In 1890–1891, one of the original one of the founders Joséphin Péladan abandoned the OKRC and established his own Ordre de la Rose-Croix catholique du Temple et du Graal which included many of the prominent Symbolist artists of the period. The reason for the split is that Péladan ‘refused to associate himself with Spiritism, Freemasonry or Buddhism’. Stanislas de Guaita, on the contrary, said that he doesn’t want to turn the order into a salon for artists.