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© 2011 Golden Elixir PressGolden Elixir Press, Mountain View, CAwww.goldenelixir.comISBN 978-0-984308262 (pbk)All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations, no part of this bookmay be reproduced in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording,or by any information storage and retrieval system,without permission in writing from the publisher.Typeset in Sabon.Cover: <strong>The</strong> xuanpin (Mysterious-Female), a Taoist symbol that representsthe unity of Yin and Yang. <strong>The</strong> two trigrams are Fire (Yang, above) andWater (Yin, below), which respectively enclose True Yin and True Yang,represented by their inner lines.
ContentsAcknowledgements, vii<strong>The</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Upside</strong> <strong>Down</strong> in Taoist Internal Alchemy, 1<strong>The</strong> Alchemical Language, or the Effort to Saythe Contradictory, 17Role and Meaning of Numbers in Taoist Cosmologyand Alchemy, 45On the Meaning of the Terms Waidan and Neidan, 75Tables and Pictures, 103Appendix: Works by Isabelle <strong>Robinet</strong>, 113Glossary of Chinese Characters, 117Works Quoted, 123
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