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# How Are Heretics Made?
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/kak-poiavliaiutsia-eretiki/
- Published: 2026-02-19T12:03:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:26:56.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Art, Education

The answer, on a Dutch engraving of the early seventeenth century:

Winged, like a fallen angel, and decked out in an academic gown, he is goaded on by curiosity, while flattery holds up to him an ornate mirror adorned with feathers, that he may contemplate himself. And not a single incantation