cire perdue

I have always considered I Ching to be fortune telling similar to Tarot Cards. What view does the Faith have about this?

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Yeshua

Oh Lordie....I used to do "I Ching". Until that is I came to my senses and realized that I was engaging in fortune telling.

I even bought a full box-set, complete with the sticks, incense, hexagram book with the meanings etc. I learned how to do the process off-by-heart. You know, shuffling the sticks, taking one away and repeating etc.

God only knows why I got involved with divination. I even used to do I Ching readings for my friends and other members of my family, thus implicating them in my mumbo-jumbo nonsense.

I now - thankfully - place my trust in God, rather than in hexagrams!

arthra

Well there are some references to divination such as:

199. In your last question, concerning cases when those needed for consultation are not available and a person is uncertain on the course to be followed in an important matter, you ask whether it is permissible for him to resort to the practice of "istikharihn[1] using the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. The Guardian has stated that in such cases what is necessary and essential is for the person to turn his heart wholly to God and to beseech aid from the Source of Grace and inspiration and nothing else. If it is possible to postpone the decision it would be preferable and more proper to do so, until the means for consultation are made available.

[1 This is a process of divination, such as is done through bibliomancy, when a Holy Book is opened at random and guidance is sought for one's problem by reading passages of the Book on the opened page.]

(Compilations, The Compilation of Compilations vol. I, p. 104)

There is also a prohibition on the divination of arrows in the Quran:

"...and [prohibited is] that you seek decision through divining arrows." found in Surat Al-Ma'idah 5:3

Now I know this may seem a "stretch" but as I-ching involves throwing yarrow sticks and coins so maybe they could be related...?

cire perdue

I have a Baha'i telling me that doing I Ching fortunes is just fine with the Faith. I think I Ching is not valid.

Someone please provide help on this............