Occultists & mystics of all ages / by Ralph Shirley.

  • Ralph Shirley
Date:
1920
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Credit: Occultists & mystics of all ages / by Ralph Shirley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF ALL AGES i APOLLONIUS OF TYANA The difficulty of treating of such a subject as the life and activities of the Philosopher of Tyana lies in the fact that the story of Apollonius’s career has been overlaid with legends of the miraculous on the one hand, and distorted by religious prejudices on the other ; while the only authoritative account of this great religious reformer is marred by the glaring deficiencies of the writer for the task which he had in hand, and his inability to appreciate the life-work of the subject of his biography. Indeed he fills many pages with literary padding of the worst kind, while he fails to give us over and over again the very facts wrhich it is of value and im¬ portance for us to know. Philostratus, the author of this life, was one of the literary coterie that gathered round the presiding genius of the Empress Julia Domna, the wife of Septimus Severus and
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