PHILOSOPHICAL considerations concerning the abstract substance, form, subject. &c., 66, 186.

PHILOSOPHY is one of those sciences by which an entrance is made into things rational, which are the grounds of rational wisdom, 163.

PHYSICS is one of the sciences by which an entrance is made into things rational, which are the ground of rational wisdom, 163.

PLACE.—­In the spiritual world there are places as in the natural world, otherwise there could be no habitations and distinct abodes, 10.  Nevertheless place is not place, but an appearance of place, according to the state of love and wisdom. 10.  Places of instruction in the spiritual world, 261.

PLACES, public, in the spiritual world, 17, 79.

PLANES successive, formed in man, on which superior principles may rest and find support, 447.  The ultimate plane in which the sphere of conjugial love and its opposite terminate is the same, 439.  The rational plane, with man, is the medium between heaven and hell; the marriage of good and truth flows into this plane from above, and the marriage of evil and false flows into it from beneath, 436.

PLANETS.—­Revelations made at the present day concerning the inhabitants of the planets, 532.  See Treatise by the Author on The Earths in the Universe.

PLASTIC force in animals and vegetables, whence it proceeds, 238.

PLATO, 151*.

PLATONIST.—­Arcana unfolded by a Platonist, 153*.

PLEASURES.—­Sensations, with the pleasures thence derived, appertain to the body, 273.  The delights of adulterous love are the pleasures of insanity, 442, 497.

PLEDGES.—­After a declaration of consent, pledges are to be given, 300.  These pledges are continual visible witnesses of mutual love, hence also they are memorials thereof, 300.

POLAND, 521.

POLES, 103, 108.

POLITICAL SELF-LOVE, its nature and quality, 264.  It would make its votaries desirous of being emperors if left without restraint, 264.

POLITICS is one of those sciences by which an entrance is made into things rational, which are the ground of rational wisdom, 163.

POLYGAMICAL love is the love of the external, or natural man, 345.  In this love there is neither chastity, purity, nor sanctify, 346.

POLYGAMIST, no, so long as he remain such, is capable of being made spiritual, 347.  Conjugial chastity, purity, and sanctity cannot exist with polygamists, 346.

POLYGAMY, of, 332-352.  Whence it originates, 349.  Polygamy is lasciviousness, 345.  Polygamy is not a sin with those who live in it from a religious principle, as did the Israelites, 348.  Why polygamy was permitted to the Israelitish nation, 340.

POPES.—­Dreadful fate of two popes who had compelled emperors to resign their dominions, and had behaved ill to them, both in word and deed, at Rome, whither they came to supplicate and adore them, 265.