I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Spiritual hierarchy
Last November, Val asked Yi if there was such a thing as spiritual hierarchy. The answer was Hexagram 23 changing to 24.
This reading surely emphasises that there are differences, like those between the junzi and the ‘small people’ of the top line, and what they’re prepared to do with the ‘uneaten fruit’.
It also shows, with the movement from 23 to 24 – something Stephen Karcher associates with death and rebirth – that there is something to aspire to here. Not an endless ascent to ever-more-rarefied spiritual realms, though, but a quiet return and re-rooting in the soil.