What does it mean to be free from sin?

Do you wish me to tell you about old Kate? 

She is as white as any of us here. 

No―most beautiful, with a shining body and hair.

She is one of us here who is helping you there. 

Yes―negroes do not exist here.

Why?

Because souls are either good or bad, and good means always bright or white. 

Black G's soul is wonderful.

He does not seem to have any dark spots at all.

He serves singing.

By that we know the elect or chosen ones who rise at once to the bright country―those whose service is given with a glad heart.

It is the mark of nobility here to be one of the singing souls. 

Dark souls indicate selfishness, greed and crime.

Crime means here self-destruction by disregarding others entirely. That makes one blacker than murder. 

Murder may be done through an instant's insanity, but selfishness eats deeply and steadily at the root of life itself.

It can wither a beautiful body like fire and darken and distort until the soul looks almost inhuman―or unhuman.

Negroes have frequently far brighter bodies here than those they served there. 

Never forget this―

Watch the secret creeping growth of selfishness, as if it were a smouldering fire, eating into the home by stealth while you make merry.

Selfishness and greed are the only real destructive things I have seen here.

 ―Spirit Helen