Apollonious was on the road much of his life, traveling virtually the Whole of the civilized Western world as well as Egypt and Persia. Yet he insisted that he never found such great wisdom anywhere else as he had experienced in India. He went so far as to claim that many of the mystery schools of the West had originated in India in the distant past. He called the yogis"good-men" both because of their miraculous powers and because of their profound spiritually and extraordinary compassion.
Apollonious wrote a four-volume book about the teachings of the Hindu spiritual masters which unfortunely has been lost. But we know that for the first several centuries of the Common Era, Apollonious of Tyana was one of the most celebrated and respected spiritual teachers of the Western world. During his lifetime, the Roman emeperors Nerva and Titus counted themselves among his devotees.
Emperor Severus Alexander, who regained from 222 to 235, considered Apollonius one of the greatest men in world history. And in 271 when Emperor Lucius Aurelian set out with an army to destroy the City of Tyana, Apollonius appeared to him in a vision and commanded him to show mercy.
Aurelian stopped the war.
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