Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
The Legions are carting the corpse. Perhaps stay in mourning? Trap! The Way closes.
Get rid of false images and useless ideas. There is no resistance in sight. You are outside the normal group now precisely because of your real moral and spiritual worth. Hold onto your values and you can truly influence others. The great project opens from this gathering. If you let yourself be led you can realize the hidden potential. Co-operate with the ongoing process of change.
Richard Wilhelm
Perchance the army carries corpses in the wagon.
Misfortune.
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Here we have a choice of two explanations. One points to defeat because someone other than the chosen leader interferes with the command; the other is similar in its general meaning, but the expression, "carries corpses in the wagon," is interpreted differently. At burials and at sacrifices to the dead it was customary in China for the deceased to whom the sacrifice was made to be represented by a boy of the family, who sat in the dead man's place and was honored as his representative. On the basis of this custom the text is interpreted as meaning that a "corpse boy" is sitting in the wagon, or, in other words, that authority is not being exercised by the proper leaders but has been usurped by others. Perhaps the whole difficulty clears up if it is inferred that there has been an error in copying. The character fan, meaning "all," may have been misread as shih, which means "corpse." Allowing for this error, the meaning would be that if the multitude assumes leadership of the army (rides in the wagon), misfortune will ensue.
