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philosophy founded on the sublime neo-platonic and Pythagorean principles, and embodying the vast spiritistic know ledge acquired by years of study among the brahmins of India and Gymnosophists of Egypt, through which he was “enabled to put spirits of impurity to flight, to foretell future events, to discern the secret thoughts of others, to be visible or invisible at will," and evoke the spirits of the dead.
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{{Style P-No indent|philosophy founded on the sublime neo-platonic and Pythagorean principles, and embodying the vast spiritistic know ledge acquired by years of study among the brahmins of India and Gymnosophists of Egypt, through which he was “enabled to put spirits of impurity to flight, to foretell future events, to discern the secret thoughts of others, to be visible or invisible at will," and evoke the spirits of the dead.}}
    
Philostratus, who compiled the account of his extraordinary career by command of the Emperor Septimus, Severus tells us, on good authority, of the prophecy of a pestilence at Ephesus foretold by Apollonius, and of the death of the Emperor Domitian at the moment it occurred. He also narrates the following in his fourth book: —
 
Philostratus, who compiled the account of his extraordinary career by command of the Emperor Septimus, Severus tells us, on good authority, of the prophecy of a pestilence at Ephesus foretold by Apollonius, and of the death of the Emperor Domitian at the moment it occurred. He also narrates the following in his fourth book: —

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