AC 3665 - knowledges with young children

AC 3665 [2, 5]
When a person is being regenerated,
he is at first led by the Lord as an infant,
then as a child,
afterwards as a youth,
and at last as an adult.
The truths he learns as an infant child
are altogether external and corporeal,
for as yet he is unable to understand interior truths.
These truths are no other than knowledges
of such things as contain, in their inmost, things Divine . . ..

With regard to these very knowledges
of external or corporeal truth
which are from collateral good,
and which as before said
contain in them what is Divine,
and consequently are capable of admitting genuine goods
- such as are the knowledges with young children
who are afterwards regenerated -
they are in general such as are contained
in the historicals of the Word,
such as what is said there concerning paradise (Eden),
concerning the first man in it,
concerning the tree of life in its midst,
and concerning the tree of knowledge,
where was the serpent that practiced the deception.
These are the knowledges
that contain within them what is Divine,
and admit into them spiritual and celestial goods and truths,
because they represent and signify these goods and truths.
Such knowledges also are
all other things in the historicals of the Word,
as what is said concerning the tabernacle and the temple
and concerning the construction of these;
in like manner what is said concerning
the garments of Aaron and of his sons;
also concerning the feasts of tabernacles,
of the firstfruits of harvest, of unleavened bread,
and concerning other like things.

When such knowledges as these are known
and thought of by a young child,
the angels who are with him think of the Divine things
which they represent and signify;
and because the angels are affected with these,
their affection is communicated,
and causes the delight and pleasure
which the child experiences . . .
and prepares his mind to receive genuine truths and goods.