Adolphus Hauschka
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Adolphus Hauschka was a European immigrant to the United States known around the fringes of the counter-culture in San Francisco in the late 1960s and 70s. Little is known about his background. It is usually said that he was of Austrian descent, but even this is uncertain.
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In any case, he was instrumental in bringing AMG ADA from Europe to America where it was picked up and explored by various counter-culture figures such as Jane Hurley-Cross and Joel Silverback. It was Hauschka who described AMG ADA to anyone who would listen to him. He is reported to have had a vast command of unwritten European pagan lore, and this included detailed descriptions of a pagan sexual magick based on the institution of 'tree marriage' and a magick associated with the sacred ash tree.
Although it seems he had once been a successful jeweller, Hauschka suffered from alcoholism and tended to be a homeless drifter. He frequented the Strawberry Hill area of San Francisco. Jane Hurley-Cross would meet him on a regular basis to probe him with questions about the occult traditions he described and would then research and test his recommendations. She became convinced that he had first-hand knowledge of a genuine tradition of occult magick. So too did others, and it was through Hauschka that AMG ADA was taken up by a group of self-proclaimed 'Satanists' who "picked his brains" for information. His tales also informed pagans who were on the fringes of what became the Feri Tradition of Wicca.
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Some people baulk at the idea that modern AMG ADA began as a set of tales told by a "drunken hobo" but there can be no doubt that these were tales of substance and not just the product of his imagination, even allowing for the likelihood that he was inclined to embellish. Practical magickal experience as well as historical research confirms the basic veracity of his claims.
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