What are the characteristics of a divine soul?

When once released from the material, spirits become free, independent beings, and established in full spiritual identity, they commence to learn the true conditions of life. It is then that they commence to realise their condition in the new field of labour and investigation, retaining, of their former life, only that they can apply to their needs and happiness. Thus the progress of the soul is never delayed, for the golden chain is still linked with time and eternity, holding the spirit while it is materially clothed, retaining its attractions through all changes, drawing the soul ever upwards to its divine soul home.

—Martha Washington in Spirit