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| | The Invisible Basilica: Probability and the Yi Jing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | His sources were the oracular traditions employed by the sages of the Shang dynasty, which, according to legend, were originally devised at the dawn of civilization by the mythical culture hero Fu Xi, who had also invented writing, fishing, and trapping. |
 | | Each of the 64 possible hexagrams has its own meaning and oracular value, each of which is described in the text of the Yi Jing and in its commentaries known as the "Ten Wings," written by philosophers of the Confucian school. |
 | | Aleister Crowley was an avid student of the Yi Jing, and frequently consulted the oracle throughout his adult life. |
| www.hermetic.com /sabazius/yijing.htm (1871 words) |
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