AC 2289. 2290. 2295 - Little Children in the Other Life

AC 2289

. . . 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 2290

. . . on several occasions, in the Lord's Divine mercy,
groups of young children have been sent to me,
and I have been allowed
to read the Lord's Prayer to them.
As I did so I was given to perceive
how the angels whose company they were in
were instilling into their tender and newly-formed ideas
the meaning of the things
that are in the Lord's Prayer --
filling their ideas with it in the measure
that the young children were able to receive it --
and after that how the young children were given
the capacity to think about things such as these
as if from themselves.

AC 2295

Moreover the little children who are in the other life
are sometimes sent by the Lord
to little children on earth
(although the little child on earth is quite unaware of it),
and those little ones of heaven
are in the highest degree delighted
with these little ones of earth.