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    On May 24, 2010 at  6:02 PM 
      madmur1 asked:   
  
  
    
wciei i present number 1a before its publication?
  
  
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    60 Regulation
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Regulation. Be pervasive. 
One cannot be morally pure
through suffering and trial.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The first line:
    Not leaving the front hall: 
no fault.  
  
    The third line:
    Unrestrained in regulations: 
unrestrained sighing. 
No fault.  
  
    The fifth line:
    Willing regulation: fortune. 
Go: there will be honor.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    46 Rising
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Rising. Great continuing. 
Act now to see the great person. 
Do not be distressed. Advance southward:
fortune.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Water above the lake: 
regulation. The noble one
regulates number and 
measure and discusses 
virtuous conduct.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Wood growing in the 
center of the land: rising. 
The noble one is mild, 
gradually raising what is 
tiny into the tall and great.