Charles Walker

The Charles Walker Collectionof

Mystery, Myth and Magic

ACUPUNCTUREAFRICAN ARTEFACTS AND MAGICAGES OF MANALBEROBELLOALCHEMYALPHABETS (MAGICAL)AMULETSANGELSANIMALS (BIRDS, FISH AND BEASTS)ANTHROPOSOPHYARTHURIANAROMATHERAPYASTRAL AND ETHERICASTROLOGY: AMERICAN (USA) ASTROLOGY ARABIC ASTROLOGY ASTROLABES ASTROLOGERS ASTROLOGY (GENERAL) BRITISH ASTROLOGY CALENDARS CHARTS (see HOROSCOPES) CHINESE ASTROLOGY COMETS CONSTELLATIONS ECLIPSES EGYPTIAN ASTROLOGY ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY FRENCH ASTROLOGY GENERAL ASTROLOGY HIEROGLYPHIC PLATES HOROLOGIA HOROSCOPES ITALIAN ASTROLOGY LABOURS OF THE MONTH MONTHS OBSERVATORIES PLANETS (GENERAL) PLANETS – EARTH PLANETS – SUN PLANETS – MOON PLANETS – MERCURY PLANETS – VENUS PLANETS – MARS PLANETS – JUPITER PLANETS – SATURN PLANETS – URANUS PLANETS – NEPTUNE PLANETS – PLUTO SIGILS (ASTROLOGICAL ONLY) SPANISH ASTROLOGY SPHERES STARS (see CONSTELLATIONS) SWISS ASTROLOGY ZODIAC MEN ZODIACS ZODIAC SIGNS (MIXED) ZODIAC SIGNS – ARIES ZODIAC SIGNS – TAURUS ZODIAC SIGNS – GEMINI ZODIAC SIGNS – CANCER ZODIAC SIGNS – LEO ZODIAC SIGNS – VIRGO ZODIAC SIGNS – LIBRA ZODIAC SIGNS – SCORPIO ZODIAC SIGNS – SAGITTARIUS ZODIAC SIGNS – CAPRICORN ZODIAC SIGNS – AQUARIUS ZODIAC SIGNS – PICES

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FLOWER REMEDIESFLOWERSFORTUNE STICKSFORTUNE TELLINGFRANCEFRANKENSTEINFRENCH MYTHOLOGY

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MAGIC SYMBOLSMAGICMAGICAL CLOTHINGMAGICAL RITUAL OBJECTSMAGICIANS & INVOCATIONSMAGIC SPHERESMAJORCAMALAYSIAMALTA (PREHISTORIC TEMPLES)MANDALASMAORI MYTHMASKSMASONSMASSAGEMAZESMEDICALMEDITATIONMERMAIDS & MERMENMETAMORPHIC TECHNIQUEMEXICAN ARCHAEOILOGYMEXICAN MYTHOLOGYMEXICOMINORCA (ARCHAEOLOGY)MITHRASMODERN WITCHCRAFTMONSTERSMORMONSMOSAICSMOTHER SHIPTONMOUNDSMUSIC OF SPHERESMYSTERIES NAGA ARTNATIONAL HEROESNATUROPATHYNAZCANEPALNEW AGENEWGRANGE (ARCHAEOLOGY)NORTH AMERICAN INDIANSNOSTRADAMUSNUMEROLOGY OCCULT ARTOCCULTISTSOUIJA PALMISTRYPERSONIFICATIONSPETROGLYPHSPHANTOM SHIPSPHRENOLOGYPHYSIOGNOMYPICTISHPILGRIMS PROGRESSPLAGUES AND DISEASESPLANETS – EARTHPOLTERGEISTSPOPULAR AMUSEMENTSPOLYNESIAN MYTHPRAGUEPREDICTIONPSYCHIC ARTPSYCHIC PHENOMENAPSYCHOMETRYPSYCHOKINETICSPYRAMIDOLOGY RADIESTHESIARASPUTINREBIRTHINGREFLEXOLOGYREINCARNATIONRELICS (RELIGIOUS ONLY)

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The Charles Walker Collectionof

Mystery, Myth and Magic

TopFoto.co.uk is proud to announce exclusive worldwide

representation of The Charles Walker Collection.

The Charles Walker Collection is the world’s largest

archive relating to the occult, magical, esoteric, mystical

and mythological traditions. On file are 100,000 pictures

classified under 400 subject headings. The collection

represents 25 years dedicated personal research by

Charles Walker whose detailed knowledge is evident in

the authorative captions accompanying the images. His

academic specialisations are the history of astrology,

the history of Magical Sigils and the collection itself. He

has published a number of books on arcane themes.

The images are being scanned and are available at

www.TopFoto.co.uk


Alchemy

This collection includes images of alchemists at work, along with

alchemical instruments, and laboratory systems. Alchemy as the puffers art and alchemy as the spiritual science of inner development are portrayed. Subjects include salamanders, mer-men, kings and queens, double-dragons (nodal dragons), green lions, ouroboros serpents, androgynes, and so on. The alchemical imagery and diagrams used so widely in Rosicrucian books and manuscripts are widely available, including some rare hand-coloured prints from the Pansophus treatment of alchemical cosmologies. A certain number of Fludd diagrams, and many of the alchemical images deriving from the school of Frankfurt in the seventeenth century, including the remarkable reincarnation-images which Welling derived from van Helmont jnr.

Astrology

This comprehensive collection of images includes a large selection of mediaeval

and modern architectural zodiacs, and zodiacal details, found in European cathedrals, churches and buildings, such as Chartres, Vezelay, Paris, Sagra di San Michele, Florence and so on. Among the pictures from manuscripts and books is a selection of melothesic images (zodiacal men), the so-called ‘labours of the month’ and ‘planetary children’, hand-coloured zodiacs (both tropical and constellational), personification of planets and planetary systems, relating mainly to the Ptolemaic system, and a wide range of less traditional images, including planetary nodes (such as the Arabian zawzahr), astrolabes and other instruments. A number of portraits of well-known astrologers is also available, together with a large number of astrological diagrams, sigils and horoscopes.



Demons

An interesting range is available of

mediaeval manuscripts and hand-

coloured mediaeval prints relating to

different types of demons, including

the Dante demons, the Enochians, the

Solomonics, the Biblical demons and

dragon-demons, fallen angels and images

of the Antichrist, the succubus and incubus

and so on. Also available are mediaeval

demons in stone and metal from walls,

facades and doors of churches and

cathedrals in Europe, along with a number

of guardian demons from Far Eastern

temples. Among the images derived from

modern sources is a fine collection of

paintings by Fay Pomerance, specialising

in the Lucifer and Lilith themes, and ‘astral’

and demonic paintings by Austin Spare.


Divination

This classification includes a large

selection of Tarot cards from virtually

every period, a number of occult

divinatory diagrams, such as those used

in the popular Chinese ‘I Ching’ (Book of

Changes), including some Tai Chi and

yin-yang symbols, and dragon forms

relating to Feng Shui. In the European

tradition there are images from genuine

geomancy, and from the so-called

geomancy derived from the Chinese Feng

Shui, including some lay-line orientation

images. A few images relate to rune

magic and autoscopic devices. A selection

of mediaeval palmistic diagrams, and a

number of hand-reading images, derived

from the consulting rooms of modern

palmists, tarot-readers, cartomancers, and

so on.


Fairies and Fairytales

It is said that when they materialise

on the physical plane, fairies adopt

the traditional thought form created by

humans as their vehicle. Hence many

of the pictures in this delightful collection

appear as delicate creatures with wings.

According to the clairvoyant Gardner,

fairies are alert and observant – but have

the intelligence of a pet dog. From the

1875 edition of Richard Doyle’s Fairyland,

to the 1909 edition of Helen Stratton’s

Cherryblossom and Other Stories from

Grimm, Arthur Rackham’s wonderful

illustrations for Peter Pan, A Midsummer

Night’s Dream etc., fairies and fairytales

are well documented through paintings,

drawings, statues, stained glass windows

and wood engravings..


Herbal/medical

This specialist collection, includes

images of plants and plant-

correspondences from mediaeval sources,

some apothecary figures, skeletal charts,

bathing regimes and a few decorative

title-pages from important medical or

herbal text books. Most of the material

is linked in one way or another with the

hermetic tradition - for example, the blood-

letting charts are linked with astrological

melothesic man, and so on, while the

images of mediaeval spectacles and

eye-charts are linked with the planetary

rulerships of sun and moon. The collection

is being constantly updated by the addition

of images relating to New-Age and

Alternative medicine.


Magic Symbols

The images range from the relatively

sophisticated and specialised series

of demonic and astrological sigils, to the

more easily identified symbols from the

magical tradition such as the pentacle, the

pentagram, the seal of Solomon, Dee’s

monad, magical gems, talismans and so

on. A number of symbols derived from

the hermetic tradition, including some of

the ritual diagrams for the late Rosicrucian

movements, such as the Order of the

Golden Dawn.


Mystical sites

This collection includes a large number

of archaeologically-inspired images of

subjects linked with the Mystery Wisdom of

the past, such as the sacred sites of Egypt,

Knossos, and the oracles of Greece, etc.

Many of the important Greek and Roman

temples, theatres and religious sites are

included. The mystical sites of Europe

are well covered as, for example, in the

ancient stone circles of Britain, and pagan

cult sites such as the outcroppings at

Meteora, Green, the Externsteine stones

of Germany, the Capo da Ponte stones

in Italy and such centres as the Brimham

Rocks in England, the Aphrodite rocks

near Paphos in Cyprus, and so on.


Practical Occultism

A number of pictures of various occult

practices includes divination by means

of the I Ching, the tarot cards and ordinary

cartomancy. Images of astrologers,

radiesthesists, and palmists at work are

included in the collection - for example, a

series descriptive of making a palm print.

There is also a selection of photographs

and hand-coloured prints of esotericists,

occultists, astrologers, alchemists,

Rosicrucians, and so on. Pictures of relics

of modern witchcraft, in the form of witch-

books and ritual implements, including

skulls formerly used in black magical

praxes can be found under this section..


Witchcraft

Among the wide selection of hand-coloured mediaeval prints relating

to the supposed activities of witches – such as transvection, preparation for, and attendance at, the Sabbat, the use of magical unguents, and so on, can be found. The collection includes woodcut prints from English witchcraft trials, and a selection of images relating to sites where witchcraft flourished – for example the cities of Bamburg in Germany, Loudon and Tiffauges in France, Bottesford and Pendle in England, Pittenween in Scotland, Ephyra in Greece, etc. Included are a number of witchcraft relics, such as spells, wax images, poppets and witch bottles. Illustrations from a number of witch books, some deriving from the ‘Aradia’ tradition fostered in modern times by Gardner and Crowley, are also available, along with ritual subjects such as swords, rods, spell-books and other devices.

Michel Nostradamus, the most remarkable prophet of the late mediaeval period, was born 500 years ago in December 1503.He died in Salon, France, in July 1566, having predicted to the minute his own death and his eventual place of re-burial in 1789.He trained at Montpelier University as a doctor, and earned his living subsequently in medicine, as a writer on medicine, and as an astrologer.In 1555 he began to publish his now famous prophecies: by the end of his life, he had published over 1,000 prophecies, of these most have astounded the world by their extraordinary accuracy. These predictions were written mainly in four-line verses, called quatrains. The root language of

NOSTRADAMUS

these verses is mediaeval French, but Nostradamus wove into their structures Latin, Greek, Provençal and a secret alchemical code, called the Green Language.In the past 500 years, a good many of these prophecies have come true; however the prophecies extend well into the next 300 years, and so many are still to unfold.Among the more interesting prophetic verses are those relating to French, English and American history. For example, Nostradamus predicted the death, in a joust, of his patron, Henri II of France, the coming of the Nova in 1572, the Great Fire of London (1666), the coming of Napoleon and his dynasty, the Battle of Trafalgar, the Civil War in Spain, the dates of the opening of the Second World War, the successful landing on the Moon and the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York.

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