{"id":10973,"date":"2024-09-23T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T12:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigredopress.it\/il-culto\/zosimos\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T10:00:28","slug":"zosimos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nigredopress.it\/en\/the-cult\/zosimos\/","title":{"rendered":"Zosimos"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium color_alternate\"><div class=\"l-section-overlay\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(350deg, var(--color-alt-content-bg-alt) 30%, var(--color-alt-content-bg) 85%)\"><\/div><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><nav class=\"g-breadcrumbs separator_icon align_none hide_current\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\"><div class=\"g-breadcrumbs-item\" itemscope itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\"><a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/nigredopress.it\/en\/\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span><\/a><meta itemprop=\"position\" content=\"1\"\/><\/div><div class=\"g-breadcrumbs-separator\"><i class=\"far fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/div><div class=\"g-breadcrumbs-item\">Pages<\/div><\/nav><div class=\"w-separator size_medium\"><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h1>Zosimos, the <em>Founder<\/em> of <em>Nigredo<\/em><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium color_alternate\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_grid cols_1-2 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\" style=\"--columns-gap:3rem;\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"w-image img-fondatore align_center\"><div class=\"w-image-h\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/nigredopress.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Staff_Nigredo-Press_Zosimos-1.webp\" class=\"attachment-woocommerce_single size-woocommerce_single\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigredopress.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Staff_Nigredo-Press_Zosimos-1.webp 600w, https:\/\/nigredopress.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Staff_Nigredo-Press_Zosimos-1-200x300.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><strong>Zosimos<\/strong>, a cryptic figure par excellence, is a visionary who traveled with his mind into the futurop and founded the <strong>Cult of Nigredo<\/strong>, as well as being considered the author of one of the oldest known texts on alchemy. In his esoteric writings, drawn from ecstasies and intoxicating visions, he narrates how alchemy, the &#8220;science of the hand,&#8221; consists of the occultist&#8217;s ability to study the composition of waters, their movement and growth, drawing vapors from the primordial elements and spirits from bodies, ultimately effecting both material and allegorical transformation on the world and the Self. <\/p>\n<p>One of Zosimos&#8217; most eccentric texts concerns a dream sequence related to alchemy. He, first among mortals, arrives in a dream at the <strong>Cinerean City<\/strong> (called by others &#8220;<em>City Without a Name<\/em>,&#8221; or even &#8220;<em>conjunction of the two oceans<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Nowhere<\/em>&#8220;). Having climbed fifteen steps and reached an altar, he encounters a violently mutilated being who says his name is <em>Ion<\/em>, priest of the Inner Sanctuaries. The priest reveals that he climbed the fifteen steps and completed an initiation process, at the end of which an unbearable force dismembered and decapitated him with a sword, according to the rules of harmony. Suddenly, the man begins to melt and decompose horribly, turning into a small creature, a homunculus, who solemnly announces that Zosimos&#8217; vision represents the &#8220;entrance, exit and transformation&#8221; necessary to distill the soul from the body.    <\/p>\n<p>Little or nothing is known about Zosimos&#8217; end. Some sources report that he was abducted beyond the heavens, others that he was seized and torn to pieces by unseen entities in broad daylight in Damascus, an epilogue identical to that of another mysterious Yemeni alchemist of several centuries later. The truth is that his spirit now rules over the Cinereal <strong>City<\/strong>, the <em>World Beneath the World<\/em>, whose essence covers the dome of reality like dust, overflowing into it and communicating with it in subtle and imperceptible ways. From the Cynerian City, a world without gods, a realm of ivy and ruin, he <strong>announces the Cult of Nigredo<\/strong>, of which he is the founder and first priest. Zosimos holds the sacred task of bringing to light the texts of lost knowledge capable of subverting the rules of the cosmos, freeing the chained spirits of mortals and, with the passage of strange aeons, leading them before the <em>Cinereal Gap<\/em>, cleft on the infinite vastness of the planes&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium with_img\"><div class=\"l-section-img\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Nigredo Press - Il Culto\" data-img-width=\"1920\" data-img-height=\"380\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/nigredopress.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nigredo-Press_Il-Culto.webp);background-repeat: no-repeat;\"><\/div><div class=\"l-section-overlay\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(360deg, rgba(0,0,0,1) 25%, rgba(136, 55, 145, 0.6))\"><\/div><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"w-actionbox us_custom_535444f9 border-gradient-to-top-left on-violet color_primary controls_bottom\"><div class=\"w-actionbox-text\"><h2 class=\"w-actionbox-title\">Join the Cult<\/h2><div class=\"w-actionbox-description\"><blockquote>\n<p>Would you like to receive a preview of <strong>Astragali<\/strong>, the Cult newsletter, as well as esoteric gifts and apocalyptic visions of the future?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-actionbox-controls\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_3\" href=\"https:\/\/nigredopress.it\/en\/join-the-cult\/\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">Get the Vestments<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HomePagesZosimos, the Founder of Nigredo Zosimos, a cryptic figure par excellence, is a visionary who traveled with his mind into the futurop and founded the Cult of Nigredo, as well as being considered the author of one of the oldest known texts on alchemy. 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