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The Seal of the Unity of the Three

A new translation of the main text of Taoist Internal Alchemy

The Seal of the Unity of the Three: A Study and Translation of the Cantong qi, the Source of the Way of the Golden Elixir

Fabrizio Pregadio
Golden Elixir Press, 2011
Paperback ● Hardcover

Under an allusive poetical language and thick layers of images and symbols, the Cantong qi hides the exposition of a doctrine that has inspired a large number of works in the tradition of Internal Alchemy (Neidan). The text is concerned with three major subjects: Cosmology (the relation of the cosmos and the human being to the Dao), Taoism (the way of "non-doing"), and Alchemy, and joins them to one another into a single doctrine. In addition to a complete translation of the Cantong qi, this book contains explanations of each of its sections, notes on many of its verses, and a detailed introduction to its history and doctrines. Read more....

News from the Press

● The Seal of the Unity of the Three is now available in a hardcover edition and in an abridged PDF version, entitled "The Essential Cantong qi".

● Recently published: Vol. 2 of The Seal of the Unity of the Three, containing a study of the Cantong qi and its textual tradition.

● New web page: Selections from the Daode jing on the Taoist saint.

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