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Hi dear all. I've started reading the foundations of internal alchemy by wang mu.  I would be grateful if someone suggested a text of the stages after the first 4 of combining yang and yin. Thanks again.

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I don't recall Wang Mu's book talking about 72 stages...I think that's a different school of thought, from Mo Pai, which is an offshoot of Daoist neidan.

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72 is not unique to mo pai

 

  then again, if the first 4 arent understood well enough, of what use are the later?  :D

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Just googled the significance of the number 72 - my favourite fact, from wiki, is this

 

72 is the smallest number whose fifth power is the sum of five smaller fifth powers

 

195 + 435+ 465 + 475 + 675 = 725

 

So there, it's all in the numbers!

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72 is not unique to mo pai

 

I don't recall it being in Wang Mu's book. The four stages are a different thing from 72.

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