introduced into heaven and
becomes an angel.

When children die, they are still children in the other life. They
have the same infantile mind, the same innocence in ignorance, and the
same tenderness in all things. They have only the rudimentary capacity
of becoming angels; for children are not yet angels, but are to become
angels. The state of children in the other life far surpasses that of
children in the world; for they are not clothed with an earthly body,
but with a body like that of the angels. The earthly body is in itself
heavy, and does not receive its first sensations and impulses from the
interior or spiritual world, but from the exterior or natural world.
In this world, therefore, infants must learn to walk, to control the
body's motions, and to talk. Even their senses, like sight and
hearing, must be developed by use. It is quite otherwise with children
in the other life. Being spirits, they act at once in expression of
their inner being, walking without practice, and also talking, but at
first from general affections not yet distinguished into ideas of
thought. They are quickly initiated into these, too, however; and this
for the reason that outer and inner are homogeneous with them.

The Lord flows into the ideas of children chiefly from their inmost
soul, for nothing has closed their ideas, as with adults. No false
principles have closed them to the understanding of truth, nor any
evil life to the reception of good, nor to becoming wise.

--_Heaven and Hell, nn._ 416, 330, 331, 836

TOWARD THE MORNING OF LIFE

The Lord is present with every human being, urgent and instant to be
received; and when a man receives Him, as he does when he acknowledges
Him as his God, Creator, Redeemer and Saviour, then is His first
Coming, which is called the dawn. From this time the man begins to be
enlightened, as to understanding in things spiritual, and to advance
into a more and more interior wisdom. As he receives this wisdom from
the Lord, so he advances through morning into day, and this day lasts
with him into old age, even to death; and after death he passes into
heaven to the Lord Himself, and there, though he died an old man, he
is restored to the morning of his life, and to eternity he develops
the beginnings of the wisdom that was implanted in the natural world.

--_True Christian Religion, n._ 766

The people of heaven are continually advancing towards the spring-time
of life; and the more thousand