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'Kazhdym pokoleniem obitateleĭ getto khoti͡a by raz v zhizni ovladevaet svoego roda dukhovnai͡a ėpidemii͡a - s bystrotoĭ molnii ee vezdesushchie bat͡silly pronikai͡ut v samye zataennye ugolki evreĭskogo kvartala, infit͡sirui͡a chelovecheskie dushi s kakoĭ-to nevedomoĭ t͡selʹi͡u, i togda nad labirintom krivykh pereulkov sgushchaetsi͡a nechto prizrachnoe i zloveshchee, a tam, gde ego napri͡azhenie okazyvaetsi͡a osobenno vysokim, ono podobno mirazhu obretaet oblichʹe nekoego kharakterno primetnogo sushchestva, kotoroe, sudi͡a po vsemu, obitalo zdesʹ mnogo vekov nazad i teperʹ vo chto by to ni stalo zhazhdalo oblechʹsi͡a vnovʹ v utrachennui͡u nekogda plotʹ i krovʹ', - pisal avstriĭskiĭ pisatelʹ Gustav Maĭrink (Gustav Meyrink; 1868-1932) v svoem znamenitom romane 'Golem' ('Peg Golem'; 1915), predstavli͡ai͡ushchem soboĭ virtuoznui͡u interpretat͡sii͡u voskhodi͡ashchego k XVI v. predanii͡a o glini͡anom gomunkuluse, sozdannom legendarnym prazhskim kabbalistom rabbi Levom.Nastoi͡ashchee izdanie knigi interesno prezhde vsego svoim znachitelʹno bolee razvitym po sravnenii͡u s predydushcheĭ publikat͡sieĭ (2004 g.) spravochnym apparatom - osnovatelʹno pererabotannoĭ vstupitelʹnoĭ statʹeĭ i novymi, nosi͡ashchimi analiticheskiĭ kharakter marginalii͡ami, bez kotorykh nevozmozhno poni͡atʹ ėto odno iz samykh zagadochnykh proizvedeniĭ mirovoĭ literatury, kompozit͡sionnoĭ dominantoĭ kotorogo ego avtoru, adeptu ri͡ada izvestnykh evropeĭskikh i aziatskikh taĭnykh obshchestv i ordenov, posluzhila vesʹma temnai͡a kabbalisticheskai͡a kont͡sept͡sii͡a, ras-smatrivai͡ushchai͡a cheloveka ne kak samostoi͡atelʹnoe, avtonomnoe I͡A, a kak manifestat͡sii͡u nekoeĭ vyssheĭ sushchnosti, cheĭ sakralʹnyĭ arkhetip peredaetsi͡a iz pokolenii͡a v pokolenie, vosproizvodi͡a v potomkakh odin i tot zhe iznachalʹnyĭ obraz 'genii͡a roda', v silu ri͡ada prichin ne uspevshego ispolnitʹ svoi͡u zemnui͡u missii͡u i vynuzhdennogo teperʹ vozrozhdatʹsi͡a do tekh por, poka genealogicheskai͡a t͡sepʹ ne zamknetsi͡a dukhovnoĭ realizat͡sieĭ odnogo iz ego voploshcheniĭ - dalekogo otpryska, kotoryĭ, proĭdi͡a chernui͡u bezdnu init͡siaticheskoĭ smerti, voskresnet v posledneĭ faze germeticheskoĭ misterii, transmutirui͡ushcheĭ brennoe 'golemicheskoe' sushchestvo neofita v bessmertnoe 'telo slavy' toĭ androginnoĭ filosofskoĭ substant͡sii, kotorui͡u adepty tradit͡sionno imenui͡ut Regis.

"Every generation of ghetto inhabitants is seized at least once in their lives by a kind of spiritual epidemic - with the speed of lightning, its ubiquitous bacilli penetrate into the most hidden corners of the Jewish quarter, infecting human souls for some unknown purpose, and then something ghostly and sinister thickens over the maze of crooked alleys, and where its tension is particularly high, it takes on the form of a mirage of some characteristically noticeable creature that, apparently, lived here Many centuries ago and now, at all costs, it was eager to put on again the once lost flesh and blood," wrote the Austrian writer Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932) in his famous novel "Golem" ("Peg Golem"; 1915), which is a masterly interpretation of the legend of the clay homunculus, created by the legendary Prague Kabbalist Rabbi Lev.This edition of the book is interesting primarily for its much more developed reference apparatus compared to the previous publication (2004) - a thoroughly revised introductory article and new, analytical marginalia, without which it is impossible to understand this one of the most mysterious works of world literature, the compositional dominant of which its author, an adept of a number of well-known European and Asian secret societies and orders, served as a very dark Kabbalistic concept, which sees man not as an independent, autonomous Self, but as a manifestation of a certain higher essence, whose the sacred archetype is passed down from generation to generation, reproducing in posterity the same original image of the 'genius of the race', who, for a number of reasons, did not have time to fulfill his earthly mission and is now forced to be reborn until the genealogical chain is closed by the spiritual realization of one of his incarnations - a distant offspring who, after passing the black abyss of initiatic death, will rise again in the last phase of the hermetic mystery, transmuting the mortal 'golemic' being of the neophyte into the immortal 'body of glory'. androgynous philosophical substance, which the adepts traditionally call Regis.