Why does evil always win?

[Stranger]

I relate to much of what you said. I was just posting in another thread about free will and interference here, and even ultimately the Logos and its design. I don't have any answers. I have concerns and questions regarding this reality.

Ultimately it is what it is here. I accept that. But like you, I think there is much that does not line up with the idea that all is well, and divinely planned for the highest good of all. I'm not so stupid as to not consider past lives, the bigger cosmic view, manyness, layers of comprehension, the veil, etc.—still, things are pretty messed up here and don't seem to be improving. 

I don't always feel this way. Some days I am more detached from the drama here. But just looking at the drama objectively, with no self-involvement, there is so much unjust and unnecessary suffering it's crazy. And I include all life forms in this.

Aside from "not getting caught up in the maelstrom" and wanderers and any other densities, I can't help questioning this setup here at this time.

Hi, Diana.  I've had some insights lately that may speak to your concern, for whatever they're worth.  It's a concern I've shared and one that has bothered me throughout my life, so I get what you are saying.

All is not "planned for the highest good of all" because, from the viewpoint of the Creator, there are no "all."  There is only the Creator, who knows itself to be eternal, immortal, unthreatened by anything.  

The Creator knows that nothing can possibly harm it or diminish it in any way.  From this safety, it chooses to experience all the possibilities that it's capable of experiencing.  They might not be pleasurable but they are exciting; and however bad they get, they are temporary, and it can move on to other explorations.  Therefore, it is unconcerned.

So what it did is come up with role-play games where it gets tortured and killed and starved.  Think of it as you going for a spicy Indian dish.  You know you'll sweat and your mouth will burn but it's an interesting and kind of fun experience, and you'll be totally fine afterwards.  Heck, you're even willing to pay for the privilege!

The mistake we make is in not realizing our identity with the Creator.  We're not a part of the Creator, nor a fragment, we're not a creation - we are THE Creator *itself*, the only one, in a temporary state of amnesia, enjoying the experience from within, so to speak.  You, right now, are THE Creator, wearing a mask; but the consciousness experiencing yourself is THE CREATOR's consciousness, directly that with no separation.

Whatever we don't like about what we see - it is still the case that *I* ordered this, *you* ordered this (there's no difference) - and then forgot. There's only one of us here. There is literally no one else.

So if I dress up as Caligula and execute a peasant, and then dress up as the peasant and die in pain, it's still just me d***ing around. Except the Creator - YOU, ME - does not need to pause for a costume change, but does it all simultaneously.

The Creator is not doing it to us, or to the animals you and I both love and care about - it's doing it to itself because it finds that, on the balance, it's worth for IT to have these experiences. 

For the record, "I as Stranger" don't love it either.  But at least I now understand it somewhat better.