Excerpt from The Life of Apollonius Tyanaeus: With a Comparison Between the Miracles of Scripture and Those Elsewhere Related, as Regards Their Respective Object, Nature, and Evidence To the personal emolument of those who cultivated it.c7 To our present question, however this distinction is unimportant. To whichever principle the Miracles of Apollonius be r, eferred Theurgy or Magic, in either case they are independent of the First Cause, and not granted with a view to the particular purpose to which they are to be applied. 68. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.