Friday, June 14, 2013

I Ching: Hexagram 36 - The Lines, Part 6

Six at the top means:
Not light but darkness.
First he climbed up to heaven,
Then plunged into the depths of the earth.


Here the climax of the darkening is reached. The dark power at first held so high a place that it could wound all who were on the side of good and of the light. But in the end it perishes of its own darkness, for evil must itself fall at the very moment when it has wholly overcome the good, and thus consumed the energy to which it owed its duration.
Translator of this version of the I Ching is Richard Wilhelm. If you missed any posts in this series, please utilize the I Ching label below.

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