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    On January 27, 2011 at  2:00 PM 
  
  
    
why weren't they looking at eachother?
  
  
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    42 Increase
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Increase. Gain by having a place to go. 
Advance across the great river.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The first line:
    Gain by using great work. 
Great fortune. No fault.  
  
    The fourth line:
    There is a middle path. Alert the duke 
to follow. Gain by working for the sake 
of moving the nation.  
  
    The sixth line:
    No increase when someone attacks. 
Setting the heart without constancy:
misfortune.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    45 Collecting
  
  
    The Statement of the second 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 Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Wind and thunder: 
increase. The noble one 
sees perfection 
and shifts to fit its pattern, 
and corrects his own faults.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Lake above the earth. 
Collecting. The noble one 
collects the tools of war 
to guard against 
unforeseen danger.