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JIUZHEN ZHONGJING 595

adept visualizes them in different parts of his body with the Imperial Lord,
the Great One, the Five Gods of the registers, and the gods of the Dipper. All
these divinities transform themselves into a radiant cosmic infant whose light
fires everything.
The Yuyi Jielin i1 1~ ~ ~ method, so called after the esoteric names of the
Sun and the Moon (Esposito 2004b), became renowned and was adopted in
several later rituals. It consists of visualizing the Emperors of the Sun and the
Moon, who descend to take the adept up to heaven.
Other practices described in the Jiuzhen zhongjing involve the five corporeal
spirits (those of the hands, the feet, and the lungs or head), the twenty-four
spirits (see *bajing), and the divinities of the planets. These practices are also
outlined in the Dongfang shangjing ~ J% L ~ (Superior Scripture of the Cavern
Chamber; CT 405). The original}iuzhen zhongjing also contained an alchemical
method for revitalizing the five viscera (*wuzang), which is now preserved in
the *Wushang biyao (87.6b-13a; Lagerwey 1981b, 186-87).
Isabelle ROBINET

ID Robinet 1979a; Robinet 1984, 2: 66-83; Yamada Toshiaki 1989a

* Shangqing