Occultists & Mystics of all Ages

Introduction 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.