Introduction

[rosada]

The NINTH WING, Hsu Kua, the Sequence - or Order - of the Hexagrams, offers a rather unconvincing explanation of the present sequence of the hexagrams.

It is interesting only because the names of the hexagrams are sometimes given peculiar interpretations that are undoubtedly based on ancient tradition.

This commentary, which of course has nothing to do with Confucius, has likewise been divided and apportioned to the individual hexagrams, under the heading "The Sequence."
-Wilhelm

 

[rosada]

The last {TENTH} wing, Tsa Kua, Miscellaneous Notes on the Hexagrams, is made up of definitions of the hexagrams in mnemonic verses, for the most part contrasting them in pairs.
However, the order followed in the Tsa Kua differs essentially from the arrangement in the present Book of Changes.
These definitions have also been separated and placed with the respective hexagrams under the heading "Miscellaneous Notes."

In the pages following there appear, first, translations of the Shuo Kua, Discussion of the Trigrams, and of the Hsi Tz'u Chaun, Commentary on the Appended Judgements, more correctly called Ta Chuan, Great Commentary. Then follows some material on the structure of the hexagrams, derived from various sources, that is important for understanding of the second portion of this work.
-Wilhelm

That's it! We got through the Introduction! Hurray!
-Rosada

 

[pocossin]

The last {TENTH} wing, Tsa Kua, Miscellaneous Notes on the Hexagrams, is made up of definitions of the hexagrams in mnemonic verses, for the most part contrasting them in pairs.
However, the order followed in the Tsa Kua differs essentially from the arrangement in the present Book of Changes.
These definitions have also been separated and placed with the respective hexagrams under the heading "Miscellaneous Notes."

The 10th wing is clearer when presented whole as Legge does:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/ich/icap7.htm#page_441

The pairing of the hexagrams is preserved, but the order of the pairs is changed. The first three pairs:

1,2
8,7
19,20

At the end of the text, pairing is lost. I think this is because the strings that bound the bamboo slips broke, and the text was incorrectly reassembled.

 

[rosada]

Thanks for those ideas and for posting the sacred-texts.com address.
Wow, that site is a gold mine!
Rosada

 

[rosada]

Just thought I'd post something here just to reactivate this thread so that just for a moment anyway one can read the Introduction, the Discussion of the Trigrams, and The Great Treatise in the order Wilhelm intended.
-rosada