Mircea Eliade YOGA IMMORTALITY AND ... - Brihaspati.net

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The white hair turn black, fallen teeth grow again. The tired old man is again a young
man full of desires; The old woman is overwhelmed again a maiden.
The shape-shifting and escape the dangers of life, is the name title "True Man" 11
The first historical mention of! To alchemy, on the other hand, is related to the
fabrication of gold: in 144 BC, an imperial edict threatens public performance to all those
who are caught in the act of making gold (text re -produced by Dubs, p. 63). According to
W. H. Barnes, the first references to alchemy could date from the fourth century or in.
Dubs believes (p. 77) that the founder of Chinese alchemy would Tsou Yen-porary of
Mencius (fourth century). That this opinion whether or not its substance, we should
distinguish the historical beginnings and development of a pre-chemistry, alchemy 16gica
Soteria-like technique: the latter accepted (and I keep doing it until the eighteenth century
of our era ) methods and the mythologies, mainly Taoist, pursuing a very different
objective to "make gold".
Gold had imperial character: he was in the "Center" of the Earth and had relations with
chue mystical (sulfide), yellow mercury and the afterlife (the "Yellow sources"). Here's
how
Tung Ch'i an 11 TS, chap. XXVII, trans. Waley, Notes, p. 11, trans. Ch'iang Lu Wu, ps.
240-241. Ts'an Tung Ch'i, the text's popular alquiirrico-Yang Wei Po (a pseudonym to
"style" of Lao-Ts6, 120-150 AD) means "union of the compound correlation. About this
treaty, see An ancient Chinese treatise, ps. 212-216, Johnson, A Study of Chinese
Alchemy, p. 133.
present it in a text of 122 BC, in
are also recorded where the belief in a hasty metamorphosis in metals (translated by
r'ragmento Dubs, ps. 71-73). It is possible that this text comes from the school of Tsou
Yen, if not the Master himself (ibid., p. 74). In China, the belief in the natural
metamorphosis of metals is quite old, and also is found in Annam, in India and Malaysia.
The inhabitants of Tonkin said: "The bronze is the mother of black gold." Gold is
naturally generated by the bronze. But for this transmutation takes place, it is necessary
that the bronze nezca permanent underground for quite a long time. "Thus, the anami-tas
are convinced that the gold found in mines alii is formed slowly over the course of
centuries, and that if hu-bier revised the floor in its origins, would have uncovered bronze
where today is gold "(J. Przyluski, Ei Gold, p. 3). The al-quimista does nothing but
accelerate the growth of metals such as its western counterpart, the Chinese alchemist
contributes to the work of nature, precipitating the rhythm of Time. "But we've not
forgotten that the transmutation of metals into gold also presents its" spiritual "side: as
the imperial gold metal," per-fect "," liberated "from impurities, im pursuing alchemical
operation make explicit the "perfection" of nature, that is, ultimately, his absolution and
freedom. The gestation of the metal within the Earth due to these temporal rhythms that
"tied" to the carnal man in his condition and "dethroned" hasten the gestation of metals
by the alchemical work is equivalent to ab-solver of the law Time: Similarly, the yogi and
tantric released by proper techniques, your temporary condition, and conquering the
"immortality". Recall the Vedic proverb: gold is immortality.
This explains the alchemical operations are always ^ ien relations with the liberation
beyond Time. In China there is a pa-rentesco evident in the "preparation of gold," the
obtaining of the "drug of immortality" and "evocation" of the Immortals: Tai Luan