AC 8209 - equilibrium

AC 8209
There is a sphere exhaling from the hells
which may be called a sphere of endeavors,
and which is a sphere of doing evil.
I have several times been allowed to perceive this sphere.
The endeavor in it is constant,
and as soon as any opportunity offers,
the effect breaks forth from it.
But this sphere is restrained by the sphere
of the endeavors of heaven which is from the Lord,
and is a sphere of imparting benefits,
in which is all power,
because it is from the Divine.
Nevertheless equilibrium is maintained
between these diametrically opposite endeavors,
to the intent that a person may be in freedom,
and thus in choice,
and that he can be reformed;
for all reformation is in freedom,
and without freedom there is no reformation.
Spiritual endeavor is the same as will.
During a person's reformation he is kept in equilibrium
(that is, in freedom)
between willing good and willing evil;
and insofar as he then accedes to willing what is good,
so far he accedes to heaven and recedes from hell;
and so far the new will
which he then receives from the Lord
prevails against his own will
which he received by inheritance from his parents
and afterward by actual life.
When therefore a person has been so far reformed
that he wills good and is affected with it,
then good removes evil,
because the Lord is present in good;
for good is from the Lord, thus it is His,
indeed, it is Himself.