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Holy Grail, pareidolia, or something quite simple?

dryjoe

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The discussion about the order of the sixty-four hexagrams in the King Wen sequence has often come to the fore in recent decades (also here, in last June). Namely, are the hexagrams arranged randomly or according to a conscious design?
At long last, I am through with my essay on the (assumpted) initial arrangement of the hexagrams. In this work, I believe, there are convincing arguments for the theory that the unity of opposites might have been the philosophical ground for the classification of the hexagrams well before the received (King Wen’s?) sequence.
My new website still is under development but the article is readable here: https://kingwen.net.

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By the title, I referred to some interesting posts of last year where these sophisticated words characterized the activities of those people who are looking for some sense in the order of the hexagrams in the King Wen sequence. As I think, the case may be much more simple.
Jiao Xun (1763–1820), a famous expert in the Yi jing, in one of his book (Yi tu lüe) set forth a sequence where a basic hexagram and all of its opposites (inverse, complementary, permutated, an their combinations) were packed together in ten segments. The same groups can be clearly disclosed in the King Wen sequence, after a simple transformation from the linear to the vertical writing. Thus, our sequence originally might have been a consciously planned arrangement and had a valid philosophical basis, the idea of the unity of opposites.
Jozsef
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