Childhood

Childhood is the point of transition from potential being to being in actuality; the unfolding of all the powers of man, his emergence from the world of matter, and his entry into the world of spirit. His cognitive faculty became unknowingly possessor of countless bits of knowledge. The child, before he learns to express his thoughts, already possesses a wealth of knowledge. Every representation has left the traces of its teaching upon the tender tablet of his mind; the intellect worked while the child still was ignorant of what was being accomplished. Who taught him to retain representations? Who gave this guidance to the slumbering intellect of the child; the child, as age progresses, displays such exceptional abilities as to draw the wonder of man, unless he overlooks and underestimates them through habit. If we are unable to contemplate the spiritual movement and activity of the child’s intellect, already lisping, we would be amazed at the movement and at the multitude of impressions, and at the other functioning of his spiritual powers. Man seeks to separate himself from matter and be elevated to the order of spirits toward which he is naturally driven. Lowly childhood is the manifestation of the harmonious union of spirit and matter; it is the miracle of creation, which only the blind do not see; only His hand is able to remove all doubt and give the solution to the question. Truly they are in a body—angels destined for the kingdom of the Heavens. He who denies this has already lost his own rational soul and has become an irrational animal.