Reverted Elixir is formed by joining the two breaths (yin and yang qi) and therefore called the Male Tiger or True Lead and Female Dragon or True Mercury.And so "Mysterious-Female" actually means Tiger-Dragon! In other words "Mysterious" is a separate NOUN and not an adjective!
If the outer sun and moon
do not mingle their lights the inner water and fire do not
‘copulate’ and prenatal true vitality [yuan qi] cannot manifest.
Outer sun and moon, meaning the light of left and right eyes.Their "lights of inner water and fire" means the light of yang qi (the right eye as water, the tiger) and the light of yin qi (the sun, left eye as fire, dragon).
So the Moon is yin qi as Wood but the light of the yang qi (moon as right eye, yin shen) is the "Sun" hidden within the Moon of the lower tan t'ien.
So the LIGHT of the inner water and the LIGHT of the inner fire - this is the GOLDEN LIGHT when the dragon and tiger as inner sun and moon copulate - in contrast to the outer sun and moon. So it is the Light of yang qi with substance copulating with the external sun as the yang shen.
So you have not just upper and lower reversing but also right and left reversing and also front and back reversing.
Foundations of Internal Alchemy.
The Cantong qi says: Dragon at West, Tiger at East... These verses also allude to the principle of "inversion"; ordinarily, the Dragon is an emblem of the East and the Tiger is an emblem of the West (see table 1).
http://www.goldenelixir.com/files/Robinet_The_World_Upside_Down_SAMPLE.pdf
So this describes how the normal "cycle" of the elements for TCM is then REVERSED for alchemy.
. p. 46, Wang Mu, Foundations of Internal Alchemy.the "saliva in his mouth" represents the precelestial state
p. 30, Foundations of Internal Alchemy, quoting Wang Haican (Yuan Dynasty).The True Yang...the Yang principle is born from Zi and is stored in the Gate of Life....As it rises, it merges with Li [Fire], and by replenishing Li, it forms Qian [Heaven]. The yin principle returns where it belongs, the Yang principle is transformed, and one reverts to the origin.
So yang qi (internal Sun) rises as substance to merge with yang shen - the external sun as fire.
p. 55, Foundations of Internal Alchemy, citing Xingming guizhiBy refining the Ji-Soil, you obtain the Mercury within Li, the Sun. By refining the Wu-Soil you obtain the Lead within Kan, the Moon. The Ji-Soil rises, the Wu-Soil descends.
So by comparing those two texts it is very clear that the Ji-Soil that rises is rising up the spine - to replenish the Li. The Mercury is the "green dragon" after it first descends down the front (via the small universe meditation) and then rises up the spine to form Heaven. The Wu-Soil then descends down the front.
The technical terms for this practice are "drifting Wu to reach Ji" and "taking from Kan in order to fill Li". Others call it "using the kidneys to replenish the heart", "reverting the course of the Essence to replenish the brain", ....
p. 25, Foundations
So that means the metal goes down - in the northern direction - but it also goes EAST.Circulate the Metal found within the Water in the northern direction, in order to control the Wood found within the Fire in the southern direction. This is called "using the black to see the red."
p. 116, FoundationsDirection of Metal (jinfang) has a double meaning: in the first meaning, it represents the West, and in the second one, it represents the Golden Elixir.
You are correct. What needs to be realized is that each "stage" in the training actually speeds up in terms of energy intensity. So you have to know the next stage ahead of time. To quote from the link give above - from Pregadio:
So the true yang has substance since "yang qi" has substance - and this again is what I call the "double reversal" - Pregadio uses this term. I did half a dozen blog posts on this secret. Meaning - in the "strict sense" - the water as lead is the source of the True Lead even though though the yang qi is extracted out of the water. So the yang qi is then the Sun in that context while the Yang shen is also the Sun but the Yang Shen normally just leaves the body with the eyes open. So the yang qi is the White Tiger that has to return back to the heart (down the front as the double reversal).
True Lead (☰) and True Mercury (☷) respectively represent True Yang and True Yin. The Yin and Yang entities that respectively contain these authentic principles are represented by "black lead" (i.e., native lead ☵) and cinnabar (☲). In the strict sense of the term, alchemy consists in extracting True Lead from "black lead" and True Mercury from cinnabar, and in joining them to one another.
A crucial point to consider, which directly derives from the principles outlined above, is that True Yang is the counterpart of True Yin, but — being the One Breath of the Dao — it is also the state of Unity prior to its subdivision into Yin and Yang. (This aspect of True Yang is often referred to as Pure Yang, chunyang). This explains the priority given to True Yang in the alchemical process.(*)
And so how can the Yang Qi also be the Yuan qi? - the 2nd paragraph of this quote. This secret is actually explained by Music theory but I won't go into that right now.
Reverted Elixir is formed by joining the two breaths (yin and yang qi) and therefore called the Male Tiger or True Lead [has substance] and Female Dragon or True Mercury [does not have substance].
So you extract the yang from the yin (black lead) but then the Water as black lead or black tiger is transformed into white tiger that is male as True Lead (how if the lead is yin). Because the Yang Shen combines with the Yang Qi (substance that was yin) and now descends down the front as the white tiger or male tiger.
So this means even the "substance" is not the final stage as it still has yin qi blockages with the yang qi - and so the more the yang shen is purified then the more it turns to Yuan Qi that is formless. And so the Void or wuji is yinyang:even True Lead is discarded after you have used it.
Its Yang half corresponds to the inner line of Kan ☵ (True Lead), and is typically represented by the celestial stem wu 戊. Its Yin half corresponds to the inner line of Li ☲ (True Mercury), and is represented by the celestial stem ji 己. Being found within both ingredients of the Elixir, Soil stands for their fundamental unity, and enables them to conjoin.
Yes I just did a blog post on the precise same secret that you have quoted.
https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-secret-to-storing-qi-internally.html
So this is what I have been calling the "double reversal"
So now we switch over to Pregadio again - and discover this double reversal secret from the rotating of the eyes - the True Yin is the yang shen plus the yang qi (that goes down the front as the White Tiger True Yin). The True Yang is the yin shen plus the yin qi - that is from the yin qi going up the back. So the yin qi originates on the front as part of the yang shen and the yang qi originates on the back as part of the yin shen. But to create True Yin (Earth) and True Yang (Heaven) then this double reversal has to occur.
Normally the yin qi is is lost out of the eyes. So with meditation the yang shen is closed off with the eyes closed - and then the yin qi goes down. But then it joins into the yang qi and has to then go back up again on the back (as the double reversal as the True Yang or Heaven). Then the opposite is true for the yang qi - normally is originates on the back and has to go up but then it has to join with the yin qi to go back down again on the front as the True Yin (or Earth)
So the Virtue or "de" is the Yang Shen.
This is based on Pregadio's commentary and translation of "Awakening to Reality" -
I'll transcribe the quote:
So what this refers to is the Yuan Qi that emanates out of the pineal gland and so when the yang shen goes out of the eyes it then TRIGGERS the pineal gland to send the Yuan Qi down as True Yin which is then lost as True Yang. So on the level of Yuan Qi, the True Yin and True Yang are interwoven via the Yuan Qi.In the postcelestial world, the Yang principle tends to rise to Heaven and vanish above causing the loss of True Yin; the Yin principle tends to descend into the Earth and be wasted below, causing the loss of True Yang.
So what this means is the yin qi of the yang shen - this yin qi needs to be held down by the lower magpie bridge - overpowered and governed and controlled by the Yang qi.To avoid this the precelestial po-soul (True Yang) should control the Yin principle (the "Mercury in the Vermillion")
and the precelestial hun-soul (True Yin) should restrain the Yang principle (the Metal in the Water).
So then reread what I wrote above - what this is describing is the secret of the book Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality - from chapter 6 onwards as the 2nd half of enlightenment.
The triagram Li is fire and predominantly yang, but the important middle line is yin, and so the Dragon is female. It is the yin essence in the yang, water in fire, the female in the male, the moon in the sun. It is referred to as Green Dragon....It is water that rises, being heated,
So the yin or water (Red Dragon) in the fire - the yin qi in the yang shen - first it goes down but then it has to go from front to BACK - and then rises as Green Dragon.
he triagram Li is fire and predominantly yang, but the important middle line is yin, and so the Dragon is female. It is the yin essence in the yang, water in fire, the female in the male, the moon in the sun. It is referred to as Green Dragon....It is water that rises, being heated,
So the yin or water (Red Dragon) in the fire - the yin qi in the yang shen - first it goes down but then it has to go from front to BACK - and then rises as Green Dragon.
So then the "fire" in the water - it first rises up the back as the yang in the yin but then it moves to the FRONT and descends again.The triagram K'an/Kan is Water and predominantly yin and female. But the middle line is yang and alchemically it is the yang in the yin, the White Tiger, ....its function is to descend to Earth when fire reacts with it. It is the fire in the water.
quoting:
Tai Chi Chüan: Harmonizing Taoist Belief and Practice - Jeaneane D. Fowler, Shifu Keith Ewers
Five is the number of the element of earth which
stands for right thought, and dragon stands for prenatal
spirit.
Yuan Shen=dragon as GREEN dragon - that rises with the yang qi.True Mercury comes from fire.True Lead arises from water.
True Mercury functions in the water.
True Lead functions in fire, turning black to red.
This deserves careful thought.
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