PHANTASY, [267].—Those are in the phantasy of their respective concupiscences who think interiorly in themselves, and too much indulge their imagination by discoursing with themselves; for these separate their spirit almost from connection with the body, and by vision overflow the understanding, [267]. What is the fate of those after death who have given themselves up to their phantasy, [268], [514]. Errors which phantasy has introduced through ignorance of the spiritual world and of its sun, [422].
Obs.—Phantasy is an appearance of perception: it consists in seeing what is true as false, and what is good as evil and what is evil as good, and what is false as true, A.C.. 7680.
PHANTOMS.—Who those are who in the other life appear as phantoms, [514].
PHILOSOPHERS, difference between, and Sophi, [130]. The ancient people, who acknowledged the wisdom of reason as wisdom, were called philosophers, [180]. See [Sophi].
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].