How to get *anything*

[Okazaki Castle]

Divination I would contend is not so much a question of seeing ahead into a predetermined future but rather of creating the desired future by weaving it into being. Thus, it is a question of deciding one's focus, being clear as to one's goal, and then walking the path which leads there. Greater goals take a longer weave. With that introduction, let us now skip to this excerpt from the 'fiction' book 'A Tale of The I Ching: How the Book of Changes Begun', authored by some dude who calls himslef Wu Wei and claims to be the reincarnation of Fu Xsi. He says that in a more diplomatic and easily-accepted way though by being very humble about it, cuz humans react like that. Essentially though this is insight fresh from the Original Void, brought through without even having to mediate much. Makes sense, confirmed by my own experience, and I believe him. So see what you think:

"Each of the eight great kua combines with itself and with the other seven to produce sixty-four kua of six lines each. Each six line kua represents a condition or situation in heaven or on earth; and within each condition or situation are six stages of change, each stage prepresented by a line. In the sixty-four kua of six lines each, there are three hundred eighty-four stages of change, each stage represented by a line. Taken all together, the sixty-four kua represent a movement, a cycle, from its beginning to its end, such as the four seasons of the year, or a full day, or from the beginning of a project to its end. If we arranged the sixty-four kua in a circle, each six-line kua would represent one step of the circle. The first line at the bottom of each six-line kua represents the onset of a condition, such as the condition of 'Holding Back in the Face of Danger':

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The condition progresses through its six stages, beginning with the first line, which represents the start of the waiting when danger has not yet appeared, and ends with the top line which indicates that the waiting is over because the danger has come; then the next condition begins."

"What is the next condition?" asked Tan.

"It depends on the action you took during the condition of "Waiting in The Face of Danger". If you were wise and took the correct steps, you could have caused the onset of the condition of 'Peaceful Prosperity and Harmony on Earth':

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If you were unwise and engaged in foolish action, you could have caused the onset of the condition of 'Persecution':

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or another of the conditions that are dangerous and unpleasant. According to the action that you take in any situation or condition, any other condition or situation symbolized by the other sixty-three kua can be initiated."

Tan thought for a moment and then his eyes opened wide and he looked at Fu Hsi in astonishment. Fu Hsi nodded and smiled. Tan said, "That means that by choosing our actions we can bring about any condition we desire."

Fu Hsi lightly slapped his staff in applause. "Very good my son, very good. There is more to it than that, but, generally speaking, by acting in a certain manner, you can cause the onset of any condition that you desire."

"Is that not the most valuable piece of information in the world?"

Fu Hsi smiled again and nodded "It is one of the most valuable pieces - there are others."


Thus we see why, in practice, when you set a goal or focus in life, an end to aim for, you are not actually that free anymore: a certain course must be followed to reach the end. That course is a process of moving through interlocking kua conditions, changing one situation into another in an overall connected pattern, thereby producing an overall weave of events, bound by a set of firmly interconnected hexagrammatic light-code activations. With a certain past genetic history, ie set of activations, different future choices become open to you. This is what weaving is useful for. It is how you create the future you desire down here. It is also why attention and scrupulous perfection must be applied to each and every life situation, combining them in the precise lock-code mechanism combinations to lead you where you want to go. There is science to it, for only certain scenarios can lead to other scenarios, both in terms of one kua/hexagram to another and in terms of wider, longer weaves, or sets of scenarios.


all the best all,
Okazaki Castle, plus Himeji Castle.

[m1thr0s]

It is highly unlikely that Fu Hsi would have had this conversation with anyone since the whole notion of favorable vs unfavorable hexagrams did not exist in his time...This whole idea crept in much later and reached its pennacle under Confucius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius) who really was an abhorent moralizer from my perspective. Possibly this is because much of his work is not really his own but consists of the ghosted writings of others using his name.

At bottom, there are no good or bad hexagrams, thus there are no good or bad fortunes defined therein. Yet we do have a basis for considering divination valid if we view it as a kind of diagnostic measurement. At the level of divination, we have an immediate biofeedback enginery that yields specific energy readings on a DNA level...one really could not design anything better built upon (or rather integrating) pure chance itself.

Prior to the Analects and the Judgements and all the rest...the old school form of divination really looked at the eight kua themselves and the images created from their various combinations. This allowed the sages to create a fresh diagnostic report, or conclusion, with each reading they took when contrasted against a specific person and/or situation. So any of the hexagrams might have yielded a "good" or "bad" omen using this method, since there is a time and a place for everything and anything not in its proper time and place is potentially hazardous etc... These sages would have spent many years learning how to apply this diagnostic tool since there would be literally millions of scenarios to consider and even this would not exhaust it all. It would have been a very lofty sort of discipline, much akin to a Shamanic practise, that required a natural aptitude of the highest order conjoined with a great deal of time and study.

It is certainly true that the I Ching does not create futures. That isn't what it is. People create futures based upon their choices, in lieu of their circumstances. The degree of consciousness or unconsciousness they bring to these choices will affect specific outcomes just as surely as cause-and-effect are related to each other, or yin is related to yang, for that matter.

m1thr0s

[Okazaki Castle]

It is highly unlikely that Fu Hsi would have had this conversation with anyone since the whole notion of favorable vs unfavorable hexagrams did not exist in his time...This whole idea crept in much later and reached its pennacle under Confucius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius) who really was an abhorent moralizer from my perspective. Possibly this is because much of his work is not really his own but consists of the ghosted writings of others using his name.


Agreed, it is more what I would consider poetic license when communicating a set of specific truths to persons locked in a particualr mindset. The good vs bad thing is really just to illustrate the wider point in ways that can be easily be grasped by the average reader. Your insight is just too developed and pure to pass over the inexactitude, much as was my comment in the above post regarding humility as a form of lying to make things palatable and digestible to mainstream.

all the best,
Oazaki.

[YsetEternal]

During the Vernal Eq. Ritual I performed with some of the members of my old OTO camp, the wine spilled on the Book of the Law during the throwing of the I Ching and the definition of the coins read something like Dont worry about the spilled wine...

It was years ago so I dont rememebr exactly, and Ive not been the best at keeping a magickal journal, so its the nearest I can remember to the actual definition of the coins.

We all found it hilarious and it was the perfect ending to the Eq ritual...

See reason for editing, and if this doesnt belong here please move it, sorry.