The Before Heaven I Ching: Reading the Text of Creation (Researches on the Toltec I Ching)

By William Douglas Horden

Restructures the order of the I Ching hexagrams according to the Xiantian bagua, or Earlier Heaven trigram, arrangement and provides written commentaries for the hexagrams. The resultant order runs from Creation-to-Completion and is interpreted as the primary model of perception of inner and outer reality. This is Volume Nine in the series, Researches on the Toltec I Ching, and follows that progression of investigations into the psycho-spiritual realm of intending and manifesting change. In that regard, it is not specifically a divinatory text, although it can be used in conjunction with other texts more directly consulting the Oracle.The hexagram interpretations are based on traditional animistic views of spirit-in-nature, such as Taoism, and amplified by esoteric Sufi perspectives, exemplified by the work of Henry Corbin on the Imaginal realm. This work concentrates on symbolic perception and interpretation, particularly as images are used as foci of intentions that affect the world of manifestation. The line changes are interpreted here as specific intentions within the soul realm of the Imaginal worthy of emanating into the manifestation realm.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1794535985
• ISBN13: 9781794535985
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.5" x 8.5"