Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
Trial: a jade talisman, held in the spirit’s mouth, a containing beauty that empowers. If someone follows the King’s service, the time of no accomplishment comes to an end.
This is the place of hidden excellence. If you do not act prematurely you can accomplish all you desire. Continue toiling humbly to bring things to completion. Do not try to act like a great leader. Turn your back on the past. These comings and goings release the energy now bound up in the past. Co-operate with the ongoing process of change.
Richard Wilhelm
Hidden lines.
One is able to remain persevering.
If by chance you are in the service of a king,
Seek not works, but bring to completion.
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If a man is free of vanity he is able to conceal his abilities and keep them from attracting attention too soon; thus he can mature undisturbed. If conditions demand it, he can also enter public life, but that too he does with restraint. The wise man gladly leaves fame to others. He does not seek to have credited to himself things that stand accomplished, but hopes to release active forces; that is, he completes his works in such a manner that they may bear fruit for the future.
