When Creator labels a source as corrupted, could that be almost entirely a function of what is omitted and left out as opposed to the attributes that are acted on being fundamentally harmful? Is it also a function of usage? For instance, would using a chisel as a screwdriver be considered a corruption of the tool and its primary function and purpose, especially if after having been used as a screwdriver, it no longer functions, or functions poorly, as a chisel? Yet, if one has an emergency need for a screwdriver, and all one has is a chisel, can its use to solve the problem at hand still be considered corrupt? What is Creator’s perspective?

While at first glance this question might seem to be simplistic and too far removed from real-life concerns, we think it is a good illustration in helping to understand how soul attribute imbalances may cause someone to rely on more problematical or ill-suited attributes to compensate in some way in order to get by. But in doing so, their work and actions may well be substandard and prone to errors because of inefficiency and the possibility of truly corrupting things in an unexpected way. Among tradespeople, it is a truism and one of the first things one learns, to "use the right tool for the job," and this nicely illustrates why not having the right tool carries risk and will likely lead to some level of harm taking place. In your example, that chisel with a fine knifelike edge, when used more crudely as a screwdriver, may well be dulled or be chipped or dented and thereafter unable to make a nice smooth, thin cut through wood to shave off a thin layer which is a typical primary use for chisels. So if a situation happens one wonders about, where the primary desirable utilization of one's toolkit of soul attributes is not possible, there will inevitably be a lesser performance and outcome. If the deviation is at all significant, it will be noticed, and that fact recorded in the akashic records as a misstep, a kind of error for which there was a consequence that caused harm in some way, if only to the self and not others who might depend on the individual in question trying to compensate for not having the best equipment for the job. As you have come to learn in your many probings and questions of us about the workings of karma, it is indeed a very discriminating and accurate analyzer of all things good, bad, or in between. It will see the deficits, it will see the inadequacies, it will see the risk‑taking that puts someone in harm's way whether or not serious harm results. While it is true that perfection is unreachable, given you are not comprised of the totality of the divine but a portion, all of life is, in a sense, an exercise in divinity, to learn and grow in ways to expand while ideally being in divine alignment at all times, and when one is less so, there will be a demand by the Law of Karma to make amends. You will not get away with errors of judgment, lack of skill, or selfish choices that cause harm. So what this means is it is important to take one's role seriously, to not only do one's best but to look for ways to expand on what is possible, so what is best today may get better tomorrow. Anything that takes away from that goal represents a healing need to bring things back into better balance, and not simply compensate for lesser capability, but to rebuild what has been lost or inadequately expressed to become something greater than before.