CHRONOLOGICAL APOLLONIUS GRAPHICS
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Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand liberated
Spain from the Moorish occupation, expelled the Jews and commissioned
Christopher Columbus' voyage to America in 1492. Ferdinand and
Isabella had assistance from the powerful Spanish Borgia family,
of whom Rodrigo became Pope Alexander VI.
Aldo Manuzio (Aldus Manutius), "Grandfather
Of The Paperback Book"
Founder of the Acclaimed Aldine Press, Venice
Lived 1449-1515 CE
Published The Life Of Apollonius Of Tyana By Flavius Philostratus,
1504 CE
For Additional Information, CLICK
HERE.
Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch philosopher,
theologian and writer who was known as the "Prince of Humanities".
He lived from circa 1469 until 1536. He helped Aldus establish
the Aldine Press, and he was one of Aldus' editors and typesetters
for a number of years.
Alberto Pio, Intellectual Colleague
of Aldo Manuzio
These are images of Rodrigo Lanzol
y Borgia, who lived from about 1431 until 1503 CE. He reigned
as Pope Alexander VI from 1492 (when the Moors were expelled from
Spain) until 1503 (during the period 1501-1504, when Aldus was
preparing to publish Philostratus' manuscript on Apollonius).
Rodrigo Borgia was a friend of Aldus, so undoubtedly he was aware
of any "controversy" surrounding the publication of
this biography. Lucrezia Borgia was the notorious daughter of
Rodrigo. She was a literary friend of Aldus.
Here are three portraits of Lucrezia
Borgia. The painting at the upper right is by the acclaimed Italian
artist Titiano. Alfonso d'Este was the third husband of Lucrezia
Borgia. All of Ferrara celebrated their wedding in 1502 CE, when
Lucrezia was 22 years old.
This is the cover of a mysterious book
written in French in 1670 by Montfaucon de Villars, titled Conversations
on the Secret Sciences or the Count of Gabalis. This book
is under investigation, since it contains rare information about
Apollonius of Tyana.
In 1680 CE Charles Blount, above, of
London published the first English translation of the Philostratus
biography of Apollonius and included extensive personal comments.
Soon thereafter his wife died, and he eventually fell in love
with her sister. He applied to the Church of England to marry
her, but the Church denied his request, in the same year that
the Archbishop of Canterbury officially banned any republication
of the Blount translation. Grief-stricken at these turns of events,
Charles Blount committed suicide in 1693.
Pierre Bayle lived in Paris and wrote
about Apollonius in the 1600s in an acclaimed Dictionary that
included the otherwise unknown information about the tragical
suicide of Charles Blount.
For additional infomation about Jabir
Ibn Hayyan, Pierre Bayle, Charles Blount and others, you are referred
to the Apollonius Historical Bibliography.
Le Comte de Saint-Germain helped to
perpetuate the revived tradition of Apollonius that began in Europe
after the republication of the Philostratus biography in Venice
in 1504 by the Aldine Press, as part of the series known as "Rhetores
Graeci". Saint-Germain obtained "secret documents"
about Apollonius and gave them to Jean-Baptiste d'Ansse de Villoison,
who published these documents in 1773 in Paris. Saint-Germain
was reportedly born in the 1690s and died in the 1780s. He is
a controversial historical mystery figure of considerable notoriety,
with ties to both the French and the Russian imperial families.
Some occultists say that that Saint-Germain is an "immortal"
and still lives amongst us, even today.
NOTE the winged cross, a variant of the ancient winged disk, above
the head of Saint-Germain in the upper lefthand picture.
Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Madame Blavatsky was a Russian theosophist
and prolific writer who lived in St. Petersburg and championed
the cause of Apollonius in her 19th-Century books THE SECRET DOCTRINE
and ISIS UNVEILED.
See also Blavatsky On Apollonius.
G.R.S. Mead wrote about the life of Apollonius in a 1912 book.
This is a picture of my friend Mike
from Pennsylvania, who first located the Apollonius book by Dr.
R.W. Bernard on the Web.
For additional details, see Ski_Tyana!
This is a picture of me, Robertino
Solàrion, in Texas in 1979, at about the time that my first-stage
research on The Cosmic Tree was
completed. This photo was taken in the summer before Dr. Immanuel
Velikovsky's death in November, just after I had completed my
treatise "June 15, 762 BCE :
A Mathematical Analysis of Ancient History" which was
published in THE VELIKOVSKIAN JOURNAL in August 1994.
The photo of me
on the Main Welcome Page was taken on 21 January 1998 when I was
in Bor, Cappadocia, Türkiye, staying at the Hotel Tyana.
1998 was at the very beginning of my research into the life of
Apollonius.
This is Nicolas
Verger of Bordeaux, France. In January 2001, Nicolas and I
began to cooperate in our on-going Apollonius research, and I
wish him well in his own writing, including his latest manuscript
L'Essai Illimité.
Bonne Chance, Nicolas, Mon Ami!
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