Project Gutenberg 2025-10-22 Public domain in the USA. 382 Shirley, Ralph 1865 1946 Ireton, Rollo 21004489 Occultists & mystics of all ages Occultists and mystics of all ages $aLondon :$bWilliam Rider & Son, $c1920. Apollonius of Tyana -- Plotinus -- Michael Scott -- Paracelsus -- Emanuel Swedenborg -- Count Cagliostro -- Anna Kingsford. Mairi, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) "Occultists & mystics of all ages" by Ralph Shirley is a collection of biographical essays written in the early 20th century. It examines the lives, legends, and philosophies of notable figures associated with occultism and mysticism, weighing primary sources against later myth and religious polemic to distinguish history from fable. The volume ranges from Apollonius of Tyana and Plotinus to Michael Scot, Paracelsus, Emanuel Swedenborg, Count Cagliostro, and Anna Kingsford. The opening of this volume lists its seven subjects and then launches into extended portraits. First comes Apollonius of Tyana, where the author sifts Philostratus and Damis against Christian polemics (Hierocles versus Eusebius), recounting emblematic episodes—reviving a Roman bride, foreknowing imperial events, and advising emperors—while stressing his Pythagorean asceticism, travels (including India), and teaching on reincarnation. Next, Plotinus is set in the Alexandrian milieu, his life (Ammonius Saccas, Rome, Porphyry’s editing) sketched before a clear outline of Neoplatonism: the One, Intellect, and Soul; matter as privation; the universe as a living, sympathetic organism; mystical union; and the perennial puzzles of evil, time, and creation. The section on Michael Scot intertwines border-ballad legend (Melrose Abbey’s “Book of Might”) with history—his Toledo translations of Arab science, colorful alchemical and hypnotic feats, service to Frederick II, medical reforms, frustrated church preferment, and death lore—and the next chapter opens by framing Paracelsus as a defiant reformer against entrenched orthodoxy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/b29825039/page/n5/mode/2up 20240705053331shirley 1920 GB en Mysticism BF Text 295982 2025-11-30T10:40:36.916152 text/html 270681 2025-10-22T08:37:18 text/html 1329133 2025-11-30T10:40:41.925164 application/epub+zip 1327432 2025-11-30T10:40:38.287172 application/epub+zip 236166 2025-11-30T10:40:37.577176 application/epub+zip 1383269 2025-11-30T10:40:44.738134 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1365059 2025-11-30T10:40:41.359170 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 266518 2025-11-30T10:40:36.396184 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 246594 2025-10-22T08:37:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15570 2025-11-30T10:40:44.878115 application/rdf+xml 9469 2025-11-30T10:40:37.812150 image/jpeg 1807 2025-11-30T10:40:37.696145 image/jpeg 1229652 2025-11-30T10:40:36.989196 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog