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Elixir Manual for Immediate Practice

Elixir Manual for Immediate Practice 还丹肘后诀

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Elixir Manual for Immediate Practice compiles Tang-Song alchemical texts unifying outer (waidan) cinnabar theory and inner (neidan) practices. It teaches that true lead (yin) and mercury (yang)—symbolizing parental essences

Elixir Manual for Immediate Practice 还丹肘后诀

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Elixir Manual for Immediate Practice compiles Tang-Song alchemical texts unifying outer (waidan) cinnabar theory and inner (neidan) practices. It teaches that true lead (yin) and mercury (yang)—symbolizing parental essences

Internal Text of Alchemical Secrets

Internal Text of Alchemical Secrets 玉清内书

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Internal Text of Alchemical Secrets, a Tang-era Daoist manual, unifies lead-mercury theory, elixir transmutation, and precise fire-phasing. It identifies yang mercury (“lead”) and yin mercury (“water silver”) as dual expressions...

Internal Text of Alchemical Secrets 玉清内书

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Internal Text of Alchemical Secrets, a Tang-era Daoist manual, unifies lead-mercury theory, elixir transmutation, and precise fire-phasing. It identifies yang mercury (“lead”) and yin mercury (“water silver”) as dual expressions...

Formula of Red Lead into Black Lead

Formula of Red Lead into Black Lead 红铅入黑铅诀

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Formula of Red Lead into Black Lead details a Tang-Song alchemical process: refining cinnabar (red lead) into “primordial black lead” (yin mercury), then uniting it with natural “heaven-born black lead”...

Formula of Red Lead into Black Lead 红铅入黑铅诀

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Formula of Red Lead into Black Lead details a Tang-Song alchemical process: refining cinnabar (red lead) into “primordial black lead” (yin mercury), then uniting it with natural “heaven-born black lead”...

Secrets of Profound Alchemy

Secrets of Profound Alchemy 通幽诀

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Secrets of Profound Alchemy teaches that cinnabar yields lead and mercury—the “one substance” behind the Elixir. It unites outer alchemy (waidan) and inner cultivation (neidan), using Yin-Yang, Five Phases, and...

Secrets of Profound Alchemy 通幽诀

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Secrets of Profound Alchemy teaches that cinnabar yields lead and mercury—the “one substance” behind the Elixir. It unites outer alchemy (waidan) and inner cultivation (neidan), using Yin-Yang, Five Phases, and...

Alchemical Verses of the Reverted Elixir

Alchemical Verses of the Reverted Elixir 龙虎还丹歌诀

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Alchemical Verses of the Reverted Elixir presents Tang-Song era Daoist alchemy through lyrical forms, detailing lead-mercury theory, fire-phasing via I Ching cycles, and the union of outer (waidan) and inner...

Alchemical Verses of the Reverted Elixir 龙虎还丹歌诀

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Alchemical Verses of the Reverted Elixir presents Tang-Song era Daoist alchemy through lyrical forms, detailing lead-mercury theory, fire-phasing via I Ching cycles, and the union of outer (waidan) and inner...

The Essential Secrets of Dragon and Tiger

The Essential Secrets of Dragon and Tiger 龙虎元旨

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The Essential Secrets of Dragon and Tiger is a late-Tang alchemical text using lead (Dragon) and mercury (Tiger) to create the Elixir of Immortality. It details fire cycles, cosmic correspondences,...

The Essential Secrets of Dragon and Tiger 龙虎元旨

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The Essential Secrets of Dragon and Tiger is a late-Tang alchemical text using lead (Dragon) and mercury (Tiger) to create the Elixir of Immortality. It details fire cycles, cosmic correspondences,...