410. 19. A love of little children remains after death, especially in women. As soon as little children are resuscitated (which takes place immediately after death), they are raised into heaven and entrusted to angels of the feminine sex who, in the life of their body in the world, loved little children and at the same time venerated God. Because they had loved all little children with a motherly tenderness, they receive these little children as their own, and the little children there almost instinctively love them as though they were their mothers. They have as many little children in their care as their spiritual storge causes them to desire.
The heaven where little children reside appears up front in the region of the forehead, in the line or direction in which angels look directly to the Lord. That heaven is situated there because the little children are all raised under the immediate guidance of the Lord. They also have the heaven of innocence flowing into them, which is the third heaven.
After they have passed through this first age, they are transferred to another heaven, where they receive their schooling.
