Essence of the Sun

Place the elixir of the ninth cycle in a Divine Tripod (shending) and expose it to the sun after the summer solstice. When the tripod becomes hot, add one pound of Vermilion Child zhu er, cinnabar) beneath the lid and then retire, watching and waiting that the essence of the sun shines upon it. 

Uses of the Reverted Elixir. The third part of the Scripture of the Golden Liquor concerns the uses of the Reverted Elixir. Placed on fire, it will form the Elixir-Gold (or Cinnabar Gold, danjin). This can be used for smearing the blades of swords that keep the other weapons ten thousand miles away (a phrase that also appears in the Nine Elixirs) or for casting dishes and cups. Those who eat and drink from these vessels can live as long as Heaven and Earth, for these vessels, like the fangzhu mirrors, absorb the essences of the sun and the moon. ... 

If you cast plates and bowls with the Elixir-Gold, and take food and drinks from them, you will live a long life free from death, and will be coeternal with Heaven and Earth. [7a] By collecting [the essences of] the Sun and the Moon with these plates, you obtain a Nectar of Divine Radiance (shenguang li). Men and women should take their food from different vessels, and they will immediately rise to heaven. 

According to the commentary, these vessels are similar to the fangzhu mirrors that absorb the essences of the Sun. See above, p. 117. 

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But observe, likewise, that the spirit of salt also destroys the moon, and reduces it to a spiritual essence, according to my teaching, out of which the potable moon may be prepared. This spirit of the moon belongs to the spirit of the sun, as the female answers to the male, by the copulation or conjunction of the spirit of mercury or its oil. 

The names given to this mystical something were as many as the properties which were assigned to it. It was called the one thing, the essence, the philosopher s stone, the stone of wisdom, the heavenly balm, the divine water, the virgin water, the carbuncle of the sun, the old dragon, the lion, the basilisk, the phcenix, and many other names were given to it. 

MATTER — The First Matter of the Philosophers. The true and primal matter of metals is of double essence, or is dual in itself One of these essences without the concurrence of the other will not create a metal. The first and the chief essence is a moisture of air, mixed with a warm air in the form of an oily water, which indifferently adheres to everything, pure or impure. This moisture is called the Mercury of the Philosophers — that is, the Universal Dissolvent. It is governed by the rays of the Sun and Moon. The second essence is the heat of the earth it is that dry heat which the Philosophers call Sulphur. 

Coat a double red earthenware crucible with it, to a thickness of three-tenths of an inch both inside and outside. Place one or even ten pounds of quicksilver in the crucible, according to the amount of Medicine that you intend to prepare. Three pounds can make one person into an immortal, and from them you can obtain ten ounces of Essence of the Mysterious and Yellow. Therefore take three pounds of mercury and place it in the earthenware crucible. Cover the mercury with more Mysterious and Yellow to a thickness of about two inches. Close the crucible with its other half, and seal both of them outside and inside with the Mud of the Six-and-One, making the joints tightly fit together so that there are no leaks [of pneuma]. Leave the crucible in the sun for ten days so that it becomes completely dry. Then place it over the fire if it is humid this is not possible, as it would break when you heat it. 

Vendors such as SUN and MIPS introduced lines of computers based on RISC (reduced iastmction set computer) chips. These computers offered significant performance advantages over the CISC (complex iastmction set computer) minicomputers, at least for CPU-bound work. Although there are stiU active debates about what RISC and what CISC are, the essence of RISC is simplicity. 

Sunblocks are opaque substances such as zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, and iron oxide that protect by forming a shield on the skin, which reflects and scatters incident radiation. In essence, sunblocks provide physical protection against sun exposure, including both visible and ultraviolet light. Sunscreens are substances that chemically absorb ultraviolet light in the top layer of the epidermis, protecting the underlying layers. 

If we look at evolution as a whole we will note that over 3.5 billion years, plant life has increased the ability to absorb energy from the Sun. However, only part of this energy is used to make ATP through a series of steps another part is used to make chemicals in the plant and a third part is used directly to oxidise the environment since 02 is produced in the process. This is the essence of oxygenic photosynthesis described in subsequent chapters and we may be interested in studying the... 

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