Money is not a side issue in this order and should not be treated as one. The degree structure functioned as a payment ladder, and the inner circles absorbed savings, houses and businesses from professional people who had a great deal to give. Di Mambro lived expensively on it. The demand for money is also the origin of most of the internal conflict: the Dutoit family, whose infant was killed, had left over it; Tony Dutoit was the technician who had installed the projection equipment and had told others what it was. The people described in the order's documents as traitors were, in almost every case, people who had asked for their money or told the truth about the apparitions.