For light and heat going forth from the Divine Sun cannot go forth in nothing, that is, in vacuum, but must go forth in a containant which is a subject. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
That the effect is the complex, containant, and base of causes and ends can be comprehended by enlightened reason; but it is not so clear that the end with all things thereof, and the cause with all things thereof, are actually in the effect, and that the effect is their full complex. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
The material form that is added and superinduced in the world, is not a human form by itself, but only by virtue of the spiritual form, to which it is added and superinduced that man may be enabled to perform uses in the natural world, and also to draw to himself out of the purer substances of the world a fixed containant of spiritual things, and thus continue and perpetuate life. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
That the outmost in each series, that is to say, use, action, work, and doing, is the complex and containant of all things prior, has not yet been known. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
As regards love and wisdom: - Love is the end, wisdom the instrumental cause, and use is the effect; and use is the complex, containant, and base of wisdom and love; and use is such a complex and such a containant, that all things of love and all things of wisdom are actually in it; it is where they are all simultaneously present. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
In the preceding chapter it is shown that the outmost degree is the complex and containant of prior degrees. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
That the outmost degree is the complex, containant, and base of prior degrees, is clearly seen from progression of ends and causes to effects. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
This containant we call an atmosphere; and this encompasses the sun, receiving the sun in its bosom, and bearing it to heaven where angels are, and then to the world where men are, thus making the Lord's presence everywhere manifest. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
By means of such covering, which is taken from the natural world, their spiritual bodies maintain existence; for the natural is the outmost containant: consequently there is no spirit or angel who was not born a man. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
Since these senses are in the Word according to the three degrees of height, and their conjunction is effected by correspondences, the outmost sense, which is the natural and is called the sense of the letter, is not only the complex, containant and base of the corresponding interior senses, but moreover in the outmost sense the Word is in its fullness and in its power. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
The Lord presents Himself as to use by an atmosphere, because an atmosphere is a containant of heat and light, as use is the containant of love and wisdom. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
That something is use; and because use is that which is loved, and is brought forth by means of wisdom, it follows that use is the containant of wisdom and love. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
Perfection of life is perfection of love and wisdom; and because the will and understanding are receptacles of love and wisdom, perfection of life is also perfection of will and understanding, consequently of affections and thoughts; and because spiritual heat is the containant of love, and spiritual light is the containant of wisdom, perfection of these may also be referred to perfection of life. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
The Divine is not in one subject differently from what it is in another, but one created subject differs from another; for no two things can be precisely alike, consequently each thing is a different containant. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
And since the outmost is the complex, it follows that it is the containant and also the base. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
Now it will be shown that the third which goes forth out of that sun is the atmosphere, which is the containant of heat and light, and that this goes forth out of the Lord's ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
The reason is that the outmost is the complex, containant, and base of things prior. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
That these three, love, wisdom and use follow in order according to degrees of height, and that the outmost degree is the complex, containant, and base of the prior degrees has been shown (n. 209-216, and elsewhere). ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
That the outmost is the complex, containant, and base of things prior may be seen above (n. 209-216); and that degrees of height are in fullness in their outmost (n. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
