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