Hermetic Philosophy and Creative Alchemy: The Emerald Tablet, the Corpus Hermeticum, and the Journey through the Seven Spheres

Marlene Seven Bremner's book explores Hermeticism and alchemy as a foundation for a psycho-spiritual creative practice. It offers meditative discourses on each of the seven traditional planets, relating them to the esoteric anatomy of the human body and showing how they can offer understanding and experience of archetypal energies and patterns. The book is a profound synthesis of magical and occult teachings and an initiation into the alchemical opus, revealing how to awaken inner knowing, liberate the imagination, and live a mystical, creative, and inspired life.

Format: Hardback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 27 October 2022
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Drawing on ancient Egyptian and Greek cosmogonies and essential Hermetic texts, such as the Corpus Hermeticum, the Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina), and the Nag Hammadi codices, Marlene Seven Bremner offers a detailed understanding of Hermetic philosophy and the art of alchemy as a foundation for a psycho-spiritual creative practice. Offering examples from traditional alchemical art and her own intricate esoteric paintings, Bremner examines the foundational principles of Hermeticism and alchemy and shows how these traditions are a direct means for accessing higher consciousness and true self-knowledge, or gnosis, as well as a way to extract the essence of one's own creative gifts.

The author takes the reader on a Hermetic journey through each of the seven traditional planets—Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon—exploring their mythological, philosophical, alchemical, Qabalistic, magical, astrological, and energetic natures and offering meditative discourses that reach past the rational mind to speak directly to the intuitive soul. She relates the seven planets to the esoteric anatomy of the human body, specifically the seven chakras, and shows how the planets can offer understanding and experience of archetypal energies and patterns in the body, in one's life, and in the creative process.

A profound synthesis of magical and occult teaching.

Weight: 984g
Dimension: 254 x 178 x 43 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781644112885