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Was it on this forum? I believe there was a thread somewhere about another oracle system, that has 4,096, or 4,096 'statements' - one for each possible combination of line castings .... I believe that some believe it is based on the Yi, and is perhaps a good companion to the Yi (e.g. that for each reading you get, you only look up one statement - regardless of how many changing lines you get)?
Someone else said that it had a different purpose, or there was a differnt way you consulted it, and someone else - maybe the thread's author? - said that much of the book was destroyed so what we are left with is an incomplete copy - where someone 'filled in' the blanks by repeating other known lines (which seems that it might make it a bit unuseable, or far, far less useful, as if you had a Yi with half of the hexagrams and lines missing - and someone had instead filled in the blanks.)
But besides all this, I'm interested in finding that thread, or at least knowing the name of that oracle.
Thanks, David.
Thanks Bradford. That's it, and the version I know about is by Christopher Gait. I was able to download a sample of the Kindle edition, which includes a lot of the book's intro material and the divination verses for the first five hexagrams - so I have enough to get started and to get a sense of this particular Forest.Yi Lin or Forest of Changes.
LiSe would know best, but I think she translated the Shén Shù” - the Spirit Numbers of Zhuge Liang and not the Yilin. https://www.yijing.nl/shenshu/index.htmlI thought LiSe had translated this ....
Hi, David:LiSe would know best, but I think she translated the Shén Shù” - the Spirit Numbers of Zhuge Liang and not the Yilin. https://www.yijing.nl/shenshu/index.html
However, I did find this page on her site about the Yilin, and it references and links to Gait's book on Amazon - which I mentioned above.
D.
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