Primordial & Manifested

Primordial 8 quarks

Manifested 8 quarks

先天八卦, the Primordial, "Earlier Heaven" or 伏羲八卦 "Fu Xi" bāguà,

and 後天八卦 the Manifested, "Later Heaven," or "King Wen" bāguà.

無極生有極、 有極是太極、 太極生兩儀、 即陰陽。 兩儀生四象: 即少陰、太陰、 少陽、太陽、 四象演八卦、 八八六十四卦。

Wújí shēng yǒují, yǒují shì tàijí. Tàijí shēng liǎngyí, jí yīnyáng. Liǎngyí shēng sìxiàng:   jí shǎoyīn, tàiyīn,   shǎoyáng, tàiyang Sìxiàng yǎn bāguà, bā bā liùshísì guà

The Limitless (無極; Wuji) produces the Delimited (有極; Youji), and this Delimited is equivalent to the Highest Limit (太極; Taiji), or the Absolute. The Taiji (i.e. the two opposing forces in embryonic, unmanifested form) produces two forms Liangyi (兩儀), namely yin-yang(陰陽), the manifested opposing forces. These two forms produce four phenomena: namely: lesser yin (少陰, shǎoyīn), and greater yin (太陰, tàiyīn, which also refers to the Moon); lesser yang (陽,shǎoyáng), and greater yang (太陽tàiyang, which also refers to the Sun). The four phenomena (四象; sìxiàng) act on the eight trigrams (八卦; bāguà). Eight 'eights' results in sixty-four hexagrams.

“神秘石板”, the "Mystic Tablet"

A Tibetan work, reproduced first in Waddell, "The Buddhism of Tibet", p. 453, and then in Carus, " Chinese thought", p 48

According to Paul Carus' explanation, it contains, on the shield of a tortoise (alluding to the animal that has revealed the 八卦, Eight Trigrams to 伏羲 Fúxī, and which was, in more canonical accounts, a “龍馬” "dragon-horse") a chart with the 8 卦、Trigrams, the 12 figures of Chinese animal cycle, etc. The centrepiece is another, smaller, tortoise, the one that revealed the 洛書魔方 Luò shū magic square to 大禹 Yu the Great. Tibetan script appears in the centre of this diagram.

伏羲《先天》八卦編曲 Fúxī "Earlier Heaven" bāguà arrangement

51震 Zhèn

雷 Thunder

Winter

Arousing

長男 Eldest Son

東北 Northeast

動 Excitation, revolution, division.

文王《后天》八卦 King Wén "Later heaven" bāguà arrangement

52 艮 Gen

山 Mountain

Winter

Still

少男 Youngest Son

東北 Northeast

止 Stillness, immovability.

十數圖 Shí shù tú

著書『周易本義』: 易經圖表之一。 北宋木六、洛書以此圖為樂章，南宋朱熹視此圖為河圖，並載於《朱熹圖鑑》。 天數（1,3,5,7,9）用白點（陽）表示，地數（2,4,6,8,10）用黑點（陰影）表示，每個方向生成的五行數。（1,6:水・北、2,７:火・南、3,8:木・東、4,9:金・西、5,10:土・中）。

Celestial numbers (1, 3, 5, 7, 9) are represented by white dots (陽),

Earthly numbers (2, 4, 6, 8, 10) are represented by black dots (shaded),

and the number of five rows is generated in each direction.

• 1, 6: Water・North,
• 2, 7: Fire・South,
• 3, 8: Wood・East,
• 4, 9: Gold・West,
• 5,10: Earth・Middle

無極生有極、

有極是太極、

太極生兩儀、

即陰陽。

兩儀生四象:

即少陰、太陰、

少陽、太陽、

四象演八卦、

八八六十四卦。

The Limitless (無極; Wuji) produces the Delimited (有極; Youji),

and this Delimited is equivalent to the Highest Limit (太極; Taiji), or the Absolute.

The Taiji (i.e. the two opposing forces in embryonic, unmanifested form) produces two forms Liangyi (兩儀),

namely yin-yang(陰陽), the manifested opposing forces.

These two forms produce four phenomena*:

namely: lesser yin (少陰, shǎoyīn), and greater yin (太陰, tàiyīn, which also refers to the Moon);

lesser yang (陽, shaoyang), and greater yang (太陽, taiyang, which also refers to the Sun).

The four phenomena (四象; sìxiàng) act on the eight trigrams (八卦; Bagua).

Eight 'eights' results in sixty-four hexagrams.

* 4 interactions/forces EAWSG/GEAWS