• Hi guest! As you can see, the new Wizard Forums has been revived, and we are glad to have you visiting our site! However, it would be really helpful, both to you and us, if you registered on our website! Registering allows you to see all posts, and make posts yourself, which would be great if you could share your knowledge and opinions with us! You could also make posts to ask questions!

Book Discussion The Gallery of Magick books

Talk about a book(s)

TGOM Lover

Visitor
Joined
Jan 16, 2026
Messages
3
Reaction score
11
I really like "The Gallery of Magick" books. They are so simple, practical, easy to apply, and most importantly, they deliver results. I hope there are more practitioners of these books on this forum. Let's discuss them, rituals, results, recommend books, etc.

I personally practice protection according to the book "Magickal Protection - Damon Brand" and work on strengthening the will according to the book "72 Angels of Magick - Damon Brand". Previously I practiced something according to the books of the author Gordon Winterfield, which also gave excellent results.

What TGOM books do you read? What do you practice? What are the results?
 

dzb10035

Visitor
Joined
Dec 12, 2025
Messages
1
Reaction score
1
GoM is what started me off when I first went into magick, along with Donald Michael Kraig. I have a very fond set of memories when it comes to the GoM books and they delivered a lot of results for me in terms of practical magick. The books I mainly used are:

Demons of Magick
Archangels of Magick
Angels of Alchemy
The word of power books
Magickal Attack
Magickal Protection
Wealth Magick
Magickal Riches

Of course, I have more, but these are the ones I have used more than once. The most results I have had are with Demons of Magick, Angels of Alchemy, and Archangels of Magick. As for results, there are a lot to count, but it ranges from stuff like finding $20 on the ground one day to being able to manifest jobs and higher income flows. So a lot of results when done properly with good intention and good action in the world. Of course, I always tried to align the magick to things that were in my sphere of influence, so that helps. Hope this answered your question on results.

As for practice, I mostly use the books for practical results. These days I am using Magickal Protection for banishing and specific protections, and I have had a lot of success there for that. Otherwise, these books are my go to books for practical magick. But for spiritual purposes, I find GoM lacking in specific practices. As you know, a lot of their appeal comes from being practical and being useful for material life, which they are great for. And when it comes to giving advice on how to get practical magick working for you, they give some amazing tidbits for how to focus intention and for how magical manifestation works. But again for spiritual practices, they lack explanations for the more theoretical sides of magick and mysticism. For this, I use Initiation into Hermetics as my main path and honestly, IIH actually compliments and explains a lot of things in GoM for me if you look behind the scenes of their rituals.

On one final note, I do want to note one final thing that the GoM books are amazing for if you keep an open mind. A lot of the more traditional magick folks like to look down on the GoM rituals and say that they are too simple or watered down and hence will never work. My experience and the experience of so many other folks who use these books contradicts this idea on every level; the magick does work. And do you know why it works? It is because many of these books are based on actual historical magical traditions that have existed in the past, including grimoires and Kabbalistic magick. The GoM books took the rituals and practices of these traditions and simplified them with some chaos-magick thinking, giving the final simplified ritual practices we see in the book. But never think that these rituals are made-up, they are based on very real traditions with real power. And we need to remember that their sources are more varied than a lot of traditional ceremonial magick works in some ways. Some of their prime sources are practical Kabbalah texts such as "Shorshei-ha shemot" and "Brit Menuchah", which are definitely not sources used in ceremonial magick that I know of (think Golden Dawn). You can also look into the books by Jacobus Swart to see how some of these magical techniques are found in their primary sources and gain an understanding on how the GoM adapted the techniques into simpler rituals. This will give you a great understanding in how you could create your own rituals if you ever wanted to.

Additionally, the techniques they use are quite unique and can readily be incorporated into other magical rituals. For traditional solomonic evocations, I used the evocation keys and some words of power from "Demons of Magick" and I found they enhanced the ritual. They have a lot of good stuff in there that you can take out and use in your own rituals, even though the theory is a bit scant.

So overall, I have a very positive view on the GoM books and I continually use them to great effect in my life. I think they could be a little less gate keeping on their sources (ie "we have this private text that gives this secret technique") and be upfront on what sources they use in order to justify their claims a bit, but overall their work is legitimate. The workings are based on legitimate magical traditions from older sources and they were kind enough to condense it into simple effective rituals for us. I think they did us a real solid there, especially with the accessible prices of their books.
 

SeekerPS

Apprentice
Joined
Jun 2, 2025
Messages
72
Reaction score
83
I don’t know. I don’t like them that much. The results I have gotten are mixed with them. I know I cursed someone and it worked. It also worked to get me laid. It didn’t work to get a new job. It also didn’t work to return a person to my life. I only use demons of magical. Ritual 1 didn’t worked for me. Ritual 2 worked sometimes. Ritual 3 didn’t worked to make any spirit appear. Inconsistency was the problem for me. But it’s still a problem with other systems.
If I had keep living alone, probably would still use ritual 2
 

ashlesha

Neophyte
Joined
Jan 22, 2022
Messages
34
Reaction score
40
I used them for maybe a year when I was first starting out about 8 years ago. I don't remember anything really remarkable coming from it on the practical side of things, but it did help a lot to build an open mind and discipline! I think it was Archangels of Magic that really made an impression on me, before I moved onto Golden Dawn type magic and Rufus Opus's Modern Angelic Grimoire.

I revisited their Holy Guardian Angel book years later, maybe in 2022? And added it to my routine when I was going for K&CHGA. I remember really liking what it added to my work, but looking back at my journals at the time, I think it was just ritual bloat that only served to confuse me. The other components of my daily invocations did way more of the heavy lifting. Live and learn :)
 
Top