Deeds done in the body have their issue in the life disembodied. Death does not bind their outcome. Far from it, for the spirit's condition at its inception of its real life is determined by the outcome of its bodily acts.
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The spirit, which has been slothful or impure gravitates necessarily to its congenial sphere and begins a period of probation, which has, for its object, the purification of the spirit from the accumulated habits of its earth-life; the remedying in remorse and shame of the evil done and the gradual rising to a higher state to that which each process of purification has been a step.
This is the punishment of transgression, not an arbitrary doom inflicted to all eternity by an angry God, but the inevitable doom of remorse and repentance and retribution, which results invariably from conscious sin.
This is the lash of punishment, but it is not laid on by a vengeful Deity; a loving Father leads his child to see and remedy his fault.
