S9-E6 – Seven’s Spheres-Marlene Seven Bremner

SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE PAINTINGS BY MARLENE SEVEN BREMNER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT DURING THE INTERVIEW

This week we have a refreshing interview with Marlene Seven Bremner, an American artist and writer presently residing in New Mexico. While a student of polarity therapy, Seven initiated into Jungian alchemical teaching, which in turn flowed into her personal study and distillation of the Hermetica. This discovery process included visual art, textual exploration, and ultimately the writing of a full manuscript.

 Seven has recently released her first title with Inner Traditions, Hermetic Philosophy and Creative Alchemy: The Emerald Tablet, the Corpus Hermeticum, and the Journey Through the Seven Spheres. The interview is a conversation aligned to her text, appealing to both the new and seasoned students of the Hermetica.

Seven’s unassuming, lunar quiet blends with solar scholarly intensity as she traverses the conversation. Subjects explored in dialogue with Rudolf range from the alchemy of oil painting; the call to expression through Logos; channeling poetry, and the creative alchemy of the ascent through the Seven Spheres. Bremner soulfully articulates the devotional-contemplative hermetic lifestyle, worldly input, and the influence of the natural elemental balance in Place.

Seven makes candid acknowledgement of the importance of attaining balance between the inspiration and distraction of artistic community. Seven and Rudolf specifically explore her painting Harmonia Elementorum, which is present on her WEBSITE (click here or into the link section further down)

Her website also features poetry including “Circulato” (dated May 2018), beginning: “I never learned how to dive. I only learned how to sink, in waters deep, deeper than three times my self and dark with the blood of my ancestors…”

Enjoy the still waters running deep in this conversation!

ABOVE: THOTH

TWO PAINTINGS BY MARLE SEVEN BREMNER

BELOW: HARMONIA ELEMENTORUM

Music played in this episode

Egypt plays an important role in Hermetic thought of course, from Thoth-Dejhuti to Hellenists etc. So Egyptian music in different forms is on the menu for today’s episode.

Nubian music is part of the folk tradition in both Egypt and Sudan. Today’s guest, Marlene Seven Bremner, when visiting Egypt recently, was fascinated by the Nubian music, so two out of three tracks today come from this tradition.

1) TRIBAL WAR CHANT – Traditional Nubian Music

recorded live in Egypt during a local folk ceremony

(Track starts at 7:08)

2) ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LOVE SONG – Peter Pringle

Peter Pringle (born 1945) is a Canadian musician and television personality, mainly active in the 70s and 80s. In the last two decades he has reconstructed music and musical instruments from thousands of years back, Sumerian, Ancient Hebrew, Babylonian and Egyptian. The text of this love song is from an original papyrus, he performs it in a musical style based on historical research, on a 22-string harp built by himself and based on archeological findings. 

(Track starts at 57:20)

3) TRADITIONAL NUBIAN MUSIC

recorded on the banks of Lake Nasser in Egypt

(Track starts at 1:39:29)

Intro and Outro Music
especially written and recorded for the Thoth-Hermes Podcast by Chris Roberts