【實用書籍app】I Ching for Thelemites|最夯免費app-綠色工廠好玩App

This version of the I-Ching is pertinent to all Thelemites and those interested in the works of Aleister Crowley. The comments on the Trigrams are those of AC.

This application is NOT A METHOD OF DIVINATION, in and of itself. It requires you to construct your own hexagrams, using traditional Chinese coins, or traditional Yarrow Stalks. Once you have constructed your hexagram, this application will allow you to study in-depth, the hexagrams you've received. It is a compilation of the commentaries on the Yi Jing by The Great Beast of Thelemic philosophy, Aleister Crowley, as well as another prominent Thelemite, Marcelo Ramos Motta.

These Commentaries are what Crowley published as Liber CCXVI, and which Motta subsequently published as The Equinox III, Number 7.

The I Ching (Wade-Giles) or "Yì Jīng" (pinyin), also known as the Classic of Changes, Book of Changes or Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The book contains a divination system comparable to Western geomancy or the West African system; in Western cultures and modern East Asia, it is still widely used for this purpose.

Traditionally, the I Ching and its hexagrams were thought to pre-date recorded history, and based on traditional Chinese accounts, its origins trace back to the 3rd to the 2nd millennium BCE. Modern scholarship suggests that the earliest layers of the text may date from the end of the 2nd millennium BCE, but place doubts on the mythological aspects in the traditional accounts. Some consider the I Ching the oldest extant book of divination, dating from 1,000 BCE and before. The oldest manuscript that has been found, albeit incomplete, dates back to the Warring States period (475–221 BCE).

During the Warring States Period, the text was re-interpreted as a system of cosmology and philosophy that subsequently became intrinsic to Chinese culture. It centered on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change.

The standard text originated from the Old Text version (古文經) transmitted by Fei Zhi (费直, c. 50 BCE-10 CE) of the Han Dynasty, which survived Qin’s book-burning. During the Han Dynasty this version competed with the bowdlerised new text (今文經) version transmitted by Tian He at the beginning of the Western Han. However, by the time of the Tang Dynasty the Old Text version became accepted as standard.

Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, and mountaineer, who was responsible for founding the religion of Thelema. In his role as the founder of the Thelemite philosophy, he came to see himself as the prophet who was entrusted with informing humanity that it was entering the new Aeon of Horus in the early 20th century.