[3][11][12] It claimed to have a network of national lodges in six European countries plus Australia and the U.S.[3] It was intended to be an activist front promoting an "occult-fascist axis" by mobilising political groups and youth culture elements such as industrial music.
[3] In 1996, Bolton formed The Thelemic Society which blended rightist politics with the teachings of the English occultist Aleister Crowley and the philosophy of the German thinker Friedrich Nietzsche.
[13] Bolton was a co-founder of the Nationalist Workers' Party,[3] and was briefly secretary for the New Zealand Fascist Union in 1997,[14] in which he promoted the 'patriotic socialism' of 1930s Labour hero John A.
[21] In 2021, the University of Otago student magazine Critic Te Ārohi reported that Bolton is in regular contact with the white supremacist organisation Action Zealandia.
[25][26][27] The thesis, titled "Dreamers of the Dark: Kerry Bolton and the Order of the Left Hand Path; a Case-study of a Satanic/Neo Nazi Synthesis", dealt with the link between neo-Nazi and satanic beliefs in New Zealand.
[25][20] After criticism from the Tertiary Education Union,[28] Vice Chancellor Crawford issued a one-page letter stating that the thesis was sound because it had been externally examined by "two well qualified academics".
[29] In December 2009, Bolton filed a complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority concerning the Ideas programme on Radio New Zealand National, which featured Marxist poet and sociologist Scott Hamilton.