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The Garden of Eden

The origin of the term "Eden", which in Hebrew means "delight", may lie with the Akkadian
word edinu, which itself derives from the Sumerian term E.DIN. The Sumerian term means
"plain" or "steppe", so the connection between the words may be coincidental, although this
word is known to have been used by the Sumerians to refer to Mesopotamia as the "valley of
E'din", meaning the fertile lands between the Tigris and Euphrates.
The Garden of Eden described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man,
Adam, and the first woman, Eve, lived after they were created by God. The past physical
existence of this garden forms part of the creation belief of the Abrahamic religions. The
creation story in Genesis relates the geographical location of both Eden and the garden to
four major rivers (Pishon, Gihon, Hiddekel, Euphrates), as well as a number of named
regions (Havilah, Cush, Asshur or Assyria) (see Genesis 2:10-14). This seems to suggest a
setting in the ancient near east, specifically somewhere in or near Mesopotamia. However,
because the identification of these rivers has been the subject of much controversy and
speculation, a substantial consensus now exists that the knowledge of the location of Eden
has been lost. There is yet no other indication found of its existence beyond the record found
in Genesis and other early Judaeo-Christian literature, such as Jubilees.
Geography
The Book of Genesis contains little information on the garden itself. It was home to both the
Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, as well as an abundance of other
vegetation that could feed Adam and Eve.
"A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four
rivers".
The text asserts that within the Garden the river divided into four branches: Tigris, Euphrates,
Pishon and Gihon. The identity of the latter two rivers have been the subject of endless
argument, but if the Garden of Eden had really been near the sources of the Tigris and the
Euphrates, then the original narrators in the land of Canaan would have identified it as
located generally in the Taurus Mountains.
The Urantia Papers (1955) state that three locations were considered for the garden: The first
was an island in the Persian Gulf; the second, the river location subsequently occupied as the
second garden; the third, a long narrow peninsula - almost an island - projecting westward
from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The committee almost unanimously
favored the third selection.
This Mediterranean peninsula had a salubrious climate and an equable temperature;
this stabilized weather was due to the encircling mountains and to the fact that this
area was virtually an island in an inland sea. While it rained copiously on the
surrounding highlands, it seldom rained in Eden proper. But each night, from the
extensive network of artificial irrigation channels, a "mist would go up" to refresh the
vegetation of the Garden.
The coast line of this land mass was considerably elevated, and the neck connecting
with the mainland was only twenty-seven miles wide at the narrowest point. The great
river that watered the Garden came down from the higher lands of the peninsula and
flowed east through the peninsular neck to the mainland and thence across the
lowlands of Mesopotamia to the sea beyond. It was fed by four tributaries which took
origin in the coastal hills of the Edenic peninsula, and these are the "four heads" of the
river which "went out of Eden," and which later became confused with the branches
of the rivers surrounding the second garden.
The mountains surrounding the Garden abounded in precious stones and metals,
though these received very little attention. The dominant idea was to be the
glorification of horticulture and the exaltation of agriculture.
The site chosen for the Garden was probably the most beautiful spot of its kind in all
the world, and the climate was then ideal. Nowhere else was there a location which
could have lent itself so perfectly to becoming such a paradise of botanic expression.
In this rendezvous the cream of the civilization of Urantia was forgathering. Without
and beyond, the world lay in darkness, ignorance, and savagery.
Eden was the one bright spot on Urantia; it was naturally a dream of loveliness, and it
soon became a poem of exquisite and perfected landscape glory.
The Urantia Papers, Paper 73
Satellite photos reveal two dry riverbeds flowing toward the Persian Gulf near where the
Tigris and Euphrates also terminate. While that accounts for four rivers in the vicinity, that
area is the mouth of those rivers rather than their source.
In Isaac Asimov's Asimov's Guide to the Bible, he makes note that you should "Notice that it
is not the garden itself which is called Eden. One cannot speak of 'Eden' as though it were
synonymous with the Garden, any more than one can speak of 'California' as though it were
synonymous with Yosemite Park." His words echo that of the Talmud written over 1,500
years before him which states (Brachos 34b) that the Garden is distinct from Eden.
 Alternate Locations
If the location of the original tellers of the tale is ignored, then there have been a number of
claims as to the actual geographic location of the Garden of Eden, though none of these have
much connection to the text of Genesis. Most put the Garden somewhere in the Middle East
near Mesopotamia. Locations as diverse as Ethiopia, Java, the Seychelles, Brabant, and
Bristol, Florida have all been proposed as locations for the garden. Many Christian
theologians believe that the Garden never had a terrestrial existence, but was instead an
adjunct to heaven as it became identified with Paradise.
Others point out that the world of Eden's time was destroyed during Noah's Flood and it is
therefore impossible to place the Garden anywhere in post-flood geography. There is also an
attempt to tie this with the mystical sunken land of Atlantis. One favourite location is
Sundaland which today is the South China Sea. In this case the current Tigris and Euphrates
rivers are not the ones referred to in the narrative, but later rivers named after two of the
earlier rivers, just as in more modern times colonists would name features of their new land
after similar features in their homeland. This idea also resolves the apparent problem that the
Bible describes the rivers as having a common source, which the current rivers do not.
One recent claim by archaeologist David Rohl puts the garden in the north-western Iran.
According to him, the Garden is a river valley east of the Sahand Mountain, near Tabriz. He
cites several geological similarities with Biblical descriptions, and multiple linguistic
parallels as proof.
The Urantia Book (1955) places the Garden of Eden in a long narrow peninsula projecting
westward from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and having been long ago submerged
in connection with volcanic activity and the submergence of a Sicilian land bridge to Africa,
features unidentified by geologists. Recent exploratory efforts (2004) show promising signs
of structures in the area east of Crete, where the Garden is believed to be submerged.
Dilmun
Some of the historians working from within the cultural horizons of southernmost Sumer,
where the earliest surviving source of the legend lies, point to the quite genuine Bronze Age
entrepot of the island Dilmun (now Bahrain) in the Persian Gulf, described as 'the place
where the sun rises' and 'the Land of the Living'. The setting of the Sumerian creation myth,
Enûma Elish, has clear parallels with the Genesis narratives. After its actual decline,
beginning about 1500 B.C., Dilmun developed such a reputation as a long-lost garden of
exotic perfections that it appears to have influenced the story of the Garden of Eden. In a
reverse process, literal-minded interpreters have sometimes tried to establish an Edenic
garden at the trading-center of Dilmun.
Sumer
The first Sumerians lived in the plains of what is now southern Iraq. The Sumerian word for
plain is "edin", and it is very likely that the name "Eden" has derived from this. Sumerian
Gods create a biogenetic experiment.
Eden as Paradise
The word "paradise" that Christians have made a synonym for the Garden of Eden is a
Persian word, which describes a walled orchard garden or an enclosed hunting park. It occurs
three times in the Old Testament, significantly not in connection with Eden: in the Song of
Solomon iv. 13: "Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire,
with spikenard" ;Ecclesiastes ii. 5: "I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in
them of all kind of fruits";and in Nehemiah ii. 8: "And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the
king's orchard, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which
appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into.
And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me. ". In the Song of
Solomon, it is clearly "garden;" in the second and third examples "park."
In the post-Exilic apocalyptic literature and in the Talmud, "paradise" gains its associations
with the Garden of Eden and its heavenly prototype. Literary Hellenistic influences led to the
Pauline Christian association of "paradise" with the realm of the blest.
The Greek Garden of the Hesperides influenced the Christian concept of the Garden of Eden,
and by the 16th century, in the Cranach painting (see illustration), only the action that takes
place there identifies the setting as not the Garden of the Hesperides, with its golden fruit.
Some anthropologists have hypothesized that the Garden of Eden does not represent a
geographical place, but rather represents cultural memory of "simpler times", when Man
lived off God's bounty (hunting and gathering) as opposed to toiling at agriculture... a
metaphor reinforced by the words of the Book of Genesis.
This is similar to the opinion of the Jews, who came up with the legend in the first place and
should therefore be given some say, that Gan Eden exists on a purely spiritual dimension and
is not part of our physical world.
Reference: Wikipedia
Eden is sometimes considered the Cradle of Humanity or the Cradle of Civilization.

Everything we view as reality is a virtual reality experiment in time to experience emotion

experienced through consciousness and the eye.
Reality is myth, math, and metaphor. The Garden of Eden is a metaphoric legend linked to
creation by the patterns of sacred geometry. The story is laced with metaphors for the reader
to beli'eve', then to unravel arriving at the truth behind the illusion.
The obvious metaphors are male/female, duality, polarity of our experience in a bipolar
electromagnetic experiment.

The serpent represents spiraling DNA or Dragon symbology.

The 'Fall' is consciousness slowing down as it spirals/falls into the Tree of Life or Physical
Experience/Experiment from which it is about to evolve in the alchemy of time.
Flower of Life
Tree of Life - patterns creating by sacred geometry that repeat in time creating consciousness
programs with the same pattenrs in which humanity can experience virtually.
The Apple is Knowledge - the Seed of Life, etc.

Physical Reality - Electromagnetic Energy Grids - Bipolar - Male/Female Reunion

 Read the story of

Adam and Eve

Find the metaphors - Lion, Lamb, Horse, [nebula]
stream, [collective unconsciousness] tree, [of Life]
As is Above, So is Below, Hermes Trismegistus
Hourglass, Time, X - Xbox - In the Box

Fingers that Point Upward

Many metaphors here ....

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