IMAGO: Body. Vision. Magick.
In his groundbreaking work, Robert Allen restores the image to its rightful place at the heart of the Western esoteric tradition. He argues that the careful relation of image, vision and understanding holds the power to opening the portals to a magickal practice which is both initiatory and transformative. Imago investigates the root of the magical tradition in early Neoplatonism, especially their use of images as magical symbols of transformation and shows how these ideas permeate the practice of radical avant-garde theater artists like August Strindberg and Heiner Müller. Drawing on the work of occultists like Aleister Crowley and Austin Spare as well as poets and radical artists, Robert Allen discusses the awesome power of the images and develops a practical step-by-step guide to vision magick as a foundation for all esoteric practice. Divided into chapters which themselves constitute a journey into how the magickal imagination can be rehabilitated, IMAGO is intended to function as a very real initiation into the nature of the imaginative process itself.
Features an exclusive foreword by Richard Smoley, incl. 4 full color original illustrations of the 4 elements by Constance DuQuette, 192 pages, 165×235 mm, printed on high quality wood-free Lessebo Design smooth natural paper (115gsm), Surbalin endpapers, rounded spine.
Cloth Hardcover Edition
Bound in quality fine cloth, front embossing/print, lettering on spine, headbands, ribbon,
Limited to 730 copies,
Auric Edition
Limited to 44 slip-cased copies only, fully hand-bound in fine leather. These exemplars are further divided into 4 individual groups of 11 copies, according to the 4 elements illustrated in the book. This means your copy will be 1 of only 11 copies whereby the color of the leather matches the elemental color and the color of the embossing its activating complementary color:
11 copies dedicated to Earth (green leather with red embossing)
11 copies dedicated to Air (yellow leather with violet embossing)
11 copies dedicated to Water (blue leather with orange embossing)
11 copies dedicated to Fire (red leather with green embossing)
Each copy is hand-numbered and includes an additional page signed and sigilized by the author,
