Throughout history, every culture has its own representation of the golem- an android, robot, computer, doplanger, Frankenstein, humunculus, living statue, tulpa, etc. These beings are capable of independent existence from its creator's control.

Instructions to bring this creature to life are suggested to be found within the mysterious words of the Sefer Yetzirah, The Book of Creation. But to connect the puzzling phrases of letters, vowels and details of the Universe to the creation of a golem is one of the elusive mysteries of the Universe.

There are many techniques and "authoritative" instructions on how to create a golem, or bring a golem to life. But, many lack the details needed to know how to construct the golem. Most of the techniques are described in books about Rabbi Lowe of Prague and his creation of a golem. But, these stories are just stores from the authors and may not have much substance. Read about the different methods used to create a Golem..

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There are many websites with information on the golem, how to make a golem and the Book of Creation, or Book of Formation (Sefer Yetzirah in Hebrew). This page lists links I found useful in my studies. Also, see links and information on Sefer Yetzirah, The Book of Creation.

Golem Legends

The Golem Legend

Legend of the golem

The Golem Page

Golem.plush.org

Golem: wikiverse http://golem.wikiverse.org/

The Golem Gazzette: http://www.golem.tv/gazette/index.asp

The Golem

Golem

Defense of Anthropomorphism:
http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/Severed_Heads/DefenseOfAnthropomorphism.html

Jewish Magazine: http://www.jewishmag.com/26mag/golem/golem.htm

The Golem- A study into a Jewish Myth

Rava's Golem

Rava's Golem (On the Jewish magical tradition and legends of creating a Golem with Sefer Yetzirah) 1996

Study of the Golem by David Wisniewski

History and Psychology of the Golem/ Centre for Jewish Studies University of Manchester:
http://www.mucjs.org/Lancaster.htm

Golem Links: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/golem/golemwebsites.html

Golem Summary: http://www.umich.edu/~engb415/literature/pontee/Golem/Glmsmry.html

Prague Post: 21st Century Golem: http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2002/Art/1002/calen2.php

Jewish Thinking and the Golem

Yedid Nefesh: http://www.yedidnefesh.com/kaballah/kol-hator/3.htm

Virtual Reality Minyon Question: http://www.cckollel.org/html/heritage/questions/question11.shtml

Soshana Tekhelot: http://www.koshertorah.com/treeknowledge.html

The Names of G-d: http://members.aol.com/fegele/letters03.html

Simcha Kuritzky: http://www.hollyfeld.org/heaven/Text/QBL/rpgqbl.html

Adam, Golem, Robot a dialogue: http://www.mishkan.com/agr.html

Various Golem Stories

Jewish Golem Stories A STUDY OF THE GOLEM, ILLUSTRATED BY
DAVID WISNIEWSKI
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/golem/index.html

21st Century Golem: http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2002/Art/1002/calen2.php

The Golem and Rabbi Shmutzkopf: http://ape_hatorah.tripod.com/apespirit/thegolem.html

The Gargoles Golem: http://www.dracandros.com/Jebgarg/tge/golem.htm

The Night Watchman and the Hundred Thousand Golems by Jay Michaelson:
http://www.metatronics.net/words/golem.html

David Wisneiski's Golem: http://www.the-looking-glass.net/rabbit/3.1/academy.html

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

http://pup.princeton.edu/chapters/s6933.html

http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/teachers/SolomonIbnGabirol.htm

X-Files golem episode

http://www.thex-files.com/episodes/season4/4x12.html

Golem and Psychological Issues

Golem as a transpersonal image, Lancaster:

Part 1: http://members.tripod.com/~TheHOPE/GOLEM1.htm

Part 2: http://members.tripod.com/~TheHOPE/GOLEM2.htm

A STUDY OF THE GOLEM, ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID WISNIEWSKI, Kay E. Vandergrift

The Creator and the Computer: Sefer Yetsirah

An anomalous Genesis: metaphor and implication in the creation of

the golem

An Encounter with the Computational Unconscious: Questioning Automatic Drama: http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/culturalusability/papers/Pelo_paper.html

Growth and Development of the Golem:
http://www.israel.net/raikhlin/social_dynamics/myengbook/chapter3/chapter3.htm

Digital Imaginary, A Procreative Tendency: http://www.culture.com.au/techtonic/self/procreative.htm

Golem Personality

Qualities of the Golem: http://www.atomick.net/fayelevine/pk/golem03.shtml

Holistic Theory of Behavior of the Golem: http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/holistic/INDEX.HTM

Psychology of the Golem: http://www.israel.net/raikhlin/social_dynamics/myengbook/chapter4/chapter4.htm

Techniques to Create a Golem

Abulafia's technique: http://www.pd.org/topos/perforations/perf12/golem/abulafia.html

On Constructing a Golem: Wheel of Joseph: http://members.fortunecity.com/patrickm/231golem2.htm

http://www.atomick.net/fayelevine/pk/golem02.shtml

Lesson4 Thanatropism: http://www.electricapocalypse.com/thanatropism/four.html

Chaiyam Bloch: Excerpts, The Making of a Golem: http://pnews.org/bio/2golem.shtml

Kabalah for Simpletons: How to Create a Golem: http://kabbalahclub.com/prevarticles/golem.html

Technique

http://golem.plush.org/

Molding the Golem: http://users.lmi.net/sonyarap/redeeming/pages/golemP/moldingthegolem.html

http://members.aol.com/fegele/golem02.html

www.sy231theory.com/bookofcreation.html

http://golem.plush.org/links/

http://www.templesanjose.org/JudaismInfo/tradition/Golem.htm

Eleazar of Worms Techniques

The Rhombi-Cadeusus and the letters: http://members.aol.com/AJRoberti/math/rc.htm

FRATERNITAS SATURNI Nosferatu's Baby (Much too much) Too hot to handle, by Peter-R. Koenig
http://www.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/fs2.htm (égregore is by definition a created soul- psychogon)

The Golem: History, Techniques & Uses: http://members.aol.com/fegele/golem00.html

Building a Golem: http://www.barbelith.com/underground/topic.php?id=5956

Transmigration/Metepsychosis/Gilgulim

The Gates of Reincarnation from the teachings of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria :
http://www.thirtysevenbooks.com/ShaarGilgul/Chap03Sec02.htm

JewishEncyclopedia.com description: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=298&letter=T

Transmigration of the Life Atoms by H.P. Blavatsky: http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/TransmigrationOfTheLifeAtoms.htm

What is Rebirth? http://www.tapp14.freeserve.co.uk/introbudd/whatisrebirth.html

Transmigration of Souls Part 1: http://hasidicstories.com/Articles/Themes_In_Hasidic_Stories/nigal_1transf.html

"My Golem"

http://www.sixsixfive.com/309.html

Unusual Golem Topics (some may be content restrictive to minors)

Deeper Insights into Illuminate Formula: http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/Deeper.htm

Nosferatu's Baby (Much too much) Too hot to handle by Peter-R. Koenig:
http://www.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/fs2.htm

Golem in Film and Music

"The Golem" Live music by Gary Lucas and Walter Horn

Computer Gaming and the Golem

Cantrap Magical Technique: http://www.cantrap.net/technique/golem.html

Card Game= RhinoGolem: http://www.rhinoventures.com/golem/

Van Richten's Guide to the Created:
http://www.darkside.gr/guests/add/ravenloft/Van%20Richten's%20Guides/vr03_03.htm

GOLEM robot project.
http://www.demo.cs.brandeis.edu/golem/ completing the Maharal's dream of artificial life does not require humanoid shape, you know! At GOLEM (Genetically Organized Lifelike Electro Mechanics), they conducted a set of experiments in which simple electro-mechanical systems evolved from scratch to yield physical locomoting machines.

Misc. Golem Links

Temple San Jose: The Golem

Parshat Behar-Behukotai - Moshe Sokolow

The Golem- A study into a Jewish Myth

Medieval Sourcebook

Golem

http://www.umich.edu/~engb415/literature/pontee/Golem/Glmsmry.html

Golem web site links

Golem Links

Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews, Vol. VI -
From Moses in the Wilderness to Esther, The Jewish Publication Society of America, U.S., 1946

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/golem.html

http://www.padedu.com/golem.html

Introductory Note to the Golem, Contemporary Interpretations
Nathan Ausubel

Angelo S. Rappoport, The Folklore of the Jews

Golem: golem.plush.org

Golem On Line

Frequently Asked Questions About Golems: http://www.everwyrd.com/golems.htm

GolemHead.com: http://www.golemhead.com/still_rab_html/rab_2.html

Phosphenique

Phosphene: stimulation of the optic nerve or retina producing a flashing sensation in the eye. They are a result of rapidly changing magnetic fields and occur at threshold field changes of 2­5 T/s which, at the edge of the gradient field can just about be reached with the modern high slew rate gradient systems. GvS The Encyclopaedia of Medical Imaging

Phosphene Thresholds:

http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/publication.html?publ=949

http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/publication.html?publ=1571

Phosphene thresholds evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation are insensitive to short-lasting variations in ambient light: http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00221/contents/02/01160/

Design for a phosphene visual prothesis: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~minerva1/publications/design/design.html

Phosphene Images of Thalamic Sleep Rhythms Induced by Self-Hypnosis: http://www.issseem.org/V7N2Abs.html

Matter from light: http://www.zayra.de/soulcom/moroni/

TMS and phosphenes: http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:ZVBYHGQ83UgC:www.ists.unibe.ch/Lit/2002_
Fitzgerald.pdf+phosphene+%2BREM&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Rough Phosphene Exhibit: http://crac.lr.free.fr/rouge/indexengl.html

Artifical Vision for the Blind: http://www.seeingwithsound.com/etumble.htm

Phosphenes Association: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/phosphenic/

Phosphenic Center: http://www.phosphenic-center.com/

Egregores

See Chaos Magick listings

Egregore CDefination Compilation: http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/gegregor.html

Chaos Theory : http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/egregore.html

'GOTOS' an égregore or group-spirit.

FRATERNITAS SATURNI Nosferatu's Baby (Much too much) Too hot to handle by Peter-R. Koenig:
http://www.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/fs2.htm

Golem and Cloning Issues

Dolly and the Golem

Jewish Law - Articles ("Cloning People and Jewish Law"): http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/cloning.html

Aibo

History of the Aibo: http://www.phm.gov.au/hsc/aibo/origins.ht

Virtual Humans

A.L.I.C.E. Foundation: http://alicebot.org

BotSpot: http://www.botspot.com/

V-Bot examples:

LauraBot: http://www.ecimarketingalliances.com/conversdemo.htm#

http://www.ecimarketingalliances.com/conversdemo.htm#

KurzweilAI.net

StarLogo from MIT: OS9: http://education.mit.edu/starlogo/macos9.html

Di-o-matics 3d characters: http://www.di-o-matic.com/

PandoraBots: http://www.pandorabots.com/botmaster/en/home

Virtual Humans: http://www.ordinarymagic.com/v-people/

Animating a body

The animation principle: http://www.culture.com.au/techtonic/self/principle2.htm

Automata/Human Simulacra

Ancient Automatons: http://www.ancient-automatons.com/

http://www.automata.co.uk/mainpage.html

Robots

Adam, Golem, Robot - A Dialogue between Ken Goldberg and Ovid Jacob

Robo-lab: http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/bob.pilgrim/scsw_2002/robo_lab.html

Getting Started in Robotics: http://www.robots.org/GettingStarted.htm

Humanoid Robotics Group: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/

Jeff's All Things Robot Links: http://www.many-realms.net/LTBSA/index.html

Robot 2003 Links: http://www.popfiction.com/SF2003/robot/

RoboRevolution: http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/robo/friend.htm

Androids

Building Androids

XXX ToyTech: text to speech, talking head and more: http://ca.geocities.com/xxxtoytech/index.html

Androids and Robots Sci Fi: http://ca.geocities.com/xxxtoytech/fiction.html

Androids and TV

"Small Wonder" series: http://smallwonder.hispeed.com/COC.html

Why Moms Love V.I.C.I.: http://smallwonder.hispeed.com/SWonTV/Mothers.html

Nuts and bolts of V.I.C.I: http://smallwonder.hispeed.com/NutsBolts/NutsBolts.html

Android World: http://www.androidworld.com/

Robopolis by Rotwang: http://www.geocities.com/rotwang2000/

Android Links: http://winterrose.web1000.com/Links_an_Such/links_an_such.html

Android Addiction: http://www.philipkdick.com/pkdweb/AndroidAddict.htm

Valerie, the domestic android: http://www.androidworld.com/prod19.htm

Congratulations, it's a Bot!: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/robobaby_pr.html

Scientific Development of Humanoid Robots

Robosapians: http://robosapiens.mit.edu/etl.htm

ALICEbot: http://alicebot.org/

Sony's AIBO Robot: http://www.sony.net/Products/aibo/home/index.html

Humoid Robotics: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/

Homepage to Loebner's Prize for the first to pass the Turing Test:
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

Programming an Android

Java 3SDK download: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html

Java Script tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/index.html

RIAN the Chatbot: http://www.strout.net/info/science/ai/brian/

Tutorials, Artificial Life Depot: http://ai-depot.com/Features/Tutorials.html

RoboPC: http://www.freewebs.com/robopc/weblinks.htm

Robots.net: http://robots.net/

Robby the Houshold Robot: http://www.anice.net.ar/intsyst/robby.htm

Animations and Androids: http://www.medonis.com/maxwell_howto1.html

Zabaware Hal: http://www.zabaware.com/home.html

Sorceforge, Katiebot the Emotional chatbot: http://sourceforge.net/projects/katiebot/

AIBO:

Sony's AIBO: www.SonyStyle.com

AIBO Home Page: http://www.us.aibo.com/clubaibo/news.php?view=archive_view&text_id=3

Building an Android (mostly Macinstosh as noted):

Speech

Sony SRS-RF90RK Wireless Speaker with Transmitter: http://www.smarthomepro.com/8214.html

Apple Computers: Speech

speech.apple.com

OSX: http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/speech.html

Mac and OSX Speech Technologies: http://developer.apple.com/ue/speech/ 

Speech Synthesis Manager:

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/multimedia/SpeechSynthesisManager/speechsynthesis.html

comp.speech FAQ. Master links to resources and documents: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/

Speech Synthesis Links (PC and Mac): http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/synthesizers.html

Speech Synthesis Software (PC and Mac): http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/Section5/Q5.5.html

Kevin Lenzo's Mac Speech Software Links (new URL): http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/mac/speech/

Speech Technology Links Around the World: http://www.loria.fr/equipes/parole/Html/anglais_liens_utiles.html

More Speech Technology Links Lists: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Speech_Technology/Speech_Synthesis/

MacSpeech: http://www.macspeech.com/

MacYak Pro: http://www.lowtek.com/macyack/

Macromedia Chatbot (Windows and Mac0S): http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/multiuser/chat_bot/

Chatterbot FAQ: http://www.abenteuermedien.de/jabberwock/faq_en.html

Chompy: java code: http://members.tripod.com/~SoftBlue/chompy_home_page.htm

Natural Language Translation Engine and Chatterbot links: http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/nlp.html

Jabberwock, Creating your own chatbot: http://www.agentland.com/cgi-bin/relocation.cgi?http://www.agentland.com/pages/learn/chatterbox_challenge/pirner.html

Voice Recognition in Education Links: http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/voicerecognition.htm

Robotopia Chatterbots: http://cyberlewis.com/a/robots.shtml

Simon Laven's Home Page: http://www.simonlaven.com

Aqua Human Interface: Speech:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/AquaHIGuidelines/AHIGSpeech/index.html

Mac Speech Synthesis: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/Section5/Synth/macintosh.html

Designing Learning Environments: Speech recognition: http://www.stanford.edu/~dmiller/speech/dwtspeech.html

Macintosh and Androids:

MacRobotics: http://www.macrobotics.com/macrobotics.html

AppleScript Sourcebook: http://www.applescriptsourcebook.com/

Artificial Intelligence Mark Up Language

AIML Overview: http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/pics/wallaceaimltutorial.html

Pandorabots- Convert text to AIML: http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora

ALICEBOT on Mac OSX: http://www.noendpress.com/caleb/ALICE101_MacOSX/

Cloning

Dolly and the Golem: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/970407_Golem.html

Chaos Magick

Writing of Austin Osman Spare: http://www.hermetic.com/spare/

a5e at the edge of chaos- Phil Hine: http://www.phhine.ndirect.co.uk

Astral Simulacra: http://www.phhine.ndirect.co.uk/archives/rit_simulacra.htm

Basicks of Choas Magick: http://invisableilluminati.chaosmagic.com/custom.html

Guide of Chaos Magick in Germany: http://www.ax.boudicca.de/

http://www.chaosmatrix.org/

http://invisableilluminati.chaosmagic.com/

http://www.chaostatic.com/

http://www.cthulhu.org/

Chaos Magick: http://www.chaosmagic.com/

Chaos Magick Text: http://www.textfiles.com/occult/ERIS/cc.txt

Chaos Never Dies: http://www.kaaos.org/chaos/

Defining Chaos: http://www.kaaos.org/chaos/definingchaos.php

How and Why Subliminal Influence Works: http://www.toolband-sucks.com/tool4.htm

Spiral Nature Chaos Magick: http://www.spiralnature.com/magick/chaos/

Servitors

Golems as Servitors: http://www.angelfire.com/space/inominandum/servitors.html

Avatar and Golem: http://www.culture.com.au/techtonic/flux6/godngolem.html

Eight Magicks by Pete Carroll: http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos359.htm

DeathandHell.com, creating a servitor: http://www.deathandhell.com/corpus/servitors_index.html

General purpose servitor: http://www.phhine.ndirect.co.uk/archives/sp_genpurpose.htm

The Living Servitor: The Frankenstein Syndrome: www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/frank.html

Shape Shifting: http://www.btinternet.com/~lilith.kaos/shape.html

Sigils, servitors and godforms: http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/servitors.html

Summoning a Soggoth: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/necshog.htm

http://www.shoggoth.net/

Creation and the Created

The Animating Principle: http://www.culture.com.au/techtonic/self/principle.htm

Frankenstein and the Golem from jewishgothic.com

Valkyrie: http://students.hhsweb.com/z971592/novels/night/nw_16.htm

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