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Hey. I can see how you connect Hexagram 16.4 with the internet ianek because it brings people and ideas together. Which also makes me think of Hexagram 45.
Both of those, Hexagrams 16.4 and 45, to me are talking more about coming together and joining which the internet DOES do.
I think the internet is amazing. If I close my eyes and try and picture it in my mind, I see this fast growing, spreading "thing" that is all encompassingly dispersing and expanding. Like Wind over water. I would say 59 is a perfect example of my inner vision of the internet.
It can be looked at as joining parts together or as dispersing parts out.
The internet can be thought of as the cloud into which the creators of new ideas evaporate and broadcast their memes like seed into the world.
so TV and radio could also be thought of as 59 ? If someone wanted to attach hexagrams to them that is. Both involve ideas being broadcast and so evaporating.
If 59 is the internet to you then thats fine but i don't think its like a solid fact or universal view that 59 is the internet, it just depends on your point of view much the same as a belief that Tarot cards respond in particular to hexagrams depends on your point of view.
I doubt that Khayyam exactly meant “spiritualization of life, transcendance into a higher state, surrender, etc.” in this rubaiyat, it’s only your interpretations. But thanks for the citing it’s interesting for considering. In this case, I think, we should treat of the “wind” and “water” as Empedocles elements not Ba Gua. It means that we have to consider eight hexagrams (Wind – Sun and Chen, Water – Kan and Dui). One of them – H5 “Waiting”- describes main tone of Khayyam’s works. More precisely its fifth line: “Waiting at meat and drink.” You could say that there is no houri in this hexagram. Yes, but you can see them on the corresponding Tarot card –Omar Khayyam, a Sufi, wrote the mnemonic for this as "I came like water, like wind I go" describing the spiritualization of life, transcendance into a higher state, surrender, etc.
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