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Therefore the processes on earth - blossom and fruit, growth and decay - can be calculated if we know the laws of time.
If we know the laws of change, we can precalculate in regard to it, and freedom of action thereupon becomes possible.
There are the immutable laws under which, according to Chinese thought, changes are consummated.
It is the purpose of the Book of Changes to demonstrate these laws by means of the laws of change operating in the respective hexagrams.
Once we succeed in completely reproducing these laws, we acquire a comprehensive view of events; we can understand past and future equally well and bring this knowledge to bear in our actions.
-Wilhelm
Examples are furnished by the course of the day and year, and by phenomena that occur in the organic world during these cycles.
It is good to point that yin/yang, as representative symbols, are concepts that were developed much later than the Zhouyi. That doesn't mean that ancient Chinese (Xia, Shang and, of course, the Zhou), like many other neolithic and bronze age cultures, weren't keenly aware of duality concepts and expressed them, not only in divination but also in art motifs. Even the earliest pottery examples exhibit duality motifs. It was only natural that, as civilization and philosophy progressed, a taxonomy was developed to express such concepts.
....... the I Ching paraphrased Zhou Yi from the perspective of the human norm, and provided each hexagram with advice of how people should perform in that particular world. ..........
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Thunder is the electric potential that comes before lightning.Deep in the womb of earth there stirs the creative force, Chen, the Arousing, symbolized by thunder. As this electrical force appears there are formed centers of activation that are then discharged in lightening.
When the moon is at its zenith in the sky, cold sets in . . .
[How to determine if a hexagram is male or female]
Thus the Creative in the lowest line of each of the sons (Chen. Li, Tui, in the Primal Arrangement), and the Receptive in the lowest line of each of the daughters (Sun, K'an, Ken, in the Primal Arrangement) is the sex determinant of the given hexagram.
Wilhelm
The Creative produces the invisible seeds of all development.
Oh boy, I think I'm gonna need to go back and go over this one line by line.
Rosada
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