Such obscure imagery can entice projections from the unconscious. Its obscure language is typical for oracles (compare the oracle at Delphi, etc). It is well worth reading like a regular book. This is also Palmer/Ramsay's standpoint in "I Ching - The Shamanic Oracle of Change" (1995). It is your associations that count, that is, it is you who should write the comment. Remember that the hexagram is more important than the commentators' texts. The comments in the Wilhelm translation are somewhat prosaic, which is not suitable for this spiritual book. Whereas the hexagram text derives from the Wilhelm translation, the comments are taken from the Legge translation. There you can read the comments of King Wan and Duke of Kau. Under the hexagram number there appears a 'C'. A strong Yang line (a "Nine") has a circle on it. A strong Yin line (a "Six") has a cross on it. Under the heading "The Lines" you can read what the strong lines mean. The headings "Above" and "Below" reflect upon these. Six throws are necessary to determine a hexagram. If the Yang numbers (the threes) are in majority, then a Yang line (whole) will be produced. If the Yin numbers (the twos) are in majority then a Yin line (broken) will be produced. These dice have only two numbers: two and three. To question the oracle you must throw the long dice six times. Thanks to this invention Leibniz was able to design a computer, but he was never able to fabricate it. The binary system is what underlies the computer age. The hexagrams are actually binary representations, if the broken lines are understood as 0 and the whole lines as 1. It was then that he got the idea of the binary system.
A curiosity is that G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) read a Latin version of the I Ching. The broken and whole cracks are extant in I Ching as the whole lines (Yang), and the broken lines (Yin).
From cracks in the bones they were able to forecast the future. Originally, during the Shang dynasty, the soothsayers used bones that were thrown into the fire. The origin of the I Ching hexagrams date back more than 3000 years.
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This software implements the ancient Chinese divinatory system of I Ching, or Book of Changes.
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