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I am not going to go into the whys and wherefores but this book is not recommended for any purpose. The writer, like many of the writers who publish stuff through Llewellyns is basically writing a book about something he knows very little about and is primarily doing it to make some fast money out of the gullible. Magic and I Ching for casting spells, whatever next?
Hi Willowfox. What book or books do you recommend?
The idea of using the hexagrams in some magical way to cast spells is only in the authors head and no where else.
Actually the Yi does have a long history with the left hand path and magical use -
And the hexagrams do make excellent talismans, with or without stress on
particular changing lines.
This maybe so but it seems to be impossible to find this connection of "hexagrams" with magic anywhere,
The left hand path is always more secretive to history (or discreet, depending on your point of view). For obvious reasons - an example being why Qin Shihuang buried over 400 Fangshi alive. It's a parallel case with entheogens - Chinese shamans were consuming lots of magic mushrooms (ling zhi) and toad venom (wan nian ha ma) in the 1st millenium bce, but that ain't found in Sima Qian's histories either. You have to expect magic to be the mostly hidden iceberg in written history, and even the part that does show to be something other than what it seems, with wild variations that depend on what religious or political institution is viewing it.
You're rapidly becoming one of those Masters of the Wide Learning yourself.
We're mighty proud of you, Son.
Hola Luis!
yes ,I am Uruguayian but did not talk to you before.Hello Compatriot,then!.
Among other things, the words can translate "medicine man."
Sometimes the best way to hide things is in plain view and this might just be the case with the Yi.The information might be right in front of our eyes but we just can not see it -or accept it.That's why I rather not dismiss any idea,however outlandish it may seem a priori.Our intellects can get in the way SOMETIMES.
On a different note I checked Yuan Kuang's book and the changing lines are 6 and 9's.N surprises there.
By the way,have any of you read "Netherworld"by Robert K.G.Temple?There are some interesting things about divination and an extended part devoted to the Yi(if you can cut through some of his pedantic remarks)Worth checking out IMHO.
I'll get back to you on this as I must find the right quotation and I'm not at home at the moment...
Luis:... I must point, however, that in the Journal Asiatique (Paris, 1897, 9th series, t. IX pp, 285-287), Charles de Harlez describes a system of mutations as different from Wilhelm's as it is from Yuan Kuang's....I'm still hunting for those darn two pages of the freaking journal where Charles de Harlez describes that particular system!!...
«A first hexagram is thrown, then a second. After doing this it's examined what traits distinguish the latter from the former. For example, in Hex.1 () and Hex.44 (||<) , the difference is in the last (sic) line, so this was what the fate wanted to appoint, and was taken as an indication of prognosis, the sixth (sic) sentence of koua ; the diviner explained to his imagination and applied it to the object of the consultation.»
Charles de HARLEZ (1832-1899): Le Yi-king du VIIe siècle avant JC. Journal Asiatique 1893.
http://classiques.uqac.ca/classique...rands_Kings/Yi_king_harlez/yi_king_harlez.doc
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