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Scripture of the Divine Elixir of the Golden Liquor of Great Clarity Taiqing jinye shendan jing)... 

Instructions on the Scripture of the Divine Elixirs of the Nine Tripods of the Yellow Emperor Huangdi jiuding shendan jingjue)... 

Third Elixir Divine Elixir (shendan). The ingredients of the Third Elixir are orpiment and realgar, two minerals respectively associated with Yin and Yang. They are first soaked in a Flowery Pond containing oyster shells, red clay, and magnetite, and then are placed in a crucible and covered with pow-... 

The text translated below is found in the first chapter of the Huangdi jiuding shendan jingjue (Instructions on the Scripture of the Divine Elixirs of the Nine Tripods of the Yellow Emperor). This and other works on the Nine Elixirs (see below, Appendix B) are referred to in my comments as follows ... 

Jiuding dan yin wenjue, in Huangdi jiuding shendan jingjue, 2o.7a-i5b... 

References to page numbers in the Daozang text are given in brackets within the translation. Passages indented and within parentheses, introduced by note, are editorial notes found in the Huangdi jiuding shendan jingjue, often without formal distinction from the main text. My comments are printed in smaller type. 

On the Mud of the Six-and-One see above. Chapter 4. Donghai is in present-day Shandong. The Taiqing jinye shendan jing, 1.15a, explains Observe the earthenware crucible and make the desired amount [of mud], so that it will be enough for luting the crucible. ... 

The Explanations, i.qa-b, adds Make it into a mud, and pound it ten thousand times. Also according to a similar passage in the Taiqing jinye shendan jing, 1.15b, white lead should be added to an equal... 

The Taiqing jinye shendan jing, 1.15b adds Do not let there be scorches and cracks if there are any, tend them immediately with the Mud. The Flower of Cinnabar is the first of the Nine Elixirs. 

The name of this elixir can also be rendered as Cinnabar Flower, where flower denotes the sublimate and cinnabar is its color as said below, the elixir sometimes will be of a vivid scarlet color like cinnabar. The Taiqing jinye shendan jing, i.iyb-ihb, describes a similar method where cinnabar is refined with realgar and orpiment as the Mysterious and Yellow does in the methods of the Nine Elixirs, these two minerals incorporate Yin and Yang in the crucible. For another translation of this section of the Nine Elixirs see Ware, Alchemy, Medicine and Religion in the China of a.d. 320, 78-79. 

CT 901), i.ib, lists among the synonyms of cinnabar. The corresponding method in the Taiqing jinye shendan jing designates cinnabar by its common name, dansha ( cinnabar powder ). 

As is made clear in the Secret Instructions, 20.iia-i3b, the section on the Second Elixir consists of three parts that concern the Divine Tally, the Yellow Essence, and the Reverted Elixir of the Divine Tally, respectively. A fourth method, mentioned and very concisely described in the Secret Instructions, 20.i3b-i4a, does not correspond to any of those found in the texts on the Nine Elixirs. The current text of the Baopu zi, 4.75, states that this elixir is called Divine Elixir shendan) or Divine Tally. Three texts that quote Ge Hong s summary of the Nine Elixirs, however, have only Divine Tally see Jiudan jingjue, 2.2a, Shen-xian jinzhuo jing = Baopu zi shenxian jinzhuo jing CT 917), 3.1a, and Yunji qiqian (Seven Lots from the Bookcase of the Clouds CT 1032), 67.7b. 

The Third Divine Elixir is called Divine Elixir (shendan). First lute a double red earthenware crucible with the Mud of the Six-and-One, making it three-tenths of an inch thick both inside and outside. Then take oyster shells, red clay, and magnetite (cishi). 

In her Revelation du Shangqing, Isabelle Robinet has remar ed that the recipes found in the Taiqing jinye shendan jing Wf H(Scripture of the... 

As noted above in Chapter 3, there is no indication that the Taiqing jinye shendan jing—despite the Taiqing prefix in its title, which it shares with many other extant or lost texts—was originally part of the Taiqing corpus. The text, however, quotes passages of the Scripture of the Nine Elixirs con-... 

Moreover, one of the additional methods described in this wor is similar to the method for ma ing the first of the Nine Elixirs These similarities suggest that while the Taiqing jinye shendan jing is not an original Taiqing text, it is partially based on the Taiqing scriptures and particularly on the Nine Elixirs. 

The first citation of a Taiqing jinye shendan jing in three scrolls is found in the Chongiven zongmu (Complete List [of the Institute] for... 

Jiudan jingjue (= Huangdi jiuding shendan jingjue-, CT 885), i.ia see... 

The summary in the Inner Chapters is compared to the received Golden Liquid of the Divine Immortals below, pp. rr4-i8. Lor more details on the Scripture of the Golden Liquor and the Taiqing jinye shendan jing see Appendix B. 

Jiudan jingjue, i.za-b Sanshiliu shuifa, i2a-b Taiqing shibi ji, i.4a-b Taiqing jinye shendan jing, 1.7a. 

For the sentence on the Branches of Earth and the Stems of Heaven tian-gan) I follow the Taiqing jinye shendan jing, i.4a-b, and the Sanshiliu shuifa I2a-b, which read fan zhigan for ji zhi tian. 

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