Your business is of a character that is not friendly to an advance in the divine life, but is one that will hinder the growth of grace and the knowledge of the truth. It has a tendency to lower, to debase the man, to make him more animal in his propensities. The higher powers of the mind are overpowered by the lower. The brutish part of your nature governs the spiritual. Those who profess to be fitting for translation should not become butchers. {2T 60.3}

Jeres travlhed er af en karakter som ikke er god for fremskyndelsen i det guddommelige liv, men den vil forhindre nådens vækst og sandhedens kundskab. Den har en tendens til at fornedre og forringe mennesket og gøre det mere dyrisk i dets tilbøjeligheder. Sindets højere kraft er overmandet af den lavere. Den dyriske del af jeres natur hersker over den åndelige. Dem som bekender sig til at være egnede for forvandling bør ikke være blive dyriske.