by CR (093)
Free will is a spiritual faculty controlled by volition and, when well used, is guided by reasoning.
The greater the power of reasoning, the easier it becomes to control free will. Free will means complete freedom of action, both for good and evil purposes.
Those who work for the improvement of habits and customs, promoting their evolution, do good. Those who, by actions or thoughts, delay this evolution, focus on inferior values that will sooner or later come back to them, with greater or lesser severity.
The faculty of free will begins to emerge when the intelligent particle (spirit) of the Universal Force reaches the stage of evolution that enables it to incarnate in a human body. It is easy to understand that at this stage, knowledge of the truth about the process of evolution is absent. Nevertheless the spirit is already aware of the distinction between good and evil.
Improper use of free will results from short reasoning skills, the development of vices and bad habits, as well as the cultivation of inferior feelings, among which perversity plays a noticeable role.
Under the influence of these harmful habits which are detrimental to good health and spiritual evolution, a human being becomes saturated with animalized vibrations that lead him to lose his self-respect and act in a reproachable manner. All evil grows large when practiced consciously, and those who do so will undoubtedly have a sad and painful awakening.
Under such circumstances, free will, with its behavioural distortions, reflects the state of ignorance of the spirit itself.
References
[1] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984
[2] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese
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