168.小孩子在天堂所受的教育。关于小孩子，他们由天使主导，起初通过一般生命力，后来照着其理性和理解力的心智的形成而通过更具体的生命力被主导。然而，幼年死去的小孩子尚无理解力，也没有后天获得的性格；他们在肉体死亡后会在天堂的天使当中得到锻炼。关于这种发展和教育，有许多可说的，但这事还没有以我能出于足够清楚的经历来谈论的方式被揭示给我。
168. The education of little children in heaven
But as for little children, they are governed by angels, and this at first by means of a general vital force, and afterwards by a more particular one, as their mind develops in reason and understanding. However, little ones who die in their early infancy, who have as yet no understanding, and as yet no acquired character, these after the death of the body are trained in heaven among angels - and about this development and education, there is much to tell, but the matter has not yet been revealed to me in such a way that I am able to speak about it from sufficiently lucid experience.
168. mTHE INSTRUCTION [informationes] OF LITTLE CHILDREN IN HEAVENn
But as regards little children, they are ruled by angels, at first indeed by a general life, and afterwards in accordance with the formation of their rational and intellectual mind, by a more particular life. They, however, who died in their very infancy, when they do not yet have any intellectual mind or any nature formed by instruction, after the death of the body are formed in heaven among the angels; concerning this formation and instruction [informatio] many things can be said, but as yet it has not been so revealed to me that I can speak of it from sufficiently clear experience.
168. Infantum informatio in coelo 1
Quod vero infantes attinet, ii reguntur ab angelis, et quidem vita primum communi, et postea singulariori secundum formationem illorum mentis rationalis et intellectualis. Infantes autem qui in ipsa infantia moriuntur, quando iis nulla adhuc mens intellectualis, et nulla adhuc indoles instructa, ii post vitam corporis formantur in coelo apud angelos, de qua formatione et informatione, plura possunt dici, sed adhuc non mihi ita revelatum est, ut ab experientia satis perspicua id possim dicere.
Footnotes:
1. caput hoc apparet infra paragraphum marginaliter ut 168 indicatam et annotatam cum titulo sublineato variante Infantum informationes in coelo