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## The Chapter of the Sevenfold
There are four stages of arising: the sevenfold, the eightfold, the ninefold, and the tenfold.
The seventeenfold bondage stage occurs in the third mixed and fourth uninterrupted right-faith stages. Of these, the mixed stage has three stages of arising: the sevenfold, the eightfold, and the ninefold.
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In the sevenfold stage of arising, excluding the infinite-bond, one of the fourfold passions of anger, etc., one of the three Vedas, one of the two pairs, and right-wrong faith arise in a regular manner. Here too, as before, there are twenty-four types of breaks. In this sevenfold stage of arising, the addition of fear or disgust results in the eightfold stage of arising. This stage is of two types...
However, according to the tradition of the passion-purification, a being who has ascended to the stage of pacification can also fall from it and attain the stage of the subtle. However, in the powder of passion-purification, the infinite-bond pacification nature is prohibited. Along with this, it is also written that a being with right-faith knowledge does not pacify the passions without disintegrating the fourfold infinite-bond. This opinion is also supported by the original passion-purification.
**The Seventeenfold Bondage in Two**
1. Right-wrong faith and uninterrupted right-faith are the two. Of these, there are three stages of arising in right-wrong faith, namely: the sevenfold, the eightfold, and the ninefold. - Commentary on the Chapter of the Sevenfold, page 166
2. There, the infinite-bond, one of the three anger, etc., one of the three Vedas, one of the two pairs, and right-wrong faith, these seven natures arise regularly in right-wrong faith. - Commentary on the Chapter of the Sevenfold, page 166