What is the message of the divine acceleration?

Ever remember that there are but two progressions, the one upward, which goes toward the Divine Infinite, by which the spirit becomes strong, firm, positive and holds control of the physical body, overruling every undeveloped desire and advances with a constant growth towards purity. 

Just as the fig tree throws out new sprigs in its growth, every new petal delicately formed, pure and transparent-like in colour; the lower branches and leaves becoming hardened from atmospheric exposures become firm and strong and repel the storms which beat against them. Now and then a sprig may be torn off through the positive force but the young twigs hold their position, holding to the trunk. In this wise the spirit of (hu)man grows upward, every faculty reaching with its perceptiveness into space—the spirit gradually ascends to the topmost pinnacle of morality, pure love and the highest principles of virtue. 

This is upward progression. 

Every new thought, every form of knowledge is a staple power aiding the spirit's progressive unfoldment of individuality.

The downward progression consists in idleness, indolence and indifference. 

No desire to exert the faculties, to comprehend the Divine truths, which lie within their reach, holding ever to the material, giving all to the gratification of the sensual appetites, interblending with all the sensualities of the physical material—the germ or essence, which is Divine has no conditions by which it can unfold itself but lying dormant within the body, it awaits repetition. 

There are very few of the soul propensities capable of developing. 

The soul, resembling the body in its exterior is consumed like the body in the change called death. The cruder the material the more perishable it is.

—B. H. in Spirit