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aling with a
highly specialized area,
The
Trigrams
of Han
will
be
of
great
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to
anybody with anything
but
a
minimal
knowledge of the
I Ching.
Beginning
with the
history
of the trigrams, three-line structures
whic h
describe
the
evolution
of all things
from
the
duality
of
yin
and
yang,
the
author
moves
on to
discuss
the ir
circular
arrangements and puts forward new theories about
their
dating,
structure and internal
logic.
He
also
examines
the wider
applications of
the
trigrams, including their use in battlefield
strategy
and Taoist magic.
This
fascinating
book will sweep
away
muc h old
and
discred ited mate
rial and throw
a
clearer
lig
ht on
the
mysteries of
the
I
Ching.
1
For
anyone with the slightest
interest in
the
I Ching
it ought to
be
made
compulsory reading.' - Derek
Walters
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THE TRIGRAMS
OF HAN
Inner Structures of the I Ching
STEVE MOORE
TIIB AQUARIAN PRESS
First published 1989
©
STEVE MOORE
1989
Contents
Preface
PART ONE: OPENING THE WAY
1.
Basic Groundwork
2. The Historical Context
3. The Web of the World
PART TWO: CIRCLES OF HEAVEN AND EARIH
4. The World of the Senses Arrangement
5. The World of Thought Arrangement
6. The World of the Elements Arrangement
7. The Three Worlds As One
PART THREE: MAS1ERS OF THE MYSTERIOUS
8. The Devil
Valley
Diagram
9. The Eight Arrays
APPENDICES
1.
The Ma-wang-tui Sequence of the Hexagrams
2. The Current Sequence of the Hexagrams
3. The Worship of
T'ai
I and the Paces of
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Moore, Steve
The trigrams of Han_.
1. Confucianism. I Ching
I.
Title
299'.51282
ISBN 0-85030-808-9
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The
A
uarian Press is part
of
the
~orsons
Publishing Group,
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NNB
2RQ,
England
Printed
in
Great Britain
by
Mackays of Chatham, Kent
13579108642
References
Bibliography
Index
203
213
221
Preface
For
Liz,
With Love.
Since the 1960s, interest in the Chinese
I Ching,
the Book of
Changes, has risen to unprecedented levels in Europe and America.
It
has gained an enormous popular reputation as a work of
divination, a reputation no doubt enhanced by the interest shown
in it by the psychologist C. G. Jung. As a result, translations,
popularizations and works of interpretation have flooded onto the
market in recent years.
It
may therefore seem superfluous to add
yet
another volume to an already expansive literature.
However, this is not another work on divination, and is intended
for the reader whose interest in the
I Ching
extends beyond its
predictive use. Its subject matter is at once both smaller and larger
than the Book of Changes. Smaller, in that it deals primarily with
the eight trigrams and their various arrangements, correspondences
and uses, rather than with the hexagrams and texts of the book
itself. Larger, in that it examines the concepts related to the trigrams
in a much broader context: as part of an all-encompassing
cosmological and cosmographical system which developed, for
the most part, from quite separate roots. It
is
a system which sought
to explain the nature of the world and its processes in terms of
the Five Elements, yang and yin, the directions, numbers, the
trigrams and so forth, correlated together like interlocking rings.
This system survives in the commentaries to the
I Ching,
as well
as in a number of other independent texts from the same period.
As
we shall see, though, there is no evidence of it in the original
text of the
I Ching
itself.
It
is a product of much later correlative
thought, which can be shown to have reached its greatest state
of elaboration during the Han dynasty (202
BC-AD
220).
Unfortunately, the reputation of the
I Ching
as a book of 'ancient

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