The West’s foremost translator of the I Ching, Richard Wilhelm thought deeply about how recent readers may just take pleasure in this ancient work and its perennially valid insights into change and chance. For him and for his son, Hellmut Wilhelm, the Book of Changes represented no longer only a mysterious book of oracles or a notable source of the Taoist and Confucian philosophies. Of their hands, it emerges, as it did for C. G. Jung, as an important key to humanity’s age-old collective unconscious. Here the observations of the Wilhelms are combined in a volume so as to reward specialists and aficionados with its remedy of historical context–and so as to serve also as an introduction to the I Ching and the that means of its famous hexagrams.
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