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Probably the first western practioner of ceremonial magick, who studied the Yi Jing was Aleister Crowley. H Parson Smith's (1971) Shih Yi appears to be the first public printing of Crowley's interpretation of the Yi Jing. It had been privately distributed since 1923. Motta's (1980) The Chinese Texts of Magick and Mysticism by Aleister Crowley appears to be the first comprehensive volume of Crowley's Chinese writings. Marlene and Jerry Cornelius' Red Flame # 5 a radically different view of the Yi Jing as understood by Crowley emerges.
If Culling (1969) is to be believed, the O.:B.:G.: is an example of a western magickal order which infused itself in the study and practice of the Yi Jing. He also refers to an oriental order The Order of The Singing Fan in Sex Magick (Culling: 1971).
Brennan (2000) is a recent attempt to incorporate the Yi Jing into the western tradition of ceremonial magick. It ends up being just another item to toss onto the smorgasboard, ignoring the original meaning, context and intent inherent in it. Herne (2001) is a slightly different approach to integrating the Yi Jing into the tradition of ceremonial magick. This attempts presents a mode of understanding the Yi Jing from the point of view of the what it meant to the eastern mystic.