The Lord is present with every human being, urgent and instant to be
received; and when a man receives Him, as he does when he acknowledges
Him as his God, Creator, Redeemer and Saviour, then is His first
Coming, which is called the dawn. From this time the man begins to be
enlightened, as to understanding in things spiritual, and to advance
into a more and more interior wisdom. As he receives this wisdom from
the Lord, so he advances through morning into day, and this day lasts
with him into old age, even to death; and after death he passes into
heaven to the Lord Himself, and there, though he died an old man, he
is restored to the morning of his life, and to eternity he develops
the beginnings of the wisdom that was implanted in the natural world.
--_True Christian Religion, n._ 766
The people of heaven are continually advancing towards the spring-time
of life; and the more thousands of years they live, the more
delightful and happy is the spring to which they attain. Women who
have died old and worn out with age, and have lived in faith in the
Lord and in charity to the neighbor, come, with the succession of
years, more and more into the flower of youth and early womanhood, and
into a beauty exceeding every idea of beauty ever formed through the
sight. In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 414