DP 96 - Freedom and Rationality Are Human

DP 96 [2, 5]

. . . a person would not have will or understanding,
and so would not be human:
That is because a person has will
solely for the reason
that he is able to will freely as though of himself,
and his ability to will freely as though of himself
is due to the faculty continually given to him by the Lord
called freedom.
So, too, a person has understanding
solely for the reason that he is able to understand
as though of himself
whether something accords with reason or not,
and his ability to understand
whether something accords with reason or not
is due to the second faculty
continually given to him by the Lord
called rationality.

The Lord resides in every person in these faculties
because of an influx of the Lord's will --
His will being 
to be received by the person,
to have His abode in him,
and to impart to him the felicities of eternal life.
These are objects of the Lord's will
because they are the objects of His Divine love.

It is this, the Lord's will,
which creates in a person the appearance 
that what he thinks, speaks, wills and does 
is his own.