 It is believed that he attained the fifth level of initiation (the "resurrection") when he became an Ascended Master at the end of his life as Apollonius of Tyana.However, if Apollonius was a contemporary of Jesus as Blavatsky wrote, Jesus could not have reincarnated as him.Benjamin Creme gets around this by claiming that Jesus lived from 24 BC to AD 9  (instead of the usual dates given of Jesus' lifetime as being c. 6 BC to c. AD 30 or AD 33).