Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00623)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, leonmaurer@a... wrote:
> If you are interested in numerical mathematics, I know of a 
scientist who has 
> worked out all the correlation's of the I-Ching numbers with 
relation to pure 
> mathematics. See: http://pages.prodigy.net/lofting/icmaths.html 

Very interesting. Eliphas Levi proposed a theory of oracles hich 
seems to me to better explain their value in cases in which they have 
value. He sees them as a sort of tabula rasa on which the 
unconscious mind or Higher Self can project otherwise inaccessible 
contents and thereby make them available to the conscious mind. They 
are in other words a means of communication between two parts of 
oneself which tend not to communicate freely.

On another level the I CHING is a form of biblomancy in which ione 
opens a book at random to get answers to a question. The coinc or 
yarrow sticks cover up the fact that the book is essentially being 
opened at random (unless the unconscious oe Higher Self has the 
ability to influence the coins which is a possibility.) It is 
therefore a variation on the classical biblomancy, in which one opens 
a bible at random after posing a question, or some such thing as 
NAPOLEON'S BOOK OF FATE. Anyone who has used it knows the I CHING is 
fart and away the best of these.