Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 168

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168. The education of little children in heaven

But as for little children, they are governed by angels, and this at first by means of a general vital force, and afterwards by a more particular one, as their mind develops in reason and understanding. However, little ones who die in their early infancy, who have as yet no understanding, and as yet no acquired character, these after the death of the body are trained in heaven among angels - and about this development and education, there is much to tell, but the matter has not yet been revealed to me in such a way that I am able to speak about it from sufficiently lucid experience.


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