Divine Wisdom V - the human mind

Divine Wisdom V [2, 3]
The will and understanding are called receptacles
because the will is not an abstract spiritual thing,
but is a subject substantialized and formed
for the reception of love from the Lord;
and the understanding is not an abstract spiritual thing,
but is a subject substantialized and formed
for the reception of wisdom from the Lord;
for these actually exist;
and although hidden from the sight
they are interiorly in the substances
that constitute the cortex of the brain,
and also here and there in the medullary substance of the brain,
especially in the striated bodies,
also interiorly in the medullary substance of the cerebellum,
and in the spinal marrow, of which they constitute the nucleus.
Thus there are not merely two but innumerable receptacles,
each one doubled and of three degrees . . ..

With infants these receptacles are small and tender;
afterwards they receive increase and are perfected
according to knowledges and affections for knowledges;
they are perfected according to intelligence and the love of uses;
they are made soft according to innocence and love to the Lord;
and they grow solid and hard from the opposites of these.
Their changes of state are affections;
their variations of form are thoughts;
memory is the existence and permanence of both of these;
and recollection is their reproduction.
The two taken together are the human mind.