Home›SearchSearchResults for “Alchemy”SearchConfidence Register:AllDocumented History and SocietyScriptural and Theological TraditionPractitioner SystemContested and Comparative ScholarshipReference and ClassificationConfidence Standing:AllThoroughly VerifiedVerifiedDevelopingMatches 97 across 10 categories. Only the first 16 could be ranked. Use a longer or more specific word to see the rest.Practices3Internal alchemy (neidan)Meditative PracticesA Daoist contemplative discipline that takes the vocabulary of the laboratory, furnace and cauldron, elixir and firing times, and relocates...Taixi (Embryonic Breathing)Meditative Practices... ation and was reinterpreted in internal alchemy, neidan, as a wholly inner circulation of qi. It stands for the Daoist conviction that the untrained breath ties one to mortality and the perfected breath returns one to th ...ZuowangMeditative Practices... ical disciplines of breath and internal alchemy. Modern Daoist and comparative writers treat it as China's closest counterpart to contentless contemplation elsewhere.Denominations2Quanzhen (Complete Reality)Taoism... the three doctrines. Its heart is inner alchemy, neidan, the refining of the body's vital energies, jing, qi, and shen, through meditation, breath control, stillness, and moral discipline, in order to still desire, culti ...Shangqing (Highest Clarity)Taoism... of the gods within the body, and inner alchemy over communal ritual. Founded on revelations received by the medium Yang Xi, it sought immortality through mystical visionary practice and the recitation of sacred scriptur ...Disciplines1WeizzaFigures in Burmese Buddhist folk belief held to have attained extended life and supernormal power through esoteric practice, documented as history and belief, not instructed here... ed, through esoteric practice combining alchemy, meditation, mantra recitation and the ritual use of potent objects, a form of greatly extended life and supernormal power that falls short of full Buddhist enlightenment. ...Religious Organization & Structure1QuanzhenLineages... er cultivation, meditation and internal alchemy, the refinement of body and mind toward union with the Dao, rather than on the communal liturgy of exorcism and offering. It self-consciously drew Daoist, Buddhist and Conf ...Secret Societies3Hermetic Order of the Golden DawnHermetic Societies... ng together Kabbalah, astrology, Tarot, alchemy, geomancy, and the Enochian system of John Dee into a single graded curriculum. Its grade structure was modeled on the Tree of Life, and it developed influential ritual and ...RosicrucianismRosicrucian Societies... with Hermetic philosophy, Kabbalah, and alchemy, presenting an invisible college of adepts who guard ancient wisdom. The movement inspired many later initiatic orders that took the Rose Cross as their emblem.Societas Rosicruciana in AngliaRosicrucian Societies... ncluding Kabbalah, Hermetic philosophy, alchemy, and sacred symbolism. It is organized into colleges and a grade structure of nine grades in three orders and functions as a scholarly and devotional fraternity rather than ...Religious Roles & Titles1DaoshiTaoism Roles... e monastic devoted to meditation, inner alchemy and the monastic round. In both cases the standing rests on ordination and the transmission of texts and ritual authority from a master, not on congregational appointment, ...Sacred Geometry1Earlier Heaven BaguaPattern... it is used for contemplation, for inner alchemy and for the theory of the changes rather than for practical siting. The arrangement is set out in one of the Ten Wings, the commentary that supplies the trigrams their attr ...Enochian Governors1Sigmorf... nd Dee and Kelley's attention turned to alchemy and to the patronage of the imperial court.Parts of the Soul1HunDaoist... t to the earthbound po. Daoist internal alchemy (neidan) practice concerns itself substantially with stabilising and unifying the hun as part of cultivating a settled, undivided spirit.Meridians2Conception Vessel... letes the Microcosmic Orbit of internal alchemy.Governing Vessel... forms the Microcosmic Orbit of internal alchemy.