The Eastern Orthodox doctrine that the purpose of human life is to become God — not in essence but in energies, as Palamas distinguished. Athanasius's formula: 'God became man so that man might become God.' This is not absorption or annihilation but participation — the iron placed in fire becomes fire-like while remaining iron. Hex 1 (The Creative) and Hex 2 (The Receptive) together map this: the human (earth/receptive) does not replace the divine (heaven/creative) but is so thoroughly permeated by it that the two move as one. The I-Ching never merges its first two hexagrams — they remain distinct yet inseparable, which is precisely the Palamite distinction between essence and energies. Theosis is not the collapse of duality but its perfection.