They who have sown the wind must reap the whirlwind.

They who have sown the wind must reap the whirlwind. 

But all this was unavoidable, it was your development. 

You could not expect that you should rise to the high standard you will finally attain without some hardships—

That you could become a bright angel of light without some purification. 

Recollect your origin, from the brutes, the roots, the granite rock, the mud and slime of the first formations, and then do not wonder that you partake of some of the lower nature you originated from and show you sometimes too plainly.

To avoid or rather to prevent this, purity in life and thought, purity in food and drink are essential. 

Confine yourself to the more developed plants, roots, and animal life (if you cannot lay it aside altogether). 

Let your drink be the one God has provided for you and you will find purity of thought and purpose will be induced by the change of juices you generate in your systems.

Do as much work for yourself, as you possibly can, while on your earth plane―

It is the place appointed for it to be performed on and you have all the requisites around you to do it properly.

If you defer the labour until you come here, you will bitterly repent it. 

The means are not at hand—

Sometimes unattainable for a long period of time—

It is hard, almost impossible, for those who put off all their spiritual development until they come here to find a way to rise.

Punishment must follow every transgression. 

On earth you may rise above your vices and escape with very moderate correction—ruined health, temper, or fortune. 

But if you pass over the dark valley with the sins of your life still rampant in your soul, their atonement will be entirely different. 

They will, themselves, rise up in judgment against you, showing forth in their naked deformity, made ten thousand times more hideous to you from your spiritual eyes being now open, to see them as they are, for, my friends, in proportion, as God is pure and lovely, so is sin hideous and impure in His sight, and His spirit in you will make this inferiority as palpable to the guilty sinner, as God can make His love and wisdom felt by the purified and angelic minds of the higher intelligences.

―Spirit George Fox