ABSTRACT

This chapter analyzes the compensatory thrust towards sacredness, and examines its modes inside the Ordre du Temple solaire, whose ideology was firmly rooted in its will to escape nuclear and ecological disaster. In the case of the OTS, the "transit" of the chosen members towards Sirius via Jupiter by the pseudo-alchemical method of "calcination". Notwithstanding, many exoteric organizations centered on health issues and personal development, which served as a cover for the recruitment of future members of the Solar Temple. The Templar forked cross, the instrument of Christ's torture, became the spark of the Christ like light. The horizontal branch represents the material dimension and the vertical branch the spiritual dimension. The Celestial Jerusalem being a long time coming on this overly corrupt earth, the Solar Temple's elect apparently chose to beam up to the utopic planet Proxima to reach the center of the universe without further delay.