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Apollonius No Fiction (Page 137) As to his prodigies, without wishing to fathom them,
Jerome most undeniably admits them as such; which he would assuredly never have done,
had he not been compelled to do so by facts. To end the subject, had Apollonius been a
simple hero of a romance, dramatised in the fourth century, the Ephesians would not, in their
enthusiastic gratitude, have raised to him a golden statue for all the benefits he had
conferred upon them. [ The above is mostly summarised from De Mirville. loc cit., pp. 66-69 ]
SECTION XVIII
Facts Underlying Adept Biographies
(Page 138) THE tree is known by its fruits; the nature of the Adept by his words and deeds.
These words of charity and mercy, the noble advice put into the mouth of Apollonius (or of
his sidereal phantom), as given by Vopiscus, show the Occultists who Apollonius was. Why
then call him the “Medium of Satan” seventeen centuries later There must be a reason, and
a very potent reason, to justify and explain the secret of such a strong animus of the Church
against one of the noblest men of his age. There is a reason for it, and we give it in the words
of the author of the Key to the Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery in the Source of Measures, and of
Professor Seyffarth. The latter analyses and explains the salient dates in the life of Jesus,
and thus throws light on the conclusions of the former. We quote both, blending the two.
According to solar months (of thirty days, one of the calendars in use among
the Hebrews) all remarkable events of the Old Testament happened on the
days of the equinoxes and the solstices; for instance, the foundations and
dedications of the temples and alters [and consecration of the tabernacle]. On
the same cardinal days, the most remarkable events of the New Testament
happened; for instance, the annunciation, the birth, the resurrection of Christ,
and the birth of John the Baptist. And thus we learn that all remarkable epochs
of the New Testament were typically sanctified a long time before by the Old
Testament, beginning at the day succeeding the end of the Creation, which
was the day of the vernal equinox. During the crucifixion, on the 14 th day of
Nisan, Dionysius Areopagita saw, in Ethopia, an eclipse of the sun, and he
said, “Now the Lord (Jehovah) is suffering something.” Then Christ arose from
the dead on the 22d March, 17 Nisan, Sunday, the day of the vernal equinox
(Seyf., quoting Philo de Septen) - that is, on Easter, or on the day when the
sun gives new life to the earth. The words of John the Baptist “He must
increase, but I must decrease,” serve to prove, as is affirmed by the fathers of
the church, that John was born on the longest day of the year, and Christ, who
was six months younger, on the shortest, 22d June and 22d December, the
solstices.
Jesus and Apollonius-
(Page 139) This only goes to show that, as to another phase, John and Jesus
were but epitomisers of the history of the same sun, under differences of
aspect or condition; and one condition following another, of necessity, the
statement, Luke, ix. 7, was not only not an empty one, but it was true, that
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