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In the Dutch proverb ‘acht is meer dan duizend’ - eight is more than a thousand- ‘acht’ stands for the number 8 but also has the meaning of ‘attentive’. Thus: ‘paying close attention is very valuable’. ‘Acht’ is a very old word, dating back to the Proto-Germanic ahto. The original meaning of ‘acht’ was ‘the functioning of the mind’. Later, it came to mean ‘thought’ and ‘attention’. In Middle Dutch, this developed into, amongst other things, the meaning ‘attentiveness, observantness’. Old english knew the word eathian.
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The imagery employed in The Book of Changes traces the interplay between eight natural phenomena. Just as a chessboard is eight squares wide and eight squares long, comprising sixty-four squares, so The Book of Changes comprises sixty-four chapters. Eight archetypes ~ sixty-four fundamental encounters ~ thousand possible changes.
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