Bellerophon wrote:Everything Will did with the knife unraveled a bit of that fantasy. He freed the dead from Purgatory, which denied the Authority and his would-be successor their only real power over consciousness, and in so doing made God irrelevant.
First of all, it was not Purgatory, since from Purgatory you eventually go to Paradise. It was more an Hades or an Hel, a dumping ground for all ghosts no matter whether good or bad. Moreover, nearly everybody was mistaken about its nature (people thought they would go to Paradise if they were faithful to the Church), so it didn't give the Authority actually any real power. His power came from the fact that nobody really knew what the afterlife was like, and there is no reason this should have changed by simply opening a window. If people had learned about the true nature of the world of the dead, with or without the new window, the Authority wouldn't have had any power at all.