2309. All that has been presented above shows the character of young children's upbringing in heaven, namely that it is through intelligence and wisdom - which essentially are truth and good respectively - that they are brought into the angelic life, which consists in love to the Lord and mutual love, which loves have innocence within them. But how contrary this is to the upbringing of young children among many people on earth was made clear by this single example: I was in the street of a large city and saw small boys fighting one another. A crowd gathered which watched what was happening with great pleasure. I was also told that the parents themselves encourage their small boys to engage in such fighting. The good spirits and angels who through my eyes saw what was going on were so appalled that I sensed their horror, especially at the parents encouraging them to behave in such ways. These good spirits and angels declared that by doing this the parents annihilate in the earliest years of life all the mutual love and all the innocence which young children receive from the Lord, and lead them into ways of hatred and vengeance. As a consequence they deliberately shut their children out of heaven where nothing but mutual love reigns. Let parents therefore who desire what is good for their young children be on their guard against such things.