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- The I Ching is neither scripture nor a literary work, nor even a work of rationally coherent philosophy. It is, in fact, a three-thousand-year-old book of divination—a fact even more difficult for scientifically minded Westerners to square with traditional ideas about religious texts.
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The I Ching is utterly unlike the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. It tells no stories, and its text is oracular, a highly metaphorical kind of poetry that is decipherable to Westerners and most Chinese only through the detailed commentaries of both Chinese sage-scholars and Western translator-interpreters.
The Christian I Ching Society explores the synergies between the ancient Asian wisdom source known as the I Ching and the Christian spiritual tradition. We have found the I Ching a amazing tool of discernment, that is, a tool for exploring how God is calling us to live our lives.
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One might think Jesus wants an armed revolution. But this is not the case. On the contrary, Jesus is calling for an overturning of Pax Romana, the peace through force that is the calling card of the Roman Empire. Jesus brings instead Pax Christi, the peace of Christ, a peace based on love, compassion, and equality. Jesus knows that the Roman Empire...
This hexagram consists of the lower trigram Christ under the upper trigram Wonder. The image of Christ is Fire, and the image of Wonder is Lake. Thus we have the lake over the fire. This is an unstable situation. Fire cannot long survive like this. Soon the fire will be extinguished, and a new order will emerge.
There is a time... 1. To bring about social revolutions, but only as a last resort; revolutions have a high cost and result in much sorrow. 2. To know that not all are able to bring about a successful revolution. It requires the support of the people and precise timing. 3. To be clear that the leader of the revolution must be free from Ego and clos...
The I Ching or Yijing (Chinese: 易經, Mandarin: [î tɕíŋ] ⓘ), usually translated Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The I Ching was originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC).
Hexagram 22 | The Christian I Ching. Archetype 22: Elegance. In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews?
Dec 24, 2005 · Jesus becomes Emmanuel, ‘God with Us’, and the story of his povery and homelessness at birth is the first sign that he is here to accept weal and woe, the complete package. Christ’s suffering to come is a powerful theme in Christian depictions of his birth.
Yi Jing [I Ching]: The Book of Changes in Side-by-Side Translation. Chinese Reading Center. 易经 Yi Jing [I Ching] The Yi Jing is quite possibly the oldest book in the world. It happens to be a book of divination but one that has earned a central place in Asian culture.
