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On January 9, 2021 at 7:46 AM
Manuscript is a collective name for texts?
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53 Gradually
The Statement of the first hexagram
A woman marries: fortune.
Gainful purity.
The changing lines
The second line:
Wild swans gradually reach the boulder.
Drinking and eating in bliss. Fortune.
The fourth line:
Wild swans gradually reach the wood.
Some find branches. No fault.
The fifth line:
Wild swans gradually reach the hill.
Three years: a wife cannot conceive.
At the end of twilight: success. Fortune.
The sixth line:
Wild swans gradually reach a plateau.
Their feathers can be used for the rites.
Fortune.
32 Constancy
The Statement of the second hexagram
Constancy is to continue
without fault.
Gain through purity.
Gain by having a place to go.
The Image of the first hexagram
Wood on the mountain:
gradually.
The noble one dwells
in high moral character
and reforms
popular customs.
The Image of the second hexagram
Thunder and wind:
constancy.
The noble one stands
without changing direction.