…to the rivalry of early Christianity to gnosticism but I discovered that that wasn't it at all that purgatory was invented by st Patrick as a sop to the pagans of Ireland. He took fairyland because the pagan belief in Ireland was that the dead souls are…

…here and they're all around us all the time but we can't see them unless we have the gift of second sight. And so Patrick Simply took this pagan idea and turned it into a waiting room of heaven in order to affect the conversion of Ireland. Well, some…

…tell you I was restless last night and walked the cliffs of esalen and that I encountered bugs bunny in the company of Patrick Swayze, people would just say you're nuts. You know it's not sanctioned, it's not allowed and nobody gives a hoot or takes it…

…since I was 14 so I read it again and I learned there, to my amazement that the doctrine of purgatory was created. When Patrick arrived in Ireland to convert the pagan Irish to Christianity he found this fairy faith just very strong and it was a belief…

…who have the eye say they're all around, they're everywhere there are thousands of them they just fill nearby space. Well Patrick told them then he created the doctrine of purgatory and when he successfully converted the pagan Irish and returned to Rome…

…and ire. His chief germanic manifestations are woden and Thor, his chief celtic Manon and maclur. Again he is st Patrick carrying the new faith, again strongbow leading the anglo Norman Conquest, again Cromwell conquering with a bloody hand. Most specifically…

…County gorgios while they went Dublin their mumber all the time. Nor a voice from a fire bellowed: Misha Misha to tart toff, tart Patrick not yet, though then a soon after had a kid scab but ended a bland old Isaac, not yet, though all's fair in…

…happened, nor a voice from a fire bellowed Misha Misha to tartuffe d arctitric. Tartuffe is celtic for thou art baptized, so st Patrick has not yet baptized in Ireland. Not yet, though Venice Soon after, and the Venice Soon is a pun on venison and very…

…the deal and they're and they're dead souls is what they are. Interestingly the whole notion of fairy land is when st Patrick arrived in Ireland to convert the pagan Irish to Christianity, they were practicing what is called the fairy faith. They believed…

…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.…

…get anywhere converting the Irish unless he made a place for this phenomenon. So he invented purgatory. Purgatory was invented by st Patrick it was not church doctrine before that time and he then very success and if you are not Catholic or don't truck…

…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…

…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 sustained…

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

…I always assumed that it was dreamed up by some bishops of Rome, some synod or something. It was dreamed up by st Patrick to convert the pagan Irish, to convince them that fairyland was part of the Christian map and he was so successful in converting…

…the gospel message for their own purposes. I discovered to my amazement that that isn't what happened at all, that saint Patrick is the person responsible for purgatory because he wrote purgatory into the Christian Doctrine in order to convert the celtic…

…arose with early Christianity. But when I began looking into this I discovered that the idea of purgatory was invented by st Patrick and it was invented specifically to convert the pagan Irish, because the pagan Irish believed in the land of fay. They…

…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 isn't it, it's purgatory and was able to push that on them so successfully that a later…

…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…

…he found this belief in fairyland so powerfully entrenched in these people that he 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…

…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…

…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 land…

…idea came out of the roman contact with gnostic ideas but I discovered in writing the introduction for the fairy faith that st Patrick invented the idea of purgatory and he invented it when he was converting the Irish to Christianity. He did it as a way…

…in wild states of activity and that if you have the eye, you know a certain talent, you can see these things. Well Patrick in order to have an appeal to these celtic peasants, made purgatory part of the Christian Cosmogonic scheme but when you actually…