From the Word:

Hear, O Israel; Jehovah is our God; Jehovah is one. And thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy forces. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently to thy sons, and shalt speak of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest in the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt tie them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

And they brought to Him little children, that He should touch them; and the disciples rebuked those who brought them. But when Jesus saw it, He was indignant, and said to them, Let the little children come to Me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. Amen I say to you, whoever shall not accept the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter into it. And having taken them up in His arms, and set His hands upon them, He blessed them.

All instruction is simply an opening of the way; and as the way is opened, or what is the same, as the vessels are opened, there thus flow in, as before said, in their order, rational things that are from celestial spiritual things; into these flow the celestial spiritual things; and into these, celestial things. These celestial and spiritual things are continually presenting themselves, and are also preparing and forming for themselves the vessels which are being opened; which may also be seen from the fact that in themselves the memory-knowledge and rational are dead, and that it is from the inflowing interior life that they seem to be alive.