IMAGO: Body. Vision. Magick. by Robert H. Allen is a practical and visionary guide to the magical power of images. It begins from a central premise: that image, vision, and imagination are not secondary ornaments of esoteric practice, but living forces through which the magician perceives, enchants, shapes, and transforms reality.
Allen restores the image to its rightful place at the heart of the Western esoteric tradition. Drawing from early Neoplatonism, ceremonial magic, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, poetry, radical art, and avant-garde theatre, he shows how images can become vehicles of initiation, ritual transformation, and embodied spiritual experience.
Rather than treating the imagination as escape or fantasy, IMAGO presents it as a disciplined magical faculty. Through a practical step-by-step approach to vision magick, Allen guides the reader into methods of attention, embodiment, symbolic perception, and creative ritual work. The book is intended not only to be read, but to be entered: a journey into the imaginal process itself.
What makes IMAGO especially compelling is the breadth of its author’s experience. Robert H. Allen has been a practicing ceremonial magician for more than half a century. His work brings together the worlds of occultism, fine art, physical theatre, choreography, yoga, visionary art practice, and magical pedagogy, creating a rare bridge between ritual, body, image, and performance.
IMAGO is for magicians, artists, performers, writers, and seekers who sense that imagination is more than invention. It is for those who wish to train vision as a magical faculty, work consciously with symbols and images, and discover how the body itself can become a vessel of sorcery, ritual presence, and transformation.
The author: Robert H. Allen has been a practicing ceremonial magician for more than half a century; his life in magick began when he was 13 years old. In his late teens, he joined the Ordo Templi Orientis under the direction of Kenneth Grant, which is currently known as the Ordo Typhonis. He is also a senior member of the Temple of the Silver Star (TOTSS), a Golden Dawn patterned Thelemic Order, and an Instructor for the TOTSS academic track. In addition, Robert is an Initiate of the Jane Wolfe lineage of Aleister Crowley’s A.˙. A.˙.
Bibliographic details:
- 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 (In stock)
- bound in quality fine cloth,
- front embossing/print, lettering on spine, headbands, ribbon,
- Limited to 730 copies,
- 69,- EUR (+ shipping and incl. VAT where applicable).
Auric Edition (SOLD OUT)
- 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,
