Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship

The Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship was a supposedly-Rosicrucian group founded by George Alexander Sullivan in about 1924. It may have existed under the name Order of Twelve from 1911-1914 and again from 1920. The ROCF operated first from the Liverpool area of England and then after the mid-1930s from the Christchurch area. Its members studied esoteric subjects from lectures, plays and correspondence material prepared by George Alexander Sullivan.

The group’s headquarters near Christchurch was a wooden building named the Ashrama Hall, completed in 1936. In 1938, on the same land, the group built the Christchurch Garden Theatre, which called itself The First Rosicrucian Theater in England. It presented mystically-themed plays during June-September 1938.

The numbers attending Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship events always were small, and the group is best known today for its association with Gerald Gardner and Peter Caddy. Following the death of George Alexander Sullivan in 1942, the group’s activities and membership diminished.

See also

• Rosicrucian