The Seba library treats Chi in 6 passages, across 2 authors (including Carol K. Anthony, Rudolf Ritsema, Stephen Karcher).
This nourishment, or essential energy, is called chi. Chi flows first to our higher nature, and through it to our bodies. When we are true to ourselves, chi flows without resistance or blockage.
Anthony defines chi as the essential spiritual nourishment channeled from the Cosmos through the higher self to the body, identifying blockage of chi with self-betrayal and misalignment with higher truth.
, A Guide to the I Ching, 1988thesis
Significant, CHI: leads to the experience of meaning; favorable, propitious, advantageous, appropriate; keyword. The ideogram: scholar and mouth, wise words of a sage.
Ritsema and Karcher establish CHI as a formal ideographic keyword in the I Ching system, denoting favorable auspiciousness and the experiential encounter with meaning, grounded in the image of the sage's wise words.
, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, 1994thesis
Significant, CHI: leads to the experience of meaning; favorable, propitious, advantageous, appropriate; keyword. The ideogram: scholar and mouth, wise words of a sage.
This passage reiterates CHI as a recurring keyword across hexagram contexts, confirming its function as the oracular marker of propitious alignment between inner disposition and outer action.
, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, 1994supporting
The Winnowing Son is Prince Chi, a model of moral discrimination. As a diviner serving the last Shang tyrant, he shone like a light in the darkness.
Prince Chi is presented as a historical-mythic embodiment of the chi-principle in action: moral discernment, integrity under oppression, and the preservation of wisdom despite political darkness.
, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, 1994supporting
One’s/one, CH’I: third person pronoun; also: it/its, he/his, she/hers, they/theirs.
Ritsema and Karcher note that CH'I also operates as a third-person pronoun in the classical Chinese of the I Ching, a grammatical aside that nonetheless underlies the text's constant relational and possessive constructions.
, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, 1994aside
One’s/one, CH’I: third person pronoun; also: it/its, he/his, she/hers, they/theirs.
A parallel grammatical notation confirms CH'I's role as a pronominal particle throughout the hexagram texts, indicating possessive and personal reference across the entire corpus.
, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, 1994aside