Comments on: Why you need a concordance

By: Hilary

Hilary — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:31:04 +0000

I'll be adding Words of Change to the store next Saturday - but first it's available this week to Friends and clients only at half price. You can pick it up from the membership information page.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:41:34 +0000

Absolutely. I just uploaded it for I Ching class members, and I’m hoping they’ll provide me with a few final suggestions and spot any typos, and then I’ll add it to the store here.

By: Glenroy Wolfsen

Glenroy Wolfsen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:42:01 +0000

Will you let us know when it is “up” into pdf and where to find it? Thanks. - Glen

By: Hilary

Hilary — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:49:15 +0000

It’s only small - under 9,000 words including index (just finished!). To start with it’s going to be a pdf, which of course makes for a clickable index. I could add page numbers to the index and send it to lulu.com or someone to be ‘printed on demand’, couldn’t I? Hm - hadn’t thought of that. Thank you for the idea - and for liking the CD.

By: Glenroy Wolfsen

Glenroy Wolfsen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:24:57 +0000

Is this a publication that you are going to produce when you are through? That is, will it be “hard copy” book format? I am not clear on that. Let me know. By the way - i LOVE the CD program you sent - it was so well done and very, very helpful. Thank you. - Glen

By: Hilary

Hilary — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:35:12 +0000

Thank you!

I’ve been noticing as I went through that Huang is pretty consistent in his choice of words. Actually, most people are, most of the time, when it comes to the main, recognised omens; it’s the other recurrent phrases that can get obscured.

I’m just finishing up yuan heng li zhen, and deciding to have faith that people will stick to a small set of words for these, and not to check every single occurrence of each word in each of 8 translations.

By: Glenroy Wolfsen

Glenroy Wolfsen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:01:45 +0000

Also, Hilary, there is a chapter in Alfred Huang’s “The Numerology of the I Ching” - chapter 11, “The Judgments of Good Fortune and Misfortune,” he takes the nuanges of judgments by setting out the Chinese names that fall under the categories of Good and Misfortune, then adds all the words that give these variations and shows as well the hexagrams where they occur. What is diffucult is that he does not tell you WHERE in the hexagram of lines of the hexagram they happen to be, you first have to read in his own translation of the I-Ching everything for that hexagram until you find it. But once found, then it is easy to find that same line, etc, in the Ritsema/Sabbadini and conpare Huang. At least Huang is consistent in always translating the same Chinese words with the same English words for the most part. I have been quite surprised at the inconsistance in translating these vital phrases. Your work is a great and necessary resource - so here’s some encouragement and I look forword with vital anticipation anything you might acccomplish - Glen