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Pretty much nodded my head all the way through that, and ended much where you did: LOLI don't even believe in the sequence I only believe in the patterns
I believe in pairs like 1 and 2 and 3 and 4...one can see how they are 2 sides of the same coin
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it cannot be by accident that every hexagram between 3 and 50 finds it's complement within that space.
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Hang on...hang on.....neuron overload.... once I believe in the patterns it seems I would actually have to believe in the sequence......or it wouldn't mean much..
If you want a starting point for patterns in the sequence... er... sit and look at it and see if you spot a new one?
Well, it's the oldest one we've got. I suppose it helps to prove it's not just some random aberration and is actually meaningful and purposeful. (You do get people who want to bin the whole thing and replace it with something systematic and fully comprehensible.)
also a question. Is there any source talking about the Fire and water trigrams as appeared 'later" than the rest ? The feeling I get is without them Yijing is somehow 2d and by adding those two becomes 3D . Is that a later influence , considering the symbolism of fire and water that in other systems has very similar traits with heaven and earth ? ( alchemy for instance) .
Not really... It is the "received sequence" but that doesn't make it the oldest one. The Mawangdui sequence is older, as far as extant copies goes, for example and it has a logical explanation to boot. The so called KWS could be a Han Dynasty construct for all we know. There is even some speculation that it was created using the Jiao Shi Yilin as a basis as there aren't extant copies of the received KWS older than the Yilin itself.
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