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Yijing
The Chinese Classic of Changes, consulted by hexagrams. It is older and wider than Daoism; Wilhelm’s English made it a Western divinatory book.
Also known as I Ching · Book of Changes
Daoism
Yijing is used in Divination.
Consulting the Changes is a divinatory use of a classic. It is not Delphi and not Ifá.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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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.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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Yijing appears in Daoism.
Later readers filed the Yijing with Daoist books. The classic is older and wider; the pointer stays historically uncertain on purpose.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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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.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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Book is connected to Yijing.
The Yijing is a classic that can be opened and consulted. Wilhelm’s volume is one Western binding of that classic.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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Lots is used in Yijing.
The Yijing is consulted by a cast that produces a hexagram. Wilhelm taught a Western public that method; the classic is Chinese.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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Chinese tradition
Eight is used in Yijing.
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.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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Five is connected to Yijing.
Correlative fives and the Change classic share a Chinese world of schemes. They are neighboring tools, not one diagram.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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sources
- I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)
The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.