tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11765981887604733972024-02-18T21:37:09.297-08:00Apollonius of Tyana Greek Pythagorean philosopher and healer Apollonius lived from 4-97 AD. He travelled widely around the Mediterranean and into India. He was in Judea from c.33-38 CE. Jesus Christ was teaching at the same time also and yet, neither appears in the other's biographies. How could that be possible? Was Jesus Christ in fact created by the Roman elite families? See "The Life of Apollonius" by Philostratus - http://www.livius.org/sources/content/philostratus-life-of-apollonius/BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-32965859759946842682023-09-14T19:23:00.001-07:002023-09-14T19:23:35.797-07:00Apollonius' letter to grieving parents who lost their child. Eternal beings...<br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ApolloniusOfTyana/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3Ue3vTjntnsk9Gnu6rfa01mcMyBWRtxbauWO09LAVe-1xwALZIXSIeCXtKCnc_X7oc3Wkf7obk7fmB5BQ4xgSRc97zXVgr5mXKhwD_m0fH09P05jUE-Lz3sENJbOLS759OPBvCuTB5JQZIVLOBO_mykC25BIDrrojHNX47HmETe38UzZNrSJQXrwxrys=w674-h352" width="674" /></a></div><br /></div><div>The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ApolloniusOfTyana/" target="_blank">Facebook Group</a> I created 5-6 years ago has not been deleted. Yay !! I was kicked off Fb at some point and thought this group would have been removed as well. An accident led me back to this group's link this morning. There's LOTS more great material on that Fb group - go check it out. If you have any questions or comments, please use "Comment below" on this blog. Thanks, Bron. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Apollonius of Tyana to P. Valerius Asiaticus, upon the death of his son said:</b></span> </span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"There is no death of anyone, but only in appearance, even as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming. The change from being [spirit form] to becoming [physical form] seems to be birth, and the change from becoming [physical] to being [spirit] seems to be death, but in reality no one is ever born, nor does one ever die. It is simply a being visible [physical] and then invisible [spirit]; the former through the density of matter, and the latter because of the subtlety of being—being which is ever the same, its only change being motion and rest.</div><div> <br />"For being [spirit form] has this necessary peculiarity, that its change is brought about by nothing external to itself; but whole becomes parts, and parts become whole in the oneness of the all. And if it be asked: What is this which sometimes is seen and sometimes not seen, now in the same, now in the different?—it might be answered: It is the way of everything here in the world below that when it is filled out with matter it is visible, owing to the resistance of its density, but is invisible, owing to its subtlety, when it is rid of matter, though matter still surround it and flow through it in that immensity of space which hems it in but knows no birth or death.</div><div><br />"But why has this false notion [of birth and death] remained so long without a refutation? Some think that what has happened through them, they have themselves brought about. They are ignorant that the individual is brought to birth through parents [facilitators], not by parents [as the "source" of life - they are not the architects of the human physiology], just as a thing produced through the earth is not produced from it. The change which comes to the individual is nothing that is caused by his visible surroundings, but rather a change in the one thing which is in every individual.<br /><br />"And what other name can we give to it but primal being? ’Tis it alone that acts and suffers becoming all for all through all, eternal deity, deprived and wronged of its own self by names and forms. But this is a less serious thing than that a man should be bewailed, when he has passed from man to God by change of state and not by the destruction of his nature. The fact is that so far from mourning death you ought to honour it and reverence it.</div><div> <br />"The best and fittest way for you to honour death is now to leave the one who's gone to God, and set to work to play the ruler over those left in your charge as you were wont to do. It would be a disgrace for such a man as you to owe your cure to time and not to reason, for time makes even common people cease from grief. The greatest thing is a strong rule, and of the greatest rulers he is best who first can rule himself.</div><div> <br />"And how is it permissible to wish to change what has been brought to pass by will of God? If there's a law in things, and there is one, and it is God who has appointed it, the righteous man will have no wish to try to change good things, for such a wish is selfishness, and counter to the law, but he will think that all that comes to pass is a good thing.</div><div> <br />"On! heal yourself, give justice to the wretched and console them; so shall you dry your tears. You should not set your private woes above your public cares, but rather set your public cares before your private woes. And see as well what consolation you already have! The nation sorrows with you for your son. Make some return to those who weep with you; and this you will more quickly do if you will cease from tears than if you still persist.</div><div> <br />Have you not friends? Why! you have yet another son. Have you not even still the one that's gone? You have! — will answer anyone who really thinks. For 'that which is' doth cease not — nay is just for the very fact that it will be for aye; or else the 'is not' is, and how could that be when the 'is' doth never cease to be?</div><div><br />"Again it will be said you fail in piety to God and are unjust. ’Tis true. You fail in piety to God, you fail in justice to your boy; nay more, you fail in piety to him as well. Would’st know what death is? Then make me dead and send me off to company with death, and if you will not change the dress you've put on it, you will have straightway made me better than yourself."</div><div><br />- Apollonius of Tyana<br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Replies to this post on Facebook. </span></b><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Note: Any links below are still accessible.</span></b></p><ul style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li><div aria-label="Comment by Del Hilgendorf 6 years ago" class="x1n2onr6 x4uap5 x18d9i69 x1swvt13 x1iorvi4 x78zum5 x1q0g3np x1a2a7pz" role="article" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; outline: none; padding: 4px 0px 0px 16px; position: relative;" tabindex="-1"><div class="x1r8uery x1iyjqo2 x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1pi30zi" style="flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden; padding-right: 16px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="xv55zj0 x1vvkbs x1rg5ohu xxymvpz" style="display: inline-block; 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Another piece of the puzzle.<span style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnofnew.podia.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="320" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZq8yK6_zYZ4MgjgeRpVCyd7X78s3zY1AsrOXn_g2dDXDLGcxZQ5POV7TCW1Oc0MyyGancz2q1RfhWvR0YVo8_Co0oUmG9ntICT7Im6sxJ0rX8Rzg6YLXZ3v3Q8JwL3Gr-fFZCbE52CpO0NbVaCNxKpptd3ruciaMAu41fCMmIoIShoZf9R0KZCdZENw/w593-h590/Meeting%20Jeshua.jpg" width="593" /></a></div><b><br /><br />BRACE YOURSELF: Jesus' TRUE Teachings! It'll Give You GOOSEBUMPS! | John Davis<br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="558" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bjKjFXhZRPo" width="671" youtube-src-id="bjKjFXhZRPo"></iframe></div> Premiered Mar 5, 2023<div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f0f0f;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span>John Davis was raised in a Catholic family and did not believe in reincarnation when an intuitive reader told him he "walked with Jesus" and revealed who he had been. Intuitively John felt that he had, but being Catholic, he suppressed those feelings and brushed the idea aside. But God/Universe doesn't always let things go. Over the next year, and without provocation, nineteen different readers told John of the same past life. Still defiant and not wanting this information only from psychics, John found a past life regression therapist and regressed. The results were startling. John fully remembers the life and brings forth the lessons he learned under Jeshua's tutelage. 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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-30532351353498338412020-07-09T05:37:00.001-07:002020-07-09T05:39:20.590-07:00The Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Flavius Philostratus - AUDIO BOOK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is an extremely good explanation of the literary conventions of the 1st century AD.<br />
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-72883771367926981242020-07-09T05:14:00.001-07:002020-07-09T05:38:58.589-07:00Putting "Jesus Christ" into historic, religious, societal, literary and contemporaneous context.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is a very good critique. Although this commentator is not a historian, he asks the perfect questions and uses excellent history methodology to get to the bedrock of truth. Extremely well researched.<br />
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-78847829073029398752020-07-09T04:53:00.000-07:002020-07-09T05:07:12.320-07:00The Mystery of Apollonius: A brief biography...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Screenshots are taken from the video below. Please click on the images to see in full view. Some information in the video is, I feel, erroneous and based on oral traditions that cannot be verified historically. That's why I published the video at the end of this article, since I don't think it's altogether accurate. The following screenshots I believe contain the correct information.<br />
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Apollonius was no magician. He refused the "black arts" as he called them, even though he investigated these arts in both Egypt and Babylon. He was indeed a true healer who had knowledge of how to manipulate matter and make quantum particles reorder themselves in accordance to the willing of his mind. Please see this article for an example of a modern day healing: <a href="https://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.com/2012/05/spiral-fracture-healed-1977.html" target="_blank">Spiral fracture healed 1977</a>. For a more detailed description of this healing, please go here > <a href="http://healed-1.blogspot.com/p/miracle.html" target="_blank">"Miracle"</a><br />
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Apollonius was schooled in Pythagoreanism. Discussion included such oddities called in our terminology today "the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqAbCVR3GqQ" target="_blank">quantum field</a>", <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnEWOYKgI4o" target="_blank">Tesla maths</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJAgrUBF4w" target="_blank">sound resonance</a>. Please see the following article on this blog for more about sound resonance ><br />
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This discussion gives a very good background into the power that was Rome in the 1st century AD. It explains some of the internal troubles in the eastern Mediterranean region. A very good analogy is given towards the end that shows us in our modern context that governments today employ exactly the same solutions.<br />
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-33487096412705074602018-08-06T15:32:00.003-07:002018-08-06T17:19:24.261-07:00Goodness me! Good capture, just now! #11111 - What does this mean?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The 1111 sequences is most often the first sequence that appears to many people, eg: the time 11:11. Once the 1111 is noticed and acknowledged, the number sequences progress onto other numbers and your angels have other messages to pass on to you.<br />
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The 1111 number sequence is a sign that there is an opportunity opening up for you, and your thoughts are manifesting them into form at lightening speed. The 1111 is similar to the bright light of a flashbulb. It means that the Universe has just taken a snapshot of your thoughts and is <a href="http://bodysoulmind.net/attracting-and-manifesting-what-you-want-into-your-life">manifesting your ideas</a> into material form. Be aware that you will <a href="http://bodysoulmind.net/attracting-and-manifesting-what-you-want-into-your-life">manifest your thoughts</a>, therefore, do not think negative thoughts as these are what you will draw into your life. </div>
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-11054670755239341702018-05-05T19:55:00.003-07:002023-09-03T02:18:56.991-07:00Jeremiah points the way #SwissPharaohs Roman-Egyptian #Bloodline<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah#Conflicts_with_false_prophets" target="_blank">Wikipedia article</a> about Jeremiah is the primary source used for these observations. To find out more about these Swiss Pharaohs (which includes Rome-Vatican City and the one square mile City of London), please go to my primary blog - <a href="https://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/p/swiss-pharaohs.html" target="_blank">"Co-creating Our New Earth"</a>.<br />
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Sounds like Egyptians in Canaan to me... <b>"Anathoth"</b> where Jeremiah lived.<br />
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<b>"the greed of priests"</b> - sounds like the priests of Karnak, Egypt to me... They were <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bloodline?hc_location=ufi">#Bloodline</a> priests. Amenhotep IV aka "Akhenaten" installed members of the Pharaoh line (his relations) as priests at Karnak in an attempt to bring allegiance between these powerful priests (many thousands of them) and the Pharaoh (himself). It didn't work. When Akhenaten stopped the worship of Egypt's polytheism in c.1350 BCE, the priests didn't like this - of course. The money stopped flowing for sacrifices performed to the various gods. However, when these priests went into Canaan along with all of the Pharaoh children of former Pharaohs, I think they saw the benefits of monotheism (my conjecture). These priests (this priestly line, like the Indian caste system) who now served Ba'al, served only one god. They saw the power in this. This monotheistic death cult that moved to Rome as its centre, took control of the entire world. I would conjecture that the Priests of Karnak over millennia are now serving in The Vatican City. Their modus operandi has always been to play the intermediary between the people and god/God, and to collect lots of money for the privilege of doing so. That's how I know it's the same thieves.<br />
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</span></b>Here is immediate confirmation of my conjecture above... The Egyptians went to Canaan, not the other way around. ie: There were no Hebrew slaves in Egypt in c.1500 BCE - not as a large grouping anyway, as we read in the Book of the Exodus in the Old Testament. The first time the Egyptians ever heard of a tribe called "Hebrew" was in 1400 BCE when the Egyptians went to war against the tribes of Canaan. Egypt wanted to create buffer states to protect them from the powerful Hittite Empire in the north. Canaan and its tribes and Samaria became that buffer.<b><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></b><br />
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"Jerusalem fell to the Babylonian army in 587 BC" - and so begins the intermingling of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bloodline?hc_location=ufi">#Bloodline</a> with the Babylonians of Mesopotamia >> the second home of the Canaanite Jews out of which eventually came the written "Babylonian Talmud" aka "The Talmud".<br />
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"King Johanan fled to Egypt, taking with him Jeremiah and Baruch and his daughters." Johanan knew where the Motherland was and who would give him protection. When everything turns to custard in the land we have colonised or immigrated to, what do we do? We return home to our Motherland. Why didn't Johanan flee to Athens, or to Rome? Because the Mother calls us home when we are in distress.<br />
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<b>BD replies (on Facebook):</b> Well sort of. What they honor is the demonising of ancient enemies. Their hate propaganda is to motivate politics, military and the people to vote and fund their campaigns. After that they conquered and destroyed the empires they demonised and expanded the Roman Empire and the Roman culture. Now these days they honor the demonising lies written from their own libraries. False teachers and false prophets teach false teachings and false prophecies. The truth is burned with their destruction of the library of Alexandria. Nobody knows the truth. All you can find is their false teachers and false prophets Saturnian priesthood of the deadly sins, demonising lies of arrogant narcissistic psychopathic dark fantasies, lies in all our libraries all over the globe. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah#Conflicts_with_false_prophets">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah...</a><br /><br />
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<b>This author responds:</b> Well said. Thank you for adding so many puzzle pieces to my own. Whether I "agree" with them or not doesn't matter - in these examples above, I do. As we open our hearts and minds to Great Spirit, "Source", we directly "download" the Truth. The truth exists and IS. "They" cannot delete, burn or separate us from Creator who reminds us through dreams, "memories" and knowings of "What IS" or "What was". Reach into the unseen realms with your heart, and the Truths lay there - bigger than the libraries at Alexandria! Much love, Bron<br />
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(continuing) - Philostratus's "Life of Apollonius" was finished after the death of Roman Empress <a href="https://www.livius.org/articles/person/philostratus/" target="_blank">Julia Domna</a> in 217 CE who had commissioned it. A copy, or copies were put into the library at Alexandria. Philostratus finished this work by c.237 CE. An attack (burning) of the library "by Aurelian occurred in the 270s AD" - the third burning I believe by my count. I would estimate that the copy we have made copies of today was smuggled out around the 260s CE. It was done at great peril of life to those who undertook that task. The copy was smuggled "into the desert" - to north or central modern day Saudi Arabia. Every trace of Apollonius was erased from history. Why? Was this man such a threat to the Roman Empire? Why has nobody heard of him? Why are <u>none</u> of the stones of 16 great temples erected in his honor not standing at any of their locations all over the Mediterranean world? Why were all books burned that ever mentioned his name? Answer - He really pissed off Rome and put a great big spanner into their military expansionist Imperial aspirations. If the words of Apollonius were actually put into the mouth of the fictitious Iesus Christus, we can understand why Rome wanted to get rid of this Man - "Love your brother; Do to others as you would have them do to you; If somebody strikes your cheek turn the other cheek also; If you live by the sword, you will die by the sword; Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, Give to God what is God's (our life); Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called the sons of God..." ie: You can't raise a mercenary army when all the men in your Empire are given over to notions of loving each other. The teachings of Apollonius of Tyana cut right across the Roman (or as you say above - Pharaonic, "they/their") expansionist agenda.<br />
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<b>More about Alexander and the library at Alexandria in Egypt:</b><br />
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<b>BD (Dutch speaker replies):</b> Well that proves what I am saying. All we are taught are truth demonised lies. And now we became so dumb and ignorant we honor and believe the lies we are taught about the truth, we were not allow to know. Not even the existence of it. These military power control by the Alphaś has led to the fall of Rome, time after time...<br />
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From around 250 CE - The burning of the library at Alexandria, Egypt at the order of the Roman Emperor was another attempt to wipe out all memory of Apollonius of Tyana (3-97 CE) @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ApolloniusOfTyana/" target="_blank">Apollonius of Tyana - Healer and Philosopher</a> At great risk to their lives, some of the librarians at Alexandria got a copy of "Petronius's Life of Apollonius" out of the library before all of those records bearing witness to the miracles that Apollonius of Tyana had done, were destroyed. This is our primary source for the existence of Apollonius, whose life very much parallels the fictitious "Iesus Christus" that the Roman elites created... a fiction! There are many secondary sources of Apollonius as well, which are littered throughout letters and scrolls in Roman Latin texts. <br />
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The memory of the handsome, barefoot, long-haired, white-robed linen-wearing, vegetarian who travelled to India three times in his life (remember that "urban legend"?) who was alcohol-abstaining, and celebate as a Pythagorean philosopher was meant to be... a teacher to the people and healer of their biological physical illnesses (Apollonius healed people wherever he went) and brought peace on the souls of people living in a very stressful Roman world...<br />
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<b>THAT is Apollonius. He LIVES ON...</b> in practically every church in the western world !! He is embedded in the collective memory !! He will not and he will <b><u>NEVER</u></b> go away... no matter what lies this black Babylonian priesthood tells the people, to try to make him go away.<br />
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<i>The time in New Zealand when I posted this was 1:11 "Accidentally" <span style="color: blue;">#Sychronicity #Proofs</span></i><br />
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The world 2000 years ago was a world under Roman occupation - <b>as we still are today.</b> In many, many ways, this continuing colonization of Rome all over the world, is still executed because of <b><u>this</u></b> religion that they introduced to the whole world by 325 CE. The Roman and old European and British elite families are still ruling over us from the Papal See-Sea admiralty "throne". </div>
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This evil magic is being broken right now as you read. <u><b>YOU</b></u> are the collective consciousness that is bringing this hegemony to an end right now in this moment !! - Right now !! </div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://healed-1.blogspot.co.nz/2017/08/super-positioning-collapse-of-wave.html" target="_blank">It is done! It is done! It is done!</a> </span></b> </div>
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Join saying this with me, with <b><u>all</u></b> of your heart... </div>
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... and click on the link attached to the above declaration. It's very important that you understand what you are doing and how this works <span style="color: blue;">#QuantumField #ScienceOfImagery</span></div>
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It's high-time we left the "fishy" smells behind of this <a href="http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/history-of-priesthood-in-books.html">Dagon-worshipping</a> Picsean Age with all of its illusion-making and masking of the truth through spell-casting <span style="color: blue;">#BabylonianMagicians</span> and sensory over-drive, eg: pornography, love of money, human blood drinking <span style="color: blue;">#Adrenochrome #TheSacrament #BloodOfChrist</span> symbolism. Evil. Evil. Evil. <br />
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By drinking "the blood" (Sanguis Christi) - even through the symbolism of drinking wine or grape juice (symbols are very powerful magic) - you have allied yourself with Rome and tied yourself symbolically, spiritually, metaphysically (bonded) to the throne of the Roman Papal See-Sea under Admiralty Law. This is a contract between you and the Pope that states, "I am in agreement to being ruled over by you. I have heard, through various sources such as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9plu2MNiqrY" target="_blank">Santos Bonacci</a> (an Australian Italian man) that everybody's original Birth Certificates are kept in the Vatican vaults, after they've been securitized on the New York <u><b>Stock</b></u> Exchange. They own you. <b><u>Cattle</u></b>. "Lambs to the slaughter". How ironic <span style="color: blue;">#AgnusDei #LambOfGod </span>(Jesus)<br />
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Canon Law makes us "persons" (in Latin: "persona") meaning "the actor's mask". Consider this: <span style="color: blue;">#TheatreOfWar #ActOfParliament #SceneOfTheCrime #Boards</span> - which can mean "administrators" as well as the wooden floor boards of the stage <span style="color: blue;">#TreadTheBoards. </span>These theatrical references are all through bureucratic terminology because it's nothing but a "movie". It's all fake! Our lives have been constructed for us to be a theatrial performance.<br />
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<b>Performance:</b> In Latin (per = 'through'). Through what?) Through <b>FORM. MATERIALITY.</b> All material things become a fiction in law - especially when we have to register it - such as our babies, cars, businesses, marriages, divorces, firearms, your "legal (fictitious) name" so that you can vote in your country's General Election. <b>ALL</b> of these things are the materials (form) that we hand over to Vatican Inc. when we register them - even abstract things such as "a marriage".<br />
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Do you see now why this "Iesus Christus" cult is so insideous? Do you see now why I am so cross at these elite Roman families and that they usurped the identity and good works (amazing and miraculous works) of one Apollonius of Tyana - <b>REAL MAN</b> - in order to trick you? Do you see now why I have dedicated 1000s of hours to researching this material so I can bring it to you as a nice easy-to-follow package? This is why... Because the "Christus" cult which is owned and promoted by Vatican Inc, <b><u>owns you</u></b> - until you see the magic trick and start to move yourself out of that system by whatever means you have available to you. Even intentionally, through thought, you can start to move yourself out of this insidious system.<br />
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<b><br /></b>The greatest hoax ever played on man. Everyone believes they "OWN" what they have. Nothing could be further from the truth, and nobody cares. If only you knew what "OWNING" nothing really means and how it is done. "The Perfect Swindle" Complete presentation at Website: <a href="http://www.servantking.info/">http://www.servantking.info/</a><br />
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In other words... It's all a <b>big fat hoax </b><span style="color: blue;">#BabylonianMagicians</span> and one with many, many ramifications - spiritual, legal, monetary... What you believe to be "land ownership" is a hoax. You don't own any land... You're just the <b><u>Title Holder</u></b>. This trick was done by the usurpation of your ancestral <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/TakeBackYourMotherland/" target="_blank">allodial title</a> - the land held for hundreds of generations by <a href="http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/hikoi-maori-and-pakeha-common-problem.html" target="_blank">your ancestors</a>. Your land has been removed from you by successive warlords, kings, queens, governments and now, corporations. <b>ALL</b> of the things you think belong to you, actually belong to Rome in the 21st century. Why do you think you have to go to slave labour every day? <span style="color: blue;">#MoneyTrick</span> You are a <b><a href="http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/a-short-history-of-wars-magick-and-money.html" target="_blank">debt slave</a></b>. Why do you think you can be charged for what you do to your own body (eg: cannabis use), or how you use your property, (eg: accidental dog attack). Because: <br />
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It's all a fiction to keep you running on the hampster wheel, and so that you never have time to look up and see the great big fat chains that are around your neck. You currently probably classify all of this as "getting on" in the world. Please take stock... The main entity you are enriching by your labour is >> "The System" aka "Vatican Inc.", the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and the international war machine. "Every war is a bankers' war." </div>
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It's time we very consciously leave that <b>EVIL</b> Papal "Christian" fiction behind and enter our new Aquarian Age >> The age of brotherly love, humanitarianism, altruism, the sharing of resources, valuing life, connecting to <b>true Creator-Source</b> - A place where the <a href="http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/history-of-priesthood-in-books.html" target="_blank">Dagon-Christian priests</a> are not needed. Creator speaks to us directly into our hearts. We have no need for these fake Roman priests and Jewish rabbis or Muslim muftis any longer... <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Article: <a href="http://ascensionsong.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/ascensions-song.html" target="_blank">The veil is lifting !!</a></span></b></div>
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"One of the symbols of masonry is the world in a net. The masonic network is vast and encompasses the entire globe. The Freemasons' Hall in London is the headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England and a meeting place for the Masonic Lodges in the London area. The building is used both internally and externally as a stand-in for Thames House (the home of MI5) in the TV series Spooks."<br />
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-9884463680600635962017-08-23T21:15:00.003-07:002017-08-23T21:19:37.994-07:00Awakening to the LIES of the Roman Catholic church<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><br />April said:</b> Most people don't understand the pyramid of government either. The head of the snake is the Vatican and the Zionists report into them. The secret societies are these Bohemian Grove sacrificial ceremonies and ALL governments around the world are part of this vast pedo network. Many people are starting to see the light. I am uncertain about many things now. Who wrote the Bible? Many now believe that it was all symbolism and that Jesus was supposed to have been symbolic of the sun. I have no idea. All I know is that almost everything we've been told is a LIE.<br />
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Comment on this <a href="https://www.facebook.com/evelyn.pringle.7/posts/10209787600471909" target="_blank">Facebook</a> discussion.<br />
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Yes. Many people are realising that so much of what we understand to be "real" is actually a fiction. You'll find lots of articles on my blog discussing this very thing...</div>
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<a href="http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/a-long-haired-bearded-white-robed-man.html">http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/a-long-haired-bearded-white-robed-man.html</a><br />
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Apollonius even raised a young woman from her death-bed... Sound familiar? Ref: the supposed Lazarus being raised from the dead. Apollonius was educated as a Pythagorean philosopher... This involved an education in what we now call "quantum physics". Apollonius knew very well what quantum physics is, and how molecules can be directed through thought <span style="color: #674ea7;">#ObservationProblem #ScienceOfImagery</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span> and thereby manifest in healing people. </div>
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<a href="http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/religion-mysticism-maths-and-music.html" target="_blank">http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/religion-mysticism-maths-and-music.html</a></div>
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<i><a href="http://www.red-doors.com/sound-healing/" target="_blank">Image</a> - The Pythagorean School</i></div>
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Not enough is known about the Pythagorean school. Apollonius (4-97 AD/CE) studied for a year in Sophistry at age 16 (in 20 AD), then chose the rigors of the Pythagorean school. He studied in Pythagoreanism from ages 17-21 and again from 23-28. During the last 5 years, he undertook 5 years of silence, as per the ancient admonition of Pythagoras to do so. That tradition had long been dropped, by the 1st century. Apollonius of Tyana took 18 months off in the middle of his study to settle his father's estate after his passing. Note: Apollonius's brother squandered his half of the inheritance before he returned to the family estate, where Apollonius helped him return to a right mind... Sound familiar? It should <span style="color: #674ea7;">#ProdigalSon</span> <br />
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<a href="http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/private-life-education-personal.html" target="_blank">http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/private-life-education-personal.html</a><br />
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After Apollonius's 5 year of silence, he began his mission as a fully-fledged philosopher, which was an actual job in the Greek tradition... And where did he go to from ages 29-34? To southern Judea - south Palestina (Israel) where he continued in discussion with other sages, he healed people, and he taught them how to live a good life with each other. Peculiarly, Apollonius of Tyana never once came across "Jesus of Nazareth", which is very strange considering they were both (allegedly) teaching great truths in the same very small country at the same time... You can walk the whole of Palestina in around 3 days. And yet Apollonius never met "Jesus". Funny that!<br />
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<a href="http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/apollonius-in-palestine-in-his-early-30s.html" target="_blank">http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/apollonius-in-palestine-in-his-early-30s.html</a><br />
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The notoriety of Apollonius of Tyana was huge... all over the mediterranean world. Apollonius travelled from Spain, Italy and Greece all the way to Iraq (Babylon), from Egypt to Algeria, and on three separate occasions during his 93 years of life, he went down into India (the Indus). There were 16 temples erected in his honour all over the Mediterranean (not to worship him), but for the practice of the "true religion" they called it, which Apollonius is said to have revived. People had seen the light and found the true religion of LOVE. And where are those temples today? Gone. Gone. All of these temples were torn down by Rome, and every mention of Apollonius in scrolls, letters and "books" of the day were burned !! That's how much Rome wanted to eradicate all memory of him. The agenda of "love" did not fit with the Roman war machine, so by 300CE, the Romans had to eliminate this religion and these philosophies of peace. It's very difficult to raise an army when the predominant teaching infiltrating all through the Empire was, "Give to Rome what is Rome's (material gold aka taxes), and give to God what belongs to God..." (which of course is your Essential Nature - the eternal soul-being) "... Love one another..." and "If someone strikes you on the cheek, turn the other cheek also." Yes... very hard for Rome to raise its mercenary armies all over the Empire when this teaching of Apollonius was being spread abroad.<br />
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<a href="http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/did-jesus-christ-ever-live-what-do.html" target="_blank">http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/did-jesus-christ-ever-live-what-do.html</a><br />
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My personal opinion is this: That the Roman elites took the memory of the man Apollonius of Tyana and what he taught, and created their own books... about a great teacher called "Iesus Christus". The "tell" is actually in the name... It's a Roman name, even though preachers will tell you it's Greek, it's not. I studied in Classical Studies (including Roman Latin) at university for 4 years. "Iesus Christus" is most certainly Roman! Then what did this "Iesus Christus" have to do so that Rome could maintain control of the masses? The Romans had to meld these stories with the religion of Mithraism, which was the biggest religion of Rome up until the 2nd century AD, and then very strangely, it just peetered out. Strange that... considering that the "saviour story" of Mithras then popped up in the new religion dubbed "Christianity". The other "tell" in this "Christianity" that Rome created is that you need a priest (in the original Roman tradition of that church) so you can "get to" God - just the same as in Mithraism, in the worship of Zeus (consider the phonetics in pronouncing the name "Iesus" >> He-zeus), and in the worship of Amen (Amen-Ra down in Egypt) which was part of the Roman Empire, via Julius Caesar - Cleopatra connections. Do you also see it now...?? In the new "Christianity", you needed a priest to get to God. In Apollonius's teaching, you are filled with the radiance of God throughout every cell of your being - therefore, what is the use of a priest? The other function of the priest was to collect secrets for the Roman elites... through "the confessional" - just like in "The God Father". This I feel (and understand) is how Rome created this religion off the back of Apollonius's popularity and notoriety. Rome usurped the teaching... and continued to keep the people under its thumb.<br />
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<a href="http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/the-apollonius-jesus-question.html" target="_blank">http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/the-apollonius-jesus-question.html</a><br />
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So who was it who wrote the New Testament? ... some clues here >><br />
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<a href="http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/who-wrote-epistles-in-new-testament.html" target="_blank">http://apollonius-iesuschristus.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/who-wrote-epistles-in-new-testament.html</a><br />
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That's right... The Sun God. Why do you think Christian prayers are punctuated at the end with "Amen"? aka Amun Ra, Amon Ra, Amen Ra.<br />
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<a href="http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/who-is-jesus-sun-of-god-who-takes-away.html" target="_blank">http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/who-is-jesus-sun-of-god-who-takes-away.html</a><br />
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... And oh yes... We can go deeper down the rabbit hole after this... all the way to pedophilia, to grown adult males and Roman soldiers rutting each other in secret, and ritual child sexual sodomy and sacrifice. We see the highly fashionable and desirable Roman catamite - the Roman child sex slave. Note: It was socially unacceptable for grown men of marriageable age (around 30 years) to have sex with each other. It was considered perfectly fine to torture a child with your penis however.</div>
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<a href="http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2015/04/take-me-to-church-hozier-satanic-baby.html" target="_blank">http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2015/04/take-me-to-church-hozier-satanic-baby.html</a><br />
<a href="http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/a-short-history-of-wars-magick-and-money.html" target="_blank">http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/a-short-history-of-wars-magick-and-money.html</a><br />
<a href="http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/history-of-priesthood-in-books.html" target="_blank">http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/history-of-priesthood-in-books.html</a><br />
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The following studies are not for the faint-hearted. Most of the 26 links on this link are written by me. I had to go down many rabbit holes to join all of these dots together. Please go slow... May your eyes see also the trick that has been done <span style="color: #674ea7;">#MagicTrick #Illusion #BabylonianMagicians</span><br />
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<a href="http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/are-you-ready-to-wake-up-to-black.html" target="_blank">http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/are-you-ready-to-wake-up-to-black.html</a></div>
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The Jesus story is fake. The wise young philosopher who lived in southern Palestina from c.33-38 CE was a man called "Apollonius of Tyana" (c.4-97 CE). He studied in Greek philosophy and the mystic arts (quantum physics) from the ages of 16-28. After that, he went and lived with other ascetics like himself in south Palestine. He taught the people and did miraculous healings for the people - young, old, rich and poor, men and women alike. His teaching was the beginning of true altruism - he taught people how to live with each other and how to relate to their Maker. He was aged around 29-34 years old when he lived in Palestine... and nope - He never bumped into "Iesus Christus". That's because "Iesus Christus" is a composite figure made up by the Roman elite families. <br />
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Check it out... The Roman elites decided to incorporate Rome's favourite "saviour and sacrifice" religion, Mithraism (Persian Mithra was a sun God) into a story interwoven with the life of the very famous Apollonius. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithra. One of the evidences that it was Rome who intentionally did this, follows. In the creation of their "true church", the Roman Catholic (meaning 'general') Church, they set up a hierarchical priesthood. This has the stamp of Rome all over it, being that Rome was a heavily hierarchical and patriarchal society. In the top echelon of priests are the "cardinals". The cardinals could only be from the elite houses of Rome - the Patricians. If you were a very good priest all of your life and low-born, you could never become a Cardinal. The selection of a Pope, the "priest of priests" who somehow metamorphosed into God "Himself" after his inauguration, could only be taken from the College of Cardinals. Are we seeing the picture here. All popes ever after selected were Roman elites... the elite families of Rome had set up their church so the elite families would continue to rule the world, long after the Roman Empire had fallen. Dirty tricksters!<br />
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Apollonius had 16 temples built in his honour by 200 CE, all over the Mediterranean world. They didn't worship Apollonius - but they recognised him as the one who taught people the "true religion" that connects people to their maker in very simple ways - through the heart. The Romans didn't like this at all... how could they? Rome's m.o. was "rape, pillage, conquer". You can't raise an army from the general population who is given over to the idea of "turn the other cheek" or who govern their lives by teachings such as, "he who lives by the sword, dies by the sword", and "give to Caesar what is Caesar's and give to God what is God's" - ie: your heart, mind and soul - a life of being in service to others. The Roman army was not about service to others, only service to self. The mercenaries of Rome put out their hands for the gold of Rome. To such men, money IS god.<br />
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Apollonius absolutely challenged "the establishment". His influence extended for 300 years and longer... right to this day. Just look around you at the number of churches that exist who teach this man's words of Love. By 300 Common Era (CE), all record of Apollonius was removed from the literature, and any copies of his biography were burned. Of course, they (the Roman elites) didn't find all the references to Apollonius. Mention of his name still exists in various letters and historic excerpts. And the 16 temples of the "true religion"? All of the temples built in honour of Apollonius to the "true religion" of heart, were all torn down, stone from stone by Rome - which has no heart. This religion was then morphed into "the Church of Rome", out of which all other Christian demon-in-nations have sprung. The citadels of Rome are full of witchery and child blood sacrifice and cannibalism of the baby flesh... of satanism and sodomy of the innocents to this day. All of these things are coming out into the open now <span style="color: #990000;"><b>#Pizzagate #Pedogate</b></span> All memory of Apollonius was completely rubbed out... almost...<br />
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Thanks to some very brave people who were conservators at the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt c.250 CE, a copy of "The Life of Apollonius" by Philostratus (finished c.230 CE) was smuggled out of the library before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian" target="_blank">Aurelian</a> inferno was ordered AD 270–275. Four main <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Library_of_Alexandria" target="_blank">arsons</a> are known to be done against the library between 48 BCE and 642 CE - three of these were committed by Rome. At least two of these Roman arsons would have been done to hide the true human histories. The smuggling out of "The Life of Apollonius" would have been done at great personal risk to those brave souls who undertook that dangerous plan. It is them we need to thank. The copy was then "vanished" into the Arabian desert as it was then called, which is a region of north Saudi Arabia today. It's this copy, re-copied over the centuries, that tells us the true story of this man of love - Apollonius of Tyana - The great Pythagorean teacher and healer who lived in Palestina, Roman Judea from c.33-38 CE.<br />
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Philostratus' "The Life of Apollonius"<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Episode 2 - Apollonius of Tyana</span></b><br />
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-2389309436382331422016-05-14T17:07:00.003-07:002016-05-14T18:10:25.193-07:00Life. 1.4 Apollonius was a "Thracian" native, born in the city of Tyana<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">"Life of Apollonius of Tyana" by Philostratus<br /><br /><a href="http://www.livius.org/sources/content/philostratus-life-of-apollonius/philostratus-life-of-apollonius-1.1-5/#1.1">Book 1</a></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.livius.org/sources/content/philostratus-life-of-apollonius/philostratus-life-of-apollonius-1.1-5/#1.1" target="_blank">1.4 Apollonius was born to a wealthy founding native Tyanian family</a></b><br />
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"Apollonius' home, then, was <a href="http://www.livius.org/tt-tz/tyana/tyana.html">Tyana</a>, a Greek city amidst a population of <a href="http://www.livius.org/cao-caz/cappadocia/cappadocia.html">Cappadocians</a>. His father was of the same name [Apollonius] and the family descended from the first settlers [northern Greek Thracians?]. It excelled in wealth the surrounding families, though the district is a rich one." <br />
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<i><b>Caption</b>: "In greek 'Tyana', in Latin 'Tyana'. Ancient city in Asia Minor, Cappadocia, at the center of today's Turkish Kemerhisar [district], 25 km SSW of Nigde. Existing [Surviving the] Hittite invasion, under the first Hittite king Labarna (c.1680-50 BC) <b>it became a great religious center.</b> </i><i>Later it belonged to the Phrygians and Persians. It became a Roman colony in sec. II [100-200 CE?] and bishopric [ie: a district under a bishop's control; a diocese] in the first half of the next century [200-250 CE?] then passed to the Arabs [sic] (sec. VIII-IX) [800-900 CE?]. It was finally abandoned around Mille [1000 CE? after which it was absorbed into the <a href="http://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire" target="_blank">Ottoman Empire</a> <a href="http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/ottomanchron.html" target="_blank">1259-1924 CE</a>]. It is believed that there [in that place] was born <b><span style="color: #660000;">Apollonius of Tyana</span></b>, a philosopher <u>neopitagorico</u> [by neo-Pythagorean - translated from the <u>Turkish</u>] [in the first ??] century AD."</i><br />
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Tyana (or Tyanna) was an ancient city of Anatolia, in modern south-central [eastern] Turkey. It was the capital of a Hittite kingdom in the 2nd millennium BC, and had a long history as a Greek city state... Tyana was a queen in Anatolia.<br />
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Tyana is probably the city referred to in Hittite archives as <b>Tuwanuwa</b> [and the region as <b>'Kizzuwatna'</b> ? See the second map above]. In Greek legend the city was first called Thoana, because Thoas, a <b><u><span style="color: #660000;">Thracian king</span></u></b>, was its <b><u><span style="color: #660000;">founder</span></u></b> (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, vi); it was in Cappadocia, at the foot of Taurus Mountains and near the Cilician Gates (Strabo, XII, 537; XIII, 587). Xenophon mentions it in his book Anabasis, under the name of <b>Dana</b>, as a large and prosperous city. The surrounding plain was known after it as <b>"Tyanitis"</b> [and in later times, the <a href="http://boncuklu.org/time-turns-slowly-our-life-on-the-konya-plain/" target="_blank"><b>Konya Plain</b></a> whereupon is also found the ancient the city of <a href="http://xn--atalhyk-txa4lnc/" target="_blank"><b>Çatalhöyük</b></a> which flourished from c.7500-6500 BCE.]</div>
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[My observation is that large portions of the <b>Konya Plain</b> have become subject to desertification. I feel there are three possibilities for this - (1) the ongoing ravages of war over many centuries (including the Crusades), impacting the region; (2) the removal of native trees and plants from the mid-19th century onwards (as all over the world) in an attempt to mechanise farming; (3) a change in environmental conditions due to the natural cycling of Earth through Ice Ages and warmer periods. We are currently in a naturally occurring "warming" period. We now take note of this plain as being a fairly fragile environment. My belief is that it was a flourishing, abundant, fertile floodplain (fed by the Taurus Mountains) in times gone past. What else could account for the plain being such a heavily populated area from 8000-5500 BCE? There must have been a way to sustain human life - ie: through food production.]</div>
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[Tyana] was in a strategic position on the road to Syria via the Cilician Gates. It is the reputed birth-place of the celebrated philosopher (and reputed magician) [sic] <b><span style="color: #660000;">Apollonius of Tyana</span></b> in the first century. Under Roman Emperor Caracalla the city became <b>"Antoniana colonia Tyana"</b>. After having sided with Queen Zenobia of Palmyra it was captured by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian" target="_blank">Aurelian</a> [Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Augustus, ie: not Marcus Aurelius] in 272, who would not allow his soldiers to sack it,<b> <span style="color: #660000;">allegedly because Apollonius appeared to him [posthumously], pleading for its safety.</span></b></div>
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In 371, Emperor Valens created a second province of Cappadocia, Cappadocia Secunda, of which Tyana became the metropolis. The ruins of Tyana are at <b>modern Kemerhisar</b>, three miles south of Nigde (in the former Ottoman province of Konya); there are remains of a Roman aqueduct and of cave cemeteries and sepulchral grottoes.<br />
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-1045650495765632662016-05-07T14:06:00.000-07:002018-08-01T18:19:19.020-07:00A long haired, bearded, white robed man who calmed the seas: Apollonius<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I believe his name was actually "Apollonius of Tyana". He lived at the same time as the Roman-created Iesus Christus and worked many miracles during his life. He studied in Anatolia (Turkey) in Pythagoreanism, then went to India for a long time where he embraced the Vedic truths as well. That's why there's a 'mythology' about "Jesus being in India", because who they're really talking about is this "Apollonius of Tyana" who was an actual documented man. Jesus cannot be found. Nothing in Archaeology or written documentation of the time, has ever put a 'Jesus of Nazareth' on the map in Judea (Roman Palestine) in the years 4-37AD. However, Apollonius the man, <b><u>was</u></b> living in Palestine from around 33-38 AD, after he'd finished 10 years training in the Pythagorean school. The final 5 years of Apollonius's training was spent in silence, in accord with the teaching of Pythagoras (570-495 BCE). After his silence, he began "his mission". The 5 years of silence was the 'final rite of passage' before he could present himself to the world as a Pythagorean sophist (philosopher). Interesting man. But yes!! Apollonius who did miracles, raised the dead and calmed the seas was living in Roman Judea from 33-38 AD !!<br />
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So was he in fact, the 'character' that the Roman elite families used to develop their stories in the New Testament, and upon which the whole of Christendom through "Roman Catholocism" is based ??<br />
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I wouldn't put it past them :-/<br />
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<b>Please note:</b> While there appears to be no living manifestation of Jesus Christ in the early first century, I do think there is a "Spirit" of "Jesus" that lives on. I think this name might telegraph to a much earlier time in history where there was a "supreme man" with this name who walked the earth. I am often aware of the presence of this "Jesus" figure, he has appeared to me in dreams, meditations and visions. He saved me from child abuse, he <a href="https://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-to-pray-when-things-are-really-bad.html" target="_blank">saved me from death</a> - literally, on a number of occasions (i've had an extreme life). When I asked God to help me be <a href="https://healed-1.blogspot.com/p/miracle.html" target="_blank">healed in 1977</a> when I was in a Christian church (ie: in a Jesus-following church), I was healed. I have dispelled a demon breathing right in my left ear in 1975 by repeating the name, "Jesus". It took around 30 minutes, but slowly, it left. I have also audibly heard angels singing. It was amazing. These things do happen, and do exist.<br />
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So... From my life experiences, I can testify that there is most certainly a very close, friendly and personal presence who absolutely does help us when we call. These days, we call that presence "Jesus". However... The existence of that actual man Jesus Christ from Roman Judea... He never existed.<br />
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That Roman Imperial story that was undoubtedly re-written many times through the centuries in order to make it sound more believable was devised purely to keep the "masses" under their control. That is the Roman Imperial way. We have not left the Empire.<br />
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The "good news" is that nothing... no <b>nothing</b> (not even the Roman Empire) can ever stultify, diminish, or negate the power of that presence with us whenever we ask or think of "him" (or "That", since it is genderless). It is all-embracing, all-compassionate, all-wise, full of patience, is kind, and is absolutely not in the business of controlling our earthly experience. That is where the two forks of the river part...<br />
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Rome is all about control. It's version of who and what "God" is, is all about control. The <b><u>real</u></b> Presence <a href="http://ascensionsong.blogspot.com/2016/04/life-essence-embodies-every-cell.html" target="_blank">within all that is</a> (in this very breath I am taking right now), is without favorites, offers no judgement, and allows us to have whatever experience we have come here to have. This is how "non-interventionist" this Presence is.<br />
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Why then would there be all of this suffering on earth if this presence were not "non-interventionist"? That is how gracious this Presence and Intelligence is... that the Open Hand who gives us life allows us to walk whichever path we choose (for our ill or for our prosperity), and doesn't intervene - until we are ready for an intervention. When we earnestly call, this Presence makes itself felt.<br />
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This is my experience, and this is what I have found from assiduous study - the two sides of one coin. All of this comes from a Classical Studies degree with Latin (Roman Classical language) and 14 years of assiduous study in the Bible and absolute devotion to church activities and teaching. ie: I was never in church to objectively study "the guinea pigs".<br />
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Please test these things against your own life. There <b><u>is</u></b> a Presence. And...<br />
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The Roman story is <b><u>fake</u></b>!<br />
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Thank you all<br />
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- love <a href="https://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bronny NZ</a><br />
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-75724343292737616172016-04-21T23:06:00.001-07:002016-04-21T23:15:56.135-07:00Life. 1.3 Introducing Damis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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While Damis was likely to be an actual person, some of the content he wrote on his travels doesn't seem to "add up". Therefore, what Philostratus cites as being "Damis", may not be entirely accurate, Philostratus says. We could infer that Damis' own words may have been "added to" or otherwise "embellished" by some scribes who came after him, to defame the name of Apollonius - possibly agents of Rome. Here's some of the points Philostratus makes about Damis:</div>
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<li>Damis followed Apollonius as he was a student of 'wisdom' (Sophia, hence: PhiloSophia)</li>
<li>Damis "records [Apollonius'] opinions and discourses and all his prophecies."</li>
<li>It was one of Damis' kinsmen who informed Julia Domna, wife of [Emperor] <a href="http://www.livius.org/se-sg/severus/septimius.html">Septimius Severus</a> that this previously unknown documentation of Apollonius' life, existed.</li>
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Philostratus says: "Now I belonged to the circle of the empress, for she was a devoted admirer of all rhetorical exercises; and she commanded me to recast and edit these essays, at the same time paying more attention to the style and diction of them; for the man of Nineveh [Damis] had told his story clearly enough, yet somewhat awkwardly."</div>
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Philostratus: "That then I combined these scattered sources together and took trouble over my composition, I have said; but let my work, I pray, redound to the honor of the man who is the subject of my compilation, and also be of use to those who love learning. For assuredly, they will here learn things of which as yet they were ignorant."<br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><b>And I must add here:</b> We in these modern times, <b>thank <u>YOU</u> Philostratus</b>, for your diligence to your task. I am sure we look forward to a scholarly work, and one that might astound us at times. But to yourself and <b><u>Julia Domna</u></b>, to you both, humanity is very much indebted. And a heartfelt thank you also to those men and women who risked life and limb to <b>smuggle</b> Philostratus' biography of Apollonius out of the library of Alexandria in the common era (CE), before it was burned. Thank you - from BronnyNZ and the world. Much love belongs to you all. I acknowledge you here.</span><br />
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<b>Note from another source:</b> <b><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/paganism/library.html" target="_blank">The Great Library of Alexandria</a></b></div>
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-4297896866443528582016-04-20T23:45:00.001-07:002016-04-21T18:43:37.020-07:00Life. 1.1-2 Pythagoras. Apollonius is no wizard. Sources.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Apollonius in his younger years, from age 16 to 28 or thereabouts, did his training as a philosopher at the school in Aegae. It is said that Apollonius had a natural interest in and affinity for, the Pythagorean teaching.<br />
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<b>1.2 Philostratus explains that Apollonius is not a wizard.</b><br />
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"For quite akin to theirs was the ideal which <a href="http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/apollonius01.html" target="_blank">Apollonius</a> pursued, and more divinely than Pythagoras he <b>wooed wisdom</b> and soared above tyrants."</div>
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"He practiced true wisdom as a sage, and sanely."<br />
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"He had interviews with the wizards of <a href="http://www.livius.org/ba-bd/babylon/babylon.html" target="_blank">Babylon</a> and with the Brahmans of India, and with the nude ascetics of Egypt."<br />
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Because of this, some called Apollonius a "wizard" and have maligned his good name.</div>
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Philostratus points out that previous philosophers had visited the wizards in Babylon, "and uttered many supernatural truths, yet never stooped to the black art", and even Plato "mingled with his own discourses much of what he heard from the prophets and priests there; and though, like a painter, he laid his own colors on to their rough sketches, yet he never passed for a wizard, although envied above all mankind for his wisdom."</div>
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Apollonius in fact, did forsee and knew many things before they happened.<br />
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Even Anaxagoras protests Philostratus, predicted "that day would be turned into night, and stones would be discharged from heaven round Aegospotami," but were attributed to Anaxagoras' wisdom.</div>
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Philostratus then writes: "It seems to me then that I ought not to condone or acquiesce in the general ignorance, but write a <u>true account</u> of the man, detailing the exact times at which he said or did this or that, as also the habits and temper of wisdom, by means of which <b>he succeeded</b> in being considered a <b>supernatural</b> and <b>divine being</b>."<br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">[That's interesting! So people at the time thought Apollonius was a God incarnate ??]</span></div>
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Philostratus says: "And I have gathered my information partly from the many cities where he was loved, and partly from the temples whose long-neglected and decayed rites he restored, and partly from the accounts left of him by others and partly from his own letters. For he addressed these to kings, <a href="http://www.livius.org/so-st/sophistic/second_sophistic.html" target="_blank">sophists</a>, philosophers, to men of Elis, of <a href="http://www.livius.org/de-dh/delphi/delphi.html" target="_blank">Delphi</a>, to Indians, and Ethiopians; and in his letters he dealt with the subjects of the gods, of customs, of moral principles, of laws, and in all these departments he corrected the errors into which men had fallen. But the more precise details which I have collected are as follows."<br />
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In our study of Apollonius of Tyana, it becomes necessary to look to the academicians to see if their findings point to the existence of an actual "Jesus Christ".<br />
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As has been a theme right from the start regarding Apollonius of Tyana, the suppression of information and the hobbling of academics who seek to bring their counter-findings to the fore about the non-existence of "Jesus", has been huge.</div>
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<li><b>Who</b> is trying to hide all of this information, right from the first century CE to the present? - and more importantly -</li>
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<b>"The Christ Myth Theory"</b><br />
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<i>Who was the Historical Jesus? Did Jesus really exist? </i></div>
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<i><a href="http://www.holyblasphemy.net/" target="_blank">http://www.holyblasphemy.net/</a></i></div>
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The Christ myth theory is the hypothesis that Jesus never existed, or, if he did, had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity and the accounts in the gospels.<br />
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[* People argue that Josephus documented Jesus Christ on two occasions in his histories. Arguments against this are: (a) these references could have been added later by Roman scribes under order of a Roman Pope, (b) it is acknowledged by many that Josephus was a puppet of the Roman establishment.]</div>
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<b>18th century French academics:</b> Volney and Dupuis argued that Christianity was an amalgamation of various ancient mythologies and that Jesus was a totally mythical character.</div>
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<b>19th century German Bruno Bauer</b>, who taught at the University of Bonn, took Strauss' arguments further and became the first author to systematically argue that Jesus did not exist:<br />
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1. The gospels were written many decades or even a century after Jesus' estimated year of death, by individuals who likely never met Jesus, and then were edited or forged over the centuries by unknown scribes with their own agendas.<br />
2. There are no surviving historic records about Jesus of Nazareth from any non-Jewish author until the second century, and Jesus left no writings or other archaeological evidence.<br />
3. Certain gospel stories are similar to those of dying-and-rising gods, demigods (sons of gods), solar deities, saviors or other divine men such as Horus, Mithra/Mithras, Prometheus, Dionysus, Osiris, Buddha, and Krishna, as well as Christ-like historical figures like <b>Apollonius of Tyana</b>.</blockquote>
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in 1877 in Christ and the Caesars [Bauer] suggested that Christianity was a synthesis of the Stoicism of Seneca the Younger and of the Jewish theology of Philo as developed by pro-Roman Jews such as Josephus.</div>
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<b>19th century English academic Godfrey Higgins</b> claims, "the mythos of the Hindus, the mythos of the Jews and the mythos of the Greeks are all at bottom the same; and ... are contrivances under the appearance of histories to perpetuate doctrines,"and that Christian editors “either from roguery or folly, corrupted them all.” (1836)<br />
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<b>20th century academics</b> found sources for Christian ideas in Greek and Oriental mystery cults, rather than Judaism. Joseph Klausner wrote that biblical scholars "tried their hardest to find in the historic Jesus something which is not Judaism; but in his actual history they have found nothing of this whatever, since this history is reduced almost to zero.<br />
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<b>In 1900, Scottish MP John Mackinnon Robertson</b> argued that Jesus never existed but was an invention by a first-century messianic cult. In Robertson's view, religious groups invent new gods to fit the needs of the society of the time. Robertson argued that a solar deity symbolized by the lamb and the ram had been worshiped by an Israelite cult of Joshua for long and that this cult had then invented a new messianic figure, Jesus of Nazareth. Robertson argued that a possible source for the Christian myth may have been the Talmudic story of the executed Jesus Pandera which dates to 100 BCE.<br />
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<b>In 1927, British philosopher Bertrand Russell</b> stated in his lecture Why I Am Not a Christian that "historically it is quite doubtful that Jesus existed, and if he did we do not know anything about him..."<br />
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<b>The British archaeologist and philologist John M. Allegro</b> later argued in 1970 that Christianity began as a shamanistic cult.<br />
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<b>Mark Hall</b> writes that Allegro suggested the Dead Sea Scrolls all but proved that a historical Jesus never existed. <br />
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<b>English professor of German George Albert Wells</b> had a profound impact on the Christ myth theory; according to New Testament scholar Graham Stanton, Wells presented the most thoroughgoing and sophisticated arguments for the Christ myth theory in his books The Jesus of the Early Christians (1971), Did Jesus Exist? (1975), The Historical Evidence for Jesus (1982), The Jesus Legend (1996), The Jesus Myth (1999), Can We Trust the New Testament? (2004), and Cutting Jesus Down to Size (2009). British theologian Kenneth Grayston advised Christians to acknowledge the difficulties raised by Wells.<br />
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<b>Wells</b> presented his key arguments in his initial trilogy (1971, 1975, 1982), based on the views of New Testament scholars who acknowledge that the gospels are sources written decades after Jesus's death by people who had no personal knowledge of him. In addition, Wells writes, the texts are exclusively Christian and theologically motivated, and therefore a rational person should believe the gospels only if they are independently confirmed. Wells also argues that Paul and the other epistle writers—the earliest Christian writers—do not provide any support for the idea that Jesus lived early in the 1st century. There is no information in them about Jesus's parents, place of birth, teachings, trial, nor crucifixion.[90] For Wells, the Jesus of the early Christians was a pure myth, derived from mystical speculations stemming from the Jewish Wisdom tradition, while the Gospels were subsequent works of historical fiction.<br />
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<b>Wells:</b> The story of the execution of Jesus under Pilate is not an historical account.</div>
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<b>21st century Richard Carrier notes</b>, "The hypothesis that Jesus never really existed has started to gain more credibility in the expert community. Some now agree historicity agnosticism is warranted, including Arthur Droge (professor of early Christianity at UCSD), Kurt Noll (associate professor of religion at Brandon University), and Thomas Thompson (professor of theology, emeritus, at the University of Copenhagen). Others are even more certain historicity is doubtful, including Thomas Brodie (director emeritus of the Dominican Biblical Centre at the University of Limerick, Ireland), Robert Price (who has two Ph.D.’s from Drew University, in theology and New Testament studies)," and more recently Hector Avalos professor of Religious Studies and Raphael Lataster doctoral candidate of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney.<br />
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<b>Canadian author Tom Harpur </b>dedicated his 2004 book The Pagan Christ to Kuhn, calling him "a man of immense learning and even greater courage" and “one of the single greatest geniuses of the twentieth century.” Harpur suggests Kuhn has not received the attention he deserves since many of his works were self-published.[109]<br />
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Presenting the case that the gospels re-work ancient pagan myths, <b>Harpur</b> builds on Alvin Boyd Kuhn when listing similarities among the stories of Jesus, Horus, Mithras, Buddha and others. According to Harpur, in the second or third centuries, the early church created the fictional impression of a literal and historic Jesus and then used forgery and violence to cover up the evidence. Having come to see the scriptures as symbolic allegory of a cosmic truth rather than as inconsistent history, Harpur concludes he has a greater internal connection with the spirit of Christ.<br />
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<b>Thomas L. Thompson, Professor emeritus at the University of Copenhagen </b>is the author of a number of books critical of the historicity of the Old Testament. Thompson claims that his PhD dissertation at University of Tübingen on the quest for the historical Abraham was rejected by his examiner Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) since it went against Catholic theology.[112] He was invited to finish his degree at Temple University in Philadelphia where he received his PhD summa cum laude. In his book The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David, Thompson argues that the biblical accounts of both King David and Jesus of Nazareth are mythical in nature and based on Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Babylonian, and Greek and Roman literature. For example, he argues that the resurrection of Jesus is taken directly from the story of the dying and rising god, Dionysus.</div>
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<b>In 2012, the Irish Dominican priest and theologian Thomas L. Brodie</b>, holding a PhD from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome and a co-founder and former director of the Dominican Biblical Institute in Limerick, published "Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery". In this book, Brodie, who previously had published academic works on the Hebrew prophets, argued that the gospels are essentially a rewriting of the stories of Elijah and Elisha when viewed as a unified account in the Books of Kings. This view lead Brodie to the conclusion that Jesus is mythical... Brodie then views the Elijah–Elisha story as the underlying model for the gospel narratives.<br />
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In early 2013, it was reported that the Dominican order had forced <b>Brodie</b> to resign his teaching job and banned him from writing and lecturing while under investigation for disputed teaching. The Dominican order disputed the story and stated that Brodie had already performed three terms as director at the institute and was not intending to serve a fourth, but that the book would be reviewed by a committee of scholars within the Irish Dominicans. The institute's website indicates the investigation is ongoing. The Dominican Biblical Institute closed in 2015. [Really? Very suspicious. Supression of the truth?]</div>
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<b>Gerard Norton</b> said: "Brodie's core conviction' [is] that neither Jesus nor Paul of Tarsus were historical.<br />
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<b>Canadian writer Earl Doherty</b> wrote in 2009 that the Christ myth theory is "the theory that no historical Jesus worthy of the name existed... [Doherty]: Jesus originated as a myth derived from Middle Platonism with some influence from Jewish mysticism, and that belief in a historical Jesus emerged only among Christian communities in the 2nd century.<br />
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<b>Doherty</b> suggests that the early Christian writers describe a Christian movement grounded in Platonic philosophy and Hellenistic Judaism, reaching the worship of a monotheistic Jewish god and what he calls a "logos-type Son". Doherty further argues that Theophilus of Antioch (c. 163–182), Athenagoras of Athens (c. 133–190), Tatian the Assyrian (c. 120–180), and Marcus Minucius Felix (writing around 150–270) offer no indication that they believed in a historical figure crucified and resurrected, and that the name Jesus does not appear in any of them.<br />
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<b>American New Testament scholar and former Baptist pastor Robert McNair Price</b> [said] the Christian image of Christ is a theological construct into which traces of Jesus of Nazareth have been woven... Price believes that Christianity is a historicized synthesis of mainly Egyptian, Jewish, and Greek mythologies.<br />
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1. There is no mention of a miracle-working Jesus in secular sources.<br />
2. The epistles, written earlier than the gospels, provide no evidence of a recent historical Jesus<br />
3. The Jesus narrative is paralleled in Middle Eastern myths about dying and rising gods; Price names Baal, Osiris, Attis, Adonis, and Dumuzi/Tammuz as examples, all of which, he writes, survived into the Hellenistic and Roman periods.</blockquote>
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<b>Price</b> argues that if critical methodology is applied with ruthless consistency, one is left in complete agnosticism regarding Jesus's historicity: "There might have been a historical Jesus, but unless someone discovers his diary or his skeleton, we'll never know."[124] Price argues that "the varying dates are the residue of various attempts to anchor an originally mythic or legendary Jesus in more or less recent history."<br />
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Jesus simply wears too many hats in the Gospels—exorcist, healer, king, prophet, sage, rabbi, demigod, and so on. The Jesus Christ of the New Testament is a composite figure (...) The historical Jesus (if there was one) might well have been a messianic king, or a progressive Pharisee, or a Galilean shaman, or a magus, or a Hellenistic sage... Price cautiously asserts that "a genuine historical figure" may ultimately lie at the root of the Christian religion. That figure would have eventually been made into God through apotheosis [ "to deify" - the glorification of a subject to divine level].<br />
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Christ myth theory proponents claim that the age, authorship, and authenticity of the Gospels can not be verified, thus the Gospels can not bear witness to the historicity of Jesus.<br />
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There remains a strong consensus in historical-critical biblical scholarship that a historical Jesus did live in the geographical area and the time period noted in the bible.</div>
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According to New Testament scholar <b>Bart D. Ehrman</b>, most people who study the historical period of Jesus believe that he did exist, and do not write in support of the Christ myth theory. Ehrman also notes that these views would prevent one from getting employment in a religious studies department:<br />
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<b>Maurice Casey,</b> theologian and scholar of New Testament and early Christianity, stated that the belief among professors that Jesus existed is generally completely certain. According to Casey, the view that Jesus did not exist is "the view of extremists" and "demonstrably false", and that "professional scholars generally regard it as having been settled in serious scholarship long ago".<br />
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Since 2005, several English-language documentaries have focused, at least in part, on the Christ myth theory:<br />
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<li><b>The God Who Wasn't There</b> directed by Brian Flemming and featuring Richard Carrier and Robert M. Price (2005)</li>
<li><b>The Pagan Christ</b> produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and featuring Tom Harpur (2007)</li>
<li><b>Zeitgeist: The Movie</b> directed by Peter Joseph (2007)</li>
<li><b>The Hidden Story of Jesus</b> produced by Channel 4 and featuring Robert Beckford (2007)</li>
<li><b>Religulous</b> directed by Larry Charles and featuring Bill Maher (2008)</li>
<li><b>Caesar's Messiah</b> by Joseph Atwill (2013)</li>
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Pythagoras (c.570-490 BCE) was still a young man when he went to Memphis in Egypt and study mathematics and astronomy with the priests there... He also travelled to study at the temples of Tyre and Byblos in Phoenicia, as well as in Babylon.<br />
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In Croton (his native city), Pythagoras established a secret religious society very similar to (and possibly influenced by) the earlier Orphic cult, in an attempt to reform the cultural life of Croton. He formed an elite circle of followers around himself, called <b><a href="http://www.philosophybasics.com/movements_pythagoreanism.html">Pythagoreans</a> </b>or the <b>Mathematikoi</b> ("learners"), subject to very strict rules of conduct, owning no personal possessions and assuming a largely vegetarian diet. They followed a structured life of religious teaching, common meals, exercise, music, poetry recitations, reading and philosophical study (very similar to later monastic life). The school (unusually for the time) was open to both male and female students uniformly (women were held to be different from men, but not necessarily inferior). The Mathematikoi extended and developed the more mathematical and scientific work Pythagoras began.<br />
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Other students, who lived in neighbouring areas, were also permitted to attend some of Pythagoras' lectures, although they were not taught the inner secrets of the cult. They were known as the <b>Akousmatikoi</b> ("listeners"), and they focused on the more religious and ritualistic aspects of Pythagoras' teachings (and were permitted to eat meat and own personal belongings).<br />
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The school that Pythagoras established at Croton was in some ways more of a secret brotherhood or monastery. It was based on his religious teachings and was highly concerned with the morality of society. Members were required to live ethically, love one another, share political beliefs, practice pacifism, and devote themselves to the mathematics of nature. They also abstained from meat, abjured personal property and observed a rule of silence (called "echemythia"), the breaking of which was punishable by death, based on the belief that if someone was in any doubt as to what to say, they should remain silent.<br />
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Pythagoras saw his religious and scientific views as inseparably interconnected. He believed in the theory of metempsychosisor the transmigration of the soul and its reincarnation again and again after death into the bodies of humans, animals or vegetables until it became moral <br />
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Another of Pythagoras' central beliefs was that the essence of being (and the stability of all things that create the universe) can be found in the form of numbers, and that it can be encountered through the study of mathematics. For instance, he believed that things like health relied on a stable proportion of elements, with too much or too little of one thing causing an imbalance that makes a person unhealthy.<br />
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He was one of the first to think that the Earth was round, that all planets have an axis, and that all the planets travel around one central point (which he originally identified as the Earth, but later renounced it for the idea that the planets revolve around a central “fire”, although he never identified it as the Sun).<br />
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He also believed in the "musica universalis" (or the "harmony of the spheres"), the idea that the planets and stars moved according to mathematical equations, which corresponded to musical notes and thus produced a kind of symphony.<br />
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<i><b>Source:</b> <a href="http://www.philosophybasics.com/philosophers_pythagoras.html" target="_blank">http://www.philosophybasics.com/philosophers_pythagoras.html</a></i><br />
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Pythagoras and Music<br />
Melanie Richards, M.Mus., S.R.C.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Creating A Bed Monochord</b></span><br />
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Warmest Greetings!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here is a small video of the large bed monochord (aka.
Pythagorean Monochord) I have recently made. This build took over three months
at a cost of around $700. This is the third monochord Ive built and it is by
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It is tuned to low E at the moment but can be tuned up or
down a note as well. It has sixty-four strings made from quality spring steel
piano wire. The pegs are home made from brass rod stock and the tuning pins are
zither pins bought from Ebay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This instrument was a pleasure to build and amazing to play.
I have had a few people on it so far and all of the response to it has been
great. It is truly something that you have to be present to appreciate fully. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thank you for watching this video and feel free to like it
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For more information feel free to email me at
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Pythagorean Monochords</b></span></div>
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Alternative Healing through Sound, Vibration and Harmonix. </div>
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An overview with Dr. James Hopkins<br />
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Pythagoreanism is an early Pre-Socratic [before Socrates] Greek school of philosophy based around the metaphysical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers. Their views and methods were influential on many later movements including Platonism [Plato], Neo-Platonism and Cynicism.<br />
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<b>Pythagoras (570-490 BC)</b><br />
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Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher. He was born in Phoenician Sydone.<br />
Many facts of his biography are not known reliably. His life is known only from works of other ancient Greek authors. By their opinion Pythagoras met with other famous wisemen and scientists of these times.<br />
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It is known that he had lived in Egypt for a long time and studied local mysteries. Then he went to Babel [the temple near Babylon]. Later he went back to Samos. These times it was governed by Polycrates and due to his tyranny Pythagoras was forced to leave Samos.<br />
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He settled in the south of Italy. Phythagoras' philosophy and his lifestyle had many followers. They adjoined to form an Order which had great influence in Croton. But later Pythagoras himself had to move to Metapontum because besides followers, the scientist had many enemies.<br />
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He gained great success in mathematics. He is considered to discover and prove Pythagorean Theorem and creation of Pythagoras tables. It is known that members of his Order studied cosmology and believed in transmigration. His philosophical theory can be divided into two parts – scientific and religious.</div>
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It was said that he was the first man to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom, and Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato">Plato</a>, and through him, all of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophy">Western philosophy</a>.</div>
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A philosophical term in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language">Greek language</a> referring to transmigration of the soul, especially its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation">reincarnation</a> after death. Generally, the term is only used within the context of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy">Ancient Greek philosophy</a>, but has also been used by modern philosophers...<br />
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The earliest Greek thinker with whom metempsychosis is connected is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pherecydes_of_Syros" target="_blank">Pherecydes of Syros</a>; but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras">Pythagoras</a>, who is said to have been his pupil, is its first famous philosophic exponent. Pythagoras is not believed to have invented the doctrine nor have imported it from Egypt. Instead he made his reputation by bringing the Orphic doctrine from North-Eastern Hellas to Magna Graecia, and creating societies for its diffusion. The real weight and importance of metempsychosis in Western tradition is due to its adoption by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato">Plato</a><br />
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(ca. 245–325 CE)</td><td align="left" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top"><em>On the Pythagorean Life</em> (extant)</td></tr>
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(234–ca. 305 CE)</td><td align="left" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top"><em>Life of Pythagoras</em> (extant)</td></tr>
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(ca. 200–250 CE)</td><td align="left" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top"><em>Life of Pythagoras</em> (extant)</td></tr>
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(circa 200 CE)</td><td align="left" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top">(summaries of Pythagoras' philosophy in <em>Adversus Mathematicos</em> [<em>Against the Theoreticians</em>], cited below as <em>M</em>.)</td></tr>
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(ca. 50–150 CE)</td><td align="left" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top"><em>Introduction to Arithmetic</em> (extant), <em>Life of Pythagoras</em>(fragments quoted in Iamblichus etc.)</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top"></td><td nowrap="nowrap" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top"><b>Apollonius of Tyana<br />(died ca. 97 CE)</b></td><td align="left" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top"><em>Life of Pythagoras</em> (fragments quoted in Iamblichus etc. It is possible that this work is by another otherwise unknown Apollonius.)</td></tr>
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(50–100)</td><td align="left" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top"><em>Lectures on Pythagoreanism</em> (fragments quoted in Porphyry)</td></tr>
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(b. 105 BCE)</td><td align="left" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top">his excerpts of the <em>Pythagorean Memoirs</em> are quoted by Diogenes Laertius</td></tr>
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(200 BCE)</td><td align="left" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top">a Pseudo-Pythagorean Text (sections quoted in Diogenes Laertius)</td></tr>
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350–260 BCE)</td><td style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;">(historian of Sicily)</td></tr>
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(ca. 380–310)<br />
Xenocrates<br />
(ca. 396–314)<br />
Speusippus<br />
(ca. 410–339)</td><td style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;"> </td><td style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="middle">Lyceum</td><td style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="bottom">Dicaearchus<br />
(ca.370–300)<br />
Aristoxenus<br />
(ca. 370–300)<br />
Eudemus<br />
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Theophrastus<br />
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Aristotle<br />
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<tr><td nowrap="nowrap" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top">400 BCE</td><td nowrap="nowrap" style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;" valign="top">Plato<br />
(427–347)<br />
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<b>(570–490)</b></td></tr>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><b>Article source: </b><span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/</a></span></i><br />
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<a href="http://www.newsbomb.gr/en/story/429209/the-pentacle-in-pythagorean-philosophy" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn1.bbend.net/media/com_news/story/2014/04/07/429209/main/41c0686bba5474439a40a37a81e10856.jpg" /></a></div>
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-64916458519225812232016-04-14T01:49:00.000-07:002016-04-14T19:56:57.388-07:00Who wrote the Epistles in the New Testament?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The following conversation flowed this morning on our Facebook group:<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ApolloniusOfTyana" target="_blank">"Apollonius of Tyana - The Nazarene". </a> </div>
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It took some very interesting enlightening turns, as you might agree. <br />
I hope you (a) enjoy, (b) think on it. Thank you. <br />
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<a href="https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Festellagonzales%2Fjesus-healings%2F&bvm=bv.119745492,d.cGc&psig=AFQjCNEzHNmy-5Aaw2WvjrBArXxKTRGP4g&ust=1460701136488189" target="_blank"><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/dc/87/49/dc8749aaf0de659acc389ea983d6391f.jpg" /></a></div>
<i><a href="https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Festellagonzales%2Fjesus-healings%2F&bvm=bv.119745492,d.cGc&psig=AFQjCNEzHNmy-5Aaw2WvjrBArXxKTRGP4g&ust=1460701136488189" target="_blank">Source</a></i><br />
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<b>Preamble to the conversation:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a> in his "Apollonius of Tyana" (1901) actually said quite plainly that Apollonius went to "Arabia", meaning south of Roman Palestina (see the third map below), but didn't specify his age, nor the length of time he spent there. Apollonius was basically in 'the outback' <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a> says, with various other aesthetics and people working on 'the inner life'. It's when I worked out Apollonius' age for the period he was in Roman Judea, that got my attention .<br />
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He was still "young" (mid 30s?) Mead says, when he began his trek into the Hindu Kush via north Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, after which he went down into India. After his five years of silence at 'Pythagorean school' in <a href="http://apolloniusnazarene.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/private-life-education-personal.html" target="_blank">Ægae </a> (around age 23-28), Apollonius spent some years in "Arabia". This was before he went across the Hindu Kush mountains (around mid-30s). Therefore, the age Apollonius was in Palestina-Arabia was when he was around 29-34 years old. A strange coincidence?<br />
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<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzhdrDFhtmHhN1u-gM,G6igwXg383pvmz7bny4JejXaAyMp6AlVbf_aFeqe_c3_FpXB5y7jQZWORcRnGVMDicxQmcIDuijLwqCft78Ub1Ci8x2CLetypnQmwVQvR_hIBYVYPdvVL2_fRwvlkGTgZv0c4dWxP__H_qMZAnTqgtyP7nFpNLai5tEY4kQ3C8XFkoo9-dEVKwMQi5cKAWZVHjOP5md6wPuvGeSsPwJzKTPcJQtBgfzusisDCRr08kgIW7z9OYzQLpqqDtDTDnATi79GO9X2" target="_blank"><img height="338" src="https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzhdrDFhtmHhN1u-gM,G6igwXg383pvmz7bny4JejXaAyMp6AlVbf_aFeqe_c3_FpXB5y7jQZWORcRnGVMDicxQmcIDuijLwqCft78Ub1Ci8x2CLetypnQmwVQvR_hIBYVYPdvVL2_fRwvlkGTgZv0c4dWxP__H_qMZAnTqgtyP7nFpNLai5tEY4kQ3C8XFkoo9-dEVKwMQi5cKAWZVHjOP5md6wPuvGeSsPwJzKTPcJQtBgfzusisDCRr08kgIW7z9OYzQLpqqDtDTDnATi79GO9X2" width="400" /></a></div>
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<i><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=RfCSdfNZ0LFPrHSm0ublXdzhdrDFhtmHhN1u-gM,G6igwXg383pvmz7bny4JejXaAyMp6AlVbf_aFeqe_c3_FpXB5y7jQZWORcRnGVMDicxQmcIDuijLwqCft78Ub1Ci8x2CLetypnQmwVQvR_hIBYVYPdvVL2_fRwvlkGTgZv0c4dWxP__H_qMZAnTqgtyP7nFpNLai5tEY4kQ3C8XFkoo9-dEVKwMQi5cKAWZVHjOP5md6wPuvGeSsPwJzKTPcJQtBgfzusisDCRr08kgIW7z9OYzQLpqqDtDTDnATi79GO9X2" target="_blank">Source</a></i></div>
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<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=&url=https%3A%2F%2Flondondhakarally.com%2Fitinerary%2F&psig=AFQjCNHwzjrdBLGP4xIVXXa0ZHk8qC5bvQ&ust=1460770738903418" target="_blank"><img height="472" src="https://fyshnet.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/map1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<i><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=&url=https%3A%2F%2Flondondhakarally.com%2Fitinerary%2F&psig=AFQjCNHwzjrdBLGP4xIVXXa0ZHk8qC5bvQ&ust=1460770738903418" target="_blank">Source</a></i><br />
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That is: Apollonius was in Palestina-Arabia at the same time in history (34-37 CE) the supposed "Jesus" was in ministry, at around age 30-33. How easy it would have been for the "Church Fathers" (Roman elite families) in 325 CE at the Council of Nicea, to concoct a story about a healer-philosopher in Judea who seemingly arrived out of nowhere. The early years of this "Messiah" could easily be padded out with stories of the early years of other "saviors" - <a href="http://jdstone.org/cr/files/mithraschristianity.html" target="_blank">Mithra</a>, <a href="http://www.sabbathcovenant.com/book2MysteryReligionOfBabylon/Chapter7.htm" target="_blank">Tammuz</a>, <a href="http://www.truthbeknown.com/dionysus.html" target="_blank">Dioysus</a>, and others. Rome had noted that as soon as you gave the people a savior, the people would stop thinking for themselves. This was desirable.<br />
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The lingering memory of a white robed, barefoot, good looking young man with very long (never been cut) hair, who brought a message of peace and personal sovereignty to the far flung hills and villages of practically everywhere inhabited right across the Roman Empire, could not be quelled. Rome had to do something. These ideas of "giving to Caesar what is Caesar's (money) but spend the rest of your life doing the will of your maker and serving your fellow man", were far too revolutionary! Rome wanted <b><u>all</u>!</b><br />
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In 325 CE as the Empire continued to crumble, those sons of the Roman elite families, the patricians - those early "Church Fathers", decided to merge the oral histories, now spread near and far amongst the common people, with their own <b>State Sanctioned</b> version of events about Apollonius. The creation of this "saviour" would "kill two birds with one stone" (if not four):<br />
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<li>It would snuff out memory from the common consciousness of this name "Apollonius"</li>
<li>It would give the Jews their long-awaited Messiah - a divide and conquer tactic to break up the ongoing Jewish revolutions</li>
<li>It would keep the money rolling into the "temples" (churches) by way of tithes</li>
<li>It would keep the people coming to the priests (all born of patrician families originally), where they would hear in the confessional the people's most intimate secrets... including thoughts of insurrection. Very useful indeed!</li>
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It's highly possible that Apollonius did venture into northern parts of Judea as he roamed around the hills, finding small towns and villages as he went. But for the "Church Fathers" to concoct their stories, Apollonius needn't have travelled there at all. A generational memory of Apollonius in Roman Judea still remained. It's quite possible these mainly illiterate villagers had forgotten his strange name... so accepting this name "Jesus Christ" as being the name of this young man in bare feet and shiny white linen clothing who had visited their home towns some 300 years before, would easily have been effected by powerful Rome.<br />
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<i>This map shows exactly where the territories were in Roman times... so we don't get confused. "Arabia" in the Empire was very small, and didn't go anywhere near south as the House of Saud does today. </i><br />
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<i>Palestina-Arabia together comprise the province the New Testament refers to as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_(Roman_province)">"Judea"</a>.</i><br />
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<i>This is "Judea" and its surrounding regions. It's such a small area - perfect for walking!</i><br />
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As Paul-Saul was a Jew, you would think the "Christian churches" that would have been of greatest interest to him, and who he would have been sending letters of encouragement and exhortation to, would have been those communities in Biblical Judea, 2nd century CE. So why don't we find an "<b>Epistle to the Christians at Jerusalem" ??</b> - at <b>Judea</b>, at <b>Idumea</b>, at <b>Nabatea</b>, at <b>Peraea</b>, at <b>Decapolis</b>, at <b>Gaulantis</b>, at <b>Phoenicia</b>, at <b>Galilee</b> ?? After all, <b><u>these</u></b> are the places where "Iesus Christus" was said to have travelled and lived !! </div>
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<i>Here's a map of "Anatolia" or some of us might know it as "Asia Minor". </i><br />
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<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Map_Anatolia_ancient_regions-en.svg/2000px-Map_Anatolia_ancient_regions-en.svg.png" target="_blank"><img height="414" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Map_Anatolia_ancient_regions-en.svg/2000px-Map_Anatolia_ancient_regions-en.svg.png" width="640" /></a></div>
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This makes sense to me (now that i'm looking at his particular map) of why "St Paul" wrote to all of these communities in Asia Minor - because this is where Apollonius is from!<br />
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Why are ALL the epistles (predominantly) "to the churches" in Asia Minor? First we have the letter to the <b>Romans</b> (Italy obviously), then we've got two epistles to the people at <b>Corinth</b> (south Greece), a letter each to the <b>Galatians</b> (Galatia, Asia Minor), <b>Ephesians</b> (Ephesus, west coat Asia Minor near Ionia), <b>Philippians</b> (Phillippi, north in Macedonia), <b>Colossians</b> (Colossae, Asia Minor - 15 miles south east of the city of Pisidia), then two more letters to the <b>Thessalonians</b> (Thesolonica, southern Macedonia, on the coast). </div>
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<b>This is where Apollonius came from !!!! How "coincidental" is that?</b><br />
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ie: Asia Minor-Anatolia, and Greece - the home of his beloved Pythagoreanism.<br />
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Of course "Paul" (A-paul-lonius ??) -<br />
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... or <a href="http://co-creatingournewearth.blogspot.co.nz/2015/01/the-magic-of-words-by-bronny-nz.html" target="_blank">[in Babylonian Magic-speak]</a> "A Paul from somewhere Greek-sounding, like 'Ionia',"<br />
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- would be writing to the towns and cities where he grew up and had studied, alongside his philosophical peers. There are <b><u>NO</u></b> letters to the people of Judea, which is in fact where you would expect to find the largest populations of Christians to be living, only a century after the crucifixion and resurrection of "Iesus Christus".<br />
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Therefore, we have to ask why <b><u>NO</u></b> particular attention was being paid to <b><u>those</u></b> Christians who stood right in the firing-line of Judaism, by this so-called "Paul"?<br />
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It is illogical that this Biblical "Saul-Paul" who (it is said) was a blood-line Jew, would not write to his fellow-Jewish Christian converts in Judea, in the first instance. Not logical !!<br />
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<a href="http://www.spiritandtruth.org/teaching/Book_of_Colossians/01_Colossians_1_1-18/colosse.png" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnWXfZkjXGfdtwRylHHe9fsqnGL6CGtJdPCFbOwvtiPgZ75ns7E-G8P8Lc0t25bgeGsE_QtvZw2TU_Gtd4bNyZrWrJYLnqf3ZUmJgCCgxSxp6lAp9Frqdq-MgnCLFKyW3fqeXoxJ3cuAs/s640/Anatolia.png" width="640" /></a><i><a href="http://www.spiritandtruth.org/teaching/Book_of_Colossians/01_Colossians_1_1-18/colosse.png" target="_blank">Source</a></i><br />
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<b>Here's what Apollonius said about the Jews. It appears that not much has changed:</b><br />
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"For the Jews have long been in revolt not only against the Romans, but against humanity; and a race that has made its own a life apart and irreconcilable, that cannot share with the rest of mankind in the pleasures of the table nor join in their libations or prayers or sacrifices, are separated from ourselves by a greater gulf than divides us from Susa or Bactra or the more distant Indies."<br />
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<b>Note:</b> Jewish people are told to not sit down to a meal with non-Jews (goyim)<br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">From the page of Flavius Claudius Iulianus in the 4th century: </b></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;">"Out of Galilee ariseth no prophet."</span></b></div>
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<i>Fisherman in the Sea of Galilee, 1890-1900</i><br />
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<i><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjSw8rV4Y3MAhWMGJQKHes0DysQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsimple.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSea_of_Galilee&bvm=bv.119745492,d.cGc&psig=AFQjCNEhLDbRfGcYto0oAKyT8GZ4tmEYsQ&ust=1460710672774037" target="_blank">Source</a></i><br />
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-50897442760829998482016-04-13T19:55:00.004-07:002023-12-10T22:34:14.360-08:00Apollonius was in Palestine in his early 30s !!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This commentary follows on from <a href="http://apolloniusnazarene.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/private-life-education-personal.html" target="_blank">yesterday's post</a> about Apollonius' travels. We find out, from running a timeline based on Apollonius' age, that there is a good possibility that he was in Roman Judea (Palestine) for a period of around 3-5 years, at the same time the Roman-created "Iesus Christus" was supposedly travelling around the area. What are the odds that both Apollonius and "Jesus Christ" were living and working around Palestine-Judea at exactly the same time, and yet they never met each other, never heard of each other, and their biographers never mentioned the other when writing up their histories? We have to come to the startling conclusion: Maybe one of them didn't exist!<br />
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<i>"Iudaea (Judea) Province in the First Century"</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">GRS Mead</a> in "Apollonius of Tyana" (1901),: "Philostratus said Apollonius spent some time among the "Arabians" [after he had finished at 'philosophy school' in <a href="http://apolloniusnazarene.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/private-life-education-personal.html" target="_blank">Ægae</a> - <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786" target="_blank">BL</a>] and had been instructed by them (1.20, 4.38). And by <b>Arabia</b> we are to understand the country south of <b>Palestine</b>, which was at this period a regular hot-bed of mystic communities. The spots he visited were in out-of-the-way places, where the spirit of holiness lingered, and not the crowded and disturbed cities, for the subject of his conversation, he said, required “men and not people.” [??] He spent his time in travelling from one to another of these temples, shrines, and commun-ities; from which we may conclude that there was some kind of common <strike>freemasonry</strike> [like the German <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman_years" target="_blank">Journeyman</a> of today] as it were, among them, of the nature of initiation, which opened the door of hospitality to him."<br />
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<i>Roman Empire provinces of the eastern Mediterranean - 1st century CE</i><br />
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<i>Roman Empire provinces </i><i>using Biblical names</i><i> - 1st century CE </i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">Commentary by blogger, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786" target="_blank">Bronwyn Llewellyn</a> (BL, BronnyNZ)</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Otago University, NZ </span></b> </div>
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From what GRW Mead says in his "Apollonius of Tyana" (1901), Apollonius was around 28-33 years of age when he went to "Arabia". This may have been a "post-apprenticeship" journey consisting of a number of years' travel, such as we see to this day in the medieval tradition (from 5th century CE) of the German carpentary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman_years" target="_blank">Journeyman</a>. Approximately three years then, could well have been the length of time that Apollonius was in Arabia-Palestina (Judea). </div>
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<li>Did the Arabian Palestinians hand down oral traditions and stories correctly therefore, of a wise, philosophic young man who performed healing miracles and offered compassionate advice to ordinary people? - a man with long uncut hair, as depicted in Christian iconography from its beginnings in 325 CE, right up to today? </li>
<li>Is memory of this long-haired man that changed the world's thinking towards sovereignty and living free from an oppressor, still within the collective human consciousness today?</li>
<li>How is it that even modern painters "just know" that Jesus has long hair and is dressed in white? - They don't. But "something" is so firmly embedded in the collective human consciousness that they just couldn't conceive painting a Jesus with the short Jewish haircut. It's impossible. <i> </i><i> </i></li><li><i>Image s<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-2239625%2FJesus-Confucius-Sir-Isaac-Newton-Wikipedia-list-historys-influential-people.html&bvm=bv.119408272,d.dGo&psig=AFQjCNGVKkjMWvn2TOKmxFyVFZaQSzCJxQ&ust=1460686111749438" target="_blank">ource</a></i></li></ul></div><div>
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<b><u>Please note</u>:</b> In Judaism, men have to cut their hair short lest they be seen as effeminate - so how could this long-haired man "Jesus" have been of Jewish origins, unless of course he had been to Pythagorean school? (Not likely). </div>
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<li>Since Apollonius was a Pythagorean <a href="http://essene.com/History/PythagorasAndNazareans.html">Nazarean</a>, he would wear no animal hide, so he walked with <a href="https://tamaquaarea.com/2015/08/31/whats-his-name-a-k-a-the-jesus-guy-a-regular-sighting-in-our-area/" target="_blank">bare feet</a> upon the ground as many indigenous nations do even today, and because he would wear no animal fibre, he only wore white linen. Linen is made from flax fibres after the fleshy layers have been broken down and scraped away. It is extremely durable and lasts for decades.</li>
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These memories are still carried down to us today in the "Jesus" iconography we find in Roman and "Protestant" churches (which are still based on the Roman <a href="http://jdstone.org/cr/files/mithraschristianity.html" target="_blank">Mithraic</a> traditions), all over the world. More questions are raised:</div>
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<li>In 325 CE in Nicea, did the Roman "Church Fathers" (the Roman elite patricians) decide to rename this visitor to 1st century Arabia-Palestina who had hailed from Asia Minor (modern day Turkey), as one <b>"Iesus Christus"</b>? </li>
<li>Did they then reassemble those Apollonius stories from Arabia-Palestina and other places around the Mediterranean for their own liking and purpose? </li>
<li>Were the deeds of the Turkish-Greek Apollonius which became centred around the region of Biblical Judea, now in need of a Jewish hero?</li>
<li>Were these "Church Fathers" (men of these Roman elite families) compelled to do this because they had discovered the legend of Apollonius of Tyana in the Roman Empire was simply, unsuppressable? </li>
<li>Was the only solution to merge Roman Mithraism and the ever-popular Egyptian Horus-Isis-Osiris stories with the life and deeds of the Pythagorean orator and healer, Apollonius of Tyana?</li>
<li>Was the only strategy left to those Roman "Church Fathers", to "muddy the pool" and detract from Apollonius' message of personal sovereignty and direct communication with the great "Primordial Unity" [my term], and introduce (as seen in these other cults) an intermediary priest and a "saviour"? </li>
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An Empire of course, can't extract funds off people when they are gathering in their own homes. Great churches and edifices needed to be built, to keep the weekly tithes rolling in, least the parishoners end up in "eternal damnation" !!</div>
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Apollonius was widely talked about all across the Roman Empire for many centuries, even up until the 19th century, with continual suppression at each raising of his name. Vast quantities of literature concerning Apollonius have been burned. "lost" or "buried" along the way. Such was the reputation of Apollonius across the Roman Empire that even ordinary illiterate people could reference his wise teachings and talk about the healings he had performed in his lifetime. You can't hide a phenomena like that for long.</div>
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I suspect the memory of Apollonius has lasted so long and has permeated into all of our future generations around the Empire (which still operates to this day and is now global, encompassing not just the Mediterranean), because Apollonius defied directly, one of the cruelest of the Roman Emperors <b><u>to his face</u></b> - <b><u>Domitian</u></b> <b>!!</b> </div>
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Domitian personified all that was cruel and evil in the Roman Empire - a "man as god" who held the human spirit down, embodying an energy that still dominates humanity to this day in the guise of dead Corporations including Vatican Inc., the biggest business on the planet. </div>
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<b><u>And please remember</u>:</b> There was no internet back in the day (1-3 CE), no printing presses, no radios - so individuals had no way to publicize what was happening in their small village as this great philosopher, orator and healer swept through the Mediterranean world like a bottlebrush, getting into every corruption-filled little corner.<br />
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The story of this strangely dressed man with his "revolutionary" ideas that burst like desert flowers from the topsoil of Pythagorean thought, would have spread around the whole Roman Empire like a purposefully burning wildfire (slow, none-the-less). This word-of-mouth teaching would, by my estimation, have taken around 200 years to permeate to all of Europe, the near East and the north of Africa. As they say, "you can't 'unhear' a thing once you've heard it", and the Pythagorean message of peace and personal sovereignty would have ripped into Rome's tough exterior like a truckload of TNT! "The preacher" had to be put down! - even posthumously. </div>
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There were no inter-provincial systems in the Roman world, for recording or distributing any information besides the "Roman authorized version" for anything. So the message would have taken a very long time to trickle out. Once it did, the hearts of all people who heard this Pythagorean message, would have opened and embraced the sense of its reason and compassion.<br />
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As we have now with CNN, ABC, BBC Fox News, et al., the Roman Empire, which I feel became centralized at the Vatican on behalf of the elite patrician families, certainly wasn't into disseminating the truth! The 'battle' was on... Who would win the propaganda war?<br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">The difference in our era is this: We Now See "Them" (the elites). We see the game! </span><span style="font-size: large;">And we have amazing new technology available that allows us to see the tricks... "Know the truth, for the truth will set you free!"</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">And that's a very good start!</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Keep spreading the Truth! The "revolution" will not be won by an individual standing as "saviour". The "revolution" is to be won by us all !!</span></b></span></div>
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Related article: "The Veil"<br />
<i><b><a href="http://ascensionsong.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/ascensions-song.html" target="_blank">unveiled</a></b></i><br />
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<i><b><a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/photo-africas-biggest-jesus-statue/" target="_blank">Africa’s biggest Jesus statue</a></b></i></div>
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<i><b>Jan 4, 2016 </b></i><br />
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Please feel free to compare this image with other Apollonius of Tyana images on this blog. The Chinese sculptors of this barefoot Jesus got it right! This less European depiction of the Christus figure comes within a smidgen of the likeness of our historic Apollonius. <br />
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BronnyNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176598188760473397.post-26752379601316055902016-04-12T20:01:00.004-07:002023-09-02T16:55:24.673-07:00Private life, Education, Personal qualities, Philosophy, Religion, Travel, Role model, his Legend lives on...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>This compendium or 'Curriculum Vitae' of Apollonius will be added to over time as references from various authors, commentators and translators are sourced. Please refer to this article from time to time to see updates. Thank you.</i></span></div>
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At the age of twenty his father died (his mother having died some years before) leaving a considerable fortune, which Apollonius was to share with his elder brother, a wild and dissolute youth of twenty-three. Being still a minor, Apollonius continued to reside at Ægae [a town on the sea coast east of Tarsus where he attended 'philosophy school' - BL]. <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a></div>
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[At age 21 after the death of both his parents]: He seems to have devoted his time to setting in order the affairs of the family, for he distributed the rest of his patrimony among certain of his relatives, [he had already given his brother half of his share - <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786" target="_blank">BL</a>] and kept for himself but a bare pittance. <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a></div>
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After the five years of silence [around age 28], we find Apollonius at Antioch. <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a> [which is on the border of Syria and Turkey -<a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786" target="_blank"> BL</a>]<br />
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“After these things,” says Philostratus [possibly referring to his time spent in 'Arabia' (Palestine-Judea) - <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786" target="_blank">BL</a>], Apollonius determined to visit the Brachmanes and Sarmanes. [That is the Brâhmans and Buddhists]. <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank"> Mead</a></div>
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What induced our philosopher to make so long and dangerous a journey [to India] nowhere appears from Philostratus, who simply says that Apollonius thought it a good thing for a young man to travel. It is abundantly evident, however, that Apollonius never traveled merely for the sake of travelling. What he does he does with a distinct purpose. And his guides on this occasion (as he assures his disciples who tried to dissuade him from his endeavour and refused to accompany him), were <b><u>wisdom</u> </b>and his <u><b>inner monitor</b></u> (dæmon). [sic] <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a></div><div><br /></div>
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[At age 21 after the division of his familial inheritance]: He required but little, he said, and should never marry (1.13). <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a></div>
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At the age of fourteen he was sent to Tarsus, a famous centre of learning of the time, to complete his studies. But mere rhetoric and style and the life of the “schools” were little suited to his serious disposition, and he speedily left for Ægæ, a town on the sea coast east of Tarsus. Here he found surroundings more suitable to his needs, and plunged with ardor into the study of philosophy. <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a></div>
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When [his primary studies had been completed] Euxenus asked him how he would begin his new mode of life. He replied: “As doctors purge their patients.” [A reference to a vegetarian diet - <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786" target="_blank">BL</a>]. <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a></div>
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[From the age of 14] Apollonius enjoyed the society and instruction of pupils and teachers of the Platonic, Stoic, Peripatetic, and Epicurean schools of philosophy; but though he studied all these systems of thought with attention, it was the lessons of the Pythagorean school upon which he seized with an extraordinary depth of comprehension, [??] and that, too, although his teacher, Euxenus, was but a parrot of the doctrines and not a practiser of the discipline. But such parroting was not enough for the eager spirit of Apollonius. <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a></div>
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At the age of sixteen “he soared into the Pythagorean life, winged by some greater one.” [Sci., than his tutor; namely, the “memory” within him, or his “dæmon.”] [sic. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786" target="_blank">BL]</a> <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a></div>
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[From the age of around 22 years]: He took the vow of silence for five years, for he was determined not to write on philosophy until he had passed through this wholesome discipline. These five years were passed mostly in Pamphylia and Cilicia, and though he spent much time in study, he did not immure himself in a community or monastery but kept moving about and travelling from city to city. The temptations to break his self-imposed vow were enormous. His strange appearance drew everyone's attention, the laughter-loving populace made the silent philosopher the butt of their unscrupulous wit, and all the protection he had against their scurrility and misconceptions was the dignity of his mien and the glance of eyes that now could see both past and future. Many a time he was on the verge of bursting out against some exceptional insult or lying gossip, but ever He restrained himself with the words: <b>“Heart, patient be, and thou, my tongue, be still.”</b> <b>[</b>In colloquial language: <b>"Have patience and keep your mouth shut." </b>- <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786" target="_blank">BL</a><b>]</b> [Compare Odyssey, 10.18] (1.14) <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a></div>
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[From the age of 20]: The temple of Æsculapius had now become a busy centre of study, and echoed from one end to the other with the sound of lofty philosophical discourses. <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a> </div>
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<li>He then conversed with the temple priests or the heads of the community, [depending on whether] he was staying in a Greek or non-Greek temple with public rites, or in a community with a discipline peculiar to itself, apart from the public cult. [??] <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a> </li>
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<b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786" target="_blank">Blogger</a> comment:</b> "cult" likely meaning 'community culture' - being meetings, ceremonies, workshops, (kirtan, yoga), etc. as you might find in modern ashrams in India today. - BL</div>
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On coming of age [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_age" target="_blank">at 21</a> ?] he returned to Tyana to endeavour to rescue his brother from his vicious life. His brother had apparently exhausted his legal share of the property, and Apollonius at once made over half of his own portion to him, and by his gentle admonitions restored him to manhood. <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a> [Both of their parents had died by then - <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786" target="_blank">BL</a>].</div>
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The most important part of his work was with those who were following the inner life, and who already looked upon Apollonius as a teacher of the hidden way. To these his comrades (eta?????) and pupils (??), he devoted much attention, being ever ready to answer their questions and give advice and instruction. Not however that he neglected the people... <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a> [who he taught after midday - <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/09560023800644829786" target="_blank">BL</a>].</div>
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[During his five year vow of silence ages c.23-28 years]: Yet even this stern repression of the common mode of speech did not prevent his good doing. Even at this early age he had begun to correct abuses. With eyes and hands and motions of the head, he made his meaning understood, and on one occasion, at Aspendus in Pamphylia, prevented a serious corn riot by silencing the crowd with his commanding gestures and then writing what he had to say on his tablet (i 15). <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a></div>
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<b><br /></b>APOLLONIUS was born [Legends of the wonderful happenings at his birth were in circulation, and are of the same nature as all such birth-legends of great people.] at Tyana, a city in the south of Cappadocia, somewhere in the early years of the Christian era. His parents were of ancient family and considerable fortune (i 4). At an early age he gave signs of a very powerful memory and studious disposition, and was remarkable for his beauty. At the age of fourteen he was sent to Tarsus, a famous centre of learning of the time, to complete his studies. But mere rhetoric and style and the life of the “schools” were little suited to his serious disposition, and he speedily left for Ægæ, a town on the sea coast east of Tarsus. Here he found surroundings more suitable to his needs, and plunged with ardor into the study of philosophy. He became intimate with the priests of the temple of Æsculapius, when cures were still wrought, and enjoyed the society and instruction of pupils and teachers of the Platonic, Stoic, Peripatetic, and Epicurean schools of philosophy; but though he studied all these systems of thought with attention, it was the lessons of the Pythagorean school upon which he seized with an extraordinary depth of comprehension, [??] and that, too, although his teacher, Euxenus, was but a parrot of the doctrines and not a practiser of the discipline. But such parroting was not enough for the eager spirit of Apollonius; his extraordinary “memory,” which infused life into the dull utterances of his tutor, urged him on, and at the age of sixteen “he soared into the Pythagorean life, winged by some greater one.” [Sci., than his tutor; namely, the “memory” within him, or his “dæmon.”] Nevertheless he retained his affection for the man who had told him of the way, and rewarded him handsomely (i 7).<br />
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When Euxenus asked him how he would begin his new mode of life he replied: “As doctors purge their patients.” Hence he refused to touch anything that had animal life in it, on the ground that it densified the mind and rendered it impure. He considered that the only pure form of food was what the earth produced, fruits and vegetables. He also abstained from wine, for though it was made from fruit, “it rendered turbid the æther [This æther was presumably the mind-stuff.] in the soul” and “destroyed the composure of the mind.” Moreover, he went barefoot, let his hair grow long, and wore nothing but linen. He now lived in the temple, to the admiration of the priests and with the express approval of Æsculapius, [That is to say presumably he was encouraged in his efforts by those unseen helpers of the temple by whom the cures were wrought by means of dreams, and help was given psychically and mesmerically.] and he rapidly became so famous for his asceticism and pious life, that a saying [“Where are you hurrying? Are you off to see the youth?”] of the Cilicians about him became a proverb (i 8).<br />
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At the age of twenty his father died (his mother having died some years before) leaving a considerable fortune, which Apollonius was to share with his elder brother, a wild and dissolute youth of twenty-three. Being still a minor, Apollonius continued to reside at Ægae, where the temple of Æsculapius had now become a busy centre of study, and echoed from one end to the other with the sound of lofty philosophical discourses. On coming of age he returned to Tyana to endeavour to rescue his brother from his vicious life. His brother had apparently exhausted his legal share of the property, and Apollonius at once made over half of his own portion to him, and by his gentle admonitions restored him to manhood. In fact he seems to have devoted his time to setting in order the affairs of the family, for he distributed the rest of his patrimony among certain of his relatives, and kept for himself but a bare pittance; he required but little, he said, and should never marry (i 13).<br />
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He now took the vow of silence for five years, for he was determined not to write on philosophy until he had passed through this wholesome discipline. These five years were passed mostly in Pamphylia and Cilicia, and though he spent much time in study, he did not immure himself in a community or monastery but kept moving about and travelling from city to city. The temptations to break his self-imposed vow were enormous. His strange appearance drew everyone's attention, the laughter-loving populace made the silent philosopher the butt of their unscrupulous wit, and all the protection he had against their scurrility and misconceptions was the dignity of his mien and the glance of eyes that now could see both past and future. Many a time he was on the verge of bursting out against some exceptional insult or lying gossip, but ever He restrained himself with the words: “Heart, patient be, and thou, my tongue, be still.” [Compare Odyssey, xx 18.] (i 14).<br />
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Yet even this stern repression of the common mode of speech did not prevent his good doing. Even at this early age he had begun to correct abuses. With eyes and hands and motions of the head, he made his meaning understood, and on one occasion, at Aspendus in Pamphylia, prevented a serious corn riot by silencing the crowd with his commanding gestures and then writing what he had to say on his tablet (i 15).<br />
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So far, apparently, Philostratus has been dependent upon the account of Maximus of Ægæ, or perhaps only up to the time of Apollonius’ quitting Ægæ. There is now a considerable gap in the narrative, and two short chapters of vague generalities (i 16, 17) are all that Philostratus can produce as the record of some fifteen or twenty [I am inclined to think, however, that Apollonius was still a youngish man when he set out on his Indian travels, instead of being forty-six, as some suppose. But the difficulties of most of the chronology are insurmountable.] years, until Damis’ notes begin.<br />
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After the five years of silence, we find Apollonius at Antioch, but this seems to be only an incident in a long round of travel and work, and it is probable that Philostratus brings Antioch into prominence merely because what little he had learnt of this period of Apollonius’ life, he picked up in this much-frequented city. Even from Philostratus himself we learn incidentally later on (i 20; iv 38) that Apollonius had spent some time among the Arabians, and had been instructed by them. And by Arabia we are to understand the country south of Palestine, which was at this period a regular hot-bed of mystic communities. The spots he visited were in out-of-the-way places, where the spirit of holiness lingered, and not the crowded and disturbed cities, for the subject of his conversation, he said, required “men and not people.” [??] He spent his time in travelling from one to another of these temples, shrines, and communities; from which we may conclude that there was some kind of common freemasonry as it were, among them, of the nature of initiation , which opened the door of hospitality to him.<br />
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But whenever he went, he always held to a certain regular division of the day. At sun-rise he practised certain religious exercises alone, the nature of which he communicated only to those who had passed through the discipline of a “four years’ “ (? five years’) silence. He then conversed with the temple priests or the heads of the community, according as he was staying in a Greek or non-Greek temple with public rites, or in a community with a discipline peculiar to itself apart from the public cult. [??]<br />
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He thus endeavoured to bring back the public cults to the purity of their ancient traditions, and to suggest improvements in the practices of the private brotherhoods. The most important part of his work was with those who were following the inner life, and who already looked upon Apollonius as a teacher of the hidden way. To these his comrades (eta?????) and pupils (??), he devoted much attention, being ever ready to answer their questions and give advice and instruction. Not however that he neglected the people; it was his invariable custom to teach them, but always after midday; for those who lived the inner life, [??] he said, should on day’s dawning enter the presence of the Gods, [That is to say, presumably, spend the time in silent meditation.] then spend the time till midday in giving and receiving instruction in holy things, and not till after noon devote themselves to human affairs. That is to say, the morning was devoted by Apollonius to the divine science, and the afternoon to instruction in ethics and practical life. After the day’s work he bathed in cold water, as did so many of the mystics of the time in those lands, notably the Essenes and Therapeuts (i 16).<br />
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“After these things,” says Philostratus, as vaguely as the writer of a gospel narrative, Apollonius determined to visit the Brachmanes and Sarmanes. [That is the Brâhmans and Buddhists. Sarman is the Greet corruption of the Sanskrit Shramana and Pâli Samano, the technical term for a Buddhist ascetic or monk. The ignorance of the copyists changed Sarmanes first into Germanes and then into Hyrcanians!] What induced our philosopher to make so long and dangerous a journey nowhere appears from Philostratus, who simply says that Apollonius thought it a good thing for a young man [This shows that Apollonius was still young, and not between forty and fifty, as some have asserted. Tredwell (p 77) dates the Indian travels as 41-54 A.D.] to travel. It is abundantly evident, however, that Apollonius never traveled merely for the sake of travelling. What he does he does with a distinct purpose. And his guides on this occasion, as he assures his disciples who tried to dissuade him from his endeavour and refused to accompany him, were wisdom and his inner monitor (dæmon). “Since ye are faint-hearted,” says the solitary pilgrim, “I bid you farewell. As for myself I must go whithersoever wisdom and my inner self may lead me. The Gods are my advisers and I can but rely on their counsels” (i 18).<br />
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<b>Source: </b> <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm" target="_blank">http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_07.htm</a></div>
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<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism" target="_blank">Pythagoreans celebrate sunrise</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Bronnikov">Fyodor Bronnikov</a></i><br />
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1.1-3 Introduction.<br />
1.4-17 Apollonius' birth, his education, formative religious practices including five years spent in silence<br />
1.18-19 Journey to <a href="http://www.livius.org/men-mh/mesopotamia/mesopotamia.html">Mesopotamia</a> and Iran. Meeting Damis.<br />
1.23 Meeting the impoverished Eretrians <br />
1.25-40 King Vardanes in <a href="http://www.livius.org/ba-bd/babylon/babylon.html">Babylon</a> and <a href="http://www.livius.org/ea-eh/ecbatana/ecbatana1.html">Ecbatana</a>. They stay there one year and eight months. He gains considerable influence over the king. Social and political changes affected.<br />
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Book 2. Apollonius' journey to India with a group of companions.<br />
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2.3 The "Caucasus" (Hindu Kush)<br />
2.4 Drive away a hobgoblin <br />
2.5 Apollonius and Damis discuss spiritual life. <br />
2.8 Cross the river <a href="http://www.livius.org/k/kabul/cophen.html">Cophen</a>, visit the shrine of Dionysus and other sights.<br />
2.11-16 Travelling to the <a href="http://www.livius.org/ia-in/indus/indus.html">Indus</a>. Learned discussions about elephants !!<br />
2.17-19 They cross the river <br />
2.20 Continue on to Taxila.<br />
2.23-34 Three-day stay with the Indian philosopher king Phraotes<br />
2.35-37 Discussions about dream divination with the king <br />
2.39 Advice given on a legal dispute<br />
2.42 Depart to find the Indian sages, cross the <a href="http://www.livius.org/ra-rn/ravi/hydraotes.html">Hydraotes</a> and the Hyphasis<br />
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3.5 Pepper trees. They reach the Ganges plain<br />
3.6-8 Snake hunt (<a href="http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_3_06.html#%A76">3.6</a>-<a href="http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_3_06.html#%A78">8</a>). <br />
3.10-15 With the sages, discussion, the environment. <br />
3.18 Prophetic gifts<br />
3.26 Reincarnation, <a href="http://www.livius.org/ho-hz/homer/homer.html">Homeric</a> and Indian heroes, justice, the Indian cult of Tantalus. Indian king arrives. <br />
3.28-31 The king is disinterested in philosophy<br />
3.32 The king's antipathy cured <br />
3.34-37 Continuing discussion - the cosmos and other questions. <br />
3.38-40 Acts of healing <br />
3.41 Discussion of astrology and cultic practices<br />
3.45-49 The wonders of nature in India <br />
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Book 4. Apollonius' visits Greek cities in Ionia and the mainland. <br />
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4.1-4 He condemns the idle amusement to which the Ephesians are addicted.<br />
4.5-9 Smyrna. Apollonius also discusses how civic life should function.<br />
4.11-14 Pergamon, Troy, to the Aeolian coast, Lesbos...<br />
4.17 Arrival in Athens<br />
4.19-22 Lectures on cultic practices and the effeminate manner, criticizes the gladiatorial shows<br />
4:20 He expels a demon.<br />
4:23 Thessalonia<br />
4.24 He corrects religious practices during his visits to Greek shrines.<br />
4.25 Corinth. He rescues the philosopher Demtrius' pupil Menippus from the claws of a female vampire.<br />
4:27 On the way to Olympia. Apollonius comes across Spartan envoys; he criticizes their effeminate appearance, resulting in an ethical revival in Sparta<br />
4.28-30 Olympia. He discusses a few of the statues, takes part in the religious ceremonies. His ethical exhortations meet with general admiration.<br />
4.31-33 In Sparta he discusses religious and judicial affairs.<br />
4.34 He sails from the Peloponnese to Crete.<br />
4.35 Apollonius' first stay in Italy and his conflict with the regime of Nero.<br />
4.36-38 Discusses philosophical resolution in the face of tyrants<br />
4:39 Arrival in Rome. Conflict with a drunken harpist who sings Nero's songs<br />
4.40 Telesinus gives Apollonius permission to stay in various temples in Rome (<a href="http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_4_36.html#%A740">4.40</a>).<br />
4.42 Suspicion also falls on Apollonius regarding Nero's bath house.<br />
4.43 Apollonius interprets an eclipse of the sun as an omen of Nero's narrow escape from being killed by lightning<br />
4.44 Apollonius is arrested. When the scroll containing the indictment has been mysteriously erased. Apollonius is released out of fear of his supernatural powers<br />
4.45 Apollonius brings a young woman, a member of a consular family, back to life<br />
4.46 Sends messages to the philosopher Musonius Rufus, who has been imprisoned by Nero. Apollonius departs for Hispania (Spain)<br />
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<i><a href="http://oca.org/saints/all-lives/2012/10/25" target="_blank">Source </a><br />Saint Tabitha, the widow raised from the dead by the Apostle Peter</i><br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_5_01.html#%A71">Book five</a></span></b><br />
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Book 5. Apollonius' stay in Hispania.<br />
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5.7 Apollonius and his companions discuss Nero's trip to Greece.<br />
5.10 The governor of Andalusia has a private interview with Apollonius,<br />
5.11 They travel through Sicily, Athens, Rhodes, and reach Alexandria.<br />
5.13 Apollonius predicts the political and military events of the year<br />
5.14-17 He discusses volcanic phenomena and the merits of the fables of Aesop<br />
5.19 Initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries in Athens<br />
5.20 Apollonius spends the winter in various Greek shrines<br />
5.21-22 On Rhodes he pays a visit to the <a href="http://www.livius.org/se-sg/7wonders/seven_wonders.html#4._The_colossus_of_Rhodes">Colossus</a>, discusses flute playing with Canus, a virtuoso flautist, and rebukes a young nouveau riche.<br />
5.24 Alexandria, he rescues an innocent condemned man from the executioner<br />
5.25 Voices his disapproval of the blood sacrifices in the temple<br />
5.26 Reproves the Alexandrians for their vandalism at the horse races<br />
5.27 Apollonius has contact with the new emperor Vespasian.<br />
5:29 Discuss of the destruction of the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus in Rome<br />
5.31 Philosophers Dio and Euphratesare also admitted to the conversation<br />
5.32 Vespasian asks advice of the philosophers<br />
5.33 Euphrates argues for the abolition of the monarchy<br />
5.34 Dio is in favor of a constitutional referendum<br />
5.34-36 Apollonius rejects the arguments of these speakers as unrealistic sophistries and puts forward a vigorous plea for the monarchy<br />
5.37 Euphrates reveals his true colors by attacking Pythagoreanism<br />
5.39 The conflict between Apollonius and Euphrates reaches a climax<br />
5.40 Dio is criticized by Apollonius for the rhetorical character of his philosophy<br />
5.41 A rift comes between Apollonius and Vespasian. Apollonius' disapproval of the cancellation of the liberty which Nero had bestowed on Greece<br />
5.42 After Apollonius has recognized a lion as a reincarnation of Egypt's last pharaoh Amasis, he sets out in the company of ten disciples for the Ethiopian gymnosophists.<br />
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<i>Gymnosophists - naked philosophers</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_6_01.html#%A71">Book six</a></span></b><br />
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Book 6. Apollonius and his followers spend time with the gymnosophists<br />
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6.2 Cross the border between the Roman province Egypt and independent Ethiopia with a young Egyptian as their guide.<br />
6.4 Visit to the statue of Memnon<br />
6.6 The abode of the gymnosophists<br />
6.7-14 Euphrates has sent one of his disciples there to slander Apollonius<br />
6.15-17 Thespesion defends the unpretentious philosophy and life-style of the gymnosophists. Apollonius replies how Pythagoreanism is superior in relation to the gymnosophists because of the Indian wisom in the philosophy. Nilus, is attracted by Apollonius' wisdom<br />
6.18-21 A second conversation with the gymnosophists is held the following day including the immortality of the soul and cosmology.<br />
6.22 Apollonius and his disciples set off for the source of the Nile<br />
6.27 Return voyage - Apollonius overmasters a satyr in an Ethiopian village<br />
6.28 The conflict with Euphrates grows more acute<br />
6.29-34 Apollonius' contacts with Vespasian's son and crown prince Titus. Apollonius writes a letter of eulogy of Titus. Titus invites Apollonius for a discussion in Tarsus before returning to Rome.<br />
6.31 Assigns Demetrius to the heir apparent as his philosophical advisor.<br />
6.32 He issues a cryptic prophecy of Titus' death and brings about the immediate granting of a request made by the people of Tarsus.<br />
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6.36-43 Stories about Apollonius' activities in the cities of Asia Minor and Syria. He advises a rich but uneducated young man to study rhetoric, attacks a foolish myth that is current in Sardes, warns the citizens of Antioch of the divine wrath incurred by civil disobedience, helps to solve the dowry problem of a man with four daughters, cures a man of his passion for the famous statue of Aphrodite in Cnidus, recommends how to appease the divine anger which is evidenced in earthquakes, comments on the emperor Domitian's edicts against castration and viniculture, healing of a man with rabies in Tarsus.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_7_01.html#%A71">Book seven</a></span></b><br />
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Book 7. Apollonius' confrontation with the tyrant Domitian<br />
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7.1-4 Introduction<br />
7.5-8 Apollonius' public opposition to the tyrant and his exhortations to revolt against the tyrannical regime<br />
7.9 Domitian issues a warrant for the arrest of Apollonius. Apollonius foresees this warrant and leaves Smyrna for Dicaearchia (Puteoli), accompanied by Damis. He meets Demetrius there.<br />
7.11-14 Apollonius resists Demetrius' attempts to deter him from engaging in a confrontation with Domitian.<br />
7.15-21 Apollonius and Damis sail to Rome. Apollonius is arrested<br />
7.22-26 Apollonius is incarcerated in a prison with a mild regime; he instills courage in Damis and his fellow prisoners.<br />
7.27 Apollonius sees through the trickery of one of Domitian's spies<br />
7.28 A servant of Aelianus advises him on the line to adopt with the emperor<br />
7.32 Apollonius defends himself against the charges<br />
7.34 The emperor orders him to be shaved and put in irons<br />
7.35 Philostratus dismisses a letter attributed to Apollonius, in which the philosopher begs for Domitian's mercy, as a forgery.<br />
7.36-38 Apollonius brushes off another of Domitian's spies and inspires Damis with new courage by miraculously shaking off his fetters.<br />
7.40 Apollonius is transferred to the prison with a mild regime<br />
7.41 Damis sent back to Dicaearchia<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #990000;">Domitian</span></b></i><br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_8_01.html#1">Book eight</a></span></b><br />
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Book 8. Apollonius' trial before Domitian, his acquittal, and miraculous departure from the court.<br />
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8.7 The full text of the speech which Apollonius wrote for the defense<br />
8.8 Domitian is astonished by Apollonius' inexplicable departure<br />
8.10-14 After a mere half day's travel from Rome, Apollonius joins Damis and Demetrius in Dicaearchia and sets out for Greece.<br />
8.15-19 Olympia. A visit to the oracle of Trophonius. He spends seven days there underground and returns with a book containing the teachings of Pythagoras. <br />
8.20 Philostratus mentions that this book and a number of letters written by Apollonius are preserved in the emperor Hadrian's villa in Antium.<br />
8.24 Stays in Greece for two years in Ionia, Smyrna, Ephesus and elsewhere<br />
8.25-27 During his stay in Ephesus he miraculously witnesses the murder of Domitian in Rome<br />
8.28 Apollonius sends Damis to the new emperor with his recommendations in writing<br />
8.29 According to Philostratus, this is where the memoirs of Damis, which have served him as a main source for the adventures of Apollonius since the start of his journey to the East, come to an end.<br />
8.30 Apollonius' earthly existence are ascertained from other sources, devoting the most attention to Apollonius' ascension from the Dictynna temple on Crete.<br />
9.31 The sage of Tyana appears posthumously to a young man in a dream to confirm the immortality of the soul.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Apollonius of Tyana:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>"There is no death of anyone but only in appearance, even as there is no birth of any save only in seeming. The change from being to becoming seems to be birth and the change from becoming to being seems to be death, but in reality no one is ever born nor does one ever die. It is simply a being visible and then invisible; the former through the density of matter and the latter because of the subtlety of being - being which is ever the same, it's only change being motion and rest." </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>(See Apollonius of Tyana by GRS <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_0.htm" target="_blank">Mead</a>.)</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><u>Summary</u> source:</span></b> </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.livius.org/sources/about/philostratus-life-of-apollonius/#Book" target="_blank">http://www.livius.org/sources/about/philostratus-life-of-apollonius/#Book</a></span></i><br />
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