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On June 16, 2022 at 12:00 PM
Since manuscripts are subject to deterioration?
and received a response of:
41 Decrease
The Statement of the first hexagram
Decrease. Have confidence.
Great fortune. No fault
if one can be upright.
Gain by having a place to go.
How should one act?
Two square bamboo baskets
can be used in offering.
The changing lines
The second line:
Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going.
No decrease, but gain there.
The fifth line:
Someone gains ten groups of turtles
no one can defy. Great fortune.
The sixth line:
No decrease, but gain there. No fault.
Pure fortune. Gain by having a place to go.
Get servants, but not a house.
3 Sprouting
The Statement of the second hexagram
Sprouting begins everywhere,
abundant and pure.
No need to go far:
gain by naming allies.
The Image of the first hexagram
Lake below mountain:
decrease. The noble one
halts his anger
and curbs his desires.
The Image of the second hexagram
Clouds and thunder: sprouting. The noble one
considers the principles.