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    On July  9, 2010 at  1:37 PM 
  
  
    
what kind of relationship is that?
  
  
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    45 Collecting
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      The king draws near to the temple:
gain by seeing a great person. 
Make an offering with purity, 
using great sacrificial beasts. Fortune. 
Gain by having a place to go.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The first line:
    A trust that cannot reach conclusion:
there is confusion, there is collecting amid commands. 
One grasps for smiling results-no help. 
Depart without fault.  
  
    The third line:
    Collecting like sighs of regret. 
No place is gainful. 
Depart without fault. Slight regret.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    49 Reform
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Reform: on one's own day, 
confidence is won-
making, pervasive, gainful, and pure. 
Regrets vanish.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Lake above the earth. 
Collecting. The noble one 
collects the tools of war 
to guard against 
unforeseen danger.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Fire in the middle of the 
lake: reform. The noble one 
orders the calendar 
by the seasons.