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    On March  2, 2011 at  7:17 PM 
  
  
    
Why has he done this?
  
  
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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.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    17 Following
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Following
what is great, smooth, 
gainful, and pure. 
No fault.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    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
  
  
    Thunder over the middle 
of the lake: following. 
The noble one at sunset 
goes into a house to rest.