Chymes

Chymes was a Greco-Roman alchemist who lived before the third century. He is known only through fragments of text in the works of Zosimos of Panopolis and Olympiodorus of Thebes.

Some theorists state that Chymes is the eponymous founder of alchemy. Zosimus associates him with Mary the Jewess. He may likely date from this earliest period of alchemy. Despite this, Chymes can not been identified with any known personage.

Fragments One is the All, and it is through it that the All is born. One is the All, and if the All does not contain all, the All will not be born.