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Organization
[edit]Introvigne described the system of the OTS as "a chinese box"
The core members would have harsh demands placed upon them.[1]
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order TS, Hermetica Fraternitas Templi Universali
Beliefs and practices
[edit]The group adhered to mind–body dualism[2]
Di Mambro was deep into Egyptian myth and legend.[3]
Survivalism
[edit]Environmentalism and pollution
[edit]purity [2]
Pollution (Jouret) [4]
The transit was also meant to be a "display"
Soul travel [4]
souls[5]
reactions to betrayal[2]
vegetarianism
Jouret, homeopathy New Age [4]
Survivalism, apocalypticism
Death of europe [4]
The final "transit" note argues against calling it suicide.[6]
Jouret was infatuated with the Australian Ayers Rock
Messianic[7]
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in reality the supposedly supernatural apparitions, accompanied by deafening cosmic music and holograms, were the acts of Di Mambro's wife Jocelyne Di Mambro perched on a stool.[8]
Its (synarchy) top 33 members were known as the Elder Brothers of the Rosy Cross (an alternative name for the Rosicrucians), and were headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. The Council of the Order formed Lodges that were run by a Regional Commander and three Elders.
There were many organizations associated with the OTS, including the International Archedia Sciences and Tradition, Archedia Clubs, Amenta Clubs, Agata Clubs and Atlanta Clubs,
all of which offered the teachings of Luc Jouret both to the general public and privately to OTS members. The Lodges had altars, rituals and costumes. Members were initiated at each stage of advancement in ceremonies which included expensive purchases, jewellery, costumes, regalia, and the payment of initiation fees.[9]
The group's stated aims, according to Jouret, were to:[10][11]
First disagreements
[edit]Mass murders and suicides
[edit]Possibly previous murders[2]
Morin-Heights, Cheiry & Salvan
[edit]On 30 September 1994, Dominique Bellaton lured the Dutoits to Di Mambro's chalet in Morin-Heights; Di Mambro had ordered two group members, Jerry Genoud and Joël Egger, to eliminate the infant.[13] The baby was stabbed through the heart with a wooden stake, and the parents were then murdered.[14][15] Bellaton and Egger left for Switzerland the same day, while Genoud and his wife Colette cleaned up and set fire to the chalet, killing themselves.[16]
On the night of October 4 to 5, 1994, two fires broke out in Switzerland: one at around 11:55 p.m. at a farm in Cheiry, and another in three chalets in Salvan. When the fire department arrived, they found 23 people dead in Cheiry and 25 in Salvan. In Cheiry, some of the victims were found in an octagonal room with mirrors on the walls.[17][15] Jouret was among the dead in Salvan. Many bodies were burned beyond recognition, and Jouret and Di Mambro's bodies had to be identified via dental records.[18] Di Mambro's wife and child were also among the dead.[19]
On the morning of 5 October, Di Mambro instructed member Patrick Vuarnet, Jean Vuarnet's son, to mail the Testament letters to roughly 300 people, including to the media, other followers, newspapers, and the religious historian Jean-François Mayer, as well as a number of political and public figures, including Charles Pasqua.[18][20]
Aftermath
[edit]media (cite campiche)
palmer goes into theories
93 million not real[4]
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Swiss investigation
[edit]Media
[edit]The affair resulted in a media frenzy.
separate media frenzy article?
Survivor Hermann Delorme (one of the people arrested in the silencer scandal) complained of the media's treatment of him: in one instance, a producer he had worked with asked him [21]
documentaries
Temple Solaire: l'enquête impossible
Footnotes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Palmer 1996, p. 306.
- ^ a b c d Palmer 1996.
- ^ Palmer 1996, p. 315.
- ^ a b c d e f Hall & Schuyler 2000.
- ^ Chryssides 2006, p. 119.
- ^ Palmer 1996, p. 316.
- ^ Chryssides 2006, p. 120.
- ^ Gaetner, Gilles (1997-03-27). "Les secrets du Temple solaire" [The secrets of the Solar Temple]. L'Express (in French). Archived from the original on 2008-11-10. Retrieved 2014-11-02.
- ^ Bogdan 2014, p. 292.
- ^ "Qu'est-ce que l'Ordre du Temple Solaire ?" [What is the Order of the Solar Temple?]. Centre contre les manipulations mentales (in French). December 1994. Archived from the original on 2022-07-03. Retrieved 2013-01-25 – via prevensectes.me.
- ^ Mayer 2006a, pp. 16–17.
- ^ Parvex, Marie (2023-04-02). "L'univers des dérives spirituelles est devenu tentaculaire" [The world of spiritual aberrations has become tentacular]. 24 heures (in Swiss French). Retrieved 2023-04-02.
- ^ Farnsworth, Clyde H. (1994-11-20). "Quebec Police Say Baby Was Target of Cult". The New York Times. p. 19. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ^ Lewis 2006, p. 1.
- ^ a b Wessinger 2000, p. 218.
- ^ Michaud 1996, p. 30.
- ^ Hall & Schuyler 2000, p. 115.
- ^ a b Serrill, Michael S. (1994-10-24). "Remains of the Day". TIME. Vol. 114, no. 17. p. 42. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
- ^ "Swiss Police Identify Cult Leader's Body; Cause of Death Unknown". Los Angeles Times. 1994-10-14. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
- ^ Palmer 1996, p. 303.
- ^ Palmer 2001, p. 114.
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Bédat, Arnaud; Bouleau, Gilles; Nicolas, Bernard (1997). L'Ordre du Temple Solaire: Enquête et révélations sur les chevaliers de l'apocalypse (in French). Montreal: Libre Expression. ISBN 978-2-89111-707-4.
- Bédat, Arnaud; Bouleau, Gilles; Nicolas, Bernard (2000). L'Ordre du Temple solaire: Les Secrets d'une manipulation (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-08-067842-3.
- Bogdan, Henrik (2014). "The Order of the Solar Temple". In Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aa (eds.). Controversial New Religions (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-931531-4.
- Clusel, Shannon; Palmer, Susan J. (2020). "The Solar Temple in Quebec and the Saint-Casimir "Transit"". In Palmer, Susan J.; Geoffroy, Martin; Gareau, Paul L. (eds.). The Mystical Geography of Quebec: Catholic Schisms and New Religious Movements. Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 217–245. ISBN 978-3-030-33061-3.
- Hall, John R.; Schuyler, Philip D. (2000). "The Mystical Apocalypse of the Solar Temple". Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-97766-8.
- Kirkham, David M., ed. (2017). State Responses to Minority Religions. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-89806-5.
- Lewis, James R. (2005). "The Solar Temple "Transits": Beyond the Millennialist Hypothesis". In Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard (eds.). Controversial New Religions (1st ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-515682-9.
- Lewis, James R., ed. (2006). The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death. Controversial New Religions. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-5285-4.
- Mayer, Jean-François R. (2006a). "Templars for the Age of Aquarius: The Archedia Clubs (1984–1991) and the International Chivalric Order of the Solar Tradition". In Lewis (2006).
- Introvigne, Massimo. "Ordeal by Fire: The Tragedy of the Solar Temple". In Lewis (2006).
- Mayer, Jean-François R. (2006b). "The Dangers of Enlightenment: Apocalyptic Hopes and Anxieties in the Order of the Solar Temple". In Lewis (2006).
- Walliss, John. "Crises of Charismatic Authority and Millenarian Violence: The Case of the Order of the Solar Temple". In Lewis (2006).
- Chryssides, George D. "Sources of Doctrine in the Solar Temple". In Lewis (2006).
- Bogdan, Henrik. "Death as Initiation: The Order of the Solar Temple and Rituals of Initiation". In Lewis (2006).
- Labelle, Marc. "The Ordre du Temple Solaire and the Quest for the Absolute Sun". In Lewis (2006).
- Mayer, Jean-François (2014). "The Order of the Solar Temple: From Apocalypse to Court". In Richardson, James T.; Bellanger, François (eds.). Legal Cases, New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths. Farnham; Burlington: Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4724-2874-5.
- Palmer, Susan J. (2011). The New Heretics of France: Minority Religions, la Republique, and the Government-Sponsored "War on Sects". Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973521-1.
- Richardson, James T., ed. (2004). Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe. Critical Issues in Social Justice. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. ISBN 978-0-306-47887-1.
- Wessinger, Catherine (2000). How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate. New York: Seven Bridges Press. ISBN 978-1-889119-24-3.
- Journals
- Haught, James A. (1995). "And Now, the Solar Temple" (PDF). Free Inquiry. 15 (1): 31. ISSN 0272-0701. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
- Mayer, Jean-François (April 1999). ""Our Terrestrial Journey is Coming to an End": The Last Voyage of the Solar Temple". Nova Religio. 2 (2). Translated by Siegler, Elijah: 172–196. doi:10.1525/nr.1999.2.2.172. ISSN 1092-6690.
- Palmer, Susan J. (October 1996). "Purity and Danger in the Solar Temple". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 11 (3): 303–318. doi:10.1080/13537909608580777. ISSN 1353-7903.
- Reports
- Mayer, Jean-François (1998-11-13). Apocalyptic Millennialism in the West: The Case of the Solar Temple (PDF) (Report). Critical Incident Analysis Group at the University of Virginia. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
- Michaud, Roger C. (1996-06-20). Rapport d'investigation du Coroner [Coroner's investigation report] (PDF) (Report) (in Canadian French). Government of Quebec: Bureau du Coroner. Retrieved 2023-02-06 – via Info-Secte.
- Documentaries
- Lemasson, Eric; Georgeault, Eric; Ledu, Lionel; Bequet, Annie-Claude (1996-03-21). "Soleil trompeur". Envoyé spécial. Episode 244 (in French). France 2.
- Morath, Pierre; Lemasson, Eric (2023-02-08). "Les survivants de l'OTS parlent 1/4". La Fraternité. Episode 1 (in Swiss French). Radio Télévision Suisse. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- Morath, Pierre; Lemasson, Eric (2023-02-08). "Les survivants de l'OTS parlent 2/4". La Fraternité. Episode 2 (in Swiss French). Radio Télévision Suisse. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- Morath, Pierre; Lemasson, Eric (2023-02-15). "Les survivants de l'OTS parlent 3/4". La Fraternité. Episode 3 (in Swiss French). Radio Télévision Suisse. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- Morath, Pierre; Lemasson, Eric (2023-02-15). "Les survivants de l'OTS parlent 4/4". La Fraternité. Episode 4 (in Swiss French). Radio Télévision Suisse. Retrieved 2024-03-20.