What you must do when the higher will is overcome by the lower will and by foes. [THREAD]

So long as your own will does not bend toward the passionate feeling you are still ranked among the winners, that is, those that fight and slay the foe, even if your inclination has already sided with the passion.

God gave to our will such strength, that even if all of one's faculties, the entire world and all the devils fought against him with weapons and assaulted him, they could not force it. However, for this reason his will is responsible, and liable to judgment.

Your main weapon for maintaining your will steadfast against the rising sin is prayer.

Being encouraged in this way, do what a soldier would do in war when he is troubled by his foe. He retreats a little, to find better ground and to see more plainly how it is best to send his arrow into the heart of the enemy. And call upon God to aid you in this fight.

The enemy understands that such aid is powerful and quickly moves to obstruct it suggesting complaints that are against God for letting such attacks happen. The foe will slander God, and cover up your own failings. So keep a fixed focus on yourself to fight against this.

Following this, when the tempest inside you has abated, the battle should move ahead in accord with the normal rules of unseen war, which were already partly covered before.