The I Ching or Book of Changes.
"Once rain falls, remorse is spent. Good fortune comes in the end": First Edition The I CHING or Book of Changes
The I Ching or Book of Changes.
FOREWORD BY CARL JUNG,.
Item Number: 116733
New York: Pantheon Books, 1950.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes. Review copy, with the slip laid in, near fine in very good dust jackets. Attributed to Fu Xi. Baynes’ English rendering of Wilhelm’s German translation. Introduction by Carl Jung. Uncommon.
The I Ching usually translated as Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text and among the oldest of the Chinese classics. With more than two and a half millennia's worth of commentary and interpretation, the I Ching is an influential text read throughout the world, providing inspiration to the worlds of religion, philosophy, literature, and art. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC), over the course of the Warring States period and early imperial period (500–200 BC) it was transformed into a cosmological text with a series of philosophical commentaries known as the "Ten Wings". After becoming part of the Five Classics in the 2nd century BC, the I Ching was the subject of scholarly commentary and the basis for divination practice for centuries across the Far East, and eventually took on an influential role in Western understanding of Eastern thought. The I Ching is used in a type of divination called cleromancy, which uses apparently random numbers. Six numbers between 6 and 9 are turned into a hexagram, which can then be looked up in the text, in which hexagrams arranged in an order known as the King Wen sequence. The interpretation of the readings found in the I Ching is a matter of centuries' debate, and many commentators have used the book symbolically, often to provide guidance for moral decision making as informed by Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The hexagrams themselves have often acquired cosmological significance and been paralleled with many other traditional names for the processes of change such as yin and yang and Wu Xing.
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