"The I Ching has captured continuous attention for over two thousand years. It's considered a book of fundamental principles by philosophers, politicians, mystics, alchemists, yogins, diviners, sorcerers, and more recently by scientists and mathematicians.The first part of this volume is the text of the I Ching proper-the sixty-four hexagrams plus sayings on the hexagrams and their lines-with the commentary composed by Liu I-ming, a Taoist adept, in 1796. The second part is Liu I-ming's commentary on two sections added to the I Ching by earlier commentators, believed to be members of the original Confucian school; these two sections are known as the Overall Images and the Mixed Hexagrams.This commentary on the I Ching stands as a major contribution to the elucidation of Chinese spiritual genius."