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The Secret of the Golden Flower

A Chinese Book of Life

by Richard Wilhelm · Cary F. Baynes (English trans.)

Wilhelm's translation of a Daoist meditation text on the circulation of light, with a famous psychological commentary by C. G. Jung. Later editions added a translation of Liu Huayang's Huiming jing, a manual of internal alchemy illustrated with diagrams of the inner circulation.

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