Joseph-Antoine Boullan (February 18th, 1824 - January 4th, 1893), a defrocked French Catholic Priest, head of a branch of the Work of Mercy, known as the Church of Carmel. He was originally ordained in the Roman Catholic Church 23rd September 1848. In 1859 he established a religious congregation known as the Œuvre de la Réparation together with Adèle Chevalier. In 1860 he was temporarily suspended from office and accussed of having sacrificed an infant child during a mass. In 1861 he faced trial and was amongst other things accussed of fraud. He served three years in prison. 

In the late 1880’s Boullan became involved in a magical war with Stanislas de Guiata, who was attacked in novelist Joris K. Huysmann's novel La Bas, portraying de Guiata as a Satanic sorcerer. Writer Jules Bois launched similar attacks. Joseph-Antoine Boullan, on the other hand, was accussed of being a decadent Satanist, who taught sexual magic, and engaged in fornication and black rites with his housekeeper and priestess Julie Thibaut. According to Kaz Rathgar:  "When Boullan died in 1893 de Guaita was accused of killing him by magical means. De Guaita, angered by these charges, challenged Huysmans and a Jules Bois to duels which were then fought using swords and pistols." (The Golden Dawn and other magical societies of the nineteenth century)

Boullan's and Vintras' teaching was based on a sex-magick which were called celéstification and consisted of two different forms: a) sexual intercourse with the higher spiritworld and chosen human individuals through unions de sagesse, or b) sexual intercourse with the lower and elemental spiritworld and ordinary human individuals through unions de charité. (Carl Kohl, 1904). The presumably also worked with alternative medicine and auto-hypnosis and auto-suggestions. 

    Joseph-Antoine Boullan

Jean Bricaud and Joseph-Antoine Boullan