Zosimos of Panopolis (also known by Zosimus Alchemista, i.e. "Zosimus the Alchemist") was a Greco-Egyptian alchemist and Gnostic mystic who lived at the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 4th century AD. He was born in Panopolis (present day Akhmim, in the south of Roman Egypt), and flourished ca. 300. He wrote the oldest known books on alchemy, which he called "Cheirokmeta," using the Greek word for "things made by hand." Zosimos provided one of the first definitions of alchemy as the study of "the composition of waters, movement, growth, embodying and disembodying, drawing the spirits from bodies and bonding the spirits within bodies." In general, Zosimos' understanding of alchemy reflects the influence of Hermetic and Gnostic spiritualities. He asserted that the fallen angels taught the arts of metallurgy to the women they married, an idea also recorded in the Book of Enoch and later repeated in the Gnostic Apocryphon of John.Please consider supporting my work and download this audio as part of the ESOTERIC AND OCCULT WISDOM - MASTER COLLECTION (an ongoing collection of Gnostic, alchemical, Hermetic, and related occult audio projects that span dozens of hours) at https://altrusiangrace.bandcamp.comYou can now hire my voice for your projects! Sign up at ElevenLabs at https://try.elevenlabs.io/ip88ytdib898and then you can preview my available voices at https://altrusiangrace.blogspot.com/p/hire-my-voice_14.htmlTHE GNOSTIC TAROT and THE NECROTAROTCON card decks now available! https://www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/synkrasis*JOIN MY PATREON at https://www.patreon.com/altrusiangracemedia*BECOME A YOUTUBE CHANNEL MEMBER at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMzRTOugvDLwhSwJdoSWBZA/join*JOIN THE CULT OF STARRY WISDOM at https://altrusiangrace.bandcamp.com/starry-wisdom-cult*MY AUDIOBOOKS FOR AUDIBLE AND SPOTIFY - https://altrusiangrace.blogspot.com/p/audible-audiobooks.html*MY TSHIRTS AND DESIGNS ON DASHERY at https://altrusiangrace.dashery.com/*MY TSHIRTS AND DESIGNS ON AMAZON at https://amzn.to/3peS9j3*MY TSHIRTS AND DESIGNS ON TEEPUBLIC at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/altrusiangrace?ref_id=36271*MY ETSY STORE at https://www.etsy.com/shop/AltrusianGrace*FOLLOW THE AGM PODCAST at https://open.spotify.com/show/5Vc6Y7i6KtxWjwQ1EjXUep?si=GNnjlCGuRruR9ZNsHNU2UQ*SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEW CHANNELS - AGM STORYTIME at https://www.youtube.com/@agmstorytime AND MAGNA VORAGO at https://www.youtube.com/@magnavorago