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Ex:美しい空が美しいままでありますように／空の如く、水の如く

I've seen a few things on the former, but nothing in my materials mentions
anything about the latter. Everything I have turned up has revealed precious
little about it. Anyone have any info?
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What are the different ways to use ように&如く?
如く only means 'similar to', while ように can mean either 'similar to' or 'I hope
that'. Also, both uses of ように are perfectly modern, while 如く is rarely ever
used in Modern Japanese outside of intentional archaisms.

As mentioned in the comments, 如く can take a genitive phrase with either の or
the more archaic が, while ように can only take genitives with の. Also, I am not
sure about the grammaticality of a 連体形＋如く, but ように is quite happy with them -
indeed, the desiderative use of ように requires one, and is one of the few cases
where you'll see -ます used as a 連体形.

You may also on occasion come across the even more archaic form of 如く, 如し.
Originally it was an adjective (though somewhat defective IIRC, I've only ever
seen these two forms) - -し is the archaic 終止形 of adjectives (the modern form
being -い, descended from the archaic 連体形 -き).
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