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The document provides commentary on hexagram XLV (Žhui) of the I Ching. [1] The king will pay respects at the ancestral temple, where he will commune with past kings. Meetings with wise officials and correct actions will lead to success. [2] Each line is analyzed in terms of strengths, positions, and relationships to other lines. Maintaining sincerity and virtue despite difficulties will prevent regret. [3] The hexagram concerns maintaining harmony between the ruler and officials, and people of high and low ranks. Religious observances, wise leadership, and proper conduct can preserve this harmonious state.

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Iching 46

The document provides commentary on hexagram XLV (Žhui) of the I Ching. [1] The king will pay respects at the ancestral temple, where he will commune with past kings. Meetings with wise officials and correct actions will lead to success. [2] Each line is analyzed in terms of strengths, positions, and relationships to other lines. Maintaining sincerity and virtue despite difficulties will prevent regret. [3] The hexagram concerns maintaining harmony between the ruler and officials, and people of high and low ranks. Religious observances, wise leadership, and proper conduct can preserve this harmonious state.

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XLV. THE ŽHUI HEXAGRAM

In (the state denoted by) Žhui, the king will repair to his ancestral temple. It will be
advantageous
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(also) to meet with the great man; and then there will be progress and success, though
the advantage must come through firm correctness. The use of great victims will
conduce to good fortune; and in whatever direction movement is made, it will be
advantageous.

1. The first SIX, divided, shows its subject with a sincere desire (for union), but
unable to carry it out, so that disorder is brought into the sphere of his union. If he cry
out (for help to his proper correlate), all at once (his tears) will give place
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to smiles. He need not mind (the temporary difficulty); as he goes forward, there will
be no error.

2. The second SIX, divided, shows its subject led forward (by his correlate). There
will be good fortune, and freedom from error. There is entire sincerity, and in that
case (even the small offerings of) the vernal sacrifice are acceptable.

3. The third SIX, divided, shows its subject striving after union and seeming to sigh,
yet nowhere finding any advantage. If he go forward, he will not err, though there
may be some small cause for regret.

4. The fourth NINE, undivided, shows its subject in such a state that, if he be greatly
fortunate, he will receive no blame.

5. The fifth NINE, undivided, shows the union (of all) under its subject in the place of
dignity. There will be no error. If any do not have confidence in him, let him see to it
that (his virtue) be great, long-continued, and firmly correct, and all occasion for
repentance will disappear.
6. The topmost SIX, divided, shows its subject sighing and weeping; but there will be
no error.

Footnotes

158:XLV Žhui denotes collecting together, or things so collected and hence this


hexagram concerns the state of the kingdom when a happy union prevails between the
sovereign and his ministers, between high and low; and replies in a vague way to the
question how this state is to be preserved; by the influence of religion, and the great
man, who is a sage upon the throne.

He, 'the king,' will repair to his ancestral temple, and meet in spirit there with the
spirits of his ancestors. Whatever he does, being correct and right, will succeed. His
religious services will be distinguished by their dignity and splendour. His victims
will p. 159 he the best that can be obtained, and other things will be in harmony with
them.

Line 1 is weak, and in the place of a strong line. It has a proper correlate in 4, but is
separated from him by the intervention of two weak lines. The consequence of these
things is supposed to be expressed in the first part of the symbolism; but the subject of
the line is possessed by the desire for union, which is the theme of the hexagram.
Calling out to his correlate for help, he obtains it, and his sorrow is turned into joy.

Line 2 is in its proper place, and responds to the strong ruler in 5, who encourages and
helps the advance of its subject. He possesses also the sincerity, proper to him in his
central position; and though he were able to offer only the sacrifice of the spring,
small compared with the fulness of the sacrifices in summer and autumn, it would be
accepted.

Line 3 is weak, in the place of a strong line, and advanced from the central place. The
topmost line, moreover, is no proper correlate. But its subject is possessed by the
desire for union; and though 2 and 4 decline to associate with him, he presses on to 6,
which is also desirous of union. That common desire brings them together,
notwithstanding 3 and 6 are both divided lines; and with difficulty the subject of 3
accomplishes his object.

[But that an ordinary rule for interpreting the lineal indications may be thus overruled
by extraordinary considerations shows how much of fancy there is in the symbolism
or in the commentaries on it.]
Line 4 has its correlate in 1, and is near to the ruling line in 5. We may expect a good
auspice for it; but its being strong in an odd place, calls for the caution which is
insinuated.

Line 5 is strong, central, and in its correct position. Through p. 160 its subject there may
be expected the full realisation of the idea of the hexagram.

Line 6, weak, and at the extremity of the figure, is still anxious for union; but he has
no proper correlate, and all below are united in 5. Its subject mourns his solitary
condition; and his good feeling will preserve him from error and blame.

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