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Hi lightofreason
Sorry that I have cut in my quotation of your posting, but it's only meant to point at the center of this thread:
My focusing on trigrams rather than lines is because the ancient chinese pictogram Changes (I or Yi) shows the sun above the moon.
I agree, that all kinds of systems can be made out of the 64 hexagrams. That's why my reconstruction of the legendary Lien Shan Yarrowstalk Oracle is 100% in accordance with the text of Shuo Kua: ......
I have never seen any "I Ching expert" explain the backwards-moving numbers? ...
Hi lightofreason
Are You unable to explain this Shuo Kua sentence of I Ching:
"This is why the Book of Changes has backward-moving numbers."
Cant you read?
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The Book of Changes is more than I Ching; it's too Kuei Ts'ang and Lien Shan. The sentences above can't be explained by I Ching. The logic consequence is, that the sentences describe the pre-editions of I Ching. The logic consequence is, that the sentences above are older than I Ching !!!
lienshan said:The I Ching edition of The Book of Changes was made about 1122 BC. King Wen changed the order of the hexagrams written on bamboo slips by changing the order of the slips, but he didn't change the texts written on the slips !!!
He only did it of political reasons because the Chou worshipped Heaven, but the order of the hexagrams in Kuei Ts'ang was numerical and according to Richard Wilhelm with 2 Earth first. King Wen placed 3 Heaven first, 2 Earth second and mixed the other bamboo slips into a non-numerical order.
lienshan said:You can't explain the backwards-moving numbers, because they are an ancient number system computed from 2 Earth and 3 Heaven. There are no binary 0 or 1 in this mysterious way of counting described in Shuo Kua:
In ancient times the holy sages made the Book of Changes thus:
They invented the Yarrowstalk Oracle in order to lend aid in a mysterious way to the light of the Gods.
Counting that which is going into the past depends on the forward movement.
Knowing that which is to come depends on the backward movement.
This is why the Book of Changes has backwards-moving numbers.
At least it has nothing to do with hexagram sequences, as hexagrams were not numbered. References were always being made to their names.
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