Biography on luc joureth
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Luc Jouret
Belgian homeopath (1947–1994)
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Photo of Jouret, used to advertise a 1991 lecture | |
| Born | Luc Georges Marc Jean Jouret (1947-10-18)18 October 1947 Kikwit, Belgian Congo |
| Died | 5 October 1994(1994-10-05) (aged 46) Salvan, Valais, Switzerland |
| Cause of death | Suicide |
| Occupation(s) | Founder, Order of the Solar Temple |
| Spouse | Marie-Christine Pertué (m. 1980–1985) |
| Children | 1 |
Luc Georges Marc jean Jouret (French:[ʒuʁɛ]; 18 October 1947 – 5 October 1994) was a Belgian doctor and homeopath. Jouret founded the Order of the Solar Temple (OTS) with namn Di Mambro in 1984. He committed suicide in the Swiss village of Salvan on 5 October 1994 as part of a mass murder–suicide. While Di Mambro was the true leader of the group, Jouret was its outward image and primary recruiter.
Born in the Belgian Congo, Jouret was an athletic child, which
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Cult Leader Shows History of Elusiveness
MONTREAL — Whether dead or in hiding, Luc Jouret, the 46-year-old Congo-born cult leader who founded the doomed Order of the Solar Temple, is proving as elusive as ever, confounding efforts to fathom the nature of his organization.
Newspaper headlines describe his temple as a doomsday cult, a charge seemingly borne out by the death of more than 50 members this week--48 in Switzerland and four in Quebec. Specialists say, however, that, while in Quebec, Jouret never preached death in apocalypse but instead focused on survival of the elite after a cataclysmic crisis.
Spurred by complaints from parents of child cult members and from disgruntled former members, Quebec officials suspected that Jouret was up to something untoward but could never find evidence to prove it. Even a gun conviction against him proved so minor that the judge sentenced him only to donate $1,000 to the Canadian Red Cross.
Jouret, a homeopathic doctor who recei
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Order of the Solar Temple
Esoteric new religious movement (1984–1997)
The Order of the Solar Temple (French: Ordre du Temple solaire, OTS), or simply the Solar Temple,[a] was a new religious movement and secret society, often described as a cult, notorious for the mass deaths of many of its members in several mass murders and suicides throughout the 1990s. The OTS was a neo-Templar order, claiming to be a continuation of the Knights Templar, and incorporated an eclectic range of beliefs with aspects of Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, and New Age ideas. It was led by Joseph Di Mambro, with Luc Jouret as a spokesman and second in command. It was founded in 1984, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Di Mambro, a French jeweler and esotericist with a history of fraud, co-led the group with Jouret, a Belgian homeopath known for lecturing on alternative medicine and spirituality. Di Mambro had founded several past esoteric groups, and had previous affiliation with a number of other