The Origins of Purgatory (and Egypt, Greece, etc.)

The Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory was 

Taught in Ancient Greece, in Ancient Rome, and in Ancient Egypt.

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Alexander Hislop (a historian) describes how the Greeks and other ancient (pre-Catholic) civilizations taught the doctrine of purgatory. Hislop explains (The Two Babylons, p.p. 139-140) (bold /color added): 

In Greece the doctrine of a purgatory was inculcated [taught] by the very chief of the philosophers. Thus Plato, speaking of the future judgment of the dead, holds out the hope of final deliverance for all, but maintains that, of "those who are judged," "some" must first "proceed to a subterranean place of judgment, where they shall sustain the punishment they have deserved"; while others, in consequence of a favourable [sic] judgment, being elevated at once into a certain celestial place, "shall pass their time in a manner becoming the life they have lived in a human shape.

Rome taught the belief of purgatory before Catholicism existed. Hislop:

In Pagan Rome, purgatory was equally held up before the minds of men; but there, there seems to have been no hope held out to any of exemption from its pains. Therefore, Virgil, describing its different tortures, thus speaks: 

"Nor can the grovelling mind, 

In the dark dungeon of the limbs confined, 

Assert the native skies, or own its heavenly kind. 

Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains; 

But long-contracted filth, even in the soul, remains 

The relics of inveterate vice they wear, 

And spots of sin obscene in every face appear. 

For this are various penances enjoined; 

And some are hung to bleach upon the wind, 

Some plunged in water, others purged in fires, 

Till all the dregs are drained, and all the rust expires. 

All have their Manes, and those Manes bear. 

The few so cleansed to these abodes repair, 

And breathe in ample fields the soft Elysian air, 

Then are they happy, when by length of time 

The scurf is worn away of each committed crime. 

No speck is left of their habitual stains, 

But the pure ether of the soul remains." 

Such was the operation of the doctrine of purgatory and prayers for the dead among avowed and acknowledged Pagans; and in what essential respect does it differ from the operation of the same doctrine in Papal Rome? There are the same extortions in the one as there were in the other. The doctrine of purgatory is purely Pagan, and cannot for a moment stand in the light of Scripture. For those who die in Christ no purgatory is, or can be, needed; for "the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth from ALL sin."   

The Pagan Purgatory: The Origin of the Catholic Purgatory

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Alexander Hislop mentions that in "Pagan purgatory", fire, water, and wind were involved. Three of the four elements of paganism were used to purify a person going through purgatory.

Virgil, the famous Roman poet, wrote in The Aeneid, Book VI (long before Catholicism existed) (bold / color / underline added):

For this are various penances enjoined; 

And some are hung to bleach upon the wind, 

Some plunged in water, others purged in fires, 

Till all the dregs are drained, and all the rust expires. 

[...]

The scurf is worn away of each committed crime. 

No speck is left of their habitual stains, 

But the pure ether of the soul remains." 

Hislop tells us more about this (The Two Babylons, p.p. 140-141.) (bold / color added):

In the Pagan purgatory, fire, water, wind, were represented (as may be seen from the lines of Virgil) as combining to purge away the stain of sin. In the purgatory of the Papacy, ever since the days of Pope Gregory, FIRE itself has been the grand means of purgation (Catechismus Romanus). Thus, while the purgatorial fires of the future world are just the carrying out of the principle embodied in the blazing and purifying Baal-fires of the eve of St. John, they form another link in identifying the system of Rome with the system of Tammuz or Zoroaster, the great God of the ancient fire-worshippers. 

Now, if baptismal regeneration, justification by works, penance as a satisfaction to God's justice, the unbloody sacrifice of the mass, extreme unction, purgatory, and prayers for the dead, were all derived from Babylon, how justly may the general system of Rome be styled Babylonian? And if the account already given be true, what thanks ought we to render to God, that, from a system such as this, we were set free at the blessed Reformation!  

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"Purgatory is a state or condition in which the souls of the just, who die with the stains of sin, are cleansed before they are admitted to heaven." (The Question and Answer Catholic Catechism, Q. 316.)

Hebrews 9:26 and 28 reveal that Jesus Christ “put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” Jesus Christ did this sacrifice “once in the end of the world”. Jesus did this not twice, not many times, but once. One time, Jesus paid for all the sins of those who believe in His name…who believe that He died for their sins, shedding His precious blood on the cross to pay for all their sins (see Romans 10:9-10 and 1 Corinthians 15:3-4).  

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