AC 2289
I have been given to know for certain
that all young children in any part of the world
who die are raised up by the Lord and taken to heaven,
where they are brought up and trained
among angels who look after them,
and where they grow to maturity
as they advance in intelligence and wisdom.
From this it becomes clear
how vast the Lord's heaven is from young children alone;
for all of them are taught
about the truths of faith
and the goods that stem from mutual love,
and become angels.
AC 2291
The nature of their tender understanding
was also shown to me
when I have been praying
in the words of the Lord's Prayer.
At such times
they flowed into the ideas comprising my thought
from their own understanding,
which was so tender
that they understood scarcely anything more
than the meaning of the words.
Yet their ideas present in that tender understanding
were capable of being opened even to the Lord,
that is, even from the Lord;
for the Lord flows in best of all
into young children's ideas,
from things that are inmost,
since nothing as yet has closed their ideas,
as is the case with adults.
No false assumptions have been adopted
to prevent an understanding of truth,
nor a life of evil to prevent the reception of good,
and so to becoming wise.
AC 2295
Sometimes also the young children
who are in the next life are sent by the Lord
to young children on earth,
though the young child on earth is utterly unaware of it.
With the young children on earth
they are absolutely delighted.
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