Good Morning H-40

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Hexagram 40

By: James Byrd

I.The Oracle 

A. Hexagram 40 is Xie, or Taking Apart. Variations are Deliverance and Untangled. Its lower trigram is Kan: gorge or water, and the upper trigram is Zhen: shake or thunder.   

   

B. The Judgment

   1. Deliverance. The southwest furthers.
       if there is no longer anything where one has to go, 
       Return brings good fortune.
   2. If there is still something where one has to go,  
       Hastening brings good fortune.

C. The Image

  1. Thunder and rain set in: (you heard?)
      a) The image of Deliverance.
      b) Thus the superior man pardons mistakes.
           And forgives misdeeds.
           

II. My interpretation 

A. "Deliverance"

Apart from all personification, the whole of space in which life finds itself has a malevolently spiritual character, and the "demons" themselves are as much spatial realms as they are persons. To overcome them is the same thing as to pass through them, and in breaking through their boundaries this passage at the same time breaks their power and achieves the liberation from the magic of their sphere.
H. Jonas --The Gnostic Religion

Credit: http://www.jamesdekorne.com/GBCh/hex40.htm

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Wilhelm, R., and Baynes. C.F. (1967). The I Ching, or, Book of Changes (Bollingen Series XIX)
Wilhelm, Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm (1995). Understanding the I Ching

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