organ and inner part of the body. They are even more like the uses of
each vessel and fibre in every member, organ and vital part; each and
all of which are so related that they regard each of its own good in
the other, and thus in all, and all in each. As a result of this
general and several regard they act as one.

--_Heaven and Hell, nn._ 402, 403, 404, 405


OUR CHILDREN IN HEAVEN

Every little child, wheresoever born, whether within the Church or out
of it, whether of pious parents or of impious, is received by the Lord
at death; is educated in heaven; is taught and imbued with affections
of good and by these with knowledges of truth; and then, as he is
perfected in intelligence and wisdom, is 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