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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 3
Assumer la responsabilité des erreurs passées entraîne de petits regrets mais évite de grandes fautes.
↓ Line 5
Corriger les erreurs passées mérite respect et éloge.
↓ Vérité intérieure61
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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 3
Legge: The third line, dynamic, shows a son dealing with the troubles caused by his father. There may be some small occasion for repentance, but there will not be any great error.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. There will be a little remorse. No great blame.
Blofeld: Making ourselves responsible for the mistakes of our fathers may involve some regret but not much blame.
Liu: In correcting the mistakes of the father, there is slight remorse. No great blame.
Ritsema/Karcher: Managing the father's Corrupting. The small possesses repenting. Without the great: fault.
Shaughnessy: The stem father's branch; there is a little regret; there is no great trouble.
Cleary (1): Correcting the degeneracy of the father, there is a little regret but not much blame.
Wu: He attends to the affairs of his father. There will be small regrets, but no big error.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: In the end there will be no error. Wilhelm/Baynes: In the end there is no blame. Blofeld: In the end we shall be free from blame. Ritsema/Karcher: Completing without fault indeed. Cleary (2): In the end there is no blame. Wu: He will be blameless in the end.
Legge: Line three is dynamic, but not central, so that he might well go to excess in his efforts. But this tendency is counteracted by his place in the trigram of Humble Submission. (Pliancy.)
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man proceeds too energetically in correcting past errors. This results in some discord and distress. But a trifle too much energy is preferable to a trifle too little, and no great blame will ensue.
Wing: You are anxious to rectify the mistakes of the past and move vigorously into the future. Your actions may be hasty and you will be judged inconsiderate by others, but in the end you will not suffer for it.
Editor: The image suggests the normal rectification of an error.
Anyone who has ever been through such a psychic experience knows what an immense relief this can be, how much more bearable, for example, it is for a son to conceive the son-father problem no longer on the plane of individual guilt -- in relation, for example, to his own desire for his father's death, his aggressions and desires for revenge -- but as a problem of deliverance from the father, i.e., from a dominant principle of consciousness, that is no longer adequate for the son: a problem that concerns all men and has been disclosed in the myths and fairy tales as the slaying of the reigning old king and the son's accession to his throne. J. Jacobi -- Complex, Archetype, Symbol
A. Image of an easily rectified mistake.
Line 5
Legge: The fifth line, magnetic, shows a son dealing with the troubles caused by his father. He obtains the praise of using the fit instrument for his work.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. One meets with praise.
Blofeld: Assuming responsibility for the mistakes of our fathers will win us praise.
Liu: Correcting the mistakes of the father leads to recognition.
Ritsema/Karcher: Managing the father's Corrupting. Availing- of praise.
Shaughnessy: The stem father's branch; use a cart.
Cleary (1): Correcting the degeneracy of the father, using praise.
Cleary (2): Dealing with the degeneration of the father, the action is praised.
Wu: He attends to the affairs of his father. He has reputation at his disposal.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: He is responded to by the second line with all of his virtue. Wilhelm/Baynes: He receives him in virtue. Blofeld: Because to take them upon ourselves is a virtue. Ritsema/Karcher: Receiving uses actualizing-tao indeed. [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 (2): Because one takes up after him with virtue. Wu: He succeeds with virtue.
Legge: The magnetic fifth line is the seat of the ruler, but its proper correlate is the dynamic second line -- the strong minister to whom the work of the hexagram is delegated.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: With the assistance of able helpers, the man reverses the process of decay of former times. He is praised for it.
Wing: You are in a position to assume the responsibility for a long-needed reform. Do it. Those around you will be supportive of your efforts and you will be honored with praise and recognition.
Editor: Line five does not lend itself to the usual gender symbolism. The dynamic second line deals with feelings (the mother), and the magnetic fifth line deals with thoughts or conscious attitudes (the father). The Confucian commentary describes these correlate lines as uniting to attain symmetry. Ritsema/Karcher translate this as facilitating the unfolding of essence (tao). This suggests an overall rectification of thoughts and feelings to attain balance. The other translations emphasize that one obtains recognition and praise for this, suggesting a major accomplishment in the development of the Work.
Inasmuch as ordering activity and emotional receptivity are felt as belonging to the masculine and feminine principles respectively, the first life contacts with father and mother set the basic patterns for the development of our assertiveness and our feeling. When there are problems in these areas they must be confronted and consciously re-examined in terms of these original encounters before a further development can become possible. E. C. Whitmont -- The Symbolic Quest
A. Put some thought into your feelings, or: bring compassion into your thinking.
B. Rectify your thoughts and feelings: revise a limiting belief.
61 Vérité intérieure
Autres titres : Le Symbole de la Sincérité Centrale, Confiance Intérieure, Vérité Intérieure, Sincérité, Centrage-Conformité, Retour Central, Fidélité au Centre, Sincérité au Centre, Perspicacité, Compréhension, La Psyché, "Prenez la voie du milieu et évitez les extrêmes." -- D.F. Hook
Jugement
Legge : Vérité Intérieure émeut même les cochons et les poissons, et conduit à la bonne fortune. Il y aura un avantage à traverser le grand fleuve. Il y aura un avantage à être ferme et correct.
Wilhelm/Baynes :Vérité Intérieure. Cochons et poissons. Bonne fortune. Il est favorable de traverser la grande eau. La persévérance est bénéfique.
Blofeld : Confiance et Sincérité Intérieures. Dauphins -- bonne fortune ! Il est avantageux de traverser le grand fleuve (ou la mer). La persistance dans une voie juste apporte une récompense.
Liu :Vérité Intérieure. Lions de mer -- bonne fortune. Il est bénéfique de traverser la grande eau.
Ritsema/Karcher :Centrage Conformité, poisson-cochon significatif. Récolte : traverser le Grand Fleuve. Récolte d'essai. (Poisson-cochon, T’UN YU : mammifères aquatiques ; marsouin, dauphin ; animaux aquatiques intelligents dont le développement est parallèle à celui de l'homme ; signe d'abondance et de bonne chance.) [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes de la relation entre votre noyau intérieur et les circonstances de votre vie. Il souligne que mettre en accord sincère et fiable vos préoccupations centrales et votre situation de vie est la manière adéquate de la gérer...]
Shaughnessy :Retour Central : le porcelet et le poisson sont de bon augure ; harmonieux : bénéfique de traverser le grand fleuve ; bénéfique de déterminer.
Cleary (1) : Fidélité au centre est de bon augure lorsqu'elle atteint même les cochons et les poissons. Il est bénéfique de traverser les grands fleuves. Il est bénéfique d'être correct.
Cleary (2) : Sincérité au centre est de bon augure quand simple d'esprit ... etc.
Wu :Sincérité émeut les porcelets et les poissons. De bon augure. Il sera avantageux de traverser le grand fleuve avec persévérance.
L'Image
Legge : Bois sur un Marais -- l'image de Vérité Intérieure. L'homme supérieur délibère sur les cas de litige et retarde l'infliction de la mort.
Wilhelm/Baynes : Vent sur le lac : l'image de Vérité Intérieure. Ainsi l'homme supérieur discute des affaires criminelles pour retarder les exécutions.
Blofeld : Cet hexagramme symbolise le vent soufflant sur un lac marécageux. L'Homme Supérieur consacre une réflexion attentive à ses jugements et tarde à condamner les gens à mort.
Liu : Le vent sur le lac symbolise Vérité Intérieure. L'homme supérieur juge les criminels et reporte la peine capitale.
Ritsema/Karcher : Au-dessus du marais possédant le vent. Centrage Conformité. Un chun tzu utilise la délibération des litiges pour retarder la mort.
Cleary (1) : Il y a du vent au-dessus d'un lac, avec vérité entre eux. Ainsi les personnes supérieures considèrent les jugements et reportent l'exécution.
Cleary (2) : Il y a du vent sur un lac, avec sincérité au centre. Les vrais leaders considèrent les jugements et reportent l'exécution.
Wu : Il y a du vent au-dessus du marais : c'est Sincérité. Ainsi, le jun zi délibère sur les verdicts et enjoint la peine de mort.
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge :Vérité Intérieure montre deux lignes magnétiques occupant la partie la plus intérieure de l'hexagramme, avec des lignes dynamiques au centre des trigrammes. Nous voyons les attributs de la Joie et de la Pénétration Flexible -- la sincérité ainsi symbolisée atteint même les cochons et les poissons et transformera le pays. Nous voyons quelqu'un chevauchant le symbole du Bois, qui forme un bateau vide -- d'où l'avantage de traverser le grand fleuve. La vertu de Vérité Intérieure nécessite une fermeté correcte et montre la réponse appropriée de l'homme au ciel.
Legge : Vérité Intérieure dénote la plus haute qualité de l'homme, donnant à son possesseur le pouvoir de prévaloir avec les êtres spirituels, avec les autres hommes et avec les créatures inférieures. Il y a deux lignes magnétiques au centre et deux lignes dynamiques au-dessus et en dessous d'elles. Les lignes magnétiques représentent le cœur et l'esprit libres de toute préoccupation, sans aucune conscience de soi. Les deux lignes dynamiques immédiatement au-dessus et en dessous d'elles sont chacune au centre de leur trigramme respectif, et dénotent la vertu solide de celui qui est ainsi libre de tout égoïsme.
Le trigramme du Bois au-dessus du trigramme pour un Lac ou un Marais suggère un bateau traversant le grand fleuve. Les cochons et les poissons symbolisent les hommes les plus grossiers et les plus obstinés. Ch'eng-tzu observe : "Nous avons dans la sincérité montrée dans le trigramme supérieur des supérieurs condescendant à ceux qui sont en dessous d'eux en fonction de leurs particularités, et nous avons dans celle du trigramme inférieur ceux qui sont en dessous ravis de suivre leurs supérieurs. La combinaison de ces deux choses conduit à la transformation du pays et de l'État."
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement : C'est un grand accomplissement lorsque Vérité Intérieure modifie les forces archétypales au sein de la psyché. La dévotion de l'ego au Travail est le moyen d'atteindre cet objectif.
L'Homme Supérieur différencie soigneusement ses options et évite les mesures drastiques. (Peut parfois signifier : "N'agissez pas tant que vous n'êtes pas sûr de tous les faits.")
Quiconque surveille ses rêves et autres images sait que l'inconscient est une source continue d'énergie psychique. Jung a observé que nous rêvons probablement tout le temps -- la seule raison pour laquelle nous ne le remarquons généralement pas est que l'esprit conscient est si puissant que les manifestations plus subtiles de la psyché sont éclipsées. Puisque la conscience consiste uniquement en les couches supérieures d'un continuum profond de conscience, il est évident que nous sommes continuellement "créés de l'intérieur." La source ultime de notre être n'est pas facilement accessible, mais toutes les preuves empiriques pointent vers un "Soi" qui transcende le continuum espace-temps -- c'est-à-dire, vit dans une autre "dimension."
La capacité de neutraliser l'espace et le temps doit d'une manière ou d'une autre résider dans la psyché, ou, pour le dire autrement, la psyché n'existe pas entièrement dans le temps et l'espace. Il est très probable que seule ce que nous appelons la conscience est contenue dans l'espace et le temps, et que le reste de la psyché, l'inconscient, existe dans un état de relative absence d'espace et de temps. Jung --Lettres
Ce concept apparemment exotique a été écrit par Jung en 1939, et pourtant aujourd'hui les théories des physiciens quantiques approchent du point où la conscience elle-même sera reconnue comme transcendant l'espace-temps.
Dans la théorie moderne de Kaluza-Klein, toutes les forces de la nature, pas seulement la gravité, sont traitées comme des manifestations de la structure de l'espace-temps. Ce que nous appelons normalement la gravité est une déformation dans les quatre dimensions de l'espace-temps de nos perceptions, tandis que les autres forces sont réduites à des déformations spatiales de dimensions supérieures. Toutes les forces de la nature sont révélées comme rien de plus que de la géométrie cachée à l'œuvre ... Il y a une profonde compulsion à croire en l'idée que l'univers entier, y compris toute la matière apparemment concrète qui assaille nos sens, n'est en réalité qu'une joyeuse complexité de néant convoluté, que finalement le monde se révélera être une sculpture de pure vacuité, un vide auto-organisé. Paul Davies -- Superforce
Les physiciens émettent maintenant l'hypothèse d'un univers à onze dimensions, et déclarent que les sept dimensions "supplémentaires" sont d'une manière ou d'une autre "enroulées à une très petite taille" de sorte qu'elles ne sont pas apparentes à nos sens. Si nous allons émettre l'hypothèse de tels royaumes fantastiques, il est plus élégant d'hypothétiser la conscience elle-même comme émanant d'une source extra-dimensionnelle. C'est le Plérôme des Gnostiques et des Alchimistes, les mondes supérieurs et inférieurs du chamanisme, ou en termes jungiens : la Psyché Objective ou l'Inconscient Collectif.
L'espace-temps familier de notre expérience consciente se compose de trois dimensions linéaires, plus le temps. Le temps est considéré comme une dimension, mais pas comme les trois autres -- on peut aller en haut, en bas, en avant et en arrière, à gauche ou à droite à volonté, mais on ne peut pas revenir à ce matin ou avancer jusqu'à jeudi après-midi prochain. La dimension du temps est un "maintenant" continu et nous l'expérimentons ainsi que les trois autres dimensions à partir du point de référence de la conscience -- nous sommes le centre à partir duquel toutes les dimensions rayonnent. La conscience est comme le temps en ce qu'elle est toujours "maintenant", et puisque la conscience émerge de l'intérieur dans un flux continu et autonome, nous pouvons légitimement émettre l'hypothèse que nous émanons d'une source de puissance dans une autre dimension. Nous sommes une sorte d'explosion continue de l'intérieur -- une version microcosmique du "Big Bang" qui a donné naissance à l'univers, et qui, incidemment, explose encore en s'étendant vers l'extérieur dans l'espace.
Si tout ce qui est reconnaissable l'est uniquement parce qu'il s'est séparé du "tout et du néant", laissant sa moitié complémentaire derrière dans l'état non manifesté, alors la terre aussi doit avoir sa moitié complémentaire dans l'état non manifesté, et la force de gravitation qu'elle exerce sur toutes les créatures et objets vivant sur elle est la quête de réunification entre la terre et sa moitié complémentaire non manifestée qui a été laissée derrière dans le vide comme son reflet négatif. L'attraction gravitationnelle de la terre attire donc toute la terre vers le vide qui se tient au-delà du temps et de l'espace, afin de réaliser cette réunion. Si la terre devait céder, toute la terre et tout ce qui s'y trouve disparaîtraient dans le centre, dans le vide. Mais ce serait un retour à l'unité paradisiaque -- à Dieu -- à la félicité ! Elisabeth Haich -- Initiation
L'image de l'hexagrammeVérité Intérieure nous donne l'idée d'un centre "vide" -- aussi bonne image que l'on pourrait concevoir à partir des composants structurels des trigrammes pour montrer la source intérieure de la conscience humaine. Les cochons et les poissons du Jugement sont les complexes archétypaux qui doivent être apprivoisés par le processus du Travail, et "traverser le grand fleuve" avec une fermeté correcte est accomplir cette tâche sacrée.
À travers tous les âges, les hommes ont cherché, et certains ont trouvé ; il y a une porte par laquelle nous pouvons passer sur les plans supérieurs, mais cette porte est à l'intérieur de l'âme, c'est un élargissement de la conscience par lequel nous percevons ces choses auxquelles nous avons été jusqu'ici aveugles, et de cette perception vient le sens de la réalité qui manque lorsque nous ne percevons rien d'autre que des apparences. Quiconque a cette vision élargie est libéré des limitations des cinq sens physiques ; sa mémoire s'étend au-delà de la naissance, et ses espoirs vont au-delà de la mort ... Ayant tous les aspects de sa propre nature harmonieusement développés, il est en accord avec tous les aspects de l'univers, rien ne lui est étranger, et aucune forme d'existence n'est hostile. Le chemin de la vie est ouvert devant lui et il le parcourt avec joie. D. Fortune -- La Philosophie Ésotérique de l'Amour et du Mariage