Elixir of Life The Secret of the Golden Flower

Every man who unites bodily with a woman feels pleasure first and then bitterness; when the seed has flowed out, the body is tired and the spirit weary.

It is quite different when the adept lets spirit and energy unite. That brings first purity and then freshness; when the seed is transformed, the body is healthy and free.
 This is the sublimation of the seed into energy. If the pupil does not understand this principle, and lets the energy flow out directly, then the energy changes into seed; this is what is meant when it is said: ‘Emptiness finally flows into phenomena.’

alklikhan

There is a tradition that the old Master P’eng grew to be eight hundred years old because he made use of serving maids to nourish his life, but that is a misunderstanding. In reality, he used the method of sublimation of spirit and energy. In the Elixir of Life symbols are used for the most part, and in them the fire of the Clinging (Li) is frequently compared to a bride, and the water of the Abyss (Kan) to the boy (puer aeternus). From this arose the misunderstanding about Master P’eng having restored his virility through women. These are errors that have forced their way in later.
The Secret of the Golden Flower

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  1. ‘When the right man (white magician) makes use of wrong means, the wrong means work in the right way,’ By this is meant the transformation of seed into energy. ‘But if the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.’ By this is meant the bodily union of man and woman from which spring sons and daughters.
    The Secret of the Golden Flower


  2. When the Abysmal (Kan) and the Clinging (Li) unite, the Golden Flower appears; the golden colour is white, and therefore white snow is used as a symbol. But worldly people who do not understand the secret words of the Book of the Elixir of Life have misunderstood the yellow and white there in that they have taken it as a means of making gold out of stones. Is not that foolish?
     An ancient adept said: ‘Formerly, every school knew this jewel, only fools did not know it wholly’. If we reflect on this we see that the ancients really attained long life by the help of the seed-energy present in their own bodies, and did not lengthen their years by swallowing this or that sort of elixir.

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