# Occultists & mystics of all ages

Author: Shirley, Ralph, 1865-1946

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77108

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Occultists+%26+mystics+of+all+ages+Shirley&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The difficulty of treating of such a subject as the life and activities of the Philosopher of Tyana lies in the fact that the story of Apollonius’s career has been overlaid with legends of the miraculous on the one hand, and distorted by religious prejudices on the other; while the only authoritative account of this great religious reformer is marred by the glaring deficiencies of the writer for the task which he had in hand, and his inability to appreciate the life-work of the subject of his biography. Indeed he fills many pages with literary padding of the worst kind, while he fails to give us over and over again the very facts which it is of value and importance for us to know. Philost...

## Chapters

- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/occultists-and-mystics-of-all-ages-77108/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/occultists-and-mystics-of-all-ages-77108/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/occultists-and-mystics-of-all-ages-77108/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/occultists-and-mystics-of-all-ages-77108/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/occultists-and-mystics-of-all-ages-77108/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/occultists-and-mystics-of-all-ages-77108/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/occultists-and-mystics-of-all-ages-77108/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/occultists-and-mystics-of-all-ages-77108/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/occultists-and-mystics-of-all-ages-77108/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/occultists-and-mystics-of-all-ages-77108/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/occultists-and-mystics-of-all-ages-77108/chapters/11/index.md)