“(T)he essential thing is to keep in mind all the strata that go to make up the book. Archaic wisdom from the dawn of time, detached and systematic reflections of the Confucian school in the Chou era, pithy sayings from the heart of the people, subtle thoughts of the leading minds: all these disparate elements have harmonized to create the structure of the book as we know it.” Ancient ChinaI ChingThe OccultEsoterica Author:Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm Understanding the I Ching
“There are many indications that the hexagrams were the original images from which the trigrams were then later abstracted and that the configurations of double lines are derrived from a still later anaysis.” Ancient ChinaI ChingThe OccultEsoterica Author:Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm Understanding the I Ching