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MEANING IN KOREAN FLAGWriter of Three Thousand Years A go Explains It, But His Work Is Unintelligible.The Korean ensign and merchant flag is a white flag bearing the great monad in blue and red. This is a symbol of great antiquity. It is to the Mongolians what the cross is to the Christian. To them it is the sign of deity and eternity, while the two parts into which the circle is divide are called the Yin and the Yan—the male and female forces of nature. Some 3,000 years ago one of the writers, speaking in reference to it, said: “The illimitable produces the extreme. The great extreme produces the two principles. The two principles produce the four quarters, and from the four quarters we develop the quadrature of the eight diagrams of Feuh-hi.” This means little to us, though the writer may have explained the matter to his entire satisfaction. But so m«ch we know—that the symbol had a mathematical as well as an occult meaning. There is a little puzzle connected with the Korean flag wrhich may or n*ay not be perplexing to the novice. Divide the great monad by a straight cut into two pieces so that each half of the circle shall contain an exactly equal share of the Yin and the Yan.DECEIT WAS HER THEME
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Owensville New Echo
Owensville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 12, 1905
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