Composer Eugene "Goossens arrived in Australia in 1947 to take up his position as the first permanent conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and director of the New South Wales State Conservatorium. However, by the early 1950s, after several years of working with musicians at the Conservatorium, he had become bored by his work routines. Some time in late 1952 or early 1953 he discovered a copy of The Art of Rosaleen Nortonin a gallery bookshop, and it immediately rekindled his earlier interest in paganism and magic. Goossens wrote to Norton, expressing admiration for both the book and her artistic work, and she invited him round to her Brougham Street flat for an introductory discussion over a cup of tea. The conductor was fascinated by Norton’s authentic approach to paganism and soon a close friendship began to develop. Goossens had been working regularly in rehearsal rooms just a few minutes’ walk away from Brougham Street, so it was easy for him to maintain close contact. Not surprisingly, Goossens soon became a frequent visitor to Norton’s flat and a member of the small magical group that would meet periodically to discuss magical ideas and perform rituals sacred to Pan.

Goossens’ close personal relationship with Norton soon acquired a sexual intensity that expressed itself both through magical ritual and also erotic photography. ‘We have many rituals and indulgences to undertake.’ The conductor wrote in one of his letters, ‘...and I want to take more photos.’ However Goossens did not anticipate that his passionate and erotic interests would plunge him into a career-shattering crisis on 9 March 1956, when he returned to Sydney’s Mascot Airport on a flight from London. He was now officially Sir Eugene Goossens, having received his knighthood a few months earlier, and he was apparently unaware that a group of detectives and Customs officers had already gathered at the Airport to apprehend him. Alerted by Vice Squad detective A.H. ‘Bert’ Trevenar, the Customs officials at the airport anticipated that Goossens would be carrying with him a large amount of allegedly pornographic material, and when they searched his luggage they discovered over 800 erotic photographs, a spool of film, and also some ritual masks and incense sticks.Goossens was subsequently officially charged under Section 233 of the Customs Act, which prohibited the possession or importation of ‘blasphemous, indecent or obscene works or articles’."

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"During the 1950s and ‘60s the Australian trance occultist and visionary artist Rosaleen Norton was well known in Sydney as ‘the Witch of Kings Cross’ and she was portrayed in the popular media as a colourful and ‘wicked’ bohemian figure from Sydney’s red-light district. In Kings Cross most people knew Rosaleen Norton simply as ‘Roie’. The Roie I remember – I met her just once, in 1977 – was slight in build, with dark and rather untidy curly hair, quick darting eyes and mysterious arched eyebrows. During the 1950s she had become famous – perhaps one should say notorious – as an eccentric and bohemian practitioner of witchcraft. She wore flamboyant blouses, puffed on an engraved cigarette holder, and produced bizarre fantasy paintings which had a distinct touch of the pagan and demonic about them. This was of course a time when a rather prudish and puritanical mentality prevailed in Australia and society in general was by no means as culturally diverse or as tolerant as it is today. The public at large was astounded by Roie’s risqué paintings and drawings which depicted naked hermaphroditic beings, phalluses transforming into serpents, and passionate encounters with black panthers."

Rosaleen Norton began to drop out of the public eye in the 1960s. In the June 15, 1967 issue of Australasian Post, journalist Dave Barnes gives an account of a visit to the reclusive witch. He described how he and a colleague started their search for her at the flat she had occupied at the height of her fame in the 1950s, questioned some unhelpful locals, and eventually located her front door through which they dropped a request for her to ring their office so an interview could be arranged. The following day they were invited into Rosaleen's dark room, adorned with "giggling masks, a Satan statue, gongs and strikers, snakes and growing creepers". They found her in a cheerful mood, playing up her reputation for all it was worth. As they reported "She produced a little box and said 'look, these are real bat's feet, there are not many of them about and I wear them for ear-rings, attractive aren't they?'

She told them she enjoyed TV shows like The Munsters, The Addams Family and Bewitched, suggesting that the shows may actually be true. She was particularly interested in how the journalists tracked her down, and at what time. Puzzled, they told her they left their office just before 4pm and dropped the message through her door at 4.45pm. This made her laugh. Later, back in their office, they found that Rosaleen's call in answer had been logged in at 4pm the previous day - before they had actually delivered their message.