Spirit In Children

THURS., OCT. 11, 1984, 8:52 AM
WM. PENN, PITTSBURGH

One of the strong emphases here at this National meeting of which you are a part is that on children. You know, of course, that each child has a spirit, and that it is as important an aspect of the self and of health as it is in adults. The other major focus here is on schools, and this institution has steered away from dealing with spirit. Is there any remedy for this situation… now, at this time. Hear, o son, as I teach you this day.

Each child does have a spirit, and, as I have suggested before, some of these are rather new spirits, some are developing and have had some experience in the earth before, and a few are rather highly developed with considerable previous earth experience. (Know, of course, that I am talking about a wide range of possibilities and not about just three separate categories.) The concept you are developing and beginning to verbalize is a worthy one – spirit is a form of energy, and energy is not lost, but is transformed. The energy represented in the spirit of a child has usually been transformed from some other form, and when that individual “dies” there is yet another transformation, with the growth (or lack of same) being retained.

The main difference from the physical law of entropy is that I have the capacity and the will to create new energy, so this earth plane is an amalgam of these new spirits and the transformed ones created earlier. You are progressing in your understanding of this, but this is about your limit at this time. Know that you shall continue to learn.

The spirit in each child should be of concern to you who teach about health. This spirit needs nurturing from the beginning, from the individual spirits of parents and other family members, from the spirit in groups, such as the family, neighborhood, church school, nursery school…, and from the spirit in the environment in which each lives and moves. With most children this is an interactive process and one of mutual learning. The child’s spirit is stimulated by the spirits of those who influence and can grow, maintain, or regress from these encounters. But it is also important to be aware that a particular adult may benefit more, in spiritual growth terms, from interaction with a child than the child benefits. The basic appreciation must be that there is no predictable relationship between the maturity of spirit and the age, condition, or circumstances of any individual. If the spiritual “self” could be seen, rather than the physical and mental “self”, there would be a vast “reordering” of the earth’s people. This is one of the interesting challenges of incarnated life in the earth.

Children who have (or are) highly developed spirits show love and concern for others much earlier and more easily than those less developed. Such also have a natural recognition of Me, learn about Me more easily, even in structured, religious ways, and may have realizations about Me and about ultimate reality that are “taught out of them” by adults, especially in your culture.