paradise

n. heaven, Garden of Eden

Paradise is an English word from Persian roots that is generally identified with the Garden of Eden or with Heaven. Originally meaning a walled garden or royal hunting grounds, the term entered Jewish (and eventually Christian) beliefs as a Greek translation for the Garden of Eden in the Septuagint. It is sometimes also identified with the bosom of Abraham, the abode of the righteous dead awaiting Judgment Day. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus tells a penitent criminal crucified alongside him that they will be together in paradise that day.
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Noun
1. (Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death
(hypernym) Heaven
(classification) Christianity, Christian religion

Noun
1. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
(synonym) eden, nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la
(hypernym) region, part

(v. t.)
To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
  

(n.)
The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.
  

(n.)
The abode of sanctified souls after death.
  

(n.)
An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
  

(n.)
A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.
  

(n.)
A churchyard or cemetery.
  

Paradise [from Greek paradeisos from Old Persian pairidaeza from Sanskrit paradesa region beyond] Applied in Persian and Greek to a pleasure park or royal domain. A Hebrew version (pardes) is found in the Bible, translated "orchard" (Eccl 2:5, Cant 4:3) and "forest" (Neh 2:8). An equivalent is the Hebrew eden (delight). Stories of a Paradise or Eden are universal; and while the general idea is simple, its applications are complex. It is the state of innocence and bliss from which there is departure, and to which there is eventual return. This may apply to the human race as a whole, to particular races, to the lands they inhabit, or to the pilgrimage of the individual human soul.
Persian tradition places a Garden of Delight far to the north of Caucasus in the Arctic regions, where was the Imperishable Sacred Land whence issued a stream from the earth's fount of life. Adi-varsha was the Eden of the first races and specifically of the primeval third root-race; the Eden of the fifth root-race is but its faint reminiscence. The Garden of Eden or of God (Ezek 31:3-9) was a home of initiates of Atlantis, now submerged.
The Eden in Genesis is a marvelous fusion of many meanings into one narrative, where the Adams of the various root-races are made into one. Eden was an ancient name for Mesopotamia and adjacent regions; and under that one name are comprised the meanings of an abode of initiates, a sacred land from which races emerged, and a goal of bliss in the future.
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