The Secret Of The Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life

by Richard Wilhelm

Overview

First Published in 1999. This ancient Chinese manual of spiritual alchemy was brought to the West in translation by missionary and theologian Richard Wilhelm who is assisted in this book by Carl Jung. Averse to the blind aping of oriental ways, Jung suggests that Eastern treasures are best used to enrich our understanding of the work we have to do on ourselves and our culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415868792
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/16/2013
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Richard Wilhelm, C.G. Jung, and Cary F. Baynes, whose collective scholarship made possible the Bollingen edition of the I Ching, also contributed to this presentation of another ancient Taoist text. "The Secret of the Golden Flower," the treatise that forms the central part of this book, was discovered by Professor Wilhelm, who recognized it as essentially a practical guide to the integration of personality. His German translation, published in the autumn of 1929 shortly before his death, was immediately hailed by Jung as a link between the insights of the East and his own psychological research, a relationship explored by the great analytical psychologist in a brilliant and significant commentary. Cary F. Baynes rendered Wilhelm's German text into English.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Discussion of the Text, RichardWilhelm; p1_Chapter 1 Origin and Contents of the T’ai I Chin Hua Tsung Chih; Part 2 Translation of the T’ai I Chin Hua Tsung Chih; Part 3 The Hui Ming Ching; Part 4 Commentary, C. G. Jung; p4_Chapter 1 Introduction; p4_chapter2 The Fundamental Concepts; p4_chapter3 Phenomena of the Way; p4_chapter4 The Detachment of Consciousness From the Object; p4_chapter5 The Fulfilment; p4_chapter6 Conclusion;