The Yi Jing: Or, Book of Changes

Cary F. Baynes

Princeton University Press, Jan 1, 1967 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 740 pages

'The I Ching, or Book of Changes' is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for three thousand years, and interest in it has been spreading in the West. First set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the Book of Changes deepened in meaning when ethical values were attached to the oracular pronouncements; it became a book of wisdom, eventually one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, and provided the common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy.

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User Review  - Ayam Abraxas - Goodreads

The I Ching describes the changes of time, and our relationship to it. The King Wen sequence was translated into a mathematical formula by Terrence Mckenna who lined it up with our time line described ...

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User Review  - KA N Newton - Goodreads

Not your average review but if it wasn't good I would not have bought more than one copy over nearly 40 years. I bought my first copy in 1975 when I had a secret bet on the Grand National on Escargot ...

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Yi Jing: Or, Book of Changes; Issue 19 of Bollingen Series (General) Series; Issue 19 of Bollingen series, 19
• Editor: Cary F. Baynes
• Translated by: Richard Wilhelm, Cary F. Baynes
• Edition: 3, reprint
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1967
• ISBN: 069109750X, 9780691097503
• Length: 740 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / I Ching