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.
RATIONALITY, spiritual, comes by means of the Word, and of preachings derived therefrom, [293]. Natural, sensual, and corporeal men enjoy, like other men, the powers of rationality, but they use it while they are in externals, and abuse it while in their internals, [498], [499]. Rationality, with devils, proceeds from the glory of the love of self, [269], and also with atheists, who enjoy a more sublime rationality than many others, [269].
RATIONALITY and LIBERTY.—When man turns himself to the Lord, his rationality and liberty are led by the Lord; but if backwards, from the Lord, his rationality and liberty are led by hell, [437].