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That is a very resonant sentence.THE VERY ABSENCE OF AN IMMEDIATE MEANING IN CHANCE PERMITTED A DEEPER MEANING TO COME TO EXPRESSION IN IT.
They invented the yarrow-stalk oracle in order to lend aid in a mysterious way to the light of the gods.
Suprahuman intelligence [of ancestral spirits] has from the beginning made use of three mediums of expression - men [visions], animals [oracle bones], and plants [yarrow] in each of which life pulsates in a different rhythm.
The Book of Changes is founded on the plant oracle as manipulated by men with mediumistic powers.
The reverse side of the charm has no inscription or pattern other than having the circular central hole with the radiating four corners of the square.The charm is 29.4 mm in diameter and weighs 8.4 grams
Well, Lynn's footnotes say the commentary is actually from Han Kangbo, and it only says that 'three signifies the odd numbers, and two signifies the even numbers'. Fair enough. (Makes me think of geomancy, with the key distinction between odd and even at the beginning.)Must go see what Wang Bi had to say...
Interesting charm, looks like a coin but I doubt it is one (Chinese coins usually have a square hole). Do you a reference that goes with it?
Thanks.
(Chinese coins usually have a square hole)
There is a square relief frame around the hole however. Round holes were probably easier to make.
Interesting stuff.
The hexagrams, consisting of six lines each, are, so to speak, representations of actual conditions in the world [the area between heaven and earth], and of the combinations of the light-giving, heavenly power [ideas, form,impetus]and the dark, earthly power [space, actualization] that occur in these situations.
Within the hexagrams [space], however, it is always possible for the individual lines to change and regroup themselves; just as world situations continually change and reconstitute themselves, so out of each hexagram there arises a new one. The process of change is to be observed in the lines that move, and the end result in the new hexagram thus formed.
-Wilhelm
There is a square relief frame around the hole however. Round holes were probably easier to make.
Interesting stuff.
That is a very resonant sentence.
Now... what is three-like about heaven, and what is two-like about earth??
In addition to its use as an oracle, the Book of Changes also serves to further intuitive understanding of conditions in the world, penetration to the uttermost depths of nature and spirit.
Why isn't " intuitive understanding of conditions in the world" the same as "an oracle"? In other words, if a diviner really depends on an intuitive understanding of the inner life of a querent, is casting necessary?
Why isn't " intuitive understanding of conditions in the world" the same as "an oracle"? In other words, if a diviner really depends on an intuitive understanding of the inner life of a querent, is casting necessary?
The laws of world creation and world maintenance, upon which the arts and sciences are based and developed are not about the oracle/divination.
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In addition to its use as an oracle, the Book of Changes also serves to further intuitive understanding of conditions in the world, penetration to the uttermost depths of nature and spirit. WB
Why isn't " intuitive understanding of conditions in the world" the same as "an oracle"? In other words, if a diviner really depends on an intuitive understanding of the inner life of a querent, is casting necessary?
. . .The Yi Oracle is about answering personal subjective questions. Something Wilhelm and most academics could not bring themselves to do AT ALL.
. . . There are a number of indications in his text that he never consulted the Oracle or had any idea what an Oracle with moving lines changing to a Resultant hexagram might possibly mean (cf hex 57.5 which he compares to hex 18 without any awareness of the Oracle hex 57.5>>hex 18--so the moving line with just a bit of a new beginning moves toward the full hexagram with the total new situation.
By thinking through the order of the outer world to the end, and by exploring the law of their nature to the deepest core, they arrived at an understanding of fate.
The ultimate meaning of the world - fate, the world as it is, how it has come to be so through creative design (ming) - can be apprehended by going down to the ultimate sources in the world of outer experience and of inner experience.
morals
of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
ethics
(usually used with a singular verb ) that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.
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