The
complete title is “A Modern Panarion, a Collection of Fugitive Fragments from
the pen of H.P. Blavatsky”
This book was first published in 1895 by the Theosophical editorials
of Adyar, London and New-York, as a memorial of Blavatsky’s life and work, and it was the first big effort to compile her articles.
The book is composed by 514 pages and offers articles she wrote before the Theosophical Society was formed,
which appeared in the press of that day (particulary in spiritualistic journals) as well as
many which were published in the early years of the Theosophical Society in various
magazines, including the Theosophist.
Researchers wishing to become better acquainted with the spirit of the
opening years of the Theosophical Movement in the nineteenth century will
appreciate this compilation.
The opening
page says “Volume I,” which indicates that the Theosophical Society had the intention
to release another volume, but that did not happen.
WHAT MEANS THIS TITLE?
In the preface the editors wrote the reason why they put this title:
« 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 Panarionis 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 errors of
ecclesiasticism, dogma and bigotry, and the blind negation of materialism and
pseudo-science. »
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Below are the titles of the articles:
The Eddy Manifestations
Dr. Beard Criticized
The Lack of Unity among
Spiritualists
The Holmes Controversy
Notice to Mediums
A Rebuke
Occultism or Magic
Spiritualistic Tricksters
The Search after Occultism
The Science of Magic
An Unsolved Mystery
Spiritualism in Russia
Spiritualism and Spiritualists
What is Occultism?
A Warning to Mediums
New-York against Lankester. A new
War of the Roses
Huxley and Shade
Can the Double Murder
Fakirs and Tables
A Protest
The Fate of the Occultist
Buddhism in America
Russian Atrocities
Washing the Disciples’ Feet
Trickery or Magic?
The Jews in Russia
H. P. Blavatsky’s Masonic Patent
Views of the Theosophists
A Society without a Dogma
Elementaries
Kabalistic Views of ‘‘Spirits”
The Knout. As Wielded by the
Great Russian Theosophist. Mr. Coleman’s
First Appearance
Indian Metaphysics
“H. M.’’ and the Todas
The Todas
The Ahkoond of Swat. The Founder
of Many Mystical Societies
The Ærya Samàj
Parting Words
‘Not a Christian”!
The Retort Courteous
‘‘Scrutator Again’’
Magic
A Republican Citizen
The Theosophists and their
Opponents
Echoes from India. What is Hindu
Spiritualism?
Missionaries Militant
The History of a “Book”
A French View of Women’s Rights
Occult Phenomena
Hindu Widow-Marriage
“Oppressed Widowhood” in America
‘‘Esoteric Buddhism’’ and its
Critic
Mr. A. Lillie’s Delusions
What is Theosophy?
What are the Theosophists?
Antiquity of the Vedas
Persian Zoroastrianism and
Russian Vandalism
Cross and Fire
War in Olympus
A Land of Mystery
Which First—the Egg or the Bird?
The Pralaya of Modern Science
The Yoga Philosophy
A Year of Theosophy
“A Word with Our Friends”
Questions Answered about Yoga
Vidyâ
The Missing Link
Hypnotism
The Leaven of Theosophy
Count St. Germain
Lamas and Druses
A Reply to Our Critics. Our Final
Answer to Several Objections
‘‘The Claims of Occultism’’
A Note on Eliphas Levi
The Six-Pointed and Five-Pointed
Stars
The Grand Inquisitor
The Bright Spot of Light
“Is it Idle to Argue Further?”
Fragments of Occult Truth
Notes on some Aryan-Arhat
Esoteric Tenets
The Thoughts of the Dead
Dreamland and Somnambulism
Are Dreams but Idle Visions?
Spiritualism and Occult Truth
Reincarnation in Tibet
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