Path: shell.portal.com!svc.portal.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: Steven Ericsson Zenith Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.philosophy.taoism,talk.religion.misc,soc.culture.china,alt.consciousness,alt.thelema Subject: Re: Aleister Crowley's Education (Re: misdirections (i ching and tarot 2) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 01:27:55 -0700 Organization: The Temple of the Immortal Spirit Lines: 22 Message-ID: <317DE60B.F29@thetemple.com> References: <31692566.63AB@bga.com> <829731354snz@mbha.demon.co.uk> <4l8e2c$r6@nkosi.well.com> <4lkbjk$amu@jobe.shell.portal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zenith.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) Xref: shell.portal.com alt.magick:72030 alt.magick.tyagi:7778 alt.philosophy.taoism:3450 talk.religion.misc:215179 soc.culture.china:256558 alt.consciousness:26038 xiwangmu wrote: > > 49960423 kaos day > > sv : > |>Crowley also travelleed extensively in China. His work with the I Ching was > |>prompted by two factors; firstly it was _not_ covered in the GD material, > > I think it had been newly translated by Legge when Crowley got hold of it, > and many Sinologists no longer regard Legge's translations, while perhaps > well-intended, as completely authoritative. It was hardly "newly translated" - some tens of years earlier (Legge died in 1897). I'm not sure even Legge intended it to be "completely authoritative" credit goes to him for recognising its importance and bothering to translate it at all. I shouldn't listen to the scholarly Sinologists - few of whom have done much better since - ask a Taoist ;-) -- Steven Ericsson Zenith - Sunnyvale, California. mailto:steven@thetemple.com, http://www.thetemple.com/Steven/ "Never confuse wisdom with luck." Rule #44