The Seba library treats Five Phases in 6 passages, across 2 authors (including Kohn, Livia, Campbell, Joseph).
five phases, see wuxing five planets, 62, 717, 739 five precepts, 263 five sacred mountains
This index entry explicitly equates 'five phases' with the Chinese term wuxing, situating it within a web of correlated cosmological categories—planets, organs, mountains, talismans—that permeate Daoist practice throughout the Handbook.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000thesis
The six titles in the first division include the extant Huangdi neijing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic), an attempt to systematize general medical principles in the form of a dialogue between the Yellow Emperor and various ministers.
The passage identifies the Huangdi neijing as the primary classical text systematizing Chinese medical cosmology, the textual home of Five Phases theory in its medical and correlative dimensions.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000supporting
twelve waxing and waning hexagrams, beginning with all yang, then moving to all yin and back to all yang, were combined specifically with the twelve earthly branches … and through them with the twelve months and the four seasons
This passage describes the correlative cosmological framework of cyclical yin-yang and seasonal correspondences within which Five Phases thinking operates, linking astronomical, temporal, and alchemical categories into a single systematic worldview.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000supporting
the importance of these methods to government is attested by the presence of the governmental office of Watcher of Qi, comprising twelve experts who worked under the Grand Astrologer
The passage illustrates the institutional embedding of qi-based cosmological monitoring—the practical context of Five Phases governance theory—within Han dynastic administrative structures.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000supporting
the five 'register spirits' play a key role in the visualization exercises … They are five body gods who govern the formation of the human embryo
The fivefold organization of body gods governing embryonic formation reflects the Five Phases logic applied to inner cultivation and body-deity visualization within Shangqing Daoism.
, Daoism Handbook, 2000supporting
The archaeology of Japan falls into five blocks.
Campbell's use of a fivefold periodization for Japanese prehistoric archaeology is incidental rather than conceptually linked to Five Phases cosmology, but gestures toward the broader East Asian cultural matrix in which such thinking circulates.
, Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume II, 1962aside