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The World Upside Down

Four essays on Internal Alchemy by Isabelle Robinet

Isabelle Robinet, The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy

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 . . .