Creative Alchemy Workshop with Marlene Seven Bremner - July 12th, 1pm

Creative Practice, Art, Alchemy. Join us for a unique opportunity to learn from author, artist, and alchemical scholar Marlene Seven Bremner.

This three-hour workshop will explore Hermetic Alchemy as the practice of bringing something
to its final perfection. Students will learn how this royal art unifies the inner and outer worlds and provides a process to integrate spirit and matter.

Saturday, July 12th, 1-4pm

$125 - materials included

Workshop Limit: 8

Known as the “Royal Art,” alchemy teaches us how to transmute our life into a masterpiece through the profound interplay of consciousness and matter. Whether we are working with materials in an alchemical laboratory, writing poetry, composing music, painting, or simply wanting to live a more creative life, alchemy is the key to unlocking the vast potential and unlimited imagination that lives within us. 

We will begin with the legendary Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus and developing an understanding of alchemical creation, and the miraculous transmutations of the “One Thing.” From here we will cover alchemical theory and cosmology, including the prima materia or mysterious “first matter,” the anima mundi or “world soul,” the four elements, the tria prima or “three principles,” the seven planetary metals, and the legendary philosopher’s stone. We will discuss the principle of correspondence and the relationships between the macrocosm and microcosm, and how to work with these relationships in a creative alchemical practice. 

Finally, we’ll look at the four color phases of the Great Work (black, white, yellow, red) and how they can be understood and navigated for spiritual growth, deeper self-knowledge, reconciliation of the opposites, and the liberation of your full creative potential.

In this course you will learn:

• The basic philosophies and theories of Hermetic Alchemy
• The 4 stages of the Great Work as a spiritual & creative process for self-transformation
• The qualities and influences of the 7 traditional planets
• How to integrate alchemy into your life and artistic process
• Tools for personal empowerment & transmutation

Marlene Seven Bremner is a self-taught oil painter, working in a surrealist and allegorical style. Her work explores esoteric themes arising from her study and practice of Hermeticism, alchemy, magic, astrology, and mythology. She is the author of Hermetic Philosophy and Creative Alchemy: The Emerald Tablet, the Corpus Hermeticum, and the Journey Through the Seven Spheres (Inner Traditions, 2022), and The Hermetic Marriage of Art and Alchemy: Imagination, Creativity, and the Great Work (Inner Traditions, 2023).