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What is most striking about The Life of Apollonius are the parallels to the account of the life and deeds of Jesus Christ in the Gospels [...] Apollonius was from Syria, specifically Tyana, after being initiated into the Pythagorean Order, he preached in Judea during the same years as the evangelizing of Jesus. [...]

Apollonius of Tyana performed the same miracles as β€œJesus Christ.” He healed the sick, cast out demons (performed exorcisms), and raised the dead. As a powerful magician, he was known to be able to bilocate or to be in at least two places at once. Like Jesus, whose date of birth is only a few years off from that of Apollonius, the Tyanian was supposed to have had a miraculous birth from a virgin mother who was visited by a god taking the form of one of the ancient Egyptian deities.

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Apollonius was eventually charged with heresy and sedition and handed over to the Roman authorities, who wanted to crucify him. But this silver-tongued Lucifer outwitted them, escaping crucifixion, and traveled through the Middle East, across the Persian Empire, where he met with many of the Magi, and on to northern India. Local Kashmiri legends claim that Jesus Christ, whom they call Isa Masih, survived crucifixion, traveled across the Persian Empire, and then settled in Kashmir, India, where he became a guru of great renown, grew old and died. They identify a particular tomb in Kashmir as being his.

There is little to no evidence of the existence of Jesus outside of the Bible, but Apollonius of Tyana was well known throughout the Roman Empire. Certain cities and towns even featured statues of him. [...] certain followers of John the Baptist, and also Simon Magus and his followers, claimed that β€œJesus Christ” was a fraud. Centuries later, in the European Middle Ages, the Knights Templar were, to their demise, discovered to hold the same belief.


β€” Jason Reza Jorjani, Erosophia

Image: Cahetel Rosier, 2024
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Shakti is the active β€œPower” and lover of Shiva β€” the Indian β€œLord of the Dance”. [...] This Great Goddess has a number of avatΓ’rΓ’s or emanations known as Mahavidyas. [...] Kali is the primary or adi Mahavidya.
She is the Mistress of Transformation.


β€” Jason Reza Jorjani, Novel Folklore

Images: Android Jones, 2020s
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