An edition of The World Upside Down
(2011)
The World Upside Down
Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy
by Isabelle Robinet
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This book contains four essays on Internal Alchemy by Isabelle Robinet, originally published in French and translated here for the first time into English. The essays are concerned with the alchemical principle of "inversion"; the rhetorical and linguistic devices used by the alchemists to "give form to the Formless by the word, and thus manifest the authentic and absolute Dao"; the symbolic function of numbers in Taoism and in Internal Alchemy; and the original meanings of the terms "External Elixir" (waidan) and "Internal Elixir" (neidan).
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2011
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Golden Elixir Press
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Taoism, Daoism, Neidan, Internal AlchemyPeople
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The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy
2011, Golden Elixir Press
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Acknowledgements, vii
The World Upside Down in Taoist Internal Alchemy, 1
The Alchemical Language, or the Effort to Say the Contradictory, 17
Role and Meaning of Numbers in Taoist Cosmology and Alchemy, 45
On the Meaning of the Terms Waidan and Neidan, 75
Tables and Pictures, 103
Appendix: Works by Isabelle Robinet, 113
Glossary of Chinese Characters, 117
Works Quoted, 123
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