{"id":242,"date":"2010-08-12T18:11:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T01:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetolteciching.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2021-01-30T23:04:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T06:04:25","slug":"a-new-i-ching-for-the-new-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thetolteciching.com\/blog\/a-new-i-ching-for-the-new-dynasty\/","title":{"rendered":"A New I Ching for the New Dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spirit of the Age has reversed course again and we have entered a new Dynasty.\u00a0 Unlike the dynasties of old that ruled one nation or one people, this time it is an egalitarian Dynasty, a global shift of awareness, setting free the potential of all nations and all people for the next<\/em> 5,000 years.<\/p>\n

The old Dynasty of nationalism, aggression and self-interest is overturned now by time.\u00a0 In its place, like billions of seeds fallen on the fertile plain of history, the first signs of the new age of enlightened peers<\/em> reveal the emerging change to all.\u00a0 Like the light from a distant nova that takes years to reach us, the effects of this spiritual revolution are already on their way.<\/p>\n

We have entered the Dynasty of the Open Secret.\u00a0 Founded in seclusion by a group of priest-diviners on the Summer Solstice of 1998, it will be celebrated worldwide on the Winter Solstice of 2012<\/a> and usher in changes that will carry us all into the Golden Age of Humanity.<\/p>\n

As discussed in the previous post, we follow here an ages-old tradition of legitimizing the new Dynasty by introducing a new version of the I Ching<\/em> that more accurately reflects the vision and ethics of our age while still maintaining the shamanically-charged power of the Oracle.\u00a0 As explained there, it is the periodically revised Sequence of the 64 hexagrams\u2014the mysterious order into which its 32 pairs of hexagrams are arranged\u2014that renews cyclic time and restores humaneness to the social order.<\/p>\n

This new version of the Oracle is based on a new arrangement of the hexagrams named for its Dynasty:\u00a0 The Open Secret Sequence.<\/p>\n

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Diagram 1: Trigrammic Substitution between Fu Shi, King Wen, and Open Secret Maps<\/p><\/div>\n

In the diagram above, the Fu Shi<\/a>, or Earlier Heaven, arrangement occupies the centermost circle, while the King Wen<\/a>, or Later Heaven, arrangement occupies the second circle.\u00a0 Even though the Fu Shi is considered the Primal Arrangement of the eight elemental forces of change that manifest this world, research indicates that it may have actually been discovered many centuries after the King Wen.\u00a0 The Fu Shi arrangement may in fact be related to the work of the great diviner Shao Yung<\/a>, whose work inspired Leibniz<\/a> to marvel that the binary code had been discovered in China long before his own discovery.<\/p>\n

The Fu Shi arrangement is a static one that pairs the trigrams across from one another\u2014the trigram Heaven, made of all solid lines, for instance, is paired with its opposite-complement, Earth, made of all broken lines.\u00a0 By contrast, the King Wen arrangement, which delineates a dynamic process of growth and decay, is read in a clockwise circular manner:\u00a0 Beginning with Thunder (Shock, Movement) in the East of the second circle and ending with Mountain (Stillness, Death) in the North-East, each of the trigrams spurs the next in the cycle of organic development in the lives of societies, organizations, ideologies, relationships, and individuals.\u00a0 The Fu Shi, then, is thought of as the eternally paired dualities whose harmonious balance gives rise to the King Wen arrangement of the invisible forces giving rise in turn to the phenomenal world of change.<\/p>\n

Tradition has it that the trigrams of the Fu Shi arrangement shine through<\/em> those of the King Wen.\u00a0 In other words, trigrams occupying the same compass point overlay one another, illuminating different aspects of the same sacred metaphor for the archetypal change that manifests in every life<\/em>.\u00a0 They share the same space of time <\/em>and are enriched by their association with their shared compass points.<\/p>\n

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Diagram 2: The Spatialization Of Time<\/p><\/div>\n

Diagram 2 shows how the temporal flux of the seasons and the day are superimposed on the four cardinal directions of space.\u00a0 In this way, the developmental cycle of beginning, expanding, contracting, and return<\/em> is mapped onto East, South, West, and North, respectively.\u00a0 The eight compass points of the map of change are, then, the archetypal placeholders<\/em> that charge their associated trigrams with oracular power<\/em>, since it is the compass points themselves that comprise the real-world ordering principle of the flow of time<\/em>.<\/p>\n

While it is the shamanically-charged Sequence of 64 hexagrams that legitimizes a new Dynasty, in other words, it is the theurgic<\/a> mapping of the trigrams onto the eight compass points that legitimizes that new Sequence.\u00a0 That ritual act, which produced the Open Secret arrangement of the trigrams, was performed by a group of priest-diviners at the kairotic moment<\/a> of noon on the Summer Solstice of 1998.<\/p>\n

Returning to Diagram 1 now, we see that its outermost circle is occupied by the Open Secret arrangement of the trigrams.\u00a0 Whereas the Fu Shi arrangement is static and the King Wen moves in a circular clockwise manner to show the natural unfolding of phenomena, the Open Secret arrangement is read in a circular counter-clockwise<\/em> direction to show the way of reversing the universal natural tendency toward disorder<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Because the past Dynasty was founded on the inevitability of entropy in social institutions and human relations, it is called the Dynasty of Fate<\/em>.\u00a0 It has been ruled by those who accept such inevitable disintegration and benefit from it.\u00a0 Using their influence to exacerbate the natural trend toward disorder, they have made the fate of perpetual decline<\/em> the common dwelling place of the governed.\u00a0 By “decline” is meant the descent of civilization into ever darker regions of the collective human psyche:\u00a0 ever-shifting wars, church-and-state sponsored hatred of other peoples, creation of urban centers that assure alienation from nature, unjustifiable disparity of standard of living, worldwide poverty and contamination of water sources, self-destructive degradation of the environment and animal habitat, governmental misuse of technology and media to to cow its populace into accepting increasingly authoritarian forms of control, and so on.\u00a0 By tradition, this was called by the priest-diviners weeping for the fate-driven herd<\/em>.\u00a0 And it was called by the sages crying out against waste of life<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In contrast, the newly-emerging Dynasty of the Open Secret is founded on the principle of the conservation of life<\/em>.\u00a0 It recognizes the equality of all life and acts accordingly.\u00a0 It honors human life, animal life, and plant life, transforming the present civilization into one in which human beings wrench loose from the iron grip of Fate and make of this world a paradise for all life.\u00a0 This, the priest-diviners say, is what the Oracle has foreseen.<\/p>\n

Fate is the destructive physical force of disorder<\/em> in the universe and must be struggled against if we are not to fall irrevocably into ruin.\u00a0 This is called by the sages protecting the flickering flame from the void of night<\/em>.\u00a0 And it is called by the priest-diviners feeding the bonfire that will outlast the dark<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For while Fate is the gravity that forever pulls us downwards and darkwards, the Oracle is flight upwards and lightwards:\u00a0 Whereas Fate embodies the certainty of ongoing deterioration, the Oracle embodies the acausal nature of meaningful coincidence.\u00a0 It is in this way that the Oracle interrupts the predetermined course of Fate by identifying those kairotic moments\u2014those crucial turning points appointed by a higher order of cause-and-effect\u2014in which darkness might be converted to light.<\/p>\n

What is the mechanism by which the hexagrams are charged with that oracular power?<\/p>\n

The Open Secret Sequence of the 64 hexagrams is derived directly from the King Wen Sequence by substituting the Open Secret arrangement of the trigrams for those of the King Wen arrangement.\u00a0 In other words, the trigrams in the outermost circle of Diagram 1 are substituted for those in the second circle.\u00a0 In this way, the magically-charged order of the 32 pairs of hexagrams underlying the King Wen Sequence is maintained in the Open Secret Sequence.<\/p>\n

But as explained in the previous post, the legitimizing of the new Dynasty requires more than a new Sequence of hexagrams\u2014it also requires a new interpretation of the hexagrams that reflects the vision and values of the emerging Dynasty.\u00a0 It requires, in other words, establishing a new voice for the Oracle.<\/p>\n

The Toltec I Ching<\/em> is the first speaking<\/em> of that voice.\u00a0 Based on the Open Secret Sequence of the hexagrams, it uses the symbology of the ancient indigenous peoples of the Americas to give voice to the sacredness of all life upon which the new Dynasty is founded.<\/p>\n

The following diagram compares the order and names of the hexagrams in The Toltec I Ching<\/em> and the traditional King Wen version\u2014<\/p>\n

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Diagram 3: Transposing Between Toltec I Ching and King Wen Sequences<\/p><\/div>\n

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Next Week:\u00a0 The Oracle and the War Against Fate
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The Toltec I Ching<\/em>, by Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and William Douglas Horden has just received a Silver Award in the 2010 Nautilus Awards<\/a>.\u00a0 It recasts the I Ching in the symbology of the Native Americans of ancient Mexico and includes original illustrations interpreting each of the hexagrams.\u00a0 Its subtitle, 64 Keys to Inspired Action in the New World<\/em> hints at its focus on the ethics of the emerging world culture.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to go to the main site to see sample chapters, reviews and the link to Larson Publications<\/a> for ordering the book.<\/p>\n

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