The Hebrew word emeth means “truth.” If the first of its three consonants is crossed out (in Hebrew the initial sound of the word emeth is represented by a consonant), meth is left. Meth means “dead.” The adepts made the man “by means of the book Yezirah” — that is, by means of a magic operation with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. This is essentially the same kind of operation as Marx’s creation of “socialist man” by means of gnostic speculation. The golem legend now sheds additional light on its nature. In view of the reality of the order of being in which we live, Marx’s prohibition of questions had to be characterized as an attempt to protect the “intellectual swindle” of his speculation from exposure by reason; but from the standpoint of the adept Marx the swindle was the “truth” that he had created through his speculation, and the prohibition of questions was designed to defend the truth of the system against the unreason of men. The curious tension between first and second reality, first and second truth, on the pneumopathological nature of which we have remarked, is now revealed to be the tension between the order of God and magic. But this tension, which results from magic’s will to power, can be eliminated. For what does the golem do, bearing, like Adam, the man whom God created, the seal of truth on its forehead? It erases the letter aleph in order to warn the adepts that the truth is God’s; the second truth is death: the golem dies.
– Science, Politics, and Gnosticism (2004), pp. 37-8