Anderson, Chester --PROSPECTUS I Ching and the Systems of the West

GPROSPECT S. IChing & the SysteIlls of the West

Chester Anderson

1975

Chester Valentine John Anderson was a friend of mine. He, a far better friend to me than I to him, I am afraid. He and I both left Mendocino around the same time, He for the Russian River area, I for parts much, much farther west. Ironically I found out about his being sick, ultimately leaving California, and then his death in an old Mendocino Beacon laying about my folk's house. Antonia was saying there would be a memorial service for him. This was some time after the date and I was stricken. When it came time to upload items on to SCRIBD I immediately thought of this PROSPECTUS, of Chester's that I had been carrying around, 10 these 35 years, a give back to them and an immortalization of Chester, as it were. Little did I know, Chester was already immortalized on the WEB. Wikipedia says he was born August 11,1932 and left us on April 11, 1991. It lists the books he wrote and the other literary accomplishments of his. Let me tell you, Wikipedia has nothing on me babe. The Diggers web site at www.diggers.org has a connection to the communication company archives that, according to Joan Didion in Slouching towards Bethlehem, was Chester's "peculiar hold on the District derives from his possession of a mimeograph machine, on which he prints communiques signed "the communication company.'" It is ironic that the World Wide Web and Scribd came along to late. CVJ would have loved it. It would have been his perfect media. To nlY Knowledge he never completed the book that this document was a prospectus for. It is not listed among his papers at the Bancroft Library; it may have just been one of those things that feel between the floor boards of life. It should be noted that the address given here doesn't go anywhere now, Chet not being in a place to answer letters. The Church of The One was Chester and the Mendocino Lithographer's was the print shop He worked at to pay the bills. Chester was something of a well versed student of the I Ching. In the time I was in touch with him I collected all manner of charts with Hexagrams on them, very few of which I ever understood. He had this way of having you tell him things that you didn't let a lot of other people know, one of mine was that I "Walked the I Ching"; that is practiced }\.~ (Ba Gua or Pa Kua). I think he felt I should have a better understanding of what I was doing and kept giving me the material so I would go find these things out. As you can see in the lithograph done by Chuck Stevenson, Chester has placed one on it also. The picture belo\v was part of a series a whole bunch of us who did theater, knew Chuck, and weren't part of the main stream society ended up doing. I think Jean

Spetrino was responsible for the whole project, but it has been so long ago I can't remember. We all got naked and Chuck took pictures to use or not use in his art. There was supposed to be some slide show held at the Mendocino Art Center. I don't know if it ever happened, as stated above, I left town.

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In Charles Marchant Stevenson's multiple portrait IIChesterAnderson the artist refers to Renaissance allegorical painting in which the figure of Truth is presented naked, Truth having nothing to hide. Stevenson is the illustrator of Chester Anderson's cinematic novel of Greenwich Village in 1964, IIFoxand Hare: the story of a Friday evening II(Entwhistle Books, 1980). The inscription is in Chester Anderson's hand: IIInall things, great and small, I am the Beauty of the Divine Manifestation. II Pencil signed by Chester Anderson An original Lithograph of this may be had From Zacha's Bay Window Gallery, Mendocino, CA

'PROSPECTUS

I Ching & the System.s of the West

---Chester Anderson

THE

CHURCH

MENDOCINO Fort

OF THE

ONE

LITHOGRAPHERS Bragg, California

1975

In 1966, Antonia Lamb introduced

me to the I Ching.

Long may she live in happiness.

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PROSPECTUS: I Ching & the Systems of the West by Chester Anderson Published at the Vernal Equinox, 1975

Copyright @ 1975 by Chester Anderson All rights reserved.

Published for The Church of the One by Mendocino Lithographers 100 N. Franklin Street Fort Bragg, California 95437

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much the older of the two; and The

(Bollingen I Ching, 3rd cd., pp. 262-279). Like every other duality

in the Changes, these two arrangements ceptive. In their circular structure and the Powers of Earth.

are, respectively,

Yang and Yin, Creative and Re-

they are the primary mandalas of the Powers of Heaven

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