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Is Wilhelm giving his own ideas when he talks about The Sequence, or is this a translation from a Chinese text?
The ramifications of pseudological connections in an ad hoc mnemonic device are apt to confound not only one's cognitive dexterity in its vain attempt to plumb the profounder depths of the truly multifaceted 'ecology' of the Yi, but also to defeat any attempted aesthetic appreciation of a more purely literary approach.
The truth of the matter is that the King Wen sequence(the one we use or received)IS NOT MATHEMATHICALLY PERFECT.There seems to be no logic to it and so far noone has explain
the rationale behind it.
The traditional sequence of hexagram pairs is in two chapters of 15 and 17 pairs.Can anyone give me a little background on why we use the sequence we do
The traditional sequence of hexagram pairs is in two chapters of 15 and 17 pairs.
4 of the pairs (1/2, 27/28, 29/30 and 61/62) are made of 8 hexagrams that look alike
seen from both top and bottom. The other 56 hexagrams look different when reversed,
so only 28 "two-way" hexagrams are needed to display these 56 hexagrams.
HI Lienshan
maybe this link would interest and/or help you.Ithink is in your line of work:
http://iching.egoplex.com/king-wen-new-symmetry.html
SERGIO
the King Wen order isn't a matter of mathematics.
PS. The broken "yin" lines were originally symbolized by both the number six /\ and eight )( signs
and that's a problem to the theory of Dr. Frank R. Kegan, because there is no emty space in a /\
However, it is not the numerals in ancient Chinese that are essential, as you say the order is not a matter of mathematics. I would suggest it is a matter of philosophy in general ...
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