Quotes:Confucius

Zirkoff, Boris

Confucius (550-478 B.C.). *Praise of the Abyss. This refers to the ancient Chinese ideographic Scripture, the Yi Ching. There is a Commentary to it called The Ten Wings (Shih Yi) and reputed to be by Confucius. In Chapter III of this Commentary, § 11, there is a poem on the “Abyss,” which refers to the 29th Sign of the Yi Ching. Consult the German transi, of the latter by Richard Wilhelm or the Engl. tr. by Legge in the Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XVI.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 501