The Black Order was founded in New Zealand by
Kerry Bolton as a successor to the Order of the Left Hand Path. Bolton had connections to other
Neo-Nazi Satanist groups, being the international distributor for the English-based
Order of Nine Angles. According to Goodrick-Clarke, "in 1994 Bolton set up the Black Order, which claimed a global network of national lodges in
Britain,
France,
Italy,
Finland,
Sweden,
Germany, the
United States of America and
Australia, dedicated to fostering
National Socialism,
fascism,
satanism,
paganism and other aspects of the European Darkside". Its quarterly membership bulletin
The Flaming Sword and its successor
zine The Nexus contained interviews with, among others,
James Mason,
George Eric Hawthorne,
Michael Moynihan,
David Myatt and
Miguel Serrano, and its articles included studies of Thulianism,
Himmler's Wewelsburg, tributes to old
SS leaders, "a reprint of the ONA Mass of Heresy [and] contributions from David Myatt on the galactic empire, aeonic strategy and the cosmological magic of National Socialism". In 1996, a U.S. branch of the Black Order was established. In summer that year, they began the publication of a magazine,
Abyss. The U.S. group subsequently fell out with New Zealand's branch over the latter's acceptance of homosexual members. The U.S. group considered a name change to the White Order as a result of this schism. The name "Black Order" was then adopted by ideologically similar groups around the world which had no formal connection to Bolton's group. Kaplan and Weinberg described the Black Order as "a remarkably influential purveyor of National Socialist-oriented occultism throughout the world". ==References==