Source: An Jian, Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission
"All the qigong I taught is fake, all in order to deceive everyone's money!"
On June 15, 2020, the Intermediate People's Court of Luohe City, Henan Province, rendered a first-instance judgment on the case of Wen Jinlu and seven other people organizing and using a cult organization to undermine the implementation of the law.
Wen Jinlu, the head of the religion, was sentenced to 19 years' imprisonment for organizing, using a cult to sabotage the implementation of the law, rape, and forcibly molesting women.
The remaining 6 people who committed the crime of organizing and using a cult organization to undermine the implementation of the law were sentenced to 2 years, 10 months, and a suspended period of 3 years to 3 years and 6 months.
So far, they have tricked believers into competing for sustenance, spreading heresies to disturb society, performing meritorious work to "cure the sick" and harming people's lives, forcing many female believers to have multiple abortions with their "male and female double cultivation"... The "Sun Moon Qigong" cult organization headed by Wen Jinlu has exposed its bad deeds to the world --
The "spokesperson of the universe" is the real body
"At that time, the work was not smooth, and the body was sick," Gao Lihong recalled in the iron window of the Wuyang County Detention Center in Luohe City, Henan Province, "Later, some people came to us to publicize that practicing this 'gong' could cure diseases, and also said that this was the accumulation of virtue and good deeds, and they could transport themselves." ”
This woman, who is nearly fifty years old, has been practicing "Sun Moon Qigong" since 1996. When he was arrested, he had developed into the number one backbone of the cult, mainly responsible for organizing liaison and collecting "donation money."
Gao Lihong said that the cultivation posture of "Sun Moon Qigong" is very simple - meditate with your legs crossed, put your hands on your left knee and right knee respectively, hold the sun in your left hand and the moon in your right hand, and then close your eyes and silently recite the 12-character mantra: "The heart should be kind, the heart should be good, go to evil, and the heart should not be greedy."
"I feel that this is also all good, I didn't feel that there was anything wrong, so I followed suit."
In fact, most of the believers who are caught up in the cult are like Goryeo Hong, who originally have a simple personality, a good heart, a desire for good things, and a desperate desire to have a power to change their destiny.
But what they don't know is that at the beginning of the development of believers, cult organizations will not expose their "evil" nature, and often package themselves into a beautiful image to increase confusion and attractiveness, and induce people to take the initiative to join.
Once they become one of them, the cult organization will use all kinds of "brainwashing" means to subtly change people's thinking, and step by step turn believers into marionettes who obey their words and obey their own words and are only the "leader" of the cult.
According to Gao Lihong's recollection, when she first came into contact with "Sun Moon Qigong", she insisted on practicing every day according to the posture taught to her by her friends. After a while, it seems that I feel "better".
In fact, this is not much different from the popular yoga, square dance and other exercise methods, as long as you insist on moving every day, it will be a bit of a role in strengthening the body. But in that era when popular qigong was mixed with all kinds of mysterious touting, Gao Lihong firmly believed that the "skill" she practiced could make people have some kind of "divine power", so she became more and more obsessed.
Later, the practitioner told her that in order to achieve better results, she also needed to learn the corresponding "Gong Fa" theory. And this theory is all from the hands of a "master" who is said to have "special functions" and can treat people through work.
The "master" also told them that as long as they practice according to his teachings, everyone can obtain the same "magical power" as him, "you can use this 'power' to save yourself, and you can also use it to save others."
In fact, this set of so-called "exercises", in addition to some simple theories, most of them are some slips of the tongue, which are full of ideas such as "looking down on money" and "looking down on family affection", one of which is described in the "Fire Pit" - "Money is a harmful spirit, children are a bottomless pit, guarding the money and wealth is empty, and making a living for their children", exhorting believers to "change their concepts, jump out of the fire pit", and "liberate and awaken" from it as soon as possible.
Under the indoctrination and encouragement of such ideas, many believers feel that money is useless, and they donate their savings to this "master" who makes him "enlightened" like a "life teacher".
"We feel that he is sacred, and at the same time we admire him, and we feel that only following him is the only way out." Believer Zhao Mei (pseudonym) said.
This "master", Wen Jinlu, is 75 years old this year.
Wen Jinlu often told his followers that he was the "representative of the heavens" and the "spokesman of the universe", and that anyone in front of him was like a transparent body, and everything that happened to him could not escape his eyes.
However, this "master" who is omnipotent in the eyes of the believers is nothing more than a mason who has just Chinese and has been circulating from various construction sites to build houses for others to earn money and livelihood before he embarked on the "altar". During this period, he also opened a shop and did business, but all of them failed.
Until the 1990s, when the national qigong fever arose, Wen Jinlu, who was nearly fifty years old, suddenly became obsessed with qigong and felt that it was "very mysterious" and "an infinite thing between heaven and earth". As a result, his life began to move towards a very different second half.
Wen Jinlu boasted to himself that it was the "God Man" Tomon who allowed him to complete the transformation from a mason to a "master".
"It's so hateful!" Sun Moon Qigong "Cure the Sick and Cure the Dead!"
"At that time, I liked Qigong, so I often watched people practice it, and then I would study it myself when I went back."
Around 1990, Wen Jinlu began to make up the so-called Qigong theory, in his self-created Qigong action, he claimed to hold the sun with his left hand and the moon with his right hand, and he could slowly feel that there was a breath moving between the left hand and the right hand, forming the so-called yin and yang qi, and claimed that this would cure any disease on the body.
By 1994, Wen Jinlu concocted the "Sun Moon Qigong" and began to wantonly seduce the masses to practice. In order to increase his sense of mystery, he also assumed the pseudonym Jin Guangdao, and presented himself as a "master" and "boss" to preach the "end of the world" to his disciples, asking everyone to obey orders, obey, and accumulate merit.
So, does Wenjin Road have "special functions"?
After his arrest, the police handling the case raised this question to him many times, but Wen Jinlu bowed his head and said nothing every time. Some police have proposed that there are "special functions" to be displayed on the spot, and Wen Jinlu has repeatedly shirked it. When the reporter interviewed him, he also asked him if he really had "special functions", wen Jinlu smiled, "I believe I have it, but now the skill is not good!" Can't show it. ”
In fact, none of the followers of Winkin Road had ever seen him display the so-called "special functions." But in an era when even obvious pseudoscientific behaviors such as "air extraction" and "ear literacy" could be believed by most people, Wen Jinlu's boasting was taken seriously by the word of mouth of believers.
Wen Jinlu used to seduce believers
"No one dares to question it, they are afraid that they will lose their merit and will be punished." One believer said.
Even Gao Lihong, who has followed him for more than 20 years, has never seen it, "This thing can't be seen or touched, and we can't say whether he has it or not." ”
However, this "loyal" believer firmly believes in "Master" while at the same time muttering in his heart.
As the number one backbone of the cult, she once used the theory of Gong Fa to treat others at the behest of Wen Jinlu, but afterwards she secretly ran to tell people that they still had to go to the hospital after 3 days of not seeing well. "What if someone is killed, I'm afraid something will happen." Gao Lihong said.
But the thing that killed people happened anyway.
In 2014, Liu Mou'an's sister unfortunately suffered from colon cancer and was hospitalized in a hospital in Zhumadian City, and the doctor recommended immediate surgery, but Liu Mouan did not agree.
"At that time, it was said that 'Sun Moon Qigong' can cure diseases, and I thought that I had practiced this exercise, and I used 'Sun Moon Qigong' to treat her, and maybe I could cure my sister's illness."
But Liu Mou'an found that no matter how he worked, his sister's illness never improved. Liu Mouxin thought, is it because his own skills are not enough? Therefore, he went to Wuyang County, Luohe City, and found a person with more "profound skills" to treat his sister.
"He told me he would be cured, but after seeing the doctor, my sister still didn't get better." Liu Mou'an was confused, he had also worked free of charge in the "Ecological Park" of Wenjin Road for more than a year, in order to accumulate merit and safety for his family, why did it not work at a critical moment?
After this toss, Liu Mou'an's sister's illness not only did not alleviate, but her body was not as good as a day, and she died not long after. Only then did Liu Mou'an understand that the so-called "Sun Moon Qigong" that can cure diseases is simply a lie!
"Now when I think of these things, when I think of being deceived for so many years, I can't say what it's like in my heart", Liu Mou'an frowned, "It's so hateful!"
But Wen Jinlu can always find a set of arguments to justify itself.
In the face of some believers' questions about the ineffectiveness of curing diseases, the "master" replied: "If you believe that it can cure the disease, if you do not believe that it cannot be cured, you will not be cured, and those who are not cured are all because of 'dishonesty,' 'disobedience,' and 'non-cooperation,' and the heart has not really understood and grasped the true meaning of it."
Wanton enrichment, defrauding believers of 8.19 million!
Some people died because of the function of Xinwen Jinlu Qi, and some people sacrificed their life savings for him and finally realized that he had been deceived and committed suicide.
Li Mouzhi, who lives in Shandong, was a loyal follower of Wenjin Road. After Wen Jinlu was released from labor camp, Li Mouzhi took the initiative to find Wen and successively took out all his savings and donated them all to Wen.
"In order to 'dedicate' and 'accumulate merit', she sold all 3 houses in her family." According to the police handling the case, Li Mouzhi's husband is the vice president of a glass factory, and his life was originally very rich, but since his wife came into contact with "Sun Moon Qigong", she began to go crazy, and later became obsessed to insisting on divorcing her husband for "dedicated cultivation", and even did not want her own children.
Poor Li Mouzhi "dedicated" all the money to Wen Jinlu, and finally fell to pick up the garbage on the side of the road to eat.
Years after abandoning his husband and son, tragedy struck.
In 2013, someone found Li Mouzhi's hanging body under the bridge hole. It turned out that Li Mouzhi realized afterwards that he had been deceived, could not accept the reality, and had been trying to commit suicide. Before dying, she also ran to her mother-in-law's house to cry: "Believing in 'Sun Moon Qigong' put me on the road of no return, I am sorry for the family..."
And this is just the tip of the iceberg of Wen Jinlu's gold-sucking sin.
According to the police investigation, in the process of preparing to secretly restore the organization after his release from re-education through labor, he once proposed to the believers to "start a second business" and asked the original believers to donate money and materials to start a business, in an attempt to "cultivate merit through business."
"But Wenjin Road didn't know how to do business, opened a lot of shops, and finally lost money and went out of business."
But Wen Jinlu did not give up, in order to allow the backbone believers to follow him for a long time without leaving him, Wen Jinlu thought of another trick - to build a Taoist temple.
In 2007, Wenjin Road began to prepare for the construction of the "Defu Temple" in Zhanbei Township, Xiangcheng County, Xuchang City, Henan Province, planning to build it into a "holy place" for believers to go on a "pilgrimage".
A large number of believers go to the "Defu Temple"
The process of preparing for the establishment of the "Taoist Temple" itself is also a concentrated "squeeze" of believers. He demanded that every believer should "contribute with money and make a strong contribution so that the 'Defu Temple' can be built as soon as possible."
"If you don't give him the money in your hand, you will be constrained." So I thought I would just pay for peace!" He Moumei is an old believer in "Sun Moon Qigong", usually living frugally, after retirement, he did a little business, accumulated hundreds of thousands of dollars in his life, plus borrowed money from relatives and friends, a total of 1 million, all of which were sent to Wen Jinlu.
There are also some believers whose families are already poor, their lives are very difficult, and they still have to desperately "dedicate" themselves. Gao Lihong, who was responsible for collecting the "dedication money," said that there was once a very old rural old lady with only 5 yuan on her body and desperately tried to give it to her.
"Wen Jinlu once put forward a concept: paying 'dedication' can increase merit. Therefore, in the hearts of believers, the more 'offerings' are paid, the higher the merit. "Introduction of the police handling the case.
In this way, in just 4 months, the "Defu Temple" was completed, and the construction cost a total of three or four million, all donated by believers.
"Defu Temple"
The completion of the "Defu Temple" not only facilitated Wen Jinlu's contact with believers from all over the world, but also facilitated him to collect "dedication money" through the "pilgrimage" of believers.
According to the police, from the first to the seventh day of the Spring Festival in 2016 alone, more than 10,000 people went to the "Defu Temple" to incense, and the "merit box" alone received more than 100,000 yuan of "dedication money".
Not only that, in order to defraud money, the "Sun Moon Qigong" cult has also extended its claws to the vulnerable groups, and has repeatedly arranged for backbone cadres in Luohe, Nanyang, and other places to take advantage of the New Year's Festival to go to the homes for the elderly to "offer condolences," spread fallacies and heresies, and deceive and win over the elderly.
After defrauding believers of a large amount of money, Wen Jinlu's ambitions also became more and more inflated. He had a new plan—to build another "manor" for himself and his long-standing followers to live in secret.
So, in 2008, Wen Jinlu instructed believers to build an "ecological park" in Mengzhai Town, Wuyang County. After its completion, it became the core stronghold of the "Sun Moon Qigong" cult. Except for Wenjin Road, it was inhabited by his most devout followers.
In order to create a sense of mystery, Wen Jinlu also seduced believers, and only those who were "the most dedicated" and "most faithful" were eligible to enter the park and live with him.
But these believers who were chosen to enter the garden did not come to enjoy themselves like Wenjinlu, they needed to take care of the manor, work in the fields, and serve the food and living of Wenjinlu... Every day, you have to get up early and work in the dark, and it is all gratuitous.
"Break the private public, selfless dedication", this is the slogan put forward in the garden. "As long as you work well here, you can accumulate merit, and you can live in a big villa and drive a luxury car in the future." Believer Liang Liang (pseudonym) said.
This young man has been working in the garden for more than six years without compensation, during which time he has not returned home, and he rarely has contact with his family, because Wenjin Road has a very strict management of the garden, and people who come here to work cannot come and go at will.
"It's because I believe in him too much, and I adore him too much in my heart, no one asks why." Liang Liang said.
In addition to their work, the believers in the "Ecological Garden" must also concentrate on learning the fallacies and heresies fabricated by Wen Jinlu. He often told his followers that he could predict the future, that soon there would be a "great adjustment" in the world, and that only by following him in this garden could illness and death be avoided. Therefore, most of the rooms in the "ecological park" are stored with various emergency daily necessities such as food and water.
Afterwards, Wen Jinlu explained: "This is actually all out of thin air, and I mainly don't want them to leave, I want them to stay."
In order to further exercise mental control over the believers, and also to take advantage of the opportunity to defraud the property, Wen Jinlu also often arranged for Gao Lihong to contact the heads of local stations on his behalf, and ordered the grass-roots believers to seize the reserve of food and goods to deal with the impending "great catastrophe".
"But then the 'great catastrophe' he said never came, and I was a little skeptical." Gao Lihong said that several times she asked her to inform everyone to hurry up and buy things, but nothing happened afterwards, making her feel "very faceless" and embarrassed to issue instructions to the heads of various places.
"As a 'high person', you should be talking with one word and nine words, and you can't go against the grain!"
At that time, some of the believers in the garden also began to have doubts about Wen Jinlu and wanted to leave. Wen Jinlu saw that people's hearts were moving, so he made a "Voice of My Heart", requiring the believers in the garden to sign and handprint on it, swear not to leave the garden, and wholeheartedly "dedicate" here.
"He made each of us have a fear that if we really left, we would bring harm to our families." Therefore, I would rather blindly follow him here against my conscience and against my will, rather than let my family be hurt. Yu Yan said.
Wen Jinlu asked the believers to sign their signatures, lay their fingerprints, and swore not to leave the garden
In this way, through inducements and intimidation, Wen Jinlu deceived the believers with the help of the "Defu Temple" and the "Ecological Garden".
"There was money all over his room, under the bed, at the head of the bed, or in a shoebox, anywhere, and even he didn't know how much it was." A police officer said.
This old policeman with many years of experience in handling cases has long been accustomed to seeing all kinds of "big scenes", but when he saw that Wen jinlu's residence was full of famous cigarettes and wine, boxes of cash, and even the money counting machine was burned out several times, he still took a breath. Thinking that a large number of poor believers were living miserably just to provide for such a false "master", I couldn't help but scold: "This old thing is very bad!"
The court found that the "Sun Moon Qigong" cult led by Wen Jinlu had defrauded believers of a total of 8.19 million yuan in "donation money," some of which had been squandered by Wen Jinlu and others.
In the name of "male and female double cultivation", he did all kinds of bad things
"In front of everyone, he is a respected 'master', but in fact, he has done all the bad things behind his back!" Yu Yan complained.
This backbone believer who had followed Wen Jinlu since she was a teenager was deeply reused by Wen Jinlu, and the money he had cheated out of him was also safely handed over to her for safekeeping.
But in fact, every time he faced Wen Jinlu, Yu Yan's heart was very afraid. For more than 20 years, she has hidden in her heart a secret that she does not dare to reveal to her relatives - the "master" who is admired by everyone, who has repeatedly coerced herself into sexual relations with him, resulting in her 3 pregnancies and abortions.
"When he raped me, I was very resistant inside, the door was closed in the house, I cried in the room for a long time, there was an impulse to say it to my parents, but I was afraid that once I told my parents they would be sad, so at that time I felt that I was swallowing my anger." 」
Now that she is nearly 40 years old, she has never been married. "I always feel that if history can be repeated, I will certainly not live like this again, but history cannot be rewritten..."
In fact, there was far more female disciple than Yu Yan who had been raped by Wen Jinlu for a long time.
Wen Jinlu once claimed that there was a bottleneck in his research, and he needed to carry out "yin and yang double cultivation" through sexual relations with female believers, so as to increase his strength with the help of "yin and yang power".
In order to satisfy his own sexual desires, he deceived female believers and said: "It is the 'teacher behind the back' who makes us husband and wife", practicing the truth of husband and wife, but without the name of husband and wife.
All kinds of rhetoric have only one purpose - to coerce female believers to provide sexual services for him. The poor believers did not dare to resist and could only let Wen Jinlu do whatever he wanted.
Among the victims in police custody, the earliest occurred in the summer of 1994, when Wen Jinlu raped a 20-year-old female believer at home, and in the following four years, Wen Jinlu repeatedly forced her to have sex with himself, resulting in four pregnancies and abortions.
There is also a female believer born in 1988, more than 40 years younger than Wenjin road, who has been raped by Wenjin road more than ten times!
What is even more absurd is that Wen Jinlu also coerced two female believers to provide sexual services for her at the same time in the name of "double cultivation" in spite of the objections of the parties concerned.
However, none of them dared to speak out, and could only carefully hide this secret in their hearts. It was only after the incident that some of the victims' parents learned that their daughter, who had been personally sent to "cultivation" by herself, had been so trampled by the "master" she admired, beating her chest and beating her feet, "I have been deceived by him for so many years, I am really blind!"
Strike late at night! Evil is full of evil and the first to be caught
In order to cover up the crime, for many years, the cunning Wen Jinlu has been trying to evade the police.
After his release from re-education through labor in 2002, Wen Jinlu began to deliberately hide, living in seclusion for a long time, and his whereabouts were uncertain. After searching from many sources, the public security organs in Henan Province finally discovered their foothold in September 2011 and gradually grasped a number of important activities and clues.
However, Wen Jinlu, who has a strong sense of anti-reconnaissance, has used the "Defu Temple" and the "Ecological Garden" as a cover for secret activities, creating many difficulties for the investigation and investigation work.
After the 2014 murder of the "Almighty God" cult in Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province, Wen Jinlu smelled the danger and gave the believers of the "Ecological Park" a "holiday" for 26 months, letting them go out to work in an attempt to divert the attention of the public security organs.
In the face of such cunning criminals, in order to thoroughly find out the internal composition of the "Sun Moon Qigong" cult and collect criminal evidence, the police, centered on the "Ecological Garden" and the "Defu Temple," conducted long-term secret tracking and in-depth investigation, and finally grasped the relevant evidence of Wen Jinlu and the cult's suspected illegal and criminal activities!
At 1:00 a.m. on April 8, 2017, the Henan Provincial Public Security Department unified its command, dispatched more than 1,600 police forces, and arrested key believers throughout the province!
Before the operation, the special case team formulated a number of detailed plans to ensure that the arrest operation was foolproof. Many police officers handling the case have insomnia, seeing that this case that has been tracked for many years is finally going to be closed, and the tension and excitement in their hearts cannot be expressed!
"As soon as I lay down, all the plans went through my mind like a movie." Guo Jun, head of the case investigation office of the Henan Provincial Public Security Department, said, "In the end, I determined that it would be seamless and there would be no problem!"
The precise layout of the "Eco Park" drawn by the task force
"Go this, go this, go this, go up!"
On the day of the operation, when night fell, the police quietly sneaked into the manor, went straight to the main building, and broke the door into the bedroom area where Wenjin Road and its close followers lived. At this time, a fat man had already risen from the bed, and was frightened to shrink his hands and fall back on the bed again.
"Don't move! The police! What's your name?"
"Called... Winkin Road. ”
Arrest Wen Jinlu, the leader of the "Sun Moon Qigong" cult organization
In this operation, the police arrested a total of 174 people involved in the case, of which 26 key personnel were all arrested, a large number of physical certificates were seized at the scene, 14 luxury vehicles such as Mercedes-Benz and Buick were seized, and 5.17 million yuan in cash was seized.
At this point, this cult organization that had been committing evil for many years was finally successfully destroyed by the police.
Backbone adherents of the "Sun Moon Qigong" cult in 12 prefectures and cities in Henan were arrested at the same time
From the filing and investigation of the case, to the unified implementation of the arrest, and then to the transfer for prosecution, the investigation and trial process of the case lasted for two years. During the two years, the police handling the case overcame many difficulties, fought with the criminal suspects, and trekked through mountains and rivers to collect witness testimony, traveling tens of thousands of kilometers.
Investigator Officer Yuan, during the handling of the project, there was a shadow in the lungs, and the doctor repeatedly urged him to rush to hospitalization, but in order not to affect the progress of the case, Officer Yuan dragged his tired body to infuse every night, and the next day as usual, the case was handled as usual, fortunately, in the end there was no danger.
In view of the fact that the vast majority of believers in this case were deceived by Wen Jinlu and others to participate in cult activities, at the beginning of the investigation of the case, the special case team determined a criminal policy of "blending leniency with severity." Now, thanks to the efforts of the public security organs and the help of the local government, the vast majority of deceived believers have returned to normal life.
"Except for Wen Jinlu and a very small number of core backbones, the vast majority of believers are victims." Hu Rongqi, member of the Standing Committee of the Kaifeng Municipal CPC Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Kaifeng City, Henan Province, was the person in charge of the case. He introduced: "Uniting, educating, and saving the overwhelming majority and cracking down on a very small minority according to law" is the basic policy of the party and the state to guard against and handle the issue of cults.
"In the process of handling this case, we have always adhered to this principle, not only enabling Wen Jinlu and others to be cracked down according to law, but also helping all the ordinary believers who have been deceived to be transformed and liberated, and returning to society, achieving a high degree of unity of political, legal and social effects."
"If you could distinguish between right and wrong when choosing the path of life, or leave early when you found that everything was not right, it would not be the situation today..." The number one backbone, Gao Lihong, completely woke up.
Thinking that his youth of more than 20 years was wrongly paid to a ridiculous "master", not only to take his own happiness, but also to kill many innocent people, Goryeo Hong was full of regret. "Liar! Big liar! If the years could go back, I would never believe him, I would definitely work well, live well, and run a good family..."