Chinese charms, sections 4-6

 

4. ZODIAC COMBINED WITH EIGHT TRIGRAMS
5. EIGHT TRIGRAMS
6. MAGIC SPELL CHARACTERS COMBINED WITH EIHGT TRIGRAMS

4. ZODIAC COMBINED WITH EIGHT TRIGRAMS

5. EIGHT TRIGRAMS

6. MAGIC SPELL CHARACTERS COMBINED WITH EIHGT TRIGRAMS

"The eight trigrams (Pa Kua) of the Book of Changes ( I Ching). This book, one of the Five Classics consists of a set of sixty-four figures known as "trigrams". The trigram is composed of combinations of pairs of eight trigrams each of which represents some power in nature, either active or passive, such as fire, water, thunder, earth, etc. These trigrams are said to have been invented 2000 years and more B.C. by the legendary monarch Fu Hsi, who copied them from the back of a tortoise. Attached to each hexagram are expanatory notes and expository comments. The notes are made in symbolic language which only mystics could understand, but the comments are written in plain language. These comments have lifted the Book of Changes from a primitive book of divination and oracles to an ethical and philosophical importance". [R]
About Pa Kua also look:
http://hawk.hama-med.ac.jp/dbk/china.html
http://www.linksware.com/iching.html
http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/hp/ichingdoc.html

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