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Examines the foundational texts and principles of Hermeticism and alchemy showing how they offer a foundation for a psychospiritual creative practice

Takes the reader on a Hermetic journey through each of the seven traditional planets offering meditative discourses that speak directly to the intuitive soul

Provides examples from traditional alchemical art and the authors own intricate esoteric paintings

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 psychospiritual 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 selfknowledge 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 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 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