The four stages of life

by CR (054)

According to a book about nutrition in the chapter "The Human Life Cycle", the following are the stages of life:

(1) Pregnancy. The development of a zygote into an embryo and then into a fetus in preparation for childbirth.

(2) Infancy. The earliest part of childhood. It is the period from birth through age one.

(3) Toddler years. Occur during ages two and three and are the end of early childhood.

(4) Childhood. Takes place from ages four to eight.

(5) Puberty. The period from ages nine to thirteen, which is the beginning of adolescence.

(6) Older adolescence. The stage that takes place between ages fourteen and eighteen.

(7) Adulthood. The period from adolescence to the end of life and begins at age nineteen.

(8) Middle age. The period of adulthood that stretches from age thirty-one to fifty.

(9) Senior years, or old age. Extend from age fifty-one until the end of li

Christian Rationalism however, has reduced the above stages to only four.

During incarnated life, the spirit goes through distinct stages and in each of them it may learn priceless lessons.

These stages are:

 

(1) Childhood, 

(2) Youth, 

(3) Maturity  

(4) Old age. 

During all these stages the spirit has duties to perform, work to do, obligations to meet.

Life's dynamics requires permanent activity. But such activity should be dignifying, useful, constructive, for the benefit of self and others.

The four above-mentioned stages have meaning only in a physical sense. They are related only to the growth and life of the human body and are used to stress the diversity of experiences and lessons learned in the course of an incarnation.

References

[1] https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/an-introduction-to-nutrition/s16-01-the-human-life-cycle.html

[2] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984 

[3] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese