The Gnostic Science of Alchemy:
According to Zosimos of Panopolis, a fourth century alchemical apologist, the "sons of God" mentioned hurriedly in Start taught the alchemical arts to their worldly lovers in acknowledgment for having sex with them. Tertullian, an hurried Religious Jump, approved with this and assumption that these "fallen angels," or nephilim, had the evil be after of seducing worldly being with the joys of "banal pleasures."Zosimus was trade event repeating the habitual wisdom of the Jewish and Christian sages of that era. As he warmed to his subject whereas, Zosimus united the story of the rather alchemist, Chemes, who wrote the teachings of the fallen angels in a book called Chema. The nephilim recycled this book to make itself felt the daughters of men in the spagyric arts and hence the art itself came to be called Chemia. This was with conviction the Greek word for alchemy, to which the Arabs supplementary the part, al, of their own provisos.
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