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I think that's the crux of the thing, and I think it's what Hilary was saying earlier on.
And so the interpretive dimensions should be used in that same spirit - when they are useful, so what if they're hit and miss. The authors themselves were inconsistent in their application of their own rules of, because there was no need to be consistent. The rules were there to create ideas and imagery, metaphors and analogies, or to weigh little proverbial snippets from Chinese culture for inclusion in the Zhouyi. The rules were there to open doors and windows, not as some hard and fast scaffolding for the system, which they were later perceived to be. Of course this inconsistency led to vague justifications in minds like Wilhelm's, who had to apologize for "correctness" working so little of the time (actually worse than half the time) on the grounds of "vagaries of the Time."
Looking around us we don't see a lot of explicit order and symmetry - most of it seems to be enfolded in what looks like a superficial layer of chaos (Bohm's Implicate Order). I don't think the Yi authors had a problem in letting the Yi look like this, with hints of order and hints of chaos mixed in equal measure. In fact I personally suspect that was behind the thinking that jumbled the orderly pair of Hexagrams into the more chaotic looking King Wen arragement.
what I meant by "personal,distorted views"is that you (or anybody else for that matter)would be personally inclined to believe there is a divine supply of knowledge to humans at the right times in history...and I consider this to be an oversimplified solution to the problem at hand.
But,who knows,maybe there is a:mystery school"asociated to the Yi,discrete for obviuos reasons to all mystery schools
But,without imposing my own beliefs on this matter,and until further proof appears,I strongly stay rooted in this world's human intellect, curiosity and creativity.
FIRST OF ALL HELLO DOBRO
If you care to read all of my message first
and then dissect it into critical pieces you will see that I also said I don't want to impose my own beliefs ion this subject either
I only thought that I would be able to oppose somebody else's opinion with respect
but apparently it generates conflict with you.
I guess we all should think like you.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU DOBRO and MARTIN.
Unfortunately some persons react badly when they are confronted.
Seen-felt from the inside, the 'other world' factor is fairly obvious. And when there is enough clarity in this seeing-feeling (it seems that it develops, it gradually becomes clearer) that hidden factor becomes completely obvious. It becomes a fact, an objective fact in an inner sense.
Clarity,
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