Reveals how the Hermetic mysteries and the alchemical tradition can help liberate the imagination and awaken spiritual transformationDrawing 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 ones own creative gifts.The author takes the reader on a Hermetic journey through each of the seven traditional planetsSaturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moonexploring their mythological, philosophical, alchemical, qabbalistic, 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 ones life, and in the creative process.A profound synthesis of magical and occult teachings as well as an initiation into the alchemical opus, this book reveals how to integrate and apply Hermetic and alchemical principles to awaken inner knowing, liberate the imagination, and live a mystical, creative, and truly inspired life.*dust cover has slight scratchImprint :Inner TraditionsPublication Date :10/11/2022Isbn :9781644112885Additional Biblio Data :Includes 8-pp col insert and 58 b&w illsTotal Pages :376Dimensions :178 x 254Format :HardbackAuthor :Marlene Seven Bremner
