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The negativity that you call evil and we call
ignorance is the difference between your understanding
and working with suitability and the total rejection of
the “unsuitable” as being bad for all and not possibly
suitable for some other. Now you know why we call it
your ignorance – you didn’t know that it was just
unsuitable for you.
You have free will, God given to your Spirit. The
free will generally exercised by you is that practiced by
your human mortal mind and body in its dominance over
the more subtle being – your Spirit. Your Spirit, as part
of God, is also all knowing but not necessarily capable of
trusting its own knowing. This is why it chooses to
incarnate so that it may challenge itself, until it develops
the trust in itself, that permits it to realise that it is
indeed a part of God no matter how small that part may
be. There is such a thing as excessive humility. In this
situation the small part of God Spirit is not functioning