2023-4-5 How can Russia-China create High Culture?

The people come into the Great Shrine in ‘Peaceful Wisdom Mountain’
and offer thousands of candles to Heaven and their Ancestors…
all flames burn steadily
with nary a flicker.
Thus Enlightened Society is ever dawning
in the Great Hall of the Ancestors in the Mountain
of timeless, ever present Wisdom and Compassion.

Yi Jing: an original Sequence of Hexagrams #1 to 30.

Before the beginning are Heaven, the spark, and Earth the responding material flame of manifest being. Then comes the seed of life (3) sprouting, struggling to emerge from within the Earth, dark skies pouring with rain above. From which comes childhood (4), learning, the seed having all it needs to grow into the mighty oak but having to go through the process of learning what it already knows on a deep level.

Yi: Can Les Francais rescue Democracy? 63-1 >39 <64

We storm the Bastille, my brothers, again
Again and again and again and only more rain comes.
Let us sit together, count our blessings
Then once more unto the breach, dear friends,once more!
Oppressive Heaven; Earth yearns for Cutting Through; Man must deliver!!