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 dom, more rapidly and more pleasantly than children under even the very best instruction in this world. No compulsory processes are resorted to, but they are led by their affections; for the angels know how to insinuate heavenly intelligence into the minds of little children by means of objects which address and delight their senses. Describing the manner in which children are educated in heaven. Swedenborg says:

"Into their affections which all proceed from innocence, are insinuated such things as appear before their eyes, and are delightful. And as these are from a spiritual origin, the things of heaven flow into them at the same time; and thus their interiors are opened, and they become more perfect every day."

"Little children in heaven are instructed principally by representatives suited to their capacities, which, in beauty and fulness of wisdom derived from an interior ground, surpass all belief. Thus intelligence which derives its soul from good, is insinuated into them by degrees."—H. H, n. 337, '8.

And this, remember, was written more than twenty years before Froebel, the founder of the new method of educating little children known as the Kindergarten system, was born. Yet the latter system is a faithful imitation of the method pursued in heaven, as revealed through Swedenborg a hundred and thirty years ago.

But those who pass into the spiritual world during infancy or childhood, do not remain infants and children. They advance there as here to the full stature of manhood. They grow by the assimilation or accretion of the substances of the spiritual world, as children on earth grow by the assimilation of material substance. The