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The Master Therion Speaks!

Restored wax cylinder recordings of Aleister Crowley, and other content
from archive.org

An attempt at restoring the surviving voice recordings of Aleister Crowley, drawn primarily from rare wax-cylinder sessions of the early 1910s and 1920s, later transferred to 78 RPM discs. These fragments--scratchy, fragile, and historically invaluable--capture Crowley reading selections from his own works, including The Gnostic Mass, and offer a rare auditory glimpse into the cadence and character of the infamous occultist's voice. Though the recordings are exceedingly scarce, they remain essential artifacts for anyone studying Crowley's life, writings, and ritual practice.

While the audio has been cleaned and enhanced where possible, its quality inevitably reflects the limitations of early 20th-century wax-cylinder technology.

Among the most notable items is a rare 1920 wax-cylinder recording made in London, in which Crowley reads passages from The Gnostic Mass--a demonstration of early audio technology pressed into service to capture his voice for posterity.

  1. The Call of the 1st Aethyr (Enochian) (2.5Mb)
  2. The Call of the 1st Aethyr (English) (1.4Mb)
  3. The Call of the 2nd Aethyr (Enochian) (1.7Mb)
  4. The Call of the 2nd Aethyr (English) (1Mb)
  5. La Gitana (2.8Mb)
  6. The Pentagram (1.3Mb)
  7. One Sovereign for the Woman (0.9Mb)
  8. The Poet (0.8Mb)
  9. At Sea (2Mb)
  10. The Fingernails (0.7Mb)
  11. The Titanic (1.9Mb)
  12. Hymn to the American People (2.7Mb)
  13. Excerpt from the Gnostic Mass (1.2Mb)
  14. Vive La French Republic (2.8Mb)
  15. Thelema, A Tone Testament (1.2Mb)
  16. La Gitana (0.9Mb)
  17. from The Book of the Law (1.4Mb)
  18. The Significance of 666 Beast's Number (CFNY '81) (1.7Mb)
  19. Boleskine House (Jimmy Page/Aleister Crowley) (10.4Mb)
  20. The Evil in Aleister Crowley's Boleskine House (5.5Mb)
  21. Boleskine House destroyed by fire (0.3Mb)
  22. Dawn at Loch Ness (7.8Mb)
  23. Boleskine (4.2Mb)
  24. Woodpecker (2.3Mb)
  25. Boleskine forest brook (3.7Mb)
  26. Foyers Power Station (4Mb)
  27. Boleskine House, Flooded Basement (8.1Mb)
  28. The Beast of Boleskine (BBC Radio Scotland Documentary) (16.6Mb)

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