THE DEADLIEST CULTS TO EVER EXIST

THE ORDER OF THE SOLAR TEMPLE SLAUGHTERED ITS OWN The Order of the Solar Temple, founded in 1984 by Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret, combined esoteric rituals with Christian imagery, spreading across Switzerland, Canada, and France. By the early 1990s, the cult adopted an apocalyptic belief in a celestial "transit," leading to a series of violent murder-suicides.