The Solar Temple's apocalypticism was ecological before it was cosmic, which is part of why it landed with educated professionals in the 1980s. Jouret lectured publicly on health, pollution and the coming collapse, and those lectures were the recruiting instrument — people came for a talk on homeopathy and ended up in an order. The distinctive move was the refusal of any remedy: the Earth was not to be saved but left. That framing put the whole weight of the teaching on the exit, and the order spent a decade preparing members for a departure that was described in every document as a passage rather than an end.