Elixir for the Nomination to Immortal

Elixir for the Nomination to Immortal. The fifth and final part of the received Scripture of the Golden Liquor concerns another elixir. By adding yellow clay to the Gold and Mercury Waters one obtains gold after one day of heating, and the Elixir for the Nomination to Immortal after two days. When one ingests this elixir, one will be able to retire to a mountain or a river and become an immortal. This is referred to in identical terms by Ge Hong ... 

Moreover, if you add yellow clay to the Gold Water and the Mercury [Water], and calcine them over an intense fire for one day, they will entirely transmute themselves into gold. If you heat them for two days, they will transmute themselves into an elixir, [8b] called Elixir for the Nomination to Immortal bixian dan). If you ingest this elixir in pills the size of a small bean, you will be able to enter a famous mountain or a great river, and become an immortal. 

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