Produced by Delphine Lettau, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) APOLLONIUS OF TYANA THE PHILOSOPHER-REFORMER OF THE FIRST CENTURY A.D. A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE ONLY EXISTING RECORD OF HIS LIFE WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WAR OF OPINION CONCERNING HIM AND AN INTRODUCTION ON THE RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS AND BROTHERHOODS OF THE TIMES AND THE POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF INDIAN THOUGHT ON GREECE--BY G. R. S. MEAD, B.A., M.R.A.S. LONDON AND BENARES THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY 1901 TABLE OF CONTENTS. SECTION PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY 1 II. THE RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS AND COMMUNITIES OF THE FIRST CENTURY 9 III. INDIA AND GREECE 17 IV. THE APOLLONIUS OF EARLY OPINION 28 V. TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS, AND LITERATURE 42 VI. THE BIOGRAPHER OF APOLLONIUS 53 VII. EARLY LIFE 65 VIII. THE TRAVELS OF APOLLONIUS 73 IX. IN THE SHRINES OF THE TEMPLES AND THE RETREATS OF RELIGION 82 X. THE GYMNOSOPHISTS OF UPPER EGYPT 99 XI. APOLLONIUS AND THE RULERS OF THE EMPIRE 106 XII. APOLLONIUS THE PROPHET AND WONDER-WORKER 110 XIII. HIS MODE OF LIFE 119 XIV. HIMSELF AND HIS CIRCLE 126 XV. FROM HIS SAYINGS AND SERMONS 132 XVI. FROM HIS LETTERS 145 XVII. THE WRITINGS OF APOLLONIUS 153 XVIII. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 156 APOLLONIUS OF TYANA. SECTION I. INTRODUCTORY.