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Réparation18
Aborder les problèmes ; réparer ce qui a été négligé. Assumer la responsabilité de restaurer et d'améliorer.
↓ Line 1
Corriger les erreurs du passé peut être difficile, mais la persévérance mène au succès.
↓ Line 6
Viser des idéaux plus élevés plutôt que de chercher l'approbation des figures d'autorité.
↓ Paix11
L'harmonie et la prospérité surgissent lorsque les opposés s'attirent et que l'équilibre est maintenu. Les énergies positives sont alignées, et les efforts collaboratifs conduisent à la croissance et au progrès. Adoptez la paix et la coopération pour un succès continu.
18 Réparation
Other titles: Work On What Has Been Spoiled, The Symbol of Destruction, Decay, Arresting of Decay, Work after Spoiling, Fixing, Rectifying, Corrupting, Branch, Degeneration, Misdeeds "Can refer to heredity and psychological traits.” -- D. F. Hook
Judgment
Legge: Successful progress is indicated for those who properly repair what has been spoiled. It is advantageous to cross the great stream. One should consider carefully the events three days before the turning point and the tasks remaining for three days afterward.
Wilhelm/Baynes:Work On What Has Been Spoiled has supreme success. It furthers one to cross the great water. Before the starting point, three days. After the starting point, three days.
Blofeld:Decay augurs sublime success and the advantage of crossing the great river (or sea). [I.e. of going on a journey or of going forward with one's plans.] What has happened once will surely happen again (literally, "three days before the commencement; three days after the commencement"). [It would have been hard to make sense of these words, were it not that the Confucian Commentary on the Text clearly explains them; hence the liberty I have taken with the Text.]
Liu: Work after spoiling. Great success. It is of benefit to cross the great water. Before starting, three days. After starting, three days. [This hexagram implies that, although conditions are bad now, improvement can be expected.]
Ritsema/Karcher: Corrupting, Spring Growing. Harvesting: wading the Great River. Before seedburst three days, after seedburst three days. [This hexagram describes your situation in terms of disorder, perversion and putrefaction. It emphasizes that letting things rot away so they become obsolete is the adequate way to handle it...]
Shaughnessy: Branch: Prime auspiciousness; receipt. Beneficial to ford the great river; preceding jia by three days, following jia by three days.
Cleary (1): Correcting degeneration is greatly developmental. It is beneficial to cross great rivers. Three days before the start, three days after the start. [The way to correct degeneracy is not in empty tranquility without action; it is necessary to work in the midst of great danger and difficulty, to act in the dragon’s pool and the tiger’s lair. Only then can one restore one’s original being, cultivating it into something indestructible.]
Cleary (2): From degeneration comes great development, etc.
Wu: Misdeeds is great and pervasive. It will be advantageous to cross the big river. It would be advisable to begin an undertaking three days before Jia and examine the ongoing progress three days thereafter.
The Image
Legge: The image of wind below the mountain forms Repair. The superior man, in accordance with this, stimulates the virtue of the people.
Wilhelm/Baynes: The wind blows low on the mountain: the image of Decay. Thus the superior man stirs up the people and strengthens their spirit.
Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes wind blowing at the foot of a mountain. The Superior Man, by stimulating people's hearts, nourishes their virtue.
Liu: Wind blowing around the foot of the mountain symbolizes Work after Spoiling. The superior man encourages people to cultivate virtue.
Ritsema/Karcher: Below mountain possessing wind. Corrupting. A chun tzu uses rousing the commoners to nurture actualizing-tao. [Actualize-tao: ...ability to follow the course traced by the ongoing process of the cosmos... Linked with acquire, TE: acquiring that which makes a being become what it is meant to be.]
Cleary (1): There is wind in the mountains; degeneration. Thus superior people rouse the people and nurture virtue.
Cleary (2): … Leaders thus arouse the people to nurture virtue.
Wu: There is wind at the foot of the mountain; this is Misdeeds. Thus the jun zi arouses the people and nurtures his own virtue.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: The dynamic trigram is above, and the magnetic trigram is below. Pliancy is below, and Stopping above: these suggest troubled conditions verging on ruin. But Repair brings order to all under heaven, and he who advances will encounter the business to be done. The end of confusion is the beginning of order; such is the procedure of heaven.
Legge: Repair means the performance of painful but necessary duties. It shows a situation in which things are going to ruin, as if through poison or venomous worms. In order to justify the auspice of progress and success, the duty of the figure is to rectify this and restore conditions to health. This will require a major effort, such as crossing the great stream, and the careful differentiation of the causes of the problem, as well as the measures taken to fix it. The attribute of the lower trigram is Pliancy, and the upper represents Stoppage or Arrest. Hence, the feeble pliancy of decadence is stopped cold by the immovable mountain. The three days before and after the turning point symbolize the careful attention and differentiation necessary for any rectification to succeed.
On the Image, Ch'eng-tzu says: "When the wind encounters the mountain, it is driven back, and the things about are all scattered in disorder; such is the emblem of the state denoted by Repair." The nourishing of virtue appears especially in line six -- all the other lines belong to the helping of the people.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Judgment:Repair means to set your house in order. Analyze your choices before the renovation and evaluate their consequences afterward.
The Superior Man orders his thoughts and feelings, reforms old attitudes, and strengthens his will. (Psychologically, to "stimulate the virtue of the people" (Legge) is to rectify the components of a complex.)
To imagine any truly objective state of perception we must include all that exists: the entire cosmos. Each differentiation of this, from atom to galaxy, is one slice out of an infinite whole. As a portion of the entirety, we are always linked with our ancestors in an infinite web of relationships which includes our family history, our racial-cultural-historical heritage and Homo sapiens as a species. Though seldom aware of them, it is useful to remember these links. Emanating from an unfathomable complexity, their karmically-charged morphogenetic fields are constantly shaping our lives. It follows that, although we perceive ourselves as separate from our ancestors, the separation is a subjective experience which is true only in a temporally limited sense.
Every line of Repair, except two and six, shows a son dealing with the troubles caused by his father. This reminds us of the biblical curse:
For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Exodus 20: 5
The father archetype has a wide range of meanings: this extends from the Primal Spirit ("God the Father"), to a prior cause or intent in the psyche which has engendered a present condition. Psychologically interpreted, it is this latter reading which usually applies. If a "father" symbolizes the cause, then a "son" is the effect. If the effect is imperfect, then to rectify it is also to rectify the original intent.
To a large extent our lives consist of well-intentioned but misguided choices which create less than perfect consequences. To modify our attitude or behavior so that it corrects errors in our original intent is to "deal with the troubles caused by the father."
For example: In a misconceived expression of affection, a parent allows his child unrestricted access to candy. As a consequence of this choice, the kid's teeth become rotten, and the only logical way to correct the original error is to now curtail his intake of sugar. The fact that this new choice will create stress in the relationship between parent and child is just a consequence of the original choice and has no bearing at all on what is correct in the situation.
In some situations this hexagram may be interpreted as a response to a karmic chain of cause and effect:
To harmonize with the Wisdom Teachings, the scripture should read that the karma of the "father" is visited upon the "child" unto the fourth incarnation, not generation. The mistakes you made in the last four incarnations may be visited upon you in the form of karma flowing out of the heart seed atom in the present incarnation. Thus what you "fathered," or created, in your last incarnation may be the source ("parent") of your karma today. You are a child of that parent today. You have inherited from that parent -- the you of the past, not your physical parents -- all of your characteristics, weaknesses and strengths. Earlyne Chaney -- The Mystery of Death and Dying
The interpretation of any oracle response can only be as profound as our minds are prepared to accept. As moderns we find it difficult to empathize with "ancestor worship," yet properly understood, it can provide useful insights into the Work. In the unconscious realm all time is immediate, not sequential, and the Objective Psyche consists of a non- temporal web of forces shading from personal to universal. This means that if we have a complex engendered in us by our father, for example, we can reasonably assume that he was passing on what he received from his own parents. In this way, the unresolved complexes of the ancestors shape our own personalities: they live in and through us right now, even if they had their birth in forefathers long forgotten. This is a kind of near-immortality: individuals may die, but beliefs, attitudes, complexes live as long as they have receptive vessels to inhabit. (This is probably the engine of karma.) To the extent that an ancestral chain of causality still motivates our choices, we are totally responsible for "setting right what has been spoiled by the father."
SUGGESTIONS FOR MEDITATION
Most people have some level of unfinished business with their parents: psychologists would have little to do if this weren't true. It can be a healing ritual to set up an altar to a deceased parent and meditate there on the stresses that still remain between you. To approach the situation without judgment, to realize (non-logically) that forces pre-existing you provoked the condition as much as your parent did, will elicit much insight. Be especially aware of the presence of the past and the illusion of linear time. (Is it possible somehow to be your own great-grandfather?) Ancestor “worship” of this sort can be profoundly therapeutic.
Line 1
Legge: The first line, magnetic, shows a son dealing with the troubles caused by his father. If he is an able son, the father will escape the blame of having erred. The position is perilous, but there will be good fortune in the end.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. If there is a son, no blame rests upon the departed father. Danger. In the end good fortune.
Blofeld: Children exist to rectify the mistakes wrought by their fathers; hence the departed are made free from blame -- trouble ending in good fortune!
Liu: If the mistakes of the father are corrected by the son, no blame. There is danger, but in the end, good fortune.
Ritsema/Karcher: Managing the father's Corrupting. Possessing son-hood. Predecessors without fault. Adversity, completing significant.
Shaughnessy: The stem father's branch; there is a son crafty; there is no trouble; danger; in the end auspicious.
Cleary (1): Correcting the father’s degeneracy; if there is a son, the deceased father is without blame. Danger, but in the end it turns out well.
Cleary (2): Dealing with the degeneration of the father, if there is a child, the late father has no blame. It is dangerous but turns out well.
Wu: He attends to the affairs of his father. He is a capable son. His father will be free from blame. It is a difficult task, but it will be good in the end.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: He has entered into the work of his father. Wilhelm/ Baynes: He receives in his thoughts the deceased father. Blofeld: This implies assuming responsibility for their mistakes. Ritsema/Karcher: Intention receiving the predecessors indeed. Cleary (2): Consciously taking up after the late father. Wu: He intends to continue his father’s business.
Legge: Line one is magnetic, with a magnetic correlate in line four -- what can be done here to remedy the state of decay? But the line is the first of the hexagram, and the decay is not yet great. By heeding the cautions of the text, he can succeed. He has entered into the work of his father, and brings it about that his father is looked on as blameless.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: At the outset, wrongs have arisen which are not yet deeply rooted and can be remedied. But reforms are associated with dangers, which should be understood.
Wing: In order to avoid decay, it is necessary to change a traditional and rigid structure that is affecting your life. You may feel that this is too radical an undertaking. It is true that this kind of change is fraught with danger, but if you are cautious while making the reform you will meet with success and renewed growth.
Editor: This line doesn't lend itself to use of the usual gender symbolism. Wilhelm translates the Confucian commentary in terms of receiving the departed father in one's thoughts; Blofeld renders it as taking responsibility for the father's errors. Ritsema/Karcher render "adversity” as: “Danger, threatening, malevolent demon ... It indicates a spirit or ghost that seeks revenge by inflicting suffering upon the living. Pacifying or exorcizing such a spirit can have a healing effect.” This can refer to any unresolved stresses creating instability in the situation. Psychologically, the idea is that new insights modify old errors. If they are formulated carefully, further error is avoided and one has created a useful new foundation. Sometimes the line can refer to having misinterpreted a previous oracle.
Lord Naoshige said, "An ancestor's good or evil can be determined by the conduct of his descendants." A descendant should act in a way that will manifest the good in his ancestor and not the bad. This is filial piety. Yamamoto Tsunetomo --The Book of the Samurai
A. Rectify a past mistake.
Line 6
Legge: The sixth line, dynamic, shows us one who does not serve either king or feudal lord, but in a lofty spirit prefers to attend to his own affairs.
Wilhelm/Baynes: He does not serve kings and princes, sets himself higher goals.
Blofeld: He does not serve the King or the nobles -- what he does is even loftier than that. [In other words, if we directly serve the will of heaven; by doing so we act as sages who may safely do whatever they feel is worth doing.]
Liu: By not serving kings and princes, one gains higher recognition.
Ritsema/Karcher: Not affairs, kingly feudatories. Honoring highness: one's affair.
Shaughnessy: Not serving king or lord, but highly elevating his virtue; inauspicious.
Cleary (1): Not serving kings and lords, one makes one’s concerns loftier.
Wu: He does not engage himself in the affairs of kings or princes. He keeps a lofty lifestyle of his own.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: But his aim may be a model to others. Wilhelm/Baynes: Such an attitude may be taken as a model. Blofeld: This indicates that our own will can be our law. [provided we are acting from the highest motives.] Ritsema/Karcher: Purpose permitted by-consequence indeed.
Cleary (2): One’s will can serve as a model. Wu: His aspiration will be admired.
Legge: Line six is dynamic, with no proper correlate below. Hence it suggests the idea of one outside the sphere of action who takes no part in public affairs, but cultivates himself instead.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man does not serve his lord, but lets the world go by and cultivates his own character in solitude. In so doing, however, he creates something valuable for the future of mankind.
Wing: It is possible for you to transcend the entire situation. You do not have to deal with the mundane details of specific social problems. Instead, you may concern yourself with universal goals and personal or spiritual development. Caution: Viewing the world with a cynical or condescending eye, however, will distort your growth, so watch your attitudes carefully.
Editor: One of the most important precepts of the Work is a clear recognition that you can only measure your position and progress against an inner standard. The expectations and apparent achievements of others count for absolutely nothing. You aren't running a race with the world, but striving to beat your own record. One who has taken responsibility for the Work must be prepared to go where its dictates demand, despite what is considered "normal" or "proper" according to contemporary standards. Ritsema/ Karcher's translation of the Confucian commentary ("Purpose permitted by-consequence indeed"), means that one's determination to go it alone is mandated by a deep inner principle. That such an idea occurs in the hexagram of Repair suggests bolstering one's resolve to accept this lonely burden. Blofeld's version of the Confucian commentary ("This indicates that our own will can be our law") is too easily perverted, even with his cautionary note.
Indeed the Gnostics knew something, and it was this: that human life does not fulfill its promise within the structure and establishments of society, for all of these are at best but shadowy projections of another and more fundamental reality. No one comes to his true selfhood by being what society wants him to be nor by doing what it wants him to do. Family, society, church, trade and profession, political and patriotic allegiances, as well as moral and ethical rules and commandments are, in reality, not in the least conducive to the true spiritual welfare of the human soul. On the contrary, they are more often than not the very shackles which keep us from our true spiritual destiny. S. A. Hoeller -- The Gnostic Jung
A. Your duty is to serve a transcendent ideal.
B. "Mind your own business."
11 Paix
Autres titres : Paix, Le Symbole de la Réussite, Prospérer, Pénétrer, Grandeur, Tranquillité, Prospérité, Conjonction, Synthèse Majeure, Hieros Gamos, Mariage Sacré, "Yang soutenant le yin et allant à la rencontre l'un de l'autre. Bonnes perspectives pour un mariage ou un partenariat." -- D.F. Hook
Jugement
Legge : Harmonie montre l'inférieur parti et le grand arrivé. Il y aura de la bonne fortune avec progrès et succès.
Wilhelm/Baynes :Paix. Le petit s'en va, le grand approche. Bonne fortune. Succès.
Blofeld :Paix. Le médiocre décline ; le grand et bon approche -- bonne fortune et succès ! [Dans l'hexagramme suivant (Divorce), où les trigrammes symbolisent le ciel et la terre dans ce qui semblerait être leurs positions normales, cet arrangement est considéré comme désastreux ; alors qu'ici, où ils semblent être à l'envers, tout est propice. Cela peut être parce que le ciel au-dessus de la terre est censé impliquer que les deux existent séparément sans l'interaction qui est la racine de toute croissance ; alors qu'ici leur interaction est si absolue que le ciel soutient réellement la terre.]
Liu :Paix. Le petit s'en va, le grand arrive. Bonne fortune. Succès.
Ritsema/Karcher : Pénétration. Le petit part, le grand vient. Signification Croissante. [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes de prospérité et d'expansion. Il souligne que répandre continuellement cette prospérité par la communication est la manière adéquate de la gérer...]
Shaughnessy : Grandeur : le petit part et le grand vient ; de bon augure ; réception.
Cleary (1) : Le petit part, le grand vient. C'est de bon augure et en développement.
Cleary (2) :Tranquillité … Passer avec succès.
Wu :Prospérité montre que le petit reste à l'extérieur et le grand reste à l'intérieur. Ce sera de bon augure et pénétrant.
L'Image
Legge : L'interaction du ciel et de la terre -- l'image de l'Harmonie. Le sage dirigeant modèle ses lois sur les principes du ciel et de la terre, et les applique pour le bien du peuple.
Wilhelm/Baynes : Le ciel et la terre s'unissent : l'image de la Paix. Ainsi le dirigeant divise et complète le cours du ciel et de la terre ; il favorise et régule les dons du ciel et de la terre, et ainsi aide le peuple.
Blofeld : Cet hexagramme symbolise le ciel et la terre en communion. [Les trigrammes composants illustrent le type d'interaction étroite mentionnée précédemment. C'est sûrement la seule façon de la représenter dans les circonstances, car tout mélange de leurs lignes composants produirait des trigrammes tout à fait différents n'ayant aucune référence au ciel et à la terre.] C'est comme si un puissant dirigeant, par une régulation soigneuse des affaires, avait amené à fruition la voie du ciel et de la terre. En harmonie avec la séquence de leurs mouvements, il apporte de l'aide aux gens de toutes parts.
Liu : Le ciel et la terre sont unifiés, symbolisant la Paix. Le dirigeant réforme et complète la voie du ciel et de la terre ; Il observe les méthodes appropriées du ciel et de la terre pour diriger le peuple.
Ritsema/Karcher : Ciel et Terre se mêlant. Pénétration. Le prince héritier utilise la propriété pour accomplir le tao du Ciel et de la Terre. Le prince héritier utilise le renforcement pour mutualiser la propriété du Ciel et de la Terre. Le prince héritier utilise la gauche pour redresser les roturiers.
Cleary (1) : Quand le ciel et la terre communient, il y a tranquillité. Ainsi le dirigeant administre la voie du ciel et de la terre et assiste l'équilibre approprié du ciel et de la terre, aidant ainsi le peuple.
Cleary (2) : … Pour influencer le peuple.
Wu :Prospérité résulte de l'interaction du ciel et de la terre. Le roi utilise la richesse de la nation pour réaliser les voies du ciel et de la terre et pour soutenir leurs desseins, afin de ramener les sentiments du peuple au centre.
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge : Harmonie montre l'union du ciel et de la terre, et toutes les choses par conséquent unies -- haut et bas, supérieur et inférieur sont tous en accord. Le trigramme inférieur est composé de lignes dynamiques, et le supérieur de lignes magnétiques : la force est à l'intérieur, la dévotion est à l'extérieur ; l'homme supérieur est à l'intérieur et croît, l'homme inférieur est à l'extérieur et décroît.
Legge : Le Jugement se réfère à la structure de l'hexagramme, avec les trois lignes dynamiques en bas, et les trois lignes magnétiques en haut. Les premières sont "les grandes", actives et vigoureuses ; les secondes sont "les inférieures", passives et cédantes. Dans de nombreuses éditions duI Chingsous l'hexagramme de l'Harmonieapparaît l'hexagramme numéro cinquante-quatre,Propriété, qui devient Harmoniesi les troisième et quatrième lignes échangent de place. Une situation dans laquelle les forces motrices sont représentées par trois lignes dynamiques, et les opposantes par trois lignes magnétiques, doit être progressive et réussie.Harmonieest appelé l'hexagramme du premier mois du printemps naturel, lorsque pendant six mois les forces de croissance sont en ascendance.
Canon McClatchie traduit : "L'Image signifie que le ciel et la terre ont maintenant des relations conjugales l'un avec l'autre, et les classes supérieures et inférieures s'unissent ensemble."
Ch'eng-tzu dit sur l'Image qu'un dirigeant devrait encadrer ses lois pour fonctionner comme les saisons, afin que le peuple existe dans la structure d'un ordre naturel plutôt qu'arbitraire.
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement : Harmonie dépeint le déclin des illusions égoïstes et la montée du véritable potentiel.
L'Homme Supérieur permet à sa vertu intérieure de gouverner le psychisme.
Sans lignes changeantes, Harmonie suggère une union fructueuse des opposés et un état de balance dans la question en cours.
Wilhelm traduit la phrase d'ouverture du commentaire confucéen comme : "Le ciel et la terre s'unissent." Blofeld le rend : "Les forces célestes et terrestres ont des relations et toutes les choses sont en communion les unes avec les autres." Legge a déjà attiré l'attention sur la version de McClatchie : "Le ciel et la terre ont maintenant des relations conjugales l'un avec l'autre."
Cette image est l'un des symboles les plus universels produits par le psychisme humain : l'union sexuelle de l'Esprit et de la Matière (ciel et terre). C'est le hieros gamos ou mariage sacré de l'alchimie, l'union de Shiva et Shakti dans l'hindouisme, les divinités mâles et femelles conjointes dans le bouddhisme tantrique, les syzygies du gnosticisme et l'union du ciel et de la terre dans la Kabbale.
Les notions du couple et du mariage sacré occupaient une place très importante dans la pensée religieuse chinoise ancienne. Chaque pouvoir sacré était double, mâle et femelle ; mais comme seule une moitié du couple sacré était généralement enfermée dans un sanctuaire, le rituel visait à reconstituer le tout... L'être complet est mâle et femelle ; puisque la plupart des hommes négligent ou répriment leur nature féminine, ils sont déséquilibrés ; leur agressivité masculine prend le dessus, et toute leur vitalité en souffre. Il ne peut y avoir de véritable Sainteté sans une revitalisation préalable de la féminité. M. Kaltenmark --Lao Tzu et le Taoïsme
Psychologiquement, la condition décrite par cet hexagramme est une métaphore pour un haut état d'intégration au sein du psychisme. Ici, elle est décrite en termes alchimiques et jungiens :
Le vaisseau hermétique est soi-même. Dans celui-ci, les nombreux morceaux de matière psychique dispersés à travers son monde doivent être collectés et fusionnés en un seul, créant ainsi une nouvelle création. Dans celui-ci doit se produire l'union des opposés appelée par les alchimistes la coniunctio ou mariage... (Cette union), en termes psychologiques, correspond à l'homme avec son âme féminine, l'anima, ou à une femme avec son homologue masculin, l'animus -- l'union dans chaque cas constituant le mariage intérieur, le hieros gamos par lequel l'individu doit devenir entier. M.E. Harding --Énergie Psychique
Recevoir cet hexagramme ne signifie pas nécessairement que l'on a atteint une telle intégration élevée, mais cela pourrait indiquer un pas dans cette direction. Le hieros gamos ultime ne se produit qu'après que toutes les forces éparpillées et mal assorties au sein du psychisme ont été réunies dans un alignement correct -- en termes de I Ching, lorsque toutes les lignes sont à leur place avec des corrélats appropriés comme illustré dans l'hexagramme numéro 63, Achèvement. Jusqu'à cette union finale, il y a d'innombrables "moindres" conjonctions qui doivent d'abord avoir lieu -- un fait reconnu dans le yoga tantrique :
Le but final du tantriste est de réunir les deux principes contraires -- Shiva et Shakti -- dans son propre corps. Lorsque Shakti, qui dort, sous la forme d'un serpent, à la base de son corps, est éveillée par certaines techniques yogiques, elle se déplace à travers un canal médian par le biais des chakras jusqu'au sommet du crâne, où Shiva réside, et s'unit à lui. L'union du couple divin dans son propre corps transforme le yogin en une sorte d'"androgyne". Mais il faut souligner que "l'androgynisation" n'est qu'un aspect d'un processus total, celui de la réunion des opposés. En réalité, la littérature tantrique parle d'un grand nombre de "paires opposées" qui doivent être réunies. Mircea Eliade -- Mythes, Rites, Symboles
L'établissement du "Royaume des Cieux sur Terre" est encore une autre métaphore pour ce processus d'unification psychique. Voici la version kabbalistique :
C'est par l'établissement du céleste sur le terrestre, ou du ciel sur la terre, que la maison du Roi (l'humanité) deviendra unie et le Roi s'en réjouira, car alors les deux royaumes deviendront un et alors la nouvelle et vivante voie s'ouvrira à ceux qui se rendent susceptibles et réceptifs à la vie Supérieure et Divine... Lorsque ces deux mondes deviennent unis et mélangés ensemble, ils sont symbolisés par l'union du mâle et de la femelle, l'un étant le complément de l'autre. Le Zohar
SUGGESTIONS POUR LA MÉDITATION
Legge souligne que de nombreuses éditions du I Chingassocient l'hexagramme numéro cinquante-quatre,Propriété, à cette figure. Que signifient les lignes changeantes troisième et quatrième dePropriété concernant le rôle de l'ego dans le Travail ? Le nom traditionnel pourPropriété est "La Jeune Mariée" -- comment cela se rapporte-t-il au concept du mariage sacré dans Harmonie? Comparez les Jugements et les Images des deux hexagrammes et le rôle de l'homme supérieur dans chacun. Notez également la leçon impliquée lorsque les lignes deux et cinq dans Harmonie s'unissent pour former l'hexagramme numéro soixante-trois, Achèvement.