Obs.—­The Divine Providence is the same as the mediate and immediate influx from the Lord, A.C. 6480.  See the Treatise on the Divine Providence, by the Author.

PRUDENCE is one of the moral virtues which have respect to life, and enter into it, 164.  Nothing of prudence can possibly exist but from God, 354.  Prudence of wives in concealing their love, 294.  This prudence is innate, 187.  It was implanted in women from creation, and consequently by birth, 194.  Of self-derived prudence, 354.

PULPIT in a temple in the spiritual world, 23.

PU, or PAU, 28, 29, 182.

Obs.—­This is the Greek word [Greek:  pou], written in ordinary characters; the Author gives the Latin translation at n. 28. (In quodam pu seu ubi.) This word expresses the uncertainty in which philosophers and theologians are on the subject of the soul.

PURE.—­It is not possible that any love should become absolutely pure, with men or with angels, 71, 146.  To the pure all things are pure, but to them that are defiled, nothing is pure, 140.

PURIFICATION the spiritual, of conjugial love may be compared to the purification of natural spirits, as effected by the chemists, 145.  Wisdom purified may be compared with alcohol, which is a spirit highly rectified, 145.

PURITY, the, of heaven is from conjugial love, 430.  In like manner the purity of the church, 431.

PURPLE, the, color from its correspondence signifies the conjugial love of the wife, 76.

PURPOSE.—­That which flows forth from the very essence of a man’s life, thus which flows forth from his will or his love, is principally called purpose, 493.  As soon as any one from purpose or confirmation abstains from any evil because it is sin, he is kept by the Lord in the purpose of abstaining from the rest, 529.

PUSTULES, 253, 470.

PUT AWAY, to.—­Putting away on account of adultery is a plenary separation of minds, which is called divorce, 255.  Other kinds of putting away, grounded in their particular causes, are separations, 255.

PUT OFF, to.—­Man after death puts off every thing which does not agree with his love, 36.  How a man after death puts off externals and puts on informals, 48*

PYTHAGORAS, 151*.

PYTHAGOREANS, 153*.

QUALITY of the love of the sex in heaven, 44.  The quality of every deed, and in general the quality of every thing depends upon the circumstances which mitigate or aggravate it, 487.

RAINBOW painted on a wall in the spiritual world, 76.

RATIONAL principle, the, is the medium between heaven and the world, 145.  Above the rational principle is heavenly light, and below the rational principle is natural light, 233.  The rational principle is formed more and more to the reception of heaven or of hell, according as man turns himself towards good or evil, 436.

Obs.—­The rational principle of man partakes of the spiritual and natural, or is a medium between them, A.C., 268.