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7.11
The bases of ego (desire and depression)
  
  The base of ego is lust- sexual desire. The basis of this theory, due in large part to the work of Freud has been variously discredited and later reinstated as sound theory. However it remains highly controversial.  
  Sexual pleasure sexual desire became the teaching ground and development of the counterfeit spirit- This is expressed in the story of the chief aliens behaviour towards women in the gestating of the first human beings. therefore desire in the form os sexual desire is the base desire, from which other desires derive.  
  Counterfeit evils- greed, anger, envy, jealousy, desire These appear from the beginning of the development.  
7.11.1 Lust  
  The word "lust" comes from Old English, Old Frisian, Old High German and Old Norse. Its original definition meant "pleasure, delight also a source of pleasure (1607)"  
 
Sensuous appetite or desire (OE)
desire, appetite, relish or inclination for something (1627)
Sexual appetite or desire, degrading animal passion (OE)
Lawless and passionate desire of or for some object (1678)
To have a strong, excessive, or
 
7.11.2 Envy  
  The word envy comes from Old French (envie, which originally translated as desire.) In turn the word envie is derived from the Latin invidia meaning "malice, ill-will and invidere "look maliciously upon, grudge". The Latin is constructed from in (upon, against) + videre (see)  
 
Harm, mischief (1460)
Mortification and ill-will occasioned by the contemplation of another's superior advantages (1500's)
To regard with discontent another's possession of ( some superior advantage)
To wish oneself on a level with ( another) in some respect, or possessed of ( something which another has)
To feel a grudge against (1630)
 
7.11.3 Greed  
  Having an intense desire or inordinate appetite for food or drink; ravenous, voracious, gluttonous  
 
Eager for the gain of wealth and the like
Avaricious, covetous, rapacious
Zealous
 
7.11.4 Covet  
  From Latin cupiditare, cupiditas (cupidity)  
 
To desire, especially to desire eagerly, long for
To long for what is another's
 
 
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