A Modern Panarion – A Collection of Fugitive Fragments

By Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831 - 1891).

504 Pages | A facsimile of the original edition of 1895 | Hardcover | The Theosophical Company, USA. | ISBN: 0938998226.

The title A Modern Panarion has been taken from the controversial Panarion of the Church Father Epiphanius, in which he attacked the various sects and heresies of the first four centuries of the Christian era. The Panarion was so called as being a 'basket' of scraps and fragments. We are told. that this Panarion was ' a kind of medicine chest, in which he had collected means of healing against the poisonous bite of the heretical serpent. ' A Modern Panarion is of a like nature with the intent of the Christian Father; only in the nineteenth century, heresy has in many instances become orthodoxy, and orthodoxy heresy, and the Panarion of H.P. Blavatsky is intended as a means of healing against the terrors of ecclesiasticism, dogma and bigotry, and the blind negation of materialism and pseudo-science.

- Editors.