The Charles Walker Collection of Mystery, Myth and Magic

THE CHARLES WALKER COLLECTION LIST OF CATEGORIES

ACUPUNCTURE AFRICAN ARTEFACTS AND MAGIC AGES OF MAN ALBEROBELLO ALCHEMY ALPHABETS (MAGICAL) AMULETS ANGELS ANIMALS (BIRDS, FISH AND BEASTS) ANTHROPOSOPHY ARTHURIAN AROMATHERAPY ASTRAL AND ETHERIC ASTROLOGY: 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 AUTOMATA AURA AUTOMATIC WRITING BABYLONIAN MYTHS BARROWS BEAUTY TREATMENTS BELGIUM BIOENERGY BLACK MAGIC BLACK VIRGIN BRITAIN BRITISH MYTHS BUDDHISM BURMESE MYTHS CABBALA CANDLE MAGIC CARTOMANCY CATHARS & ALBIGENSIANS CATS (included in ANIMALS) CAVE ART CELTIC CELTIC HEADS CHAKRAS CHINA CHINESE MYTHOLOGY CHRISTIAN CLAIRVOYANCE CLOWNS AND JESTERS COLOUR THERAPY CONJURING (see also STAGE MAGIC) CORN CIRCLES CORN DOLLIES CROWLEY (ALEISTER) CRYSTALS AND CRYSTAL GAZING CRYSTAL HEALING CURSES CYPRUS DEMONS DEATH DEATH FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD DEATH AFTER DEATH EXPERIENCE DICE AND GAMBLING DISASTERS DIVINATION IN GENERAL DOLMEN DOPPLEGANGER DOWSING DOWSING PENDULUMS DRACULA DRAGONS DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES DRUIDS EARTH MAGIC EARTH MOTHER EASTER ISLAND EGYPT EGYPTIAN MYTHS ELEMENTS & ELEMENTALS EROTIC ART EXORCISM FAIRIES FAIRYSTORIES FANTASY FENG SHUI FESTIVALS & CUSTOMS FIRE FIRE WALKING FLAGS (NATIONAL) FLOWER REMEDIES FLOWERS FORTUNE STICKS FORTUNE TELLING FRANCE FRANKENSTEIN FRENCH MYTHOLOGY GAMES GARGOYLES GEMS AND STONES GEOMANCY GERMANY GHOSTS GHOSTLY DOGS & BLACK DOGS GIANTS GLASTONBURY GOLDEN DAWN (ORDER OF) GOTHIC GRAPHOLOGY GRAVEYARDS GREECE GREEK MYTHOLOGY GREEK ORTHODOX GREEN MAN GRIMOIRES HALLUCINATIONS HAUNTINGS & HAUNTED PLACES HEAD HUNTERS HEALTH HELL HERALDRY HERBAL MANUSCRIPTS HERB GARDENS HERBS, SPICES, PLANTS HILL FIGURES HINDUISM HOLY MEN HOMOEOPATHY HONG KONG HORROR HYDROTHERAPY HYPNOTISM I CHING INCENSE AND PERFUMES INCUBATION INCUBUS & SUCCUBUS INDIA INITIATION IRELAND IRIDOLOGY ISLAM ITALY JAINISM JEWISH MYTHOLOGY JOAN OF ARC KAHUNA KARLSTEIN KINESIOLOGY KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY KNIGHTS HOSPITALIERS KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN KUWAIT LEMURIA LEVITATION LEY-LINES & ORIENTATIONS LIGHT MYSTERIES LOUGHCREW (IRELAND) LYCANTROPY MAGIC SYMBOLS MAGIC MAGICAL CLOTHING MAGICAL RITUAL OBJECTS MAGICIANS & INVOCATIONS MAGIC SPHERES MAJORCA MALAYSIA MALTA (PREHISTORIC TEMPLES) MANDALAS MAORI MYTH MASKS MASONS MASSAGE MAZES MEDICAL MEDITATION MERMAIDS & MERMEN METAMORPHIC TECHNIQUE MEXICAN ARCHAEOILOGY MEXICAN MYTHOLOGY MEXICO MINORCA (ARCHAEOLOGY) MITHRAS MODERN WITCHCRAFT MONSTERS MORMONS MOSAICS MOTHER SHIPTON MOUNDS MUSIC OF SPHERES MYSTERIES NAGA ART NATIONAL HEROES NATUROPATHY NAZCA NEPAL NEW AGE NEWGRANGE (ARCHAEOLOGY) NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS NOSTRADAMUS NUMEROLOGY OCCULT ART OCCULTISTS OUIJA PALMISTRY PERSONIFICATIONS PETROGLYPHS PHANTOM SHIPS PHRENOLOGY PHYSIOGNOMY PICTISH PILGRIMS PROGRESS PLAGUES AND DISEASES PLANETS EARTH POLTERGEISTS POPULAR AMUSEMENTS POLYNESIAN MYTH PRAGUE PREDICTION PSYCHIC ART PSYCHIC PHENOMENA PSYCHOMETRY PSYCHOKINETICS PYRAMIDOLOGY RADIESTHESIA RASPUTIN REBIRTHING REFLEXOLOGY REINCARNATION RELICS (RELIGIOUS ONLY) RENNES-LE-CHATEAU ROBIN HOOD ROMAN MYTHOLOGY ROSICRUCIAN RUNES SAINTS SCIENCE FICTION & HORROR MAGS SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITIES SCREAMING SKULLS SCRYING SEANCES SEASONS SERPENT POWER SHAKESPEARE SHAMAN SHEELA-NA-GIG SICILY SIMULACRA SKULLS SNAKE CHARMERS SPACE MEN SPAIN SPHERES OF FORTUNE SPIRITUALISM SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY SPIRITUAL HEALING SPOON BENDING SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION SRI LANKA STAGE MAGIC STIGMATA STONES (INDIVIDUAL STONES & MENHIRS) STONES (CIRCLES) STONES (LOGAN STONES) STRANGE PHENOMENA SUNDIALS SUPERSTITIONS SWASTIKA SWITZERLAND SYMBOLS (ALPHABETICAL) SYNASTRY TAROT TATTOOS TEA-LEAF READING TEMPLARS TEMPLAR CAVE (ROYSTON) THEOSOPHY TITANIC TURIN SHROUD UFOs UNICORNS UNITES STATES VAMPIRES VOODOO WELLS (HOLY WELLS, &) WEREWOLVES WITCHCRAFT WITCHCRAFT SITES YOGA

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The Charles Walker Collection of 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 worlds 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

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Alchemy

his 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.

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Astrology

his 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.

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Demons

n 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.

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Divination

his 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.

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Fairies and Fairytales

t 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 Doyles Fairyland, to the 1909 edition of Helen Strattons Cherryblossom and Other Stories from Grimm, Arthur Rackhams wonderful illustrations for Peter Pan, A Midsummer Nights Dream etc., fairies and fairytales are well documented through paintings, drawings, statues, stained glass windows and wood engravings..

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Herbal/medical

his 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 bloodletting 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.

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Magic Symbols

he 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, Dees 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.

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Mystical sites

his 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.

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Practical Occultism

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 witchbooks and ritual implements, including skulls formerly used in black magical praxes can be found under this section..

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Witchcraft

mong the wide selection of handcoloured 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, spellbooks and other devices.

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N O S T R A D A M U S

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 reburial 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

these verses is mediaeval French, but Nostradamus wove into their structures Latin, Greek, Provenal 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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