The Trigrams of Han: Inner Structures of the I Ching by Steve Moore
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Overview: The Trigrams of Han: Inner Structures of the I Ching is a book by Steve Moore published in 1989 by the Aquarian Press.
Since the 1960s, interest in the Chinese I Ching, the Book of Changes, has risen to unprecedented levels in Europe and America. It has gained an enormous popular reputation as a work of divination, a reputation no doubt enhanced by the interest shown in it by the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. As a result, translations, popularizations and works of interpretation have flooded onto the market in recent years. It may therefore seem superfluous to add yet another volume to an already expansive literature.
However, this is not another work on divination and is intended for the reader whose interest in the I Ching extends beyond its predictive use. Its subject matter is at once both smaller and larger than the Book of Changes. Smaller, in that it deals primarily with the eight trigrams and their various arrangements, correspondences and uses, rather than with the hexagrams and texts of the book itself. Larger, in that it examines the concepts related to the trigrams in a much broader context: as part of an all-encompassing cosmological and cosmographical system which developed, for the most part, from quite separate roots. It is a system which sought to explain the nature of the world and its processes in terms of the Five Elements, yang and yin, the directions, numbers, the trigrams and so forth, correlated together like interlocking rings.
Steve Moore (11 June 1949-16 March 2014) was a British comics writer. Moore was credited with showing writer Alan Moore (no relation), then a struggling cartoonist, how to write comic scripts. His career has subsequently been quite closely linked with the more famous Moore: the pair collaborated under pseudonyms (Steve’s pseudonym was Pedro Henry, Alan’s was Curt Vile) on strips for Sounds, including one which introduced the character Axel Pressbutton, who was later to feature in the Warrior anthology comic, as well as a standalone series published by Eclipse Comics. Moore was also a dedicated student and practitioner of the I Ching and consulted it every morning, without fail, from 1969 onwards, recording the results in his I Ching Diary. In 1989, he published The Trigrams of Han: Inner Structures of the I Ching; this scholarly work led Moore to be inducted into the Royal Asiatic Society as a Fellow. From 1995 until its final issue in 2002, Moore edited The Oracle: The Journal of Yijing Studies and he was a co-author (with Edward Hacker and Lorraine Patsco) of I Ching: An Annotated Bibliography, published in 2002.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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