The Seal of the Unity of the Three — Vol. 2 - The Golden Elixir

4. The Ancient Text and Its Commentaries 193
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[17] ( 背 道 迷 真 ) 36, 26
[18] ( 三 聖 制 作 ) 37, 28 (first part), 38
Filling Lacunae ( 補 遺 )
Preface 三 相 類 序 83–84
[1] ( 大 丹 賦 ) 77–81
[2] ( 鼎 器 歌 ) 82
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Arrangement of Qiu Zhao’ao’s Guben zhouyi cantong qi jizhu 古 本 周 易 參 同
契 集 注 .
As shown by the table above, although Qiu Zhao’ao preserves the
basic threefold subdivision, he submits the Ancient Text to a major
rearrangement that relocates a large number of sections. Disagreeing
with the view that “Canon” and “Commentary” are divided into three
main parts respectively devoted to cosmology, Taoism, and alchemy,
this commentator reads the whole Cantong qi as a Neidan text. Since
the arrangement into three parts is irrelevant to his views, he merely
subdivides “Canon” and “Commentary” into 18 sections, corresponding
to the “thirty-six palaces of the hexagrams of the Book of
Changes”, and the Three Categories (which he entitles Filling
Lacunae, or Buyi 補 遺 ) into two sections, corresponding to the “two
parts of the Book of Changes” (Zhouyi er pian 周 易 二 篇 ). 15 This
unique rearrangement disregards the very purpose of the Ancient Text
and disrupts its carefully crafted ordering.
15
Guben zhouyi cantong qi jizhu, “Liyan ershi tiao”, 10a-12a. The
“thirty-six palaces” (“Yi gua sanshiliu gong” 易 卦 三 十 六 宫 ) are the thirty-six
lines of the six hexagrams that represent each half of the cycle of the “fire
times.”
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