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Yes, Sir! Thank You very much for Your interesting, fresh article, offering very important material, which I most appreciate. Beautiful, that it is published simultaneously with Harmen Mesker’s “The Picture that Covers Heaven and Earth”. Both publications are close to my findings.
To compare gua sequences of Yiwei ji lan tu and Tab. 5 of Your article (at the moment I do not see a reference to its source), they seem to reflect, may be, two temporally different stages of the same interpretative and systematical tradition. To illustrate what I mean, let us substitute the gua ordinal numbers, as they are in the Zhou Yi, by hexagrams themselves. Now, along the outer circle of the concentric diagram we have:
61 24 3 15 38 46 19 62 4 42 53 11 5 17 35
40 34 16 6 18 49 43 56 7 8 9 1 14 37 48
31 44 50 55 59 10 33 32 60 13 41 12 57 45 26
22 20 54 25 36 47 23 52 63 21 28 2 64 39 27
(I failed to put here the hexagrams, as they are in MojikyoM112 font, I am sorry. Probably You can do it Yourself, or call me on e-mail).
Would You try to substitute the font here by MojikyoM112?
優勿棉盲爺薬儲勇綿矢愉妄緬耗也
野匁網面蒙靖厄癒麺摸模滅猛夜躍
悶役柳油唯茂門紋佑毛弥孟諭約尤
目木愈餅冶訳杢鑓友黙籾免宥耶戻
And also in the table 5, please, put the corresponding hexagrams instead of the numbers. You will see, there is an order, though not quite what I have found.
I wish You much success
Victor Yakovlev