Hello! I am new here, and would like to introduce myself.
Funny enough, I did not originally find this forum because of Eastern traditions, but rather due to Western esoteric traditions. I found some exceptionally insightful conversations around Franz Bardon and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, but consumed those topics passively.
As I've continued my own study and practice, I recently read Draja Mickaharic's book Practice of Magic. In his chapter on ceremonial magic, he refers to a system of correspondences that precedes the Kabbalah and has eight spheres to the ten Sephiroth of the Tree of Life. He says that those who use this system call it "The Eight" and that the I Ching is an effect of this system.
I suspect (but as of yet have no way to confirm!) that he must therefore be referring to the bagua. This inspired me to start reading more about Chinese esoteric thought, which is underrepresented in Western mysticism and magic, which seems to have only gone so far east as India until quite recently. And that brought me back here!
Hoping to learn more and maybe have something of my own to contribute. Thank you!
