Its members studied esoteric subjects from lectures, plays and correspondence material prepared by George Alexander Sullivan.
[2] The group's headquarters near Christchurch was a wooden building named the Ashrama Hall, completed in 1936 in the garden of a house owned by Catherine Emily Chalk, who probably also started the original meetings in the pub.
Sabina Magliocco,[3] in her examination of the influences of the study of folklore on the development of Wicca, considers it possible that by the late 1930s some members of the Crotona Fellowship were performing Wicca-like rituals based on Co-Masonry, and that this was the group referred to by Gerald Gardner as the 'New Forest Coven'.
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.
[4] A significant minority among students of Alice Bailey's Arcane School were members of the Crotona Fellowship.