Often referred to as the Eranos edition, this revised and updated translation offers the most substantial advance inChing since Richard Wilhelm introduced the oracle to the West in the 1920s. TheChing is one of the oldest Chinese texts and the world's oldest oracle. Accumulated from over 2,500 years of diviners, sages and shamans and born out of the oral tradition, theChing as we know it today is a collection of texts, imagery and advice, philosophy and poetry, divided into 64 chapters. There are 64 hexagrams, created from a collection of six lines, either broken or solid. In order to "read" from the book, you must cast a hexagram. The traditional method requir ..