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134 II. Commentaries, Essays, and Related Works ————————————————————————————————————————— the rebirth of Yang to its exhaustion), so does the “ancestral source” of the Wuzhen pian cause “the hexagrams to revolve” (from Fu , which stands for the rebirth of Yang, to Kun , which stands for its exhaustion). Finally, the rotation of the hexagrams is determined by the Northern Dipper, which is referred to in the Cantong qi by its second and third stars, Jade-cog and Armil; and in the Wuzhen pian by Celestial Axis, which is the first star of the Dipper and denotes, by extension, the whole constellation. 3. Inversion of the “generation” (xiangsheng 相生 ) sequence of the five agents CTQ “Metal is the mother of Water — [but] the mother is hidden in the embryo of her son” ( 金為水母、母子胎 ; 23:1–2) WZP “As the two things entirely depend on one another, the child gives birth to its mother” ( 二物總因兒產母 ; “Jueju” 17) 4. “Three, Five, and One” (san wu yi 三五一 ) CTQ “The Three Fives combine into One, the ultimate essence of Heaven and Earth” ( 三五與一、天地至精 ; 63:5–6) [See also 72:15–16 and 79:13–14] WZP “Three, Five, One — all is in these three words” ( 三五一都三箇字 ; “Lüshi” 14) 5. “Two Eights” (erba 二八 ) CTQ “Two times 8 corresponds to one pound” (or: “The Two Eights correspond to one pound” 二八應一斤 ; 29:5) WZP “For the Medicine to weigh one pound, the Two Eights are needed” ( 藥重一斤須二八 ; “Lüshi” 7) [See also “Lüshi” 8, and “Jueju” 18] 6. “Being of the same kind” (or: “category”, tonglei 同類 ) CTQ “. . . Eggs are employed for hatching chicks . . . Like kinds yield results with ease; unlike types are a challenge to craft” (. . . 覆雞用其卵 . . . 同類易施工、非種難為巧 ; 35:4 and 80:11–12) WZP “. . . to hatch a chicken, you must use an egg. If all things are of unlike kinds, you merely toil yourself” (. . . 覆雞當用卵為之、 © Fabrizio Pregadio and Golden Elixir Press 2012
2. Song and Yuan Dynasties 135 ————————————————————————————————————————— 萬般非類徒勞力 ; “Jueju” 8) 7. “Punishment and virtue” (xingde 刑德 ) CTQ “Punishment and virtue meet, seeing each other with delight . . . [W]hen the knights array themselves at the gates of mao . . . In the second month, the elm seeds fall when Head faces mao; in the eighth month, wheat grows when Celestial Net accords with you” ( 刑德並會、相見歡喜 . . . 二月榆落 . . . 魁臨於卯、八月麥生、天罡據酉 ’ 73:5–6, 51:22, 73:9– 12) WZP “As the months of the hare and the rooster (i.e., the second and the eighth months) reach their time, punishment and virtue approach the gates — the Medicine takes these images as models.” ( 兔雞之月及其時、形德臨門藥象之 ; “Jueju” 34) In addition to these examples, which concern major doctrinal notions, the Wuzhen pian draws several other images and terms from the Cantong qi. For example, the Cantong qi describes the joining of Lead and Mercury saying that first the Golden Flower (Lead) is heated, and then the Flowing Pearl of Great Yang (Mercury) joins it. The Wuzhen pian describes this process using the same images: CTQ “The Golden Flower is the first to sing . . . The Yang (i.e., the Flowing Pearl of Great Yang) is next to join it” ( 金華先唱 . . . 陽乃往和 ; 62:7, 11) 3 WZP “First the green leaves open, for Yang is the first to sing, then a red flower blossoms, as Yin follows later” ( 初開綠葉陽光倡、次發紅花陰後隨 ; “Lüshi” 12) Other instances of shared vocabulary between the Cantong qi and the Wuzhen pian concern common alchemical terms, such as Yellow Sprout (huangya 黃芽 ), Lovely Maid (chanü 女 ), River Chariot (heche 河車 ), and several others. 3 Note that, in these verses, “the Yang” is an abbreviation of “Flowing Pearl of Great Yang” (taiyang liuzhu 太陽流珠 ), which is a common alchemical name of Mercury. Since Mercury is an emblem of True Yin, “the Yang” actually means “the Yin.” Visit the Web page on this book • www.goldenelixir.com
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