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The Fellowship of the Rosy Cross was founded in 1916 by A. E. Waite (1857-1952), best known for
creating the Rider-Waite tarot deck as well as being one of the foremost esoteric scholars of his time.


Arthur Edward Waite

The order was established in England in 1916, where there remains a Temple.

It was transported to NZ in 1992, in Christchurch. There are now meeting places in Hawke's Bay,
Wellington, Christchurch and in Melbourne, Australia.