Luc jouret biography
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The Order of the Solar Temple. 3. Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret
A French jeweler turned esoteric teacher and a Belgian homeopathic doctor were at the origin of the murderous organization.
by Massimo Introvigne
Article 3 of 9. Read article 1 and article 2.
To understand the suicides and homicides in the 1990s of the Order of the Solar Temple (Ordre du Temple Solaire, OTS), we started with a survey of the neo-Templar tradition to which the OTS belonged, while emphasizing that other neo-Templar groups obviously carried no responsibility for the Solar Temple crimes.
In the previous article, we discussed the mystical revelation French esoteric author Jacques Breyer claimed to have received in 1952 in Arginy, when secret Masters ordered him to establish a new neo-Templar order, and the activities of the Sovereign Order of the Solar Temple (OSTS), established bygd Breyer, and the Renewed beställning of the Temple (ORT), founded by two well-known characters in the French esoteric mili
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Luc Jouret
Belgian homeopath (1947–1994)
Luc Jouret | |
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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 Joseph Di Mambro in 1984. He committed suicide in the Swiss by 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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Jouret, Luc (1947-1994)
Luc Jouret, cofounder of the Solar Temple (Ordre du Temple Solaire), the occult group known because of the suicide of some 50 members in several incidents October 3-5, 1994, was born on October 18, 1947 in what was then the Belgian Congo, Africa. His Belgian parents returned to their homeland in the 1950s, and Jouret attended the Free University of Brussels from which he received his medical degree. During his college years he also became a Marxist, a fact that placed him under police surveillance. Two years after graduation, in 1976, he joined the Belgian Army and became a paratrooper. While in the army he participated in a famous action in Zaire to rescue some Europeans whose lives had become threatened in the newly independent nation.
Following his time in the army, he began a formal study of homeopathy (a very popular form of medical treatment in French-speaking Europe) and emerged as a homeopathic physician. He traveled widely studying various f