Book Discussion Demons of Magick by Gordon Winterfield

[mike]

Has anyone used the rituals in this book? If so what was your experience like? I am looking for alternative ways of working with goetic Spirits and this book seems to have a lot of good reviews. So I'm very curious about it.

 

[dzb10035]

I have used the rituals in this book extensively. Mostly rituals 1-2, but I have used ritual 3 once or twice. Regardless of the ritual you choose in this book, I think the core method is solid and works very well. I have gotten some very powerful results from this book, even though the spiritual "noise" you get from this book is much lower compared to the traditional Goetia methods. In my opinion, it is safe and effective with a lot of good information packed into it.

Imho, the ritual techniques (e.g. evocation keys, words of power) by themselves are worth buying the book for since you can even strip those out from the book in order to create your own custom methods for calling the Goetic spirits. Of course, the rituals in the book are more than sufficient for this purpose. So yes, I fully recommend this book based on my own experiences. It is easily one of the best books that GoM has been out there from there side.

 

[Promise]

I've done some work with the "empowered" version of the book available through Damon Brand's Patreon. In that version you need to do a brief connection ritual with a demon before doing any of the rituals 1,2, or 3. Those rituals are the same but with enhanced sigils. The empowered version also has 1 or 2 additional powers per demon. I've primarily used Ritual 2. I like ritual 1 a lot but it takes longer, and is less convenient. Still, super streamlined compared to traditional.