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On April 20, 2010 at 2:52 PM
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and received a response of:
16 Delight
The Statement of the first hexagram
What delight!
Gain by naming allies.
Move armies.
Gain by naming allies.
Move armies.
The changing lines
The fourth line:
Through delight, the great attains.
Do not doubt it! Friends gather
like hair in a clasp.
Through delight, the great attains.
Do not doubt it! Friends gather
like hair in a clasp.
The sixth line:
Dark delight succeeds.
Have a change of mind
and there will be no fault.
Dark delight succeeds.
Have a change of mind
and there will be no fault.
23 Splitting
The Statement of the second hexagram
Splitting; no gain
in having a place to go.
in having a place to go.
The Image of the first hexagram
Thunder explodes,
shaking the earth: delight.
The early kings made music,
glorifying virtue as the
highest offering to God,
and so they were worthy
of their ancestors.
shaking the earth: delight.
The early kings made music,
glorifying virtue as the
highest offering to God,
and so they were worthy
of their ancestors.
The Image of the second hexagram
The mountain resting on
the earth: splitting.
When the high
are generous
to those below,
all dwell in peace.
the earth: splitting.
When the high
are generous
to those below,
all dwell in peace.
