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R Wilhelm – commentary on the I Ching
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R Wilhelm – commentary on the I Ching
As that which completes the primal images, it is called the Creative; as that which imitates them, it is called the Receptive
This is based on the view expressed likewise in the Tao Te Ching, namely, that underlying reality there is a world of archetypes and reproductions of these make up the real things in the material world. The world of archetypes is heaven, the world of reproductions is the earth; there energy, here matter; there the Creative, here the Receptive. But it is the same Tao that is active both in the Creative and in the Receptive