Book of Changes
Britishnoun
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So in her swift packing to leave her own world, Mary Malone had taken with her the Book of Changes, as it was called, and the little yarrow stalks with which she read it.
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Carved in every step were the words to a different verse from the Book of Changes.
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One recent Saturday, some 300 people, many in their 20s, attended a free three-hour lecture on the “Book of Changes,” one of the foundations of the feng shui system for aligning physical places and structures with the spiritual world.
The last of the “Five Classics” is the Book of Changes, the most mysterious and the most unfathomable of all the books in the Chinese language.
From Project Gutenberg
The most skilled use the Book of Changes, which was in common use some thirty centuries ago, and by this method see clearly into some scores of years.
From Project Gutenberg
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