Documented: Wilhelm, sent to Qingdao in 1899, studied under the elderly Confucian master Lao Naixuan, produced the German I Ching (1924) that remains a standard, and the Golden Flower (1929). Jung's memorial essay records the arc, Wilhelm shedding the missionary posture, entering the texts as a pupil, and Jung crediting him with an Archimedean point from which the Western attitude of mind can be shaken. Later sinology (Cleary, the Mori-Esposito dating) finds his Golden Flower edition corrupted and his Tang-dynasty and Nestorian provenance speculations erroneous.
The folk figure is the meeting: a German pastor and a driven-out sage of the old school, Lao Naixuan, collaborating through the fall of the empire, producing the edition of the I Ching with its commentary while the civilization that wrote it burned its own furniture for heat. Wilhelm is filed as the archive's model of reception done humbly, and of its cost, his health never recovered from the China years.
The claim: Wilhelm is the control system's counter-move in reverse, a man sent to overwrite a culture who instead carried its exit manual out, the missionary position inverted. The plainer esoteric reading: some transmissions choose their couriers, and the courier's dossier never matters to the package.
When the missionary becomes the transmission line, which direction is the mission running?