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I Ching (Yijing)
Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)
translation · Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.
The I Ching or Book of Changes
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Daoism
Transformation appears in Daoism.
The Yijing is a book of changes. Wilhelm’s mediation made it famous in the West as a Daoist-adjacent classic; the book is older and wider than one school.
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Divination is used in Daoism.
The Yijing is consulted by casting and reading hexagrams. Wilhelm’s book taught a Western public that method; the classic is Chinese and not only Daoist.
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The Yijing is a classic that can be opened and consulted. Wilhelm’s volume is one Western binding of that classic.
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The Yijing is consulted by a cast that produces a hexagram. Wilhelm taught a Western public that method; the classic is Chinese.
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Yijing is used in Divination.
Consulting the Changes is a divinatory use of a classic. It is not Delphi and not Ifá.
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Yijing is associated with Transformation.
The book’s name is Change. The change is a Chinese classic’s subject, not Ovid’s bodies and not alchemical cookery.
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Later readers filed the Yijing with Daoist books. The classic is older and wider; the pointer stays historically uncertain on purpose.
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Yijing is associated with Cycle.
Hexagrams are read as situations that can turn. The turning is the book’s own grammar of change.
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Eight is associated with Daoism.
Later Daoist and popular diagrams use bagua. The Yijing is older and wider than Daoism as a label.
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Chinese tradition
The eight trigrams are the Yijing’s elementary figures. Wilhelm’s English made them a Western divinatory furniture; the classic is older and wider than that.
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Eight is associated with Chinese tradition.
Bagua diagrams belong to Chinese correlative schemes. Luck-eight in later popular talk is not the classic’s only job.
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Five is associated with Chinese tradition.
Five phases and five directions appear in Chinese correlative thought. They are not a pentagram of later European magic.
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Correlative fives and the Change classic share a Chinese world of schemes. They are neighboring tools, not one diagram.
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Tian appears in Chinese tradition.
Wilhelm’s Yijing attests Heaven (Qián / Tian) as sky, order, and moral overhead in the Classic of Changes. Chinese cosmological speech, not every sky-father and not Christian Heaven.
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