She was a friend and a colleague of Aleister Crowley and a founding member of Agape Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis in Southern California.
[3] Aged 19, Wolfe attended Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie to prepare for stenographic work and met her first flame, a Spaniard from Puerto Rico.
[4] As a young girl, Wolfe went to New York City to pursue a career in the theatre but soon became involved with acting in the fledgling motion picture industry.
She made her film debut in 1910 at the age of 35 with Kalem Studios in A Lad from Old Ireland under the direction of Sidney Olcott.
[7] Until about 1920, Wolfe co-starred in more than 90 films, after which her acting career ended following her move to Cefalù where she resided with Crowley, studying Thelema and magick.
She undertook various practises including yoga, dharana, and pranayama of which she kept a detailed record which was published in 2008 by the Temple of the Silver Star as The Cefalu Diaries.
[8] It was the custom at the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu, where Wolfe came to stay, to allow Aspirants three days as a guest as an aid in general orientation.
Wolfe discovered the little town of Cefalu which was only about half a mile from the "Villa Santa Barbara" which had become The Abbey of Thelema.
The Abbey residents spent many hours climbing it for exercise and meditation, observing its overall shape, lofty peak high in the sky and its large base.
Her daily routine consisted of performance of Liber Resh which was said four times a day, with all occupants of the Abbey participating unless they were ill.
During the last week of her retreat, Wolfe added a number of new asanas to her yoga practise which she performed daily in the nude on the beach.
On June 6, 1940, Wolfe took Phyllis Seckler as her student, making her a Probationer of the A∴A∴, which later started up the Soror Estai A∴A∴ lineage.
[10] After not appearing on screen for 17 years, in 1937 Jane Wolfe had a small role in a B-movie titled Under Strange Flags.
[citation needed] Starting in May 1937 Wolfe taught Dramatics and Speech Development on the evening theatrical course in Pasadena.