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Scroll
Twelve
I Ching - The Book of Changes
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Scroll Twelve contains :
- The Seventh Secret
- Introduction to The Book of Changes
The
Seventh Secret
"The I Ching is mathematical and philosophical in form.
Its structure is compatible with that of the Qabalah."The actual divinatory apparatus is quite simple, and five minutes is adequate for obtaining a fairly detailed answer to any question, except perhaps the most obscure questions."
- Perdurabo. Yi King. 1921
The I
Ching can be used to inquire into any area, including
Health*,
Government, Family, & Individual.
* See: Shima, Miki. "The Medical I Ching" for health applications.
Published by Blue Poppy Press.
The Book
of Changes
The I Ching, the Canon of Changes, is an actual book. In fact, it is several books.
Multiple, varied translations of this ancient text are available from booksellers everywhere.
The first translation that became very popular in the western world was the Wilhelm-Baines (two editors) version that was (and still is) published by the Princeton University Press; this is an in-depth text and a scholarly work.
Other translations eventually became available, so that today one has a choice of simple paperbacks, illustrated texts, and various other approaches.
Very few of these are as useful and truthful as the old Princeton text; many are just plain inferior translations performed by amateurs.
And then there is (in your Instructor’s opinion) the Premier Publication:
.
The Book of Changes
and the Unchanging TruthCopyright © 1983 by Ni, Hua Ching.
Published by:
The Shrine of the Eternal Breath of Tao, Malibu, CA
and
College of Tao and Traditional Chinese Healing
117 Stonehaven Way, Los Angeles, CA 90049
This text, written in English by a native Chinese Taoist Master, seems to set the information forth in a clear and simple manner, clearly superior in its translation to any other version.
Master Ni tells us (in the opening pages) that:
"After long periods of observation and life experience, the ancients not only gathered information about Nature, but also discovered the laws behind all the seeming diversity found in nature.
"The development of the I Ching system was one of the first great successes in the ancients’ attempts to find the laws which regulated all phenomena . . .
"Since life is the main theme of all useful knowledge, the Book of Changes, the Tao Teh Ching, acupuncture, the internal medicine system, the internal work of Taoist cultivation . . . all make living in harmony with nature their foundation."
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