The selected works of the Austrian writer Gustav Meyrink offered to the reader included the novel Golem (1915) and short stories, most of which, scattered through the periodicals, were not included in any author's collection and had never been translated into Russian before. This collection pursues the following goal - to give the reader an adequate translation of "Golem," since, despite the fact that in Russia this unique work has been translated twice (in 1922 and 1992), none of these translations can be recognized as satisfactory, because not only does not convey the lexical and stylistic originality of the world-recognized masterpiece of expressionistic prose, but does not even contain a hint of the most complex hermetic symbolism that the author laid the basis of his immortal novel. The article and detailed comments sent to the collection are, in fact, the first attempt to seriously analyze those hidden and obvious allusions to alchemy, Kabbalah and occultism, which abound in this one of the deepest and most mysterious works of world literature.