The Purefire Foundation
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When material belonging to Jane Hurley-Cross was uncovered in the mid 1990s a number of AMG ADA practitioners banded together to form the 'Purefire Foundation', dedicated to advancing her work. The leaders of the group were Steve Epworth and Carla Spenning.
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The Foundation enlisted a circle of about fifteen people and embarked on an ambitious program to develop AMG ADA into a recognized mode of Western magick. Its main strategy was to take AMG ADA to the internet in order to bring it to a wider audience.
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Like other occult organisations, however, it was quickly made dysfunctional through in-fighting and the contest of egos. Taking AMG ADA to the internet also tended to attract characters whose influence was disruptive and unhelpful.
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In 2003 Steve Epworth - a very accomplished occultist, an acknowledged expert on sex magick, and the main inspiration behind the Foundation - tragically died of a drug overdose. Carla Spenning took over for a short while but soon the Foundation's work went into recess and was eventually discontinued.
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The legacy of the Foundation, finally, was to act as a collection point for many diverse strands of information about AMG ADA. It failed to meet nearly all its objectives but it brought together and gave new impetus to the drive to develop the Magica Fraxinus as a viable alternative system of Western sexual magick.
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