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].
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].