Order of the Solar Temple

In 1984, Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret founded the cult “Order of the Solar Temple” together and served as its leaders. Joseph Di Mambro Joseph Di Mambro was born in 1924 in France. He grew up in a traditional Catholic family and went to a Catholic private school. Di Mambro was always interested in obscure matters. In 1956 he joined the AMORC (“The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis”). Because of some financial misdealings, he fled to the Swiss border and started a career as a psychologist

committed suicide to end their own cult like the Order of the Solar Temple had done. The Order of the Solar Temple was a great example of mob mentality. They all believed in the same things, acted upon and did things together that they would probably not have done if they were acting alone. The Solar Temple cult was created in 1984 by a guy named Luc Journet. The cult was created when another cult called the “Knights Temple” split which created the Solar Temple. The cult was mostly known for the mass suicide

The Solar Temple was founded in 1984, as l’Ordre International Chevaleresque de Tradition Solaire, however was later renamed Ordre du Temple Solaria. Now it is just known as Order of the Solar Temple or simply Solar Temple. The Solar Temple is originally tracked and linked back to 1952 when French author Jacques Breyer established sovereign Order of the Solar Temple. However, the Solar Temple that we know today wasn't legitimately founded until 1984 in Switzerland by Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret

Outcome: A total of 74 members of Order of the Solar Temple died from various mass murder-suicides between 1994 and 1997 in Switzerland, Canada and France. The first known instance was the murder of Tony Dutroit and his wife and son. Dutroit was a member of the cult, but spoke out against it upon realising its hypocrisy and deception and left. Soon after, he, his wife Nicky and son Emmanuel were the victims of a grisly murder in Morin Heights, Québec, committed by members of the cult. It was believed

It is a secret society that was started by men named Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret. It was originally named “I’Ordre International Chevaleresque de Tradition Solaire” in 1984 but was later changed to “Ordre du Temple Solaire”. It is rumored that this cult is a secret that most of the members are classified as unknown. In 1994, Emmanuel Dutoit, Tony Dutoit’s son, died with multiple stabs in his three months old body. It was rumored that Di Mambro killed Emmanuel

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