Aleister Crowley’s Pacific and Australian Correspondence Networks

Record summary

Aleister Crowley’s writings and the Ordo Templi Orientis circulated internationally, including through English-speaking readers and correspondence networks in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century. The lead can help compare ceremonial magic, sexual mysticism, and the role of mail-order occult publishing in geographically distant communities. It should be investigated through surviving letters, periodicals, and O.T.O. records rather than assumptions based on later Australian occult groups. A documented Australian lodge or visit in this period should not be presumed without verification.