Joseph Di Mambro

Joseph Léonce "Jo" Di Mambro (born August 19, 1924 in Pont-Saint-Esprit , † October 5, 1994 in Salvan VS ) was the founder of the solar templar together with Luc Jouret .

Life

Joseph grew up in a traditional Catholic family in Pont-Saint-Esprit in the south of France , a place on the right bank of the Rhone . There he attended the local private Catholic school. His father Raphael came from northern Italy . His mother Fernande was a seamstress from Nîmes . He also had a sister named Florina and a brother named Nikolas. His sister Florina was killed in a traffic accident at a level crossing in Pont-Saint-Esprit in 1985. His brother died in Pont-Saint-Esprit in 2011. Di Mambro initially trained as a watchmaker and goldsmith , learned to play the violin and became interested in esoteric writings at an early age . On March 11, 1944, he married Jeannine SALT, who died in 1999. They had a child together named Bernard. In 1965 the couple ran a jewelry store in Pont-Saint-Esprit.

AMORC, solar templar and death

From 1956 to 1968 Di Mambro was a member of the AMORC , an initiatory order founded by Harvey Spencer Lewis in 1915 and referring to the Rosicrucians . Presumably in 1971 Di Mambro founded the Sun Temple Community. In terms of public and legal external representation, the community operated under the umbrella of the Golden Way Foundation, which was established in Geneva on July 12, 1978. In 1973 Di Mambro opened a yoga school and a “cultural center for relaxation” in Annemasse near Geneva . Between 1979 and 1981 Di Mambro met the Belgian homeopathic doctor Luc Jouret (* 1947; † 1994). Jouret, who had indirect contacts to the AMORC, was Grand Master of the Neo-Templar Order Ordre Rénové du Temple (ORT), whose members he brought in with the Sun Templars (Ordre du Temple Solaire). He hosted courses and seminars while Di Mambo led the fellowship from his headquarters, a former monastery in Québec . Wealthy members paid 200 francs a week to the temple.

Di Mambro and Jouret led the Sun Templar order autocratically and the labor of the members was systematically exploited. Di Mambro directed the members 'social life, arranged marriages, determined the names of members' newborn children, and separated families. In its prime in 1989, the Fellowship in France , French- speaking Switzerland, and Canada had over 400 members from well-to-do, well-to-do civil society contributors. Jouret and Di Mambro also traded in international real estate.

From the relationship with his lover Dominique Bellaton, Di Mambro's daughter Emanuelle emerged, whom he wanted to raise up as a Messiah .

The Sun Temple went into crisis after it became known that Di Mambro and Jouret led an exclusive lifestyle and some of the duo's occult practices had been exposed as hocus-pocus . Former members in some cases demanded their paid-in money back in litigation that lasted years. Di Mambro has been investigated in several countries for fraud and Jouret for arms trafficking .

In 1994 the inhuman doctrine of the Sun Templars received an apocalyptic dimension, which led to the delusion that the sect members would reincarnate together in the star system of Sirius after a collective death in order to found a new humanity there.

On the morning of October 6, 1994, 25 bodies were found in Granges-sur-Salvan near Salvan, including those of Di Mambro, Bellaton, Emanuelle and Jouret. In the previous days, a total of 53 other members of the Sun Templars had died in Cheiry and in Morin Heights, Canada, some of whom had been shot and poisoned or were killed by suicide .

Web links

• The Sun Templars - Churches, Sects and Religions - Evangelical Information Center, Georg Otto Schmid 1998

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Lamprecht : New Rosicrucians. A manual. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, pp. 101-102. ISBN 3-525-56549-6 . P. 111.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Marc-Roberts-Team: Lexicon of Satanism and the witchcraft. VF Collector Verlag, Graz 2004, ISBN 3-85365-205-0 , p. 252.