The Order of the Solar Temple: A Suicide Cult

**Kazimiera** · 08-11-2017, 10:23 PM

The Order of the Solar Temple: A Suicide Cult

Source: https://www.bizarrepedia.com/order-o...r-temple-cult/

The Order of the Solar Temple (Ordre du Temple Solaire or OTS in French) was, and still is, a secret society based upon the ideals of the Knights Templar. The little known esoteric sect was founded by Joseph Di Mambro (pictured above with his daughter) and Luc Jouret. Similarly to UFO religious Millenarian group Heaven’s Gate, the followers of Joseph Di Mambro were brainwashed to believe he was a member of the 14th Century Christian Order of the Knights Templar in a previous life and that his daughter, Emanuelle, was The Cosmic Child, and they would be led a planet which orbits the star Sirius after their deaths.

In October 1994, the sect shocked Switzerland and gained worldwide notoriety when 23 bodies were discovered in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. Another 25 bodies were found in Valais. Only 5 days earlier, 3 people had been killed in Canada – a Swiss couple and their infant son Emmanuel Dutoit, who had been repeatedly stabbed with a wooden stake, because he was believed to be the Antichrist.

Three-month-old Emmanuel Dutoit and his parents were killed.

Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret

The cult was started by the two men in 1984 in Geneva, Switzerland. Di Mambro was born in 1924, the eldest of three children, the son of a construction worker from northern Italy. He was raised as a Catholic and received his education in a private Catholic school where he was described as an average student. He took violin courses and went to mass every Sunday until the age of 20. In the 1950s, Joseph Di Mambro began practicing occultism. He became a member of The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis. A little later he established Golden Way Foundation, the purpose of which, in addition to making money, was also to forge links between people keen on occultism. Within the foundation, he met Luc Jouret.

Joseph Di Mambro.

Luc Jouret studied to become a doctor but disappointed quickly in modern medicine and left the industry. He travelled the world, studying his spirituality and practising alternative medicine such as homoeopathy. Eventually, his journey led him to Golden Way Foundation, where he met Di Mambro and Michel Tabachnik — a famous Swiss conductor and composer who later testified against the members of the cult for killing children.

A Swiss weekly magazine L’Illustré showing photos of Michel Tabachnik taking part of OTS’ ceremonies.

The Order of the Solar Temple

Just like in any other cult, money, sex and power played a key role. The central authority was the Synarchy of the Temple. The members were secret, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. There were lodges in Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Martinique and other countries. The activities were a mixture of early Christianity and various Freemason rituals. Several affluent Europeans were secret members of the group. The lodges had altars, rituals and costumes.

Cult leader Joseph Di Mambro.

Jouret saw himself as Jesus Christ himself. He became obsessed with sex and was having intercourse with one of the female members before each ritual to give him strength for the upcoming ceremony. The members handed over their money and adhered to strict rules.

Upon realizing the hypocrisy, cult member Tony Dutoit spoke out and left. Soon, he and his wife were stabbed to death in Canada. Their little son Emmanuel, who was named by Di Mambro as the Anti-Christ, was wrapped in a black plastic bag with a wooden stake placed through his chest.

Mass Suicide/Murder

The leadership felt that they were being persecuted by governments. They claimed to anticipate the coming end of the world due to an environmental disaster and decided that some of the members should leave the earth prematurely.

In Fribourg and Valais, the cult members either took their own lives or were ritualistically murdered. Some were shot in the head or asphyxiated, some had been drugged. Many wore black ceremonial robes, had plastic bags placed over their heads, bodies positioned in a star formation with feet pointing to the center. Many of the bodies were set on fire.

The two founders Luc Jouret and Jo Di Mambro, were among the dead.

In March 1997 in Quebec, Canada, five more people took their lives. Three children managed to escape at the last moment and were the only survivors of the tragedy. The total number of deaths attributed to the cult was 74, including several children.

Pictures of The Order of the Solar Temple

**Odin** · 06-13-2018, 06:31 AM

**~~Diego Garcia~~** · 07-08-2021, 10:54 AM

Fascinating.

**sean** · 07-08-2021, 10:58 AM

The Order of the Solar Temple cult claimed to be part of the Knights Templar and had members in Canada, France, Switzerland and maybe Spain. The leader thought some estranged member's infant son was the "Antichrist" so they stabbed the kid to death, later there were groups of mass suicides.

Initially, the whole thing was covered up when it happened in Switzerland. Only Canadian police/media have any information about it online, although there was only 3 murders in Canada.

Spoiler!

David Bowie's song "Loving the Alien" was produced in "Le Studio", in Morin-Heights, Quebec. That small town is known for two things; that studio and the Order of the Solar Temple. After that mass suicide event, around 1994-1995, "Le Studio" went in a rapid decline until in 2008 it was abandoned and burned in a fire a few years ago, a fire that some news outlet referred to as "mysterious".

But during the Solar Temple's peak, this studio in the middle of nowhere had state-of-the-art equipment and welcomed guests such as The Police, Rush, David Bowie. Also of note is that the demo for "Loving the Alien" was allegedly written in Switzerland (the song opens with a reference to the Templars), and the cult had headquarters in Switzerland, and would send its members to its cottage in Morin-Heights.

The order was probably just a little bit of edgy cultist shenanigans that have gotten out of hand. Their members moved through circles of wealth and power, and despite the movement collapsing after the scandal, much like The Finders, it has never fully disbanded despite officially doing so.

They added in hermetic and new age teachings. "New Age" movement gained a lot of popularity in the early/mid-90's. Everything from commercial products like new age music (Yanni, Pure Moods, etc.), emerging trends like health food stores, darker undercurrents like suicide cults (Heaven's Gate), alternative medicine, Coast to Coast AM, etc. The mid-late 90's Internet was full of stuff about witchcraft and magic.

However, I know alot about the occult and these guys didn't have it. Just a club for rich losers thinking they're all reincarnated saints. But it doesn't mean there are absolutely no occult ties. One of them mentioned something, that "ONLY" an occultist would have knowledge of.

So probably a dummy group while someone legit was working behind the scenes, when everything turned south, liquidation began. There's quite a few images floating around of some abandoned Temple rooms. There was one room that utilised the Rose Cross associated with the Rosicrucian order.

Spoiler!

Maybe they were a cult of Swiss new money, doctors, mayors, cops, composers, millionaire entrepreneurs etc. they probably got ritually murdered by the old cult families (old money) in the 1990's for trying to give birth to the "Antichrist" themselves. Bad shit happens to people who overstep their boundaries.

**Ruggery** · 07-16-2021, 12:02 AM

Typical of these sects, it is almost always the same as someone who proclaims himself messiah, God something of style like Jesus Christ and is obsessed with the end of the world, it is also very curious how this type of sect draws the attention of millionaires or famous people.