There is an ancient legend among the Jewish people, a
 tale so bizarre it ought not be repeated too widely, for
 if it were to prove true--may God forbid it should--but
 if it were true, Sheol itself might disgorge much of its
 imprisoned prey.

    It would be better to say no more.

    But, unfortunately, someone has disclosed too much
 already, and now we may but watch in horror the events
 which inevitably will follow...

    First, however, before we divulge the situation at
 large, let us go back in time and discuss what a Golem
 is...or was.

    The story the rabbis tell is that long ago someone
 discovered how Adam was formed and tried to duplicate
 the work of creation by molding "clay" into a giant man
 and animating it by pronouncing the sacred name of the
 Almighty.  Satan then entered into this soul-less giant
 and gave it a kind of life.  This giant was a "Golem."

    In one legend the Jews record, the first one to make
 a Golem was thought to have been Enoch, the first-born
 son of Seth, whom Genesis says took Abel's place after
 Cain had consumed him in his anger.  This Enoch is not
 the same as the 7th-born Enoch whose words are quoted in
 the epistle of Jude, but an earlier ancestor of the more
 famous Enoch.

    It would appear the original rabbinical speculation
 had been about how long ago the first Golem could have
 been made.  Genesis says that when Enoch was born, "men
 began to call upon the name of the LORD."  Because the
 sacred name is considered the key to animating a Golem,
 it follows that no Golem could have been made prior to
 the birth of Enoch, son of Seth.

    But at the time of this Enoch's birth, there were, in
 theory, only a handful of "men" alive:  Adam, Seth, Enoch,
 Cain, and his first-born, Enosh.  So who was calling upon
 the name of the LORD?  And why?

    If it had been Seth, why wouldn't Genesis simply say so?
 Why, the rabbis wondered, did the text not simply declare
 that Adam and Seth began to call upon the sacred name when
 Enoch was born?

    Now Enoch was just a baby, of course, and so he hardly
 could be the one referred to.  The story that it was Enoch
 who made the first Golem, then, may be a confusion with the
 rabbinical observation that no Golem could have been made
 before Enoch's birth.  Or it may be a confusion with Enosh,
 the son of Cain.

    Enosh was of the same generation as Seth.  Genesis does
 not name the "men" who began calling upon the sacred name,
 which allows for the possibility the "men" were Cain and
 his son Enosh.  Why would they try to manufacture a giant?

    We suspect some sort of ancient genetic experimentation
 was being conducted because not only does Genesis later say
 so, but virtually every other cultural tradition of mankind
 records myths and legends of similar nature.  Every ethnic
 memory retains a tale or two of mutant giants on the earth
 in past ages.  Like the universal Flood stories, the giant
 stories are part of the common heritage of all humanity.

    More than mere legend supports this idea.  We have, for
 example, great megalithic stone structures around the globe
 which seem to have been built oversize, as if for giants,
 and whose massive building blocks would have challenged
 even the vaunted strength of giants to heft and position
 them.  Their global remains match the global giant myths,
 and in many places the peoples insist the giants of their
 myths were indeed the builders of these structures.

    There are also lots of giant bones and skeletons lying
 about, not to mention modern reports of very large humanoid
 creatures or "Bigfoot" type entities.  It may shock people
 to be told this, but one of the beliefs of the Nazis was
 that they were descended from the Nepilim, the giants of
 old.  The goal of the Nazi breeding program was to rebuild
 these old "Nephilim" genes, thereby producing a race of new
 "supermen" equipped with great stature and supernatural and
 occult powers.  The Nazis believed killing the Jews was the
 required blood-sacrifice needed to animate a new generation
 of super-men with Luciferian powers.

    The strong parallels between the Nazi creation of a race
 of demonic super-men and the legends of the Golem should be
 viewed as no accident.  The Nazi SS leaders devoted a lot
 of effort to studying precisely this kind of material.

    All of which brings us back to Cain and Enosh.  If there
 is any truth to the legend, the Nazi model may provide the
 clue that explains why the first Golem might have been made
 after Enoch was born.  The Nazis were planning to conquer
 the world, gain dominion, and exterminate all the competing
 races.  Could Cain have had similar motives?

    Genesis makes Cain to be the first-born, and therefore,
 the presumed heir to Adam's dominion.  But after he kills
 Abel, Cain is exiled to the east toward the Mesopotamian
 valley where Babel and Babylon would arise, and modern-day
 Iraq.  As an exile, Cain would have dreamed of restoration.
 He would have wanted to return in triumph, succeeding Adam
 as ruler of mankind.  Having killed Abel, he assumed there
 was no one to oppose him.  But Seth was born, then Enoch.
 Cain began to realize he needed to compete by multiplying
 his descendents.

    But Genesis records a curious phenomenon:  Though Cain
 had a decided advantage of an extra generation head-start,
 he produced fewer generations than Seth did.  There is a
 hint here that something was genetically wrong with Cain.

    And the rabbis support it.  Cain's offspring, they say,
 suffered from either giantism or dwarfism.  Moreover, Cain
 was said to have a horn growing out of his forehead.  He
 had inherited this mutation from his father, an angel the
 Jewish legends call "Samael"--the angel of Mars who later
 is called "Satan"--meaning the Accuser or Prosecutor, one
 who sat in judgment over mankind to condemn it to death.

    The assumed scenario implied by all of this is that an
 attempt was made to modify Cain's genetic inheritance in
 order to compete with Seth's line.  Out of this grew the
 legend of the Golem.

    But there is another, more sinister, level to the myth
 of the Golem.  It was to serve as a physical body for the
 indwelling of Satan.  The Golem had no soul of its own to
 be "possessed" by Satan, which allowed it to be used in a
 more complete and powerful manner than in a "possession."

    In the old stories, the angel Samael had a magnificent
 angelic body or "Mantle" which was removed or lost in his
 rebellion.  He is condemned as Satan to "go on thy belly"
 or his inner spiritual being, and to "eat dust all the
 days of thy life" or devour human bodies--take possession
 of human hosts--in order to be active:  A form of what is
 now called reincarnation.

    Could it be, then, that this fallen angelic creature
 found itself without a body and coaxed his first-born son
 and grandson into using occult means of fashioning him a
 giant, replacement body?  A Golem?

    Jewish historians record the last supposedly genuine
 Golem was made in Prague in the sixteenth century, but
 was never destroyed.  The giant hulk of this super "man"
 may yet be lurking in its dull esoteric slumber away in
 some dank stone chamber in the old city, a rusted-out old
 lock on a termite-ridden door all that stands between the
 sleeping Golem and an unsuspecting world.

    But fallen angels have higher goals than Frankenstein
 creatures in forgotten European lofts.  They have their
 eye on choicer victims.

    If you were seeking a body, a vessel to occupy for the
 grand finale of human history, would you settle for some
 moldy sixteenth century Golem, or might you prefer a more
 princely portion: handsome, rich and powerful?

    Former mighty ones cast from the high battlements of
 Heaven must surely select a succulent slice of Scottish
 laddie over even the best-preserved Medieval Golem.

    And what if that Highlander were an "immortal" as the
 old clan legends tell?  Perhaps there's more to all these
 ancient claims of "Mighty Men of old, the men of renown"
 than we have dared suspect.  Can a child be brought into
 the world without a soul?  Are the Nephilim genes still
 with us?  Does the blood of angels flow in our veins?  Do
 giants walk among us?  Are our dreams haunted by the auld
 din of warring seraphim?

    Can a handsome young man truly be a Golem?

    Does evil prefer beauty and glamour over ugliness?  Is
 our naive habit of equating wickedness with warts leading
 us into deception?  Perhaps the truth is too obvious:

    The Golem hides.