King Wen

This strange insectoid intelligence gently directed our authors to study the King Wen sequence of the / Ching, which just happens to be the oldest sequence in that ancient divinatory tool. What they found there... 

The King Wen arrangement of the sixty-four / Ching hexagrams. 

Before turning to the King Wen sequence of the sixty-four hexagrams of the / Ching and what that sequence may reveal of the order of the temporal variables, we should first examine some of the special properties that are possessed by the number sixty-four apart from any other considerations. 

Wallaces work supports our contention that there is a definite relation between the categories of experiential archetypes and the numerical foundations of the / Ching. With that fact as a beginning, we turn our attention to the King Wen sequence of the sixty-four hexagrams to seek the nature of the order of that sequence for what it might reveal about time and metabolism. 

Our conclusion is that the King Wen sequence was ordered, aside from the already stated rules that generate the hexagram pairs, on the following rules ... 

We viewed the King Wen sequence as a continuum and intuited that the ordering principle related to a quality that connected the umelated pairs of hexagrams. We were led to compare the first order of difference, or degree of change, as one moves through the King Wen sequence. 

As if these synthetic symmetries were not enough, in addition we find that when the first order of difference of the King Wen sequence is graphed it appears random or unpredictable (fig. 18A). Elowever, when an image of the graph is rotated 180 degrees within the plane and superimposed upon itself, it is found to achieve closure at four adjacent points (fig. 18B). 

More than 1.2 million hexagram sequences were randomly generated by computer (all sequences having the property possessed by the King Wen sequence that every second hexagram is either the inverse or the complement of its predecessor). Of these 1.2 million Wen-like sequences, 805 were found to have the properties of a three to one ratio of even to odd transitions, no transitions of value five, and the type of closure described previously. Such sequences were found to be very rare, occurring in only. 07 cases or approximately one in every 1,769 of the Wen-like sequences. 

The graph that this whole process generates (fig. 18B), or at least the two columns of value differences that are its numerical equivalent, seems to us to have been at the basis of the King Wen sequence. Our case has been thus far, we hope, a logical extension of qualities clearly important to those who organized the / Ching into the King Wen sequence. 

Our theory is one of a progressive spiral involution of time toward a concrescence, rather than a theory of a static hierarchy of waves, eternally expressed on many levels. This is because the terminal positions in the King Wen wave naturally quantify as zero states. The natural consequence of this is that the terminal sections of an epoch do not contribute to the valuation assigned to lower levels of that particular section of the hierarchy. This results in a progressive drop of valuations toward the zero state as any epoch enters its terminal phase. Only in the situation of final concrescence does the valuation on all levels actually become zero. In fact, the quantified definition of absolute concrescence is that it is the zero point in the quantified wave-hierarchy. 

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