…know that the dogma of purgatory in Christian Theology was not created by theologians in Rome it was created by saint Patrick in an effort to make Christian Doctrine more commiserate with celtic folk belief in the process of converting Ireland to…

…commiserate with celtic folk belief in the process of converting Ireland to Christianity because the very faith that was in place when Patrick landed in Ireland was a faith that the dead souls coexist with us invisibly in ordinary space and can be seen by…

…it's called or they were the cradle of civilization, and the view of the underworld introduced into church canon by saint Patrick would have already in the sumerian babylonian uberitic models, the sumerian myth of inanna and demusi, for example you have…

…these things and no drugs are required. It's a psychic ability which the country celtic people have sometimes claimed. So when Patrick came to Ireland on his mission of conversion, he found this belief in fairyland so powerfully entrenched in these people…

…invented purgatory. Purgatory was invented by St. Patrick to convert the Irish. And then when word was carried back to Rome that Patrick, who was this great bishop of the early church, that he had made this doctrinal concession to celtic folk thinking, the…

…And they believed that certain people who had the eye could see these fairies. And they believed this with such conviction that Patrick quickly realized that he was not going to get anywhere converting the Irish unless he made a place for this phenomenon.…

…in wild states of activity. And that if you have the eye, you know, a certain talent, you can see these things. Patrick, in order to have an appeal to these celtic peasants, made purgatory part of the christian cosmogonic scheme. But when you actually…

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…And they believed that certain people who had the eye could see these fairies. And they believed this with such conviction that Patrick quickly realized that he was not going to get anywhere converting the Irish unless he made a place for this phenomenon.…

…the souls of the dead surrounding us all the time, and that certain people with the gift of second sight could see this. So Patrick just said to them, oh, no, that is, did its purgatory, and was able to push that on them so successfully that a later…

…celtic countries by Evans Vance. And it was reprinted recently and I wrote the introduction to it. It mentions in there. When Patrick arrived as a missionary in Ireland to convert the pagan Irish, the problem that he encountered was this belief in the…