People mistakenly attribute the invention of the method for constructing a homunculus to Paracelsus, but the practice is already known in Islamic alchemy under the name takwin, the artificial creation of life. According to the instructions given in the Kitab al-Tajmi, one must find an animal-shaped vessel and combine its bodily fluids, then place it in the center of a celestial sphere model to which heat is transmitted.
In fact, the first creator of homunculus was Zosimos himself during his travels as an oniromancer in the Cinerean City. Over the centuries he perfected the technique to such an extent that he created homunculi that could predict the future. Count Johann Ferdinand von Kuftstein is said to have had to reach the Cinerea City in a dream to obtain the occult knowledge of Zosimos before creating his embryonic wahrsagenden Geisters (or “scrutinizing spectres”).
The current Homunculus of Zosimos is a spiritually perfect life form, capable of examining and memorizing a vast amount of occult texts, discussing philosophy and astrology for days on end without resting or eating, and indulging in ingenious lucubrations about the fate of the cosmos in a totally incomprehensible language. Last but not least, Homunculus is able to move easily between worlds, being endowed with both spiritual and corporeal forms, and is in fact the bishop that Zosimos sends to the material planes to take care of the most tiresome chores.
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