And in proportion as one falls, one is placed in the cosmos by God. The scale runs from the highest angels down to demons. Even in the various fallen stages creatures remain free to return to their original goodness or to become worse. As we have seen before in chapters 7 and 9, after the Fall, man was unable to return to his original goodness by his own effort. He is in need of the grace of God and the redeeming work of Christ, even this is realized through his free will.
Every soul has the power and choice to do everything that is good.
He was not an innovator on this. Earlier Christian writers had considered freedom an important Christian doctrine. Yet beyond its traditional status, Origen has a rationale for including this doctrine. The freedom of creatures is inferred from the doctrine of judgment. God's judgment to be righteous, must be exercised on responsible creatures .