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The I Ching (pronounced ee-ching) is the oldest and mostrespected oracle or divinatory system in the world. There arecurrently two translations available which offer somewhatconflicting interpretations - the popular Confucian version and anearlier Taoist version called Zhouyi. Reconstructed bytwentieth-century scholars and archaeologists, Zhouyi presents thehighly imaginative world of myth and ritual that is the hidden baseof thousands of years of Eastern thought. Now, for the first timeever, Stephen Karcher fuses these two traditions using modernscholarship and archaeological and linguistic research, along witha wide background in Eastern philosophy and comparative religion,and presents them to the modern Western reader in a comprehensiveand accessible new form. TOTAL I CHING is a complete oracle withinstruction for immediate use in all life situations, but is alsothe first translation to detail the mythology of the divinatorysystem, offering a revolutionary new approach to the world's oldestwisdom tr

Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-centuryFrance, "The Quest of the Holy Grail" is a fusion of Arthurianlegend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic mythas a profound spiritual fable. It recounts the quest of the knightsof Camelot - the simple Perceval, the thoughtful Bors, the rashGawain, the weak Lancelot and the saintly Galahad - as they journeythrough danger and temptation to reach the elusive Holy Grail. Butonly one of them is judged worthy to see the mysteries within thesacred vessel, and look upon the ineffable. Enfused with tragicgrandeur and an aura of mysticism, "The Quest" is an absorbing andradiant allegory of man's perilous search for divine grace, and hada profound influence on later Arthurian romances and versions ofthe Grail legend.

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