Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
The Realizing Person makes a leopard transformation. Small People put on a skin mask. Trap! Chastising closes the Way. Stay where you are. Wise Words! Trial: The Way is open.
Change with grace and elegance. Do not simply put on another mask. Stay where you are and gather the people for the new endeavor. Accept the hard work and your sorrows will disappear. You must overturn things to clear the channels of communication. Step outside the norms and re-imagine the situation. These goings and comings will release the energy now bound up in the past. You are coupled with a creative force.
Richard Wilhelm
The superior man changes like a panther.
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The inferior man molts in the face.
Starting brings misfortune.
To remain persevering brings good fortune.
After the large and fundamental problems are settled, certain minor reforms, and elaborations of these, are necessary. These detailed reforms may be likened to the equally distinct but relatively small marks of the panther's coat. As a consequence, a change also takes place among the inferior people. In conformity with the new order, they likewise "molt." This molting, it is true, does not go very deep, but that is not to be expected. We must be satisfied with the attainable. If we should go too far and try to achieve too much, it would lead to unrest and misfortune. For the object of a great revolution is the attainment of clarified, secure conditions ensuring a general stabilization on the basis of what is possible at the moment.
