A MODERN PANARION: A COLLECTION OF FUGITIVE FRAGMENTS
Book Details + Condition: The Theosophical Publishing Society (London and New York). First Edition, 1895. Hardcover. 504 pages. Title page states "Volume I," but there was no ensuing volume published. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; binding tape to spine, as well as to interior hinges; Syracuse Theosophical Society library plates to front endpapers; repaired tears to edges of ffep; owner embossed stamp to half-title and title pages; approximately 50-75 pp with small check mark to top page corners, as well as the occasional margin notation. The book serves as a memorial of Blavatsky's life and work, and the articles illuminate the spirit of the opening years of the Theosophical Movement. It includes articles written before the Society was formed, as well as many published in the early days of the movement. Some were slightly edited from their original form when reprinted in this 1895 edition. From the Preface: 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.” 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. Contents include:
The Eddy Manifestations
The Lack of Unity among Spiritualists
The Holmes Controversy
Notice to Mediums
Occultism or Magic
Spiritualistic Tricksters
The Search After Occultism
The Science of Magic
An Unsolved Mystery
Spiritualism in Russia
Spiritualism and Spiritualist
What is Occultism?
A Warning to Mediums
Huxley and Slade
Fakirs and Tables
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
Kabalistic Views of “Spirits”
Indian Metaphysics
The Todas
Magic
The Theosophists and their Opponents
Echoes from India
A French View of Women’s Rights
Occult Phenomena
Hindu Widow-Marriage
Oppressed Widowhood in America
Esoteric Buddhism and its Critic
What is Theosophy?
What are the Theosophists?
Antiquity of the Veda
Persian Zoroastrianism and Russian Vandalism
Cross and Fire
War in Olympus
A Land of Mystery
The Pralaya of Modern Science
The Yoga Philosophy
Hypnotism
Count St. Germain
Lamas and Druses
The Claims of Occultism
A Note on Eliphas Levi
The Six-Pointed and Five-Pointed Stars
The Grand Inquisitor
The Bright Spot of Light
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
