FOURTH LATERAN COUNCIL (1215)
13. A prohibition against new religious orders
Lest too great a variety of religious orders leads to grave confusion in God’s church, we strictly forbid anyone henceforth to found a new religious order. Whoever wants to become a religious should enter one of the already approved orders. Likewise, whoever wishes to found a new religious house should take the rule and institutes from already approved religious orders. We forbid, moreover, anyone to attempt to have a place as a monk in more than one monastery or an abbot to preside over more than one monastery.
Laodicea 
May 18, 2021 at 3:42 pm
I should be sorry to think that there was anything wrong with Dehau. I read quite a lot of his things at one time and don’t remember any false notes. The author implies that he ascribed to a spiritual director the absolute right to be obeyed which belongs only to God, but the words that he quotes don’t establish this. The idea that all Christians should aspire to contemplation was not a peculiar idea of Dehau’s but was commonly upheld by the Dominicans against the Jesuits in the theological controversies of the time.
The really puzzling question is why Thomas Philippe was allowed by the Holy See to defy the suspension which he had received.