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The I Ching, Legge tr.

The I Ching, Legge tr.: The Yî King Text: Section I...

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This is a classical Chinese divination text — specifically Hexagram XIX (Lin) from the I Ching (Book of Changes), accompanied by traditional scholarly commentary. The hexagram's central statement promises great progress and success under conditions of firm correctness, but warns of misfortune in the eighth month, interpreted as a reminder that advancing forces inevitably decline. The six line judgments describe a progression from auspicious advance through firm partnership (lines 1–2), to a cautionary note about reckless eagerness (line 3), up through ideal leadership characterized by wisdom, humility, and generous honesty (lines 4–6). The commentary, drawing on Ming dynasty and Qing (Kangxi) scholarship, explains Lin as signifying the approach of authority — to inspect, comfort, or govern — and interprets the "eighth month" warning through the numerology of Yin/Yang cycles, where Yang power peaks at 9 and recedes to 8 (Yin), signaling inevitable reversal. A notably distinctive feature is the line-by-line structural analysis, which reads each line's meaning through its position (strong/weak, central/peripheral, correct/incorrect placement) and its correlate relationship to other lines in the hexagram, revealing a systematic interpretive grammar beneath what might appear to be simple fortune-telling.

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