Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations by Cyrus H. Gordon

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End of tke Fourth Type of Oonsciousness. , as ultimately true. In it indifferent feeling is in place of joy; zest is wanting. All the rest is like the first class of consciousness. End of tke Fifth Type of Oonsciousness. The sixth, seventh, eighth classes of consciousness are to be understood in the same way as the second, third and fourth by changing the feeling and leaving out zest. In these eight classes of consciousness, accompanied by greed, two dominant influences of co-existence and of object are to be understood.

If the Once-returner were not to cultivate the path of Ollcereturning, the process of the • grasped at ' would go on in the five rebirths, after the next two. And why 1 Because of the existence of the conditions of the procedure. But in point of fact the path of Once-returning arising severs these four corruptions: gross fetters of sense-desires and of aversion, gross latent bias of sense-desires and gross latent bias of aversion. ' If the Never-returner were not to cultivate the path of Never-returning, the process of the aggregates grasped at would go on in the second existence after the next.

Wrong view is called so in the Path-factors and courses of action. ' And the same with fearlessness of blame also. Greed is called so by way of the pair of conditions, and covetousness by way of the course of action. Thus these six are referred to two categories. And feeling is called... so by way of the fivefold contact-group, bliss by way of jhana-factors, and the controlling faculty of joy by way of the controlling faculties-thus one state is referred to three categories. And energy is called the controlling faculty of energy by way of the controlling faculties, wrong endeavour by way of the Path-factors, 'strength' of energy by way of the' strengths,' and support by way of the Final Pairs1-thus one state is referred to four categories.

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