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Evil that comes only from our will and accordingly without
forethought is evil we incline to by heredity, or perhaps
from having already acted on our hereditary inclinations.
For this kind of evil we are not blamed unless
we have justified it in the intellectual half of our mind.
Once we have justified it there, though, it is inscribed on
us and becomes our own. Then we are held responsible
for it. Nonetheless, we cannot justify this kind of evil in
the intellectual half of our mind until we reach adulthood,
when we start to think for ourselves and develop
our own wisdom. Till then we rely not on ourselves but
on our teachers and parents.
—Secrets of Heaven 9009:3