The acquisition of the highest knowledge and power requires not only many years of the severest study enlightened by a superior intelligence and an audacity ben

Whenever there is a decline of virtue, an uprising of vice and injustice in the world, a Great Soul incarnates on earth for the establishment of righteousness,

With appended selections from Philostratus’ The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated by F.C. Conybeare.

1. The Origin of the Mysteries. The last incarnation of one of seven “Lords of the Flame” was Baladeva, Krishna’s brother. Hercules is none other than Bal