SD 1923, 1924
A fact that may seem wonderful to others is,
that the angels receive a much better understanding of things from infants -
their thoughts, prayers, and words -
than from adults,
who deem themselves possessed of a fuller sense of words and things.
. . . and the reason is,
that in the ideas of infants there is nothing as yet closed by falsities,
nothing defiled and filthy by means of cupidities and hatreds,
nothing corporeal, as there is in adults;
but all is innocence,
and thus their ideas are open,
though not to themselves, yet to the angels . . ..
In proportion as a person advances in age
and becomes immersed in worldly and corporeal things,
all his ideas are more closed towards heaven:
nor are they opened except in those in whom the Lord deems it fitting.
From this it is to be understood
what is meant by Adam's being expelled from Paradise,
and guards being placed at the entrance and at the tree of life.
SD 1946
. . . the Lord never by any means
wills that a person should be infected by evil spirits.
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