Hexagram 16

Trigrams: inside earth (Dao), outside thunder (Voice)

elephant and shuttle

   The master says: The elephant walks through the path in the wood to the place where he lifted up a there lying tree. The little man sitting behind his ears with his stick and his knees and heels let turn the elephant and let walk him back the path to a place where the elephant lay down the tree and where other men all without pants but with a protection of silk around their middle hanging down. They made from the tree those pieces they can raise walls and a roof above the ground with steps to go in it and in the middle of that building the woman crosses her legs and sits on the floor and started to begin the cocoon of the butterfly to turn it round and round and the string is going longer and longer. And with that she started to make another protection for the essential naked of the body and so the elephant and the little man on him and the other busy men and the woman as building to live for, so they started a civilization.

   So life begins in its first form.

   It is all done to protect the woman and that makes the happiness in the man out which the woman lives and gives her mental and physical health protection. This is what we call civilization in which the elephant has a central place of to bring happiness.

   In this building grows the love. It is human and deeper than that the elephant. Out this deepness they let be born the highness and they called that God. Deep physical power and soul are in God high spiritual power and soul. Human is a way between this both.

   The happiness of the man is be born in the knowing of God and it brings the life and the resistance in the woman.  

Created by Anton Heyboer, Oct. 24 2001