Jean III was succeeded as patriarch of l'Église Gnostique Apostolique by André Mauer (Tau Andreas) in 1969, who was succeeded by Pedro Freire (Tau Pierre), primate of South America, in 1970. The same year, Freire had been reconsecrated as Mar Petrus-Johannes XIII, patriarch ofl'Église Gnostique Catholique Apostolique, by Dom Antidio Vargas of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (Note 2). On his death in 1978, Freire was succeeded by Edmond Fieschi (Tau Sialul I), who abdicated as patriarch in favor of his coadjutor Fermin Vale-Amesti (Tau Valentinus III), who declined to accept the office; effectively putting l'Église Gnostique Apostolique as well as l'Église Gnostique Catholique Apostolique to rest as international organizations. A North American autocephalous branch of l'Église Gnostique Catholique Apostolique survived under the leadership of Primate Roger Saint-Victor Hérard (Tau Charles), who consecrated a number of bishops but died in 1989 without appointing a successor. Several of Hérard's bishops are still active in the U.S.



The G.K.K. and the E.G.C.

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) joined Reuss's O.T.O. as a VII° in 1910 (at the