containants

For uses are from life alone, and their succession and order are from wisdom and love alone; while forms are only containants of uses.

Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

Because they are recipients, they are also re-agents; and forasmuch as they are re-agents, they are containants.

Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

Since atmospheres are the receptacles and containants of heat and light, it follows that there are as many degrees of atmospheres as there are degrees of heat and light; also that there are as many as there are degrees of love and wisdom.

Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

_ Natural and temporal things are the outermost and lowest things which man first enters, as he does on being born, to the end that he may be introduced then into interior and higher things; for the outmost and lowest things are containants, and these are in the natural world.

Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

[3] Man first puts on the grosser substances of nature; his body consists of them; but he puts these off by death, retaining the purer substances of nature nearest to the spiritual, which then are his containants.

Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

There is a like progression of all affections and thoughts, which are changes and variations of state of those forms or substances, for the fibers issuing out of those forms or substances are comparatively like the atmospheres from the spiritual sun, which are containants of heat and light; while bodily acts are like the things produced from the lands by means of atmospheres, the enjoyments of their uses returning to the source from which they sprang.

Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730