Jane Hurley-Cross
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Jane Hurley-Cross (1931-1986) - aka Jane Hurley, Jane Cross, Jasmine Hurley, Jasmine Cross , or Janey Cross, Jun Hua, etc. - was a Hawaiian born part-Chinese natural healer who, more than anyone else, was responsible for developing and advancing AMG ADA in a modern form. She was trained in traditional Chinese herbalism and acupuncture and was an early advocate of aromatherapy. She claimed to have been taught secrets of Taoist alchemy by her gandfather who had originally come from the Souchow district in China and fled the revolution in 1949.
She was an active advocate of women's rights and natural health in San Francisco during the mid and late 1960s, and it was at this time that she encountered the nascent forms of AMG ADA through a European immigrant named Aldophus Hauschka. Her partner was the Jewish alternative therapist Joel Silverback, an expert on Jungian and Reichean psychotherapy. They pioneered the Magica Fraxinus with Hurley-Cross leading a 'Purefire Circle' that conducted extensive experimentation in the methods of Purefire magick. which she tended to interpret through the lens of Chinese sexual alchemy.
She led the 'Purefire Circle' through protracted magickal 'wars' against other claimants to the AMG ADA system, in particular a group of disaffected Satanists who had once associated with Anton LaVey. At first, in the context of the sexual revolution sweeping West Coast counter-culture, she promoted AMG ADA publicly as a type of 'Western tantra' but later became more cautious and pursued the system privately with her followers. She was instrumental in giving shape to AMG ADA as a coherent magickal system, even though she was less inclined to embrace its neopagan forms than many of her own followers. It is likely that she conducted the magickal rites that were the inspiration of the 'Songs of Volvizia' although we can be certain that she was not the author of the songs.
She died in an automobile accident in 1986. A cache of her audio tapes and notebooks from her teaching sessions came to light in the mid 1990s leading to the creation of the short-lived 'Purefire Foundation' that aimed to continue her work. She remains the most influential modern exponent of the Magica Fraxinus.
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