Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
Straight, four sided and Great. No need to repeat or rehearse. Nothing not advantageous.
The situation is pregnant with possibility. Everything you want is already there. Have no fear. This will gather friends around you. Creative energy emerges into the lower field of action, giving you the ability to realize your plans. Locate yourself in the center of this energy and you will find a real purpose. Build your reserves for the future. Joy and play are the keys now. Let any distress you feel return you to the Way. Gather energy for the decisive new move.
Richard Wilhelm
Straight, square, great.
Without purpose,
Yet nothing remains unfurthered.
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The symbol of heaven is the circle, and that of earth is the square. Thus squareness is a primary quality of the earth. On the other hand, movement in a straight line, as well as magnitude, is a primary quality of the Creative. But all square things have their origin in a straight line and into turn form solid bodies. In mathematics, when we discriminate between lines, planes and solids, we find that rectangular planes result from straight lines, and cubic magnitudes from rectangular planes. The Receptive accommodates itself to the qualities of the Creative and makes them its own. Thus a square develops out of a straight line and a cube out of a square. This is compliance with the laws of the Creative; nothing is taken away, nothing added. Therefore the Receptive has no need of a special purpose of its own, nor of any effort' yet everything turns out as it should. Nature creates all beings without erring: this is its foursquareness. It tolerates all creatures equally: this is its greatness. Therefore it attains what is right for all without artifice or special intentions. Man achieves the height of wisdom when all that he does is as self-evident as what nature does.
