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	Order of the Solar Temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Temple's activities were a mix of early Protestant christianity, mixed with a new age philosophy and homeopathic medicine, using variously adapted freemasonic rituals.
		In 1968, a schismatic order was renamed the Renewed Order of the Solar Temple under the leadership of French right-wing political activist Julien Origas.
		It is believed that The Solar Temple group continues to exist, with thirty surviving members in Quebec at the St-Anne-de-la-Pérade center (where some of the remaining members run an organic bread bakery), with from 140 to 500 members remaining worldwide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Order_of_the_Solar_Temple (2006 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Order of the Solar Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The original order was the Order of the Temple, a monastic-chivalric Catholic Order founded in 1118- 1119 by Hughes de Payens and dissolved by Pope Clement V after the persecutions by King Phillip (the Fair) of France, in 1307.
		The goals of the Solar Temple (as presented by Jouret in two lectures in October 1987) seem to be almost identical to those of the Sovereign Order of the Solar Temple (OSTS).
		The Solar Temple had apocalyptic tendancies, but ultimately, "the Solar Temple was engulfed in illusion and its pride led only to nothingness: believing that they would become gods, the blind disciples followed the flute player in a dance of death and hurtled towards their end" (Mayer 1996:24).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/solartemp.html (3513 words)

	Order of the Solar Temple -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Council of the Order formed (Any of various native American dwellings) Lodges which were run by a Regional Commander and three Elders.
		It is believed that Di Mambro ordered the murder, because he identified the baby as the (Click link for more info and facts about Anti-Christ) Anti-Christ described in the Bible.
		He was indicted for "participation in a criminal organization," and (Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being) murder.
	absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Or/Order_of_the_Solar_Temple.htm (1841 words)

	SOLAR TEMPLE (INTERNATIONAL CHIVALRIC ORDER SOLAR TRADITION)
		Solar Temple groups were organized in Quebec, Canada, as well as in Australia, Switzerland, and other countries.
		The leadership felt that the Solar Temple was being persecuted by various governments.
		The Solar Temple group continues to exist; it is believed to have over 30 surviving members in Quebec and from 140 to 500 worldwide.
	www.religioustolerance.org /dc_solar.htm (858 words)

	The Tragedy Of The Solar Temple Cult \| The Knights Templar \| templarhistory.com
		The Order of the Solar Temple or "International Chivalric Organization of the Solar Tradition," as it was officially known, was founded in 1984 by Luc Jouret and Joseph Di Mambro.
		The Solar Temple founder also believed that he was a third reincarnation of Jesus Christ, or at least that is the image he put forth to the rank and file member.
		This was a similar situation to Jouret's son, born in 1983, who was to be the premiere Grand Master of the "Temple of the New Age of the Era of the Virgin." This was a destiny that did not meet with the child's mother who raised him in a normal fashion.
	www.templarhistory.com /solar.html (2213 words)

	CBS News \| Recent Cult Massacres \| March 31, 2000 17:26:02
		Order of the Solar Temple: On March 22, 1997, in St. Casimir, Quebec, five members of the Order of the Solar Temple die in a fiery mass suicide.
		Order of the Solar Temple: On Dec. 23, 1995, 16 members of the Order of the Solar Temple were found dead in a burned house outside Grenoble, in the French Alps.
		Order of the Solar Temple: On Oct. 5, 1994, Swiss authorities found the bodies of 48 people linked to the same cult in a farmhouse and three chalets, all consumed by fire.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/03/31/world/main178621.shtml (526 words)

	CESNUR - Solar Temple Hoaxes
		It is true that Marsan and Di Mambro knew each other and that on March 21, 1981 they met in Geneva in order to discuss a merger between the OSTS and still another neo-Templar order, the Renewed Order of the Temple (ORT).
		Another Solar Temple hoax concerns Dr. Heide Fittkau-Garthe, the German psychologist arrested on January 8, 1998 in Tenerife, Canary Islands, where she lived in Barrio La Salud with a number of followers.
		A prominent leader of the German branch of the Brahma Kumaris, she left the Indian movement (or was excluded from it) and eventually became one of the most prominent self-help motivational speakers in Germany.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/Grace.htm (1007 words)

	"The proofs that the Solar Temple... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was the case of the Solar Temple Order.
		The murder of the 72 members of the Solar Temple Order is the punishment inflicted to the "suitcase carriers" (DI MAMBRO) themselves too greedy and who have embezzled millions of dollars from Swiss banks to Australia.
		In the meantime, I will remind you that in order for one day to have a forgiveness of the versed blood, justice must be administered, with acknowledgement of the victims and responsibilities of the perpetrators.
	www.subversions.com /english/pages/society/murder.html (1652 words)

	Children saved from cult's mass suicide
		Detectives raided five homes in Santa Cruz, capital of the holiday island, after receiving an anonymous telephone call that members of the sect, believed to be an off-shoot of the Order of the Solar Temple, were to commit suicide at the summit of Mount Teide.
		The Order of the Solar Temple, a Swiss-based cult founded in the 1980s, has been responsible for some of the most disturbing mass suicides related to the arrival of the Millennium, including the deaths of 48 people at two Swiss villages in 1994.
		The Order of the Solar Temple was founded by Luc Jouret, a Belgian doctor, and Joseph di Mambro, 70, a French-Canadian businessman.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/01/09/wcult09.html (735 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: Order of the Solar Temple Profile
		In his earlier years, Joseph Di Mambro, co-leader of the Order of the Solar Temple (OTS), was known as "a confidence trickster who made a successful career out of masquerading as a psychologist.
		In 1968, the order became the Renewed Order of the Solar Temple under the leadership of French right-wing political activist Julien Origas (Some reports have claimed that Origas was a Nazis SS member during World War II.)" (Montreal Gazette).
		Regarding these 33 wise leaders, "Luc Jouret believed that he and 32 of the members of the Order of the Solar Temple were the reincarnations of elders of an ancient sect called The Rose and the Cross" (Montreal Gazette).
	www.watchman.org /profile/solartemplepro.htm (2182 words)

	CESNUR 2005 International Conference - Sources of doctrine in the Solar Temple, by George D. Chryssides
		In order for this to happen, the conditions had to be right: this included the configuration of the planets, a spiritual awakening on the part of humanity, and invocation of the Masters.
		In 1981 a joint meeting was held between the Renewed Order of the Temple, the Sovereign Order of the Solar Temple (another neo-Templar organisation) and the Golden Way Foundation, at which an important ceremony, renewing their Templarist oath of allegiance, was enacted.
		Although it may be the case that members of the Solar Temple were drawn to the organisation by the rituals rather than the teachings, doctrines provide the underlying rationale for a spiritual group’s practices, and, in the case of the Solar Temple, for its untimely end.
	www.cesnur.org /2005/pa_chryssides.htm (3149 words)

	Order of the Solar Temple (Luc Jouret): suicides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Order of the Solar Temple of Joseph di Mambro and Luc Jouret
		According to British TV (Channel Four), 22 December 1997, and the Sunday Times, Princess Grace of Monaco had joined the Order of the Solar Temple.
		While investigating the Ordre du Temple Solaire, the Quebec Provincial Police uncovered unrealized plans to set up a terrorist organization for war against the Mohawk Nation
	www.stelling.nl /simpos/solar.htm (150 words)

	erspectives - Doomsday Religious Movements
		Also, the position a member occupies in an established enterprise can augment the potential threat; several Solar Temple members were senior employees of a public utility, whose access to sensitive systems could have crippled the provision of a much-needed service.
		The Order of the Solar Temple was a group espousing millennialist beliefs which met the preceding criteria of a Doomsday Religious Movement.
		The alleged criminal activities of the Solar Temple (money laundering, drug and arms trafficking) were clear threats to public safety, as was the infiltration of political and business circles by several members.
	www.iwar.org.uk /cyberterror/resources/csis/doomsday.htm (2886 words)

	Order of the Solar Temple: Conductor on trial in cult deaths - News about religious cults and sects
		Order of the Solar Temple: Michel Tabachnik denies involvement in the killings
		The mass murder-suicides of the doomsday sect occurred in the mid-'90s in Switzerland, France and Canada.
		The Order of the Solar Temple, founded in 1971 by Joseph Di Mambro, gained notoriety in Quebec with the 1994 murders in a cult-owned condominium in Morin Heights, north of Montreal.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /news1/an010417-01.html (695 words)

	MindNet Journal - Vol. 1, No. 16a
		Jouret's Order of the Solar Temple was but the latest incarnation of mind control operations organized and overseen by the CIA and Department of Defense.
		One poor soul, she said, was ordered to curb his sexual urges by cutting his wrists every time he was aroused.
		O.T.A.: The Order of the Temple of Astarte in Pasadena, California is a "hermetic" occult organization that practices "Magick in the Western Tradition." The cult is led by Fraters Khenemel, a police officer, and Aleyin, a veteran Green Beret.
	www.mindcontrolforums.com /mindnet/mn116a.htm (4005 words)

	AIAON \| BBC ON THIS DAY \| 5 \| 1994: Cult members die in 'mass suicide'
		The deaths have been linked to the apocalyptical Order of the Solar Temple sect, which was founded in 1984 by Dr Luc Jouret and Joseph di Mambro.
		The Order of the Solar Temple condones the mass stock-piling of weapons to prepare for the end of the world.
		In 2001, Michel Tabachnik, a former conductor with the Canadian Opera Company, was cleared of contributing to the 74 deaths of the members of the Order of the Solar Temple between 1994 and 1997.
	amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org /onthisday/low/dates/stories/october/5/newsid_3933000/3933957.stm (689 words)

	Far Shores News: Trial Over Solar Temple Cult Deaths
		[Reuters] -The Swiss conductor Michel Tabachnik went on trial yesterday for conspiracy to murder stemming from his involvement in the Order of the Solar Temple doomsday sect, thought to be responsible for 74 deaths.
		Members of the Order of the Solar Temple believe that "death voyages" by ritualised suicide lead to rebirth on the star Sirius.
		He was a member of the Golden Way, a group founded in 1978 by Mr Di Mambro that was the precursor of the Solar Temple sect.
	www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/nsolcult.htm (605 words)

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		The cultists left a video message saying they were shedding their "earthly containers" to join a spaceship trailing the Hale Bopp comet.
		- On Dec. 23, 1995, 16 members of the Order of the Solar Temple were found dead in a burned house outside Grenoble, in the French Alps.
		Jones, who was found dead with a bullet wound in the head, led the Peoples Temple in San Francisco and moved it to Guyana.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /users/fennell/highland/harper/millenial1.html (492 words)

	Order of the Solar Temple :: 48 Die in Cult Murder-Suicide
		And two of the chalets were owned by Luc Jouret, 46, said by authorities and cult experts to be the leader of two related extremist sects: the Cross and Rose and the Order of the Solar Temple.
		Temple Soleil is the French translation of Solar Temple.
		Montreal Crown Prosecutor Jean-Claude Boyer, who worked on the arms case, said members of Solar Temple "saw themselves as superior human beings whose survival was needed to relaunch the human race after a cataclysm they saw coming because of the deterioration in world affairs."
	www.religionnewsblog.com /9926 (1533 words)

	Solar Temple Pilots, by Erik Davis
		Before he founded his International Chivalric Order Solar Tradition (later known as the Solar Temple), Jouret belonged to the Renewed Order of the Temple—which, according to Gerry O'Sullivan, a Fordham professor and expert in hermetic secret societies, is a racist, neo-Nazi magical society founded by the ex-Gestapo officer Julien Origas.
		As a close reading of the Solar Temple's suicide note makes clear, Jouret demands to be seen not against the scripture-quoting apocalyptic Christianity of Koresh, but rather the West's great esoteric stream of gnostic hermeticism, particularly as expressed in Rosicrucian and neo-Templar secret societies.
		Faced with a decadent and doomed human order intent on destroying the Truth and Nature, Jouret and his followers saw their deaths as "not a suicide in the human sense of the term," but rather a "transit." "We are in a circle of fire," the notes claim.
	www.techgnosis.com /solar.html (2246 words)

	Apocalyptic Millennialism: Background and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But in the 1950s, he became acquainted with a Rosicrucian order, the Antique and Mystic Order of the Rosy Cross which was developing a prostelyzing campaign, a recruiting campaign, in France, and he became a member of that order in January 1956.
		He was to remain a member of that Rosicrucian Order until 1969 and actually derived several of his ideas from this order.
		There began what was to become the core of the Order of the Solar Temple, a group leading a community life.
	www.healthsystem.virginia.edu /internet/ciag/reports/report_apoc_bkg.cfm (1653 words)

	Lured by the cult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The wife of an Olympic ski champion could not resist the lure of the Order of the Solar Temple despite the fact that 53 sect members had already died in a mass suicide.
		It is five years since Vuarnet's mother and brother perished in a mass suicide organised by the Order of the Solar Temple, a sect devoted to the destruction of its followers.
		The Order of the Solar Temple, founded in the 1970s by a French Canadian called Joseph di Mambro, encouraged belief in a mixture of medieval Templar beliefs and New Age fantasy.
	www.rickross.com /reference/solar/solar2.html (1926 words)

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		The Order itself stems from the Knights of Templar, a secretive medieval organization founded by French crusaders in Jerusalem.
		The Temple came to prominence on October 5, 1994, when 53 people committed murder-suicide simultaneously in several chalets in Switzerland and Canada.
		The bodies of four cultist, Didier, her husband and another couple, were found in a bed upstairs positioned in what may have been intended to be the shape of the cross.
	www.brainwashed.com /lpd/archives/misc/solartemple.txt (747 words)

	November 11, 1999: The Spirit In The Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In October 1994, 53 members of the Order of the Solar Temple died in a series of suicide pacts at a ski resort in Quebec and two villages in Switzerland.
		The teenagers explained that their parents were members of the Order of the Solar Temple and had drugged them, intending to include them in the suicide without their knowledge.
		Rosicrucian orders teach esoteric methods of using innate psychic and spiritual parts of the brain to affect change in the world--think metaphysics, creative visualization and astral travel.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /features/the_spirt_in_the_sky.html (3214 words)

	Religioscope > Archives > "Our terrestrial journey is coming to an end": the last voyage of the Solar Temple
		The mysterious circumstances surrounding the dramatic "transit" of fifty-three members of the Order of the Solar Temple (OTS, Ordre du Temple Solaire) in Switzerland and in Québec in October 1994 have spawned an unprecedented wave of public speculation and conspiracy mongering.
		The leaders of the Solar Temple explained their actions in the texts sent to the media from a Geneva post office on 5 October 1994, and in three videocassettes which were shipped to a French OTS member by another trusted member at the same time.
		Scholarly observers have advanced varied interpretations of the Solar Temple's saga.<59> Whatever the primary cause of the "transit," it was not a hasty decision, and the core group took time and care to legitimate ideologically the suicides and murders.
	religioscope.info /article_172.shtml (8965 words)

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