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Taoist Alchemical Illustrations

	Chart of the Fire Phases A chart drawn in the year 1284, showing correspondences among spatial directions and temporal cycles.
	Dragon and Tiger Dragon and Tiger joining their essences in the alchemical tripod.
	The Yellow Court A chart of the symbolic center of the human being.
	Neidan Emblems Human figure surrounded by emblems associated with Yin and Yang and the five agents (wuxing).
	The Body as a Mountain The human body represented as a mountain.

The World Upside Down

Four essays on Internal Alchemy by Isabelle Robinet

The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy

Isabelle Robinet
Golden Elixir Press, 2011
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This book contains four essays on Internal Alchemy by Isabelle Robinet, translated here for the first time into English. The essays are concerned with the alchemical principle of "inversion"; the devices used by the alchemists to "give form to the Formless by the word, and thus manifest the authentic and absolute Dao"; the function of numbers in Taoism and in Internal Alchemy; and the original meanings of the terms "External Elixir" and "Internal Elixir". Read more . . .