The Complete Final Age Sefer Torah is online at RabbiAlpern.com. Go there to see the library that is created on the A Mountain. A FINAL AGE TESTAMENT SELECTIONS ( ) COMPILED BY R.E.A. SHONE Copyright 1987-2020 Final Testament Book Two Final Acts Final Revelation Final Kabballah Consider Me A Dream (Coda) RabbiAlpern.com The Complete Final Age Sefer Torah is online at RabbiAlpern.com. Go there to see the library that is created on the A Mountain. As a Professor of Literature and Spirituality I introduce you to Theophilos and pray that you become one in this conversation. All is renewed in the Final, and you get the last word! Before embarking and setting sail we turn to Waldo (Ralph Emerson) who desired we all be sages, poets and mystics. We hear and shall obey. (At the end of Representative Men): The world is young; the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world. The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life, in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use. (This is also the 613th Mitzvah of the Torah, to write your own Sefer Torah. Again, see RabbiAlpern.com for this Final Commandment.) ANNOUNCING FINALLY! FINALLY! After 2000 years HURRY! HURRY! Wake Right up! Wake Right up! The Latest Rage: “Give me that brown bag religion” Everyone a Sage In this The One – The Only THE FINAL AGE® And the Lord looked upon the world She had created and She was convulsed with wholly uncontrolled laughter. And She summoned Professor Higgs (who discovered The God Particle, the scalar boson) and suppressing her mirth, She dealth with him firmly and said: Wherefore has thou destroyed the symmetry of the world? Higgs responds: “… Who could have predicted the sunsets and the oceans and the organic ooze formed by all the awful molecules agitated by lighting and heat? And who could have expected evolution and those physicists poking and probling and seeking to find out what I have, in your service, so carefully hidden? And the Lord, hard put to stop her laughter, signed forgiveness and a nice raise for Higgs.” The Very New Testament 3:1 by Leon Lederman Final Age Dedication: Rabbi Melville This Final Age® Testament is and is not (A) Novel. The Five Books2 are filled with extras such as short short stories, concrete poetry, prophecy, letters, Revelations, History, Erotica, Physics, Philosophy, and what not. Like the original, this is more than a book, at one and the same time fiction and nonfiction. The Tradition continues. And the Author? Call Me Rabbi. I am reminded of the Critics description of you, Herman, as a “Big, Bearded, violently excited man trying to shout down the whimpering lonely child in his soul.” True. Why else write? What the critics said of you, my friend, will also be said of Me: “not even a minor master.” Leviathans. Great White and black lettered FAT Bibles that take from, and add to, the Old and the New. Moby Dick, and now this! A Rabbi rewrites the Bible! You say Moby Dick is bungled? Herman, take a look at this Final Age® Bible. Yes there is light in both books but “blubber is blubber tho you may get oil out of it.” The same can be said of the Old Testaments. At times the Prose and as you say, Herman, “the poetry may run as sap from a frozen maple tree.” True. Only God is Perfect, as you know My Friend. A Final Kabballah. “There are some things so serious: you can only joke about them.” -Neils Bohr Kabballahwalky The Final Age® twill be perceived By those Ascending Mountain A With whimsy is the Word rephrased The Fathers are outraged! Beware the Ologies my peers Religions bind and dogmas klatch Beware the Funde Mental Bird and shun The Frumious soul savers snatch. Now take these Verbal Swords in hand No Old. No New. No tongue to snare Rest beneath this Figment Tree Pause A-while in prayer. Before this Final Age® we stand All cherubim with unknown names Now striding back to Promised Land We slice away our shame. Alphabeta. Come! A. B. The A Ascent the verbals, whirl-ing purify so gyre or gamble on the Wor(l)d the veil is drawn aside. AA “and what shall I say I stutter A-A Nothing else do I know how to say” – Catherine of Sienna God, Allah, Christ, New Age, Old Testament, New Testament, The Bible, The Quran (Koran), Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Rabbi, Priest, Minister, Fundamentalism, Revelation, Revelations, Religion, Politics, Psychology, Madonna and Kabalah (Kabballah, Kabbalah, Kaballah, cabala) and more are all redefined in the Final Age (Se A lah). Franz Kafka teaches that religions, like people get lost. The same is true of words and meaning, and politics and psychotherapy. In the Final Age religion is viewed as literature as much as revelation, so we also recognize the prevalence of weak poetry and loose prose. The Meaning of the Original Wor(L)ds are lost, more than any Sacred Truths. The Final Age, and Sealah, begin as fictions, and then become F(A)cts. One last (final) word: Lighten up! The ascent up the mountain leads to the Arête. Character and characters are found on the peak. Fundamentalism and all grave teachings take place at the base. True revelation teaches basics, not secrets, fundamentals, not ism’s. Final Age Testament The Final Age Testament: Introduction to The Five Books Of Laurence – By Rabbi Edwin A Shone The Final Age Testament critically revises but does not replace the Original. The Bible is a vast and diverse library and these Five Books of Laurence may be thought of as the opening of a new wing. I asked Rabban to write his own introduction, which proceeds book one. The fullest version of this bible of course, begins again, in Genesis and finishes in the final fifth book of this Testament. Final Kabballah is a final recasting of all the teachings, and this end is also a beginning for readers who wish to start there. Consider Me A Dream; a film biography of the life of Franz Kafka is both coda and key to the Final Age Testament, an End and a beginning. These Five Books are not a replacement scripture; they are a continuation of the story. In the retelling, this is for latter day saints and sinners. Joseph Smith discovered golden plates here in the hills of Upstate New York. Latter day legend has it that the original biblical oracle, the Urim and Tumim were found with the ancient script that the oracle would translate into the Book of Mormon. They are lost once again so I shall have to put on the Priestly Breastplate and be the Light and Completion of this Final Age Testament. I discovered these Five Books on the hard drive of our Rabbis Apple. They are self-edited. I have made only minor scribal corrections. – You’re Scribe, R I awkwardly introduce myself as R. Redactor. Rabbi. My name is Edwin A. Shone and I am a professor of literature at Sylvan College, a Kafka specialist who came to the Rabbinate rather late in life. I have no desire to ever fill a pulpit and I remain President of the synagogue where Ari Rabbied. I worked together with the Ari for years before his untimely death. We had the usual tensions between rabbis and Presidents of synagogues. I sat through over one thousand of the Rabbis sermons over the years until I was converted. I made the Ari my Mentor and Rebbe and began saving my notes and commentary and even the articles the Rabbi contributed to our Temple bulletin. Rabban published the first two of these five books in one volume in a limited “proem” edition. The critics could not get beyond the “Rabbinic pornography” The Rabbis notes make it clear that he was telling the story of a human messiah. The Book was presented as a Bible, which it is, and that also offended. The book wears black clerical garb to make a point. I have reports that some volumes were burned. Discouraged Ari gave up plans to publish books three four and five and the screenplay. They were edited and ready on his Apple. I am astonished that many readers and critics did not grasp the concept and humor of the Final Testament. One day the Rabbi was throwing box after box into the dumpster, and I offered to help. We were trashing his notes and copies of Final Testament. He smiled and said “and now the trees of the field may rejoice,” and “to the making of ends there are no books.” I was about to correct him when I finally understood. What if he never wanted any of this to be published? I br(o)od on this daily. I worked with Ari on the adaptation of his film to the stage when our students performed Consider Me a Dream. The play has endless possibilities, being a stream of dreams Kafka has in the final moments of his life. If Dr. Scholem is right that Kafka put the K in Kabballah, you may want to start there. Finally, at least for today, I do not think this publication a betrayal.