Order Of The Solar Temple
A True Death Cult
Origin
The Solar Temple was founded in Geneva in 1984 by Luc Jouret, a homeopathic physician and New Age lecturer, and Joseph De Mambro. Its headquarters was later moved to Zürich, where a leadership council of 33 members presided, and regional lodges were set up to perform initiation ceremonies and other rites in Switzerland, Canada, and elsewhere.
Three Significant Men
Joseph di Mambro, a former jeweler, prior to founding the Order of the Solar Temple was prisoned for 6 months for fraud. Subsequently, although still prior to the Solar Temple, he attended a grouping of successors to the SAC (service of civic action, a parallel police force founded by Charles Pasqua), who was involved in at least one of the massacres.
Luc Jouret, a former Maoist, who di Mambro had asked to integrate an esoteric Order, the Renovated Order of the Temple, to take possession as a result of the death of his master. What did Luc Jouret do? He re-named this order: The Order of the Solar Temple.
Michel Tabachnick, a musician and the third man of the order is at the base of the esoteric fundaments of the Solar Temple, which are found in his writings, "Archée" (written long before his time with the Order of the Solar Temple).
What is the Order of the Solar Temple?
The Order of the Solar Temple is… Also known as the Solar Temple, the International Order of Chivalry Solar Tradition, and the Hermetica Fraternitas Templi Universali…
Beliefs
The Solar Temple cult indoctrinated its members into believing that the world was ending. At its peak, it boasted 442 members. Some of the cult order's beliefs and inspirations included:
It was inspired by a 12th-century religious order called the Knights Templar that was eventually destroyed on orders of the Pope for heresy.
It is categorized as a neo-Templar New Age religious cult that incorporated Christian beliefs.
It's religious symbol is called the Templar Cross.
The order believed an apocalyptic event would destroy the world in the late 1990s, leading to a new world era called the ''Age of Aquarius.''
The order initially believed they were the chosen few who would survive the apocalypse and were destined to guide humanity to enlightenment.
The order later came to believe that if their members died on Earth, their spirits would be transported to a different planet.
Rituals
The OSTS Templar ritual would begin with a confession of sins, while Di Mambro’s began with a kind of guided meditation where participants visualized luminous particles which flowed in and out of their bodies, purifying and regenerating; then they recited Alice Bailey’s “Great Invocation,” followed by a preparatory prayer. The structure of the second part, called “preparation” are more or less alike and comprise the reading of the beginning of the Gospel of John; but close attention to the two versions of the Essenian rite reveal significant differences.
The Fall
Many cult members had been told by Jouret that they were Light Beings who had reincarnated on Earth with a special mission to fulfill, but too much time had passed and the promised New Age of Consciousness had still not arrived. Even Di Mambro’s son Elie declared that he doubted the existence of the masters who were allegedly guiding his father and Jouret, and he went so far as to expose some of the illusions his father used to create the spirit phenomena during the Demonstrations.
Since Elie had been promoted as a very special chosen one who had been born to bring about a new world order, his dissension caused a serious breach in the cult.
The Death Bell Tolls
Integral to the teachings of the Solar Temple was the belief that the Earth would face a worldwide catastrophe in the mid-1990s. In anticipation of this apocalyptic event, members believed it was necessary to enter a higher spiritual plane. Thus, on Oct. 4–5, 1994, 53 members of the Solar Temple in Canada and Switzerland were murdered or committed suicide, and the buildings in which they died were set on fire. A year later another 16 members killed themselves, and 5 more died similarly in March 1997.
The Solar Temple was one of several 20th-century New Religious Movements whose ends occurred in acts of murder-suicide. The apparent affluence of the temple’s membership challenged the prevailing conception of such incidents as the product of deprivations experienced by members and suggested a more ideological causation.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEr3FHHZKdY
Wheeling and Dealing in Real Estate, Money Laundering
With the murder of Yann Piat, a French female politician, in February 1994, the tracks of multiple relations in connection with real estate projects on the French Riviera, crossed paths with that of the Order of the Solar Temple. Indeed, after the massacres of the Order of the Solar Temple, two members of the SAC, which could have been the culprits of the murder of Mrs. Piat (rather than two insignificant thugs who were designated as responsible yet claimed they were innocent), were found to have “committed suicide” with CO2 poisoning from their car in their garage, with capes from the Order of the Solar Temple in their car and multiple books of the Order.
According to Alain Vuarnet, a parent of two of the victims, the Order of the Solar Temple served primarily to "white wash money.” Sums of several million francs have been discovered in accounts in Australia (in total, $186 million) on behalf of various people, including, di Mambro and other individuals, which was denied by the authorities immediately following their discovery, thereby completing the long succession of blunders, denial, and errors in the investigation since the start of the case.
According to Alain Vuarnet, everything was done to guide public opinion, the Court, and the media towards the theory of a sect and mass suicide, so that no one took notice of the affairs occurring in the background. Unfortunately, the parallel investigations were obstructed (according to a report made by Yves Boisset, a judicial police commander—Gilbert Houvenaghel—even asked the families who had made the complaint to withdraw their complaints) and the Court was not interested (for the families, it was a "blind, deaf and dumb" Court).
Symbolism
Closing
We want our stories to have happy endings. Let this story stand as a warning that blindly following anyone can have dangerous, if not deadly, consequences. Anyone selling you hope is worth a few days of your time investigating.
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