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<blockquote data-quote="Ladybird" data-source="post: 6287848" data-attributes="member: 10689"><p><strong>Episode 2, Chapter 3: Hitting the Books</strong></p><p></p><p>We've got a person and a place on which to focus our research, so Henry hits the tether's databases. He finds a summary of a third-century-CE biography of Apollonius - at least, it purports to be a biography, but many people doubt its truth. Here's what it says:</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD">The developments start from his miraculous birth at Tyana in Cappadocia [today the village of Kemer Hisar, Turkey]…..Dressed - as Pythagoras before him - in a white robe, barefoot or in sandals, long-haired and striking-visaged, he observed the rules of Pythagorean asceticism in a more uncompromising manner than Pythagoras himself had...</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD">In truth, his most faithful companion and observer of his acts was the already mentioned Damis, whom he met in Nineveh, the former Assyrian capital. Wandering with his Pythagorean and religious mission from India to Gibraltar, Apollonius talked to high officials, and instructed common people...Called by Philostratus not only a divine man (theios aner) but also divine being or even god by virtue of his wisdom and supernatural abilities, Apollonius showed qualities to justify such claims. He possessed the extrasensory capability of prognosis (foreknowledge, foresight, or prescience) of future events. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD">From this supernatural wisdom (sophia), from prognosis, from the purity of his life sprung his spiritual power, divine energy which enabled him to perform miracles, expel demons, unmask evil spirits such as the empusa or lamia, or creatures like the satyr. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD">He was capable of bilocation, understood the speech of birds and beasts, commanded every human language, and could read the minds of those who were silent. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD">His divine power and extrasensory perceptions Apollonius also used as a physician, a healer, a role that was directly related to his gift of prognosis….He relieved entire cities of plagues as was the case e.g. in Ephesus, where he recognized the demon of the pestilence. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD">He participated in empire's political events and was a politically active philosopher. He met with emperors and instructed them on the correct way to exercise sole rule, fought against the tyranny of Nero and Domitian, while he supported the rulers Titus and Nerva. In the end he faced Domitian's trial on charges of goeteia (black magic) and of human sacrifice conducted with Nerva to overthrow Domitian. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD">Miraculously, he disappeared from the imperial court without making the triumphal apology pro vita sua which he had prepared. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD">He lived to be over a hundred years old and yet to the end he kept his vigor and fitness, and an appearance even more pleasing than in his youth….Nor was he without a posthumous episode. After his death he appeared in a dream to a young man in Tyana to confirm his belief on the eternal soul.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybird, post: 6287848, member: 10689"] [b]Episode 2, Chapter 3: Hitting the Books[/b] We've got a person and a place on which to focus our research, so Henry hits the tether's databases. He finds a summary of a third-century-CE biography of Apollonius - at least, it purports to be a biography, but many people doubt its truth. Here's what it says: [COLOR="#0000CD"]The developments start from his miraculous birth at Tyana in Cappadocia [today the village of Kemer Hisar, Turkey]…..Dressed - as Pythagoras before him - in a white robe, barefoot or in sandals, long-haired and striking-visaged, he observed the rules of Pythagorean asceticism in a more uncompromising manner than Pythagoras himself had... In truth, his most faithful companion and observer of his acts was the already mentioned Damis, whom he met in Nineveh, the former Assyrian capital. Wandering with his Pythagorean and religious mission from India to Gibraltar, Apollonius talked to high officials, and instructed common people...Called by Philostratus not only a divine man (theios aner) but also divine being or even god by virtue of his wisdom and supernatural abilities, Apollonius showed qualities to justify such claims. He possessed the extrasensory capability of prognosis (foreknowledge, foresight, or prescience) of future events. From this supernatural wisdom (sophia), from prognosis, from the purity of his life sprung his spiritual power, divine energy which enabled him to perform miracles, expel demons, unmask evil spirits such as the empusa or lamia, or creatures like the satyr. He was capable of bilocation, understood the speech of birds and beasts, commanded every human language, and could read the minds of those who were silent. His divine power and extrasensory perceptions Apollonius also used as a physician, a healer, a role that was directly related to his gift of prognosis….He relieved entire cities of plagues as was the case e.g. in Ephesus, where he recognized the demon of the pestilence. He participated in empire's political events and was a politically active philosopher. He met with emperors and instructed them on the correct way to exercise sole rule, fought against the tyranny of Nero and Domitian, while he supported the rulers Titus and Nerva. In the end he faced Domitian's trial on charges of goeteia (black magic) and of human sacrifice conducted with Nerva to overthrow Domitian. Miraculously, he disappeared from the imperial court without making the triumphal apology pro vita sua which he had prepared. He lived to be over a hundred years old and yet to the end he kept his vigor and fitness, and an appearance even more pleasing than in his youth….Nor was he without a posthumous episode. After his death he appeared in a dream to a young man in Tyana to confirm his belief on the eternal soul.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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