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It is well known that the Lord was born like anyone else and that when He was a
young child He learned to talk like any other young child, after which He grew in
knowledge and also in intelligence and wisdom. (Arcana Coelestia 6716)
Another passage says: “He was born as any other and received instruction
as any other.” (Ibid. 1460) Our earliest instruction is received on our mother’s
knees, and so it must have been with the Lord Himself. We can imagine that
Mary herself was moved by love for Him as an infant and small child. Conjugial
Love describes how women, particularly, are affected by a sphere flowing from
the Lord that inspires them to love their children. This is described as a sphere
of “love for little children … of protecting and maintaining those who cannot
protect an