Sublimity
I Ching
THE CREATIVE is strong.
THE CREATIVE works sublime success.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings
owe their beginning and which permeates all Heaven.
The clouds pass and the rain does its work, and all individual
beings flow into their forms.
Because the Holy Man is clear as to the end and the beginning,
as to the way in which each of the six stages completes itself
in its own time, he mounts on them towards Heaven as though on
six dragons.
The Way of the Creative works through change and transformation,
so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes
into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers
and what perseveres.
The Sage towers high above the multitude of beings, and all lands
are united in peace.
THE
RECEPTIVE brings about sublime success.
Perfect indeed is the sublimity of the Receptive. All beings owe
their birth to it, because it receives the heavenly with devotion.
The Receptive in its riches carries all things. Its nature is
harmony with the boundless. It embraces everything in its breadth
and illumines everything in its greatness. Through it, all individual
beings attain success.
A mare belongs to the creatures of the earth; she roams the earth
without bound. Yielding, devoted, furthering through perseverance:
thus the Superior Man has a direction for his way of life.