Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
Your nose cut, your feet cut, Oppressed by the crimson sashes. Slowly this will be loosened. Advantageous to make offerings to your ideals.
You are being oppressed by corrupt authorities. As your bitter feelings loosen you will be set free. Concentrate on your ideals. Though you confront many difficulties, this is not your fault. The source of common value has been corrupted by those who seek only their own gain. Prepare yourself through inner work. These comings and goings release energy now bound up in the past. Co-operate with the ongoing process of change.
Book of Changes
九五, 劓刖, 困于赤紱, 乃徐有說, 利用祭祀.
Richard Wilhelm
His nose and feet are cut off.
Oppression at the hands of the man with the purple knee bands.
Joy comes softly.
It furthers one to make offerings and libations.
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An individual who has the good of mankind at heart is oppressed from above and below (this is the meaning of the cutting off of nose an defeat). He finds no help among the people whose duty it would be to aid in the work of rescue (ministers wore purple knee bands). But little by little, things take a turn for the better. Until that time, he should turn to God, firm in his inner composure, and pray and offer sacrifice for the general well-being.
