Quotes:Montanus

Zirkoff, Boris

Montanus. Phrygian sectary and Bishop, of the middle of the 2nd century a.d. Nothing is known of him personally, except that he most likely was a heathen priest, native of Ardahan. 469 Converted to Christianity about 156. Around 171, he proclaimed himself the Paraclete or Comforter promised by Jesus, and gathered a following that believed him to be the mouthpiece of the Holy Ghost. The same applied to his companions, Prisca, Priscilla and Maximilia, each of whom had left her husband to join Montanus. They claimed to be passive agents of the Holy Ghost and uttered prophecies. Montanus taught that every believer may be the means of a special revelation, enjoined strict asceticism and church discipline, and expected the approaching millennium. He was excommunicated, 175, and died soon after. His teaching spread far and wide, his most notable disciple being Tertullian. The sect soon died out in the West, but survived in the East until Justinian suppressed it.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, pp. 468-469