Physical possession, no longer occurring
nowadays, 257
Piety, a life of, 360 , 535
Places, meaning in the Word, 192 note a
Planets
on the other side, 417
Swedenborg led by the Lord into other, 192
Plant kingdom, correspondences within, 104 ,
109 , 111
Plays, suited for children being taught in
heaven, 335
Pleasures
all fl owing from love, 396
apparent, 290
of everyone’s life turned into what corre-
sponds after death, 485 – 490 , 496
of heaven, 397 – 399
inner, 395
of true marriage love, 374
Plotters, 488 : 2 , 506 : 2
Polygamy, marriage love impossible in, 379
Pondering the truth of one thing after
another, church people losing their abil-
ity to, 3
Poor people
in heaven, 364 – 365
meaning in the Word, 420 note b
Possession, no longer occurring nowadays, 257
Poverty, possible seductiveness of, 364
Power
of angels, 228 – 233
of angels’ words, 240 , 269
emptiness of earthly, 407
intrinsic within divine truth, 137
two kinds of, 564
Power to save, belonging to the Lord, 5 note c
Prayer, for angelic help, 228
Pre-Christian people, 558 b note c
Precious stones, meaning in the Word, 489
note e
Presence to others in spiritual world, based on
intensity of desire, 194 – 195
Pretenders, 499 , 505
Pretense, used by hellish spirits, 580
Pride, 555
Priesthood, meaning in the Word, 226 note e
Prince of Peace, the Lord as, 287
Principles of nature, people believing in, 3
Profi t taking, 406
Promiscuity, memory of following us after
death, 462 b
Prophets, 76
the Lord speaking through, 254
Pseudo-intelligence, 352 – 353
Pseudo-wisdom, 352 – 353
Public good, 217
Punishment
notion that God issues, 545
restraining the hells with fear of, 543 , 581
taming evil with fear of, 509
in the world of spirits, 509
Purifi cation, 513
Purple, meaning in the Word, 365 note gQ
Quibbling. See also Rationalization
favoring what pleases us, 385
Quietness, odor of, 287R
Raising
of angels from lower heaven to higher, 35
from outer to more inward concerns, 267
note b
Rankings, in the heavens, 390
Raphael, 52
Ratifi cation, light of, 352 note c
Rationality
constant development of, 469
formation of, 430 , 468
people lacking, 455
rendered productive by heaven’s light,
464 : 6
source of our, 130 note e
taking into the other world, 355
thinking from deeper, 303 , 329
two paths leading to, 430
Rationalization
of adultery within the church, 374
attempted, of evil, 153 , 385
Ratios
of details to generalizations in the heavens,
267
none between the infi nite and the fi nite, 273
of our wisdom to angelic wisdom, 269
Reality
actual, of our spirit, 598 : 3
of the life of everything, 9392 HEAVEN and HELL