Ch^ en / The Arousing (Shock, Thunder)
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The second [six], divided, shows its subject, when the movement approaches, in a position of peril. He judges it better to let go the articles (in his possession), and to ascend a very lofty height. There is no occasion for him to pursue after (the things he has let go); in seven days he will find them.
'The position of peril' to the subject of line 2 is suggested, as Appendix II says, by its position, immediately above 1. But the rest of the symbolism is obscure, and Ku Hsi says he does not understand it. The common interpretation appears in the version. The subject of the line does what he can to get out of danger; and finally, as signified by the central position of the line, the issue is better than could have been expected. On the specification of 'seven days', see what is said in the treatise on the Thwan of hexagram 24. On its use here Khang-tze says: - 'The places of a diagram amount to 6. The number 7 is the first of another. When the movement symbolized by Chan is gone by, things will be as they were before.'