Kerry Raymond Bolton (born 1956) is a New Zealand writer and political activist noted for his national-socialist ideology. He has written numerous publications focused around social credit, politics, ethnicity, metaphysics, religion, and the occult, particularly Freemasonry (his 2006 doctoral dissertation was From Knights Templar to New World Order: Occult Influences in History – an examination of theories), Christianity and Catholic social doctrine (Faith of Europe), among other topics.
Bolton was educated at Hutt Valley Technical College, in Lower Hutt.
Bolton has published and edited several newsletters such as The Nexus, Western Destiny, and Restoration. He founded the Order of the Left Hand Path (OLHP) in 1992, following a quarrel with other members of the Temple of Set. The Order of the Left Hand Path was a study group based around the ideas of Nietzsche, Jung, and Spengler, with some symbolic trappings. Two years later it was renamed the Ordo Sinistra Vivendi ("Order of the Left Way"), and then the Order of Deorc Fyre under the direction of Thorsten Moar, and in the same year created the Black Order. It claimed to have a network of national lodges in six European countries plus Australia and the U.S. It was intended to be an activist front promoting an "occult-fascist axis" by mobilising political groups and youth culture elements such as industrial music. Bolton created and edited the Black Order newsletter, The Flaming Sword, and its successor,The Nexus, a journal that focused largely on the politically heretical with special attention given to figures from neo-völkisch movements like Savitri Devi, Julius Evola, and Ezra Pound, and which especially catered to the 'Black heavy-metal' movement. It later changed its name to Western Destiny.