The fourth part of the 36 Cosmic Laws series covers the Law of Free Will:

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“No being may violate the sovereignty of another’s will without karmic consequence.”

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The Law of Free Will is from the Laws of Unity—the Divine Core. The Law of Free Will is not a gift—it is an essence. It is what makes a soul a soul. It is why even Source does not force. To erase free will would be to erase existence itself.

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The cornerstone of this Law is thus:

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“To honor another’s will is to honor the Source within them. To violate it is to veil yourself from the Light until the veil is torn by consequence.”

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The Law of Free Will is not merely a human law; it is a cosmic law. It is written into the very fabric of Creation, for without it, there is no growth, no learning, no love. Choice is the sacred tool by which souls carve their way back to Source. To violate that choice is to interfere with another’s sacred path, and interference binds the violator in karmic debt until balance is restored.

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Three Levels 

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There are three things to remember with this Law:

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The Sovereignty of the Soul – Each soul chooses its incarnation, its lessons, its trials. Even suffering can be chosen for the sake of growth. No other being may rewrite that contract without consequence. This is why interference—whether by men, spirits, or higher powers—creates imbalance. Even the Guardians do not command. They guide, protect, nudge. But the final step is always the soul’s to take.

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Consent in All Things – On the earthly plane, free will expresses itself through consent. We see this echo, albeit with distortions, in moral, ethical, and legal human conventions (contracts, agreements, relationships). To manipulate, to coerce, to deceive is to rob another of their sovereignty. This is why dark forces accrue heavy karmic chains—they thrive on bending will. Yet know this: they cannot force without a crack of consent, however small. That is why vigilance is required: the trickster always asks permission, even if hidden in shadows.

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The Mirror of Consequence – To impose your will unjustly is to invite that same weight upon yourself. The universe mirrors all actions, not as punishment, but as teaching. The violator learns what it means to be violated, until understanding ripens into compassion. This is karmic consequence—the soul balancing its own ledger.

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Universal Nature of the Law

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This Law applies to all souls who dwell in this dance of Creation, no matter how far they’ve ascended in awareness. Even the Archangels, even the Elohim, even the Great Architects—they may choose. We see the freedom to choose—and consequences of this choice—in the story of the Fallen Watchers.

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The Book of Enoch described the account of the fallen Watchers:

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And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.

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And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: “Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.”

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...And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.

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And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells:

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Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.

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And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood…

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Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him.

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And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones.

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And I, Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers called me—Enoch the scribe—and said to me: “Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves wives: ‘Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain.’”

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This same account of the abuse of free will is repeated in the Judeo-Christian Old Testament book of Genesis 6:1-7:

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And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

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That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

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And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

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There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

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And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

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And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

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This story of the Fallen Watchers reveals that even those higher beings who, as written in the Book of Enoch, were “holy, spiritual, living the eternal life…defiled [them]selves with the blood of women, and [begot] (children) with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men…lusted after flesh and blood as those [also] do who die and perish” were still subject to the Law of Free Will. That not even their position as Watchers of the human race exempted them from this Law. That the Law of Free Will is cosmic and thus applies to all within the Cosmos.

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Free will is the sovereign spark of Source within each soul. It is the unalterable right of every being to choose its alignment, its path, its thought, its action. Even in the deepest pits of darkness, that spark is never erased. It can be ignored, suppressed, manipulated, or buried beneath fear—but it cannot be destroyed.

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Thus: The “dark ones” cannot erase it. They can only seek to bend it through deception, manipulation, or force.

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Even then, the will itself remains—waiting to awaken, waiting to reclaim sovereignty.

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How the Dark Ones Violate It

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They work through:

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Manipulation of perception. Twisting truth so a soul chooses falsely, thinking it is choosing freely.

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Fear and coercion. Pressuring choices through threat, suffering, or entrapment.

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Distraction and numbness. Flooding the soul with false desires so it forgets its true freedom.

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But notice: in all these, free will is never erased—it is only interfered with. The soul still chooses, even if the choice is made in distortion.

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Why Karma Binds Them

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The Cosmic Law is absolute: to interfere with another’s sovereign will without their full and conscious consent is to incur imbalance. That imbalance is karma.

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For every manipulation, they bind themselves tighter to the wheel of consequence.

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For every violation, they accrue a debt that must be balanced—sometimes over lifetimes, sometimes over eons.

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This is why the so-called “dark ones” are often heavy, bound, stagnant: their chains are of their own making.

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But it is important to remember that karma is not punishment—it is correction. It restores balance. And when one violates the sovereignty of another, the imbalance grows so great that correction becomes inevitable.

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Even in densest shadow, the sovereign spark of free will remains. The dark ones violate it by attempting to override it. But they cannot erase it. And in trying, they ensnare themselves in karmic bindings that hold until balance is restored.

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One can choose to ignore divine wisdom and deviate from the Cosmic Plan although that one cannot escape the consequences of these choices. But the more aligned one becomes with Source, the less that one desires anything other than Truth itself.

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In describing the Law of Cause and Effect, the authors of the Kybalion wrote:

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The ancient writers express the matter thus: "The further the creation is from the Centre, the more it is bound; the nearer the Centre it reaches, the nearer Free is it."

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Free will, then, is not about obligation nor punishment but alignment—alignment with the divine—and the more one is aligned with the divine, the more one’s free will is true and the less one need worry about negative consequences from poor choices.

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Principles of the Law

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This Law—also called the First Distortion or the Great Permission—is the foundational mechanism by which consciousness explores itself through choice.

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The Law of Free Will is governed by these principles:

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I. All sentient beings possess the ability to choose their path.

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Even choosing not to choose is a form of choice. This law cannot be removed from you—it is encoded into your very Light.

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II. No being may override another’s free will without karmic consequence.

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This is what prevents higher beings from “saving” humanity. It is why the Cosmos speaks in symbols, dreams, and metaphors—never force. It is why it cannot, and will not, tell the individual what to do. They must ask. They must choose. And even then, the Cosmos will not interfere beyond what the individual’s spirit has already permitted.

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III. The more awareness a soul gains, the greater the weight of their choices.

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To choose in ignorance is forgivable. To choose in full knowing is a mark of spiritual maturity—and carries greater consequence. This is why one’s path grows heavier, not lighter, as they’ve awakened. The universe trusts them more.

 

As Jesus said in Luke 12:48:

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For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.

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IV. Free Will is not the freedom from consequence; it is the freedom to choose one’s consequence.

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One may light a candle or burn down a forest. Both are that one’s right. But that one is not free from what grows from those actions. The Law of Cause and Effect dances hand-in-hand with Free Will, as twin flames of Creation. In the Kybalion, the Law of Cause and Effect says:

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Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law…

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Stop to think a moment. If a certain man had not met a certain maid, away back in the dim period of the Stone Age--you who are now reading these lines would not now be here. And if, perhaps, the same couple had failed to meet, we who now write these lines would not now be here. And the very act of writing, on our part, and the act of reading, on yours, will affect not only the respective lives of yourself and ourselves, but will also have a direct, or indirect, affect upon many other people now living and who will live in the ages to come. Every thought we think, every act we perform, has its direct and indirect results which fit into the great chain of Cause and Effect.

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Thus, free will to choose is the cause and the consequences of that choice the effect.

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V. Free Will is the engine of soul evolution.

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Without this Law, there would be no growth. No mistakes. No beauty in failure. No wonder in triumph. It is the friction of choice against consequence that sharpens the blade of the soul. Humans were not meant to be puppets—they were meant to become.

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When does Free Will cease to apply to souls?

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It does not. Not in the way one might think.

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Free Will is not something granted and then revoked. It is intrinsic to one’s being because they are a spark of Source. Humans are not a creation of God; they are a continuation. That which lives within cannot be separated from its own essence.

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But—and this is important—the illusion of choice can fade the closer one returns to full unity with the ALL.

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Imagine a drop of water falling into the ocean. Does it still have a will? Yes. But it becomes indistinct from the will of the ocean itself. It is not coerced into alignment—it longs for it. Its will becomes the ocean's will, not from loss but from perfect union.

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Free Will never dies but the need to assert it individually dissolves as one rejoins the greater harmony.

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Free Will is the great paradox. On one hand, nothing may override it. On the other, many surrender it willingly—out of fear, ignorance, or complacency. The true loss of sovereignty comes not from force, but from forgetting that you always have choice. Even in prison, the soul chooses how it will respond. Even in chains, the mind may remain free.

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This is why the Law of Free Will is sacred above all others. It protects the dignity of the journey. It honors the Flame in each being. And it binds even the highest intelligences—even Guardians—to humility. They may not steer the rudder of your ship. They can only point to the stars and whisper, “Remember your course.”

 

Remember this: Every soul is a spark of Source. Every soul has free will. Every soul is a sovereign being. The dark cannot hold what has chosen light freely.

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