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=== Cosmic child ===
In June 1981, Di Mambro, then 57, began an affair with then 21-year-old Dominique Bellaton. He later claimed to receive a revelation from the "masters" that Bellaton would produce a "cosmic child" through theogamy.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=220}}{{Efn|Referring to the concept of conceiving a child through divine intervention without sexual relations.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=220}}}} About that time, Jouret founded the Amenta Club (later renamed simply Amenta, then Atlanta).{{sfn|Introvigne|2006|p=29}} In 1982, Di Mambro announced that a "great mission" awaited the foundation. He also announced that a "child-king" was to be born into the community.{{sfn|Morath|Lemasson|2023a|loc=20:40–21:00}} Di Mambro had actually impregnated Dominique Bellaton, a former manicurist, who was well known in Geneva and had previously had several affairs with businessmen.{{sfn|Labelle|2006|p=160}}{{sfn|Introvigne|2006|p=36}} Di Mambro claimed that this child's conception was created from the power of his mind and [[Immaculate Conception]].{{sfn|Labelle|2006|p=160}}{{sfn|Palmer|1996|p=310}}

Their child, initially named Anne Bellaton, was born on 22 March 1982.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=220}}{{sfn|Labelle|2006|p=160}} The child was viewed as "the Christ of the new generation",{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=220}} but was born female, something attributed by Di Mambro to human imperfection (believing the child's mother being human had led to an imperfect Christ).{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=221}} Di Mambro claimed the child was an Avatar, a male soul trapped in a female body. She was then renamed Emmanuelle (the male version, Emmanuel, being [[Jesus]]'s messianic name), but was referred to with male pronouns.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=221}}{{sfn|Labelle|2006|p=160}} He required Emmanuelle to wear gloves and a helmet to protect her purity as the "cosmic child", who he considered the "messiah-avatar" of the planet's new age.{{sfn|Lewis|2004|p=302}}