23 Facts About Jane Wolfe

Sarah Jane Wolfe was an American silent film character actress who is considered an important female figure in Thelema.

Jane Wolfe was a friend and a colleague of Aleister Crowley and a founding member of Agape Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis in Southern California.

Jane Wolfe's grandfather Bill was a very busy man as he raised nearly all the family.

Jane Wolfe's grandmother worked hard in the kitchen and turned out delicious Pennsylvania Dutch treats for the family.

When Jane Wolfe was eight years old the family lived at McKnightstown, only four miles from their grandfather's farm which Jane Wolfe used to visit to spend time with grandfather Bill, cuddling him, as he grew weaker in old age.

Aged 19, Jane Wolfe attended Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie to prepare for stenographic work and met her first flame, a Spaniard from Puerto Rico.

Jane Wolfe made her film debut in 1910 at the age of 35 with Kalem Studios in A Lad from Old Ireland under the direction of Sidney Olcott.

In 1911, Jane Wolfe was part of the Kalem Company's crew in New York City who relocated to the company's new production facilities in Hollywood.

Jane Wolfe went on to become one of the leading character actors of the decade, appearing in more than one hundred films including an important secondary role in the 1917 film Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Jane Wolfe used the Ouija board beginning in 1917, when it first came to her attention.

Jane Wolfe credited some of her greatest spiritual communications to the use of this implement.

Jane Wolfe then tried Pranayama for some time, and had a yoga teacher for about three weeks but found this unsatisfactory.

Until about 1920, Jane Wolfe co-starred in more than 90 films, after which her acting career ended following her move to Cefalu where she resided with Crowley, studying Thelema and magick.

Jane Wolfe often expressed her wish to direct a film about magic and Thelema in subsequent years.

In 1918, at the age of 43, Jane Wolfe began corresponding with Aleister Crowley, and two years later she gave up her career in Hollywood to join Crowley at his Abbey of Thelema at Cefalu, Sicily, living there from 1920 until it closed in 1923.

Jane Wolfe undertook various practises including yoga, dharana, and pranayama of which she kept a detailed record which was published in 2008 by the Temple of the Silver Star as The Cefalu Diaries.

Jane Wolfe had come there to receive some training in yoga and in magick and to discover her True Will.

Jane Wolfe discovered the little town of Cefalu which was only about half a mile from the "Villa Santa Barbara" which had become The Abbey of Thelema.

Jane Wolfe's body demanded more than this, and many times she had to succumb or have a nap during the day.

Jane Wolfe worked with Crowley's Thelemic system of training in Cefalu for three years, and emerged from those years with a degree of attainment, having survived Crowley's ordeals.

Jane Wolfe later worked as Crowley's personal representative in London and Paris.

From 1938 Jane Wolfe served as a chairman of the Cultural Arts Program of Los Feliz Women's Club, chairman of the Drama Section of the same club, and a chairman of the Observers' Club.

Jane Wolfe died on March 29,1958, in the Southern California city of Glendale eight days after her 83rd birthday.