THE ATLAS OF THE UNCARVED BLOCK

Ge Hong

nature

Scholar, physician and alchemist, author of the Baopuzi ("Master Who Embraces Simplicity"). He gathered the recipes of Taoist inner and outer alchemy — cinnabar, gold, breath, and the pursuit of the transcendent, deathless body — into one systematic book.

The great documenter of Taoist alchemy (neidan/waidan) and immortality practice — the tradition's laboratory wing.

rhymes with

sephirahyesod

whyYesod, the vital foundation and the seat of generative force, rhymes with the alchemist's work on breath, essence and the deathless body.