paradise
1. heaven as the ultimate abode or state of the righteous
2. Islam the sensual garden of delights that the Koran promises the faithful after death
3. (according to some theologians) the intermediate abode or state of the just prior to the Resurrection of Jesus, as in Luke 23:43
4. the place or state of happiness enjoyed by Adam before the first sin; the Garden of Eden
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Paradise
(religion, spiritualism, and occult)Paradise, asteroid 2,791 (the 2,791st asteroid to be discovered, on February 13, 1977), is approximately 20 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 3.7 years. Paradise is a concept asteroid, named after the Garden of Eden. J. Lee Lehman asserts that if this asteroid is well-aspected in a natal chart, the native believes paradise can be found in this existence. If, however, “the asteroid is poorly aspect, then the person is less than optimistic that Paradise exists outside of the movies.” Jacob Schwartz gives Paradise’s astrological significance as “beliefs in perfection.”
Sources:
Kowal, Charles T. Asteroids: Their Nature and Utilization. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Ellis Horwood Limited, 1988.
Lehman, J. Lee. The Ultimate Asteroid Book. West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1988.
Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.
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paradise
1. The court of the atrium in front of a church.
2. The
garth of a cloister.
3. A Persian pleasure garden, usually elaborately planted.
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Paradise
poetic name for heaven. [World Rel.: NCE, 1213]
Paradise
BaliIndonesian island; thought of as garden of Eden. [Geography: NCE, 215–216]
magical Scottish village that materializes once every 100 years. [Am. Music: Payton, 100–101]
ancient region on Jordan river; promised by God to Abraham. [O.T.: Genesis 12:5–10]
place of beauty, peace, and immortality, believed in the Middle Ages to exist in some undiscovered land. [Eur. Legend: Benét, 298]
earthly garden of luxury; abode of Adam and Eve. [O.T.: Genesis 2:8]
(Elysian Fields) abode of the blessed in afterlife. [Gk. & Rom. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary]
quiet garden of the gods where golden apples grew. [Gk. Lit.: Hippolytus; Gk. Myth.: Gaster, 25]
paradise for American Indians. [Am. Culture: Jobes, 724]
beautiful spot in Kashmir’s Jhelum Valley. [Indian Hist.: Payton, 300]
where trees bear fruits of lapis lazuli. [Babylonian Lit.: Gilgamesh]
proverbial ideal of plenty and happiness. [Western Cult.: Brewer Dictionary]
African land where eating lotos fruit produced amnesia and indolence. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey; Br. Lit.: “The Lotos-Eaters” in Norton, 733–736]
eternal bliss and the end of all earthly suffering. [Indian Religion: Jobes, 1175]
utopia hidden in the Himalayas. [Br. Lit.: Lost Horizon]
garden of jeweled trees and dulcet-voiced birds. [Buddhist Myth.: Gaster, 24]
fabled land of wealth and splendor. [Eur. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1084]
land of luxuriance and red sunrise. [Aztec Myth.: Gaster, 25]
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Paradise
Paradise is a subsystem (a set of packages) developed to
implement inter-processes, inter-tasks and inter-machine
communication for
Ada programs under
Unix. This subsystem
gives the user full access to files, pipes, sockets (both
Unix and
Internet) and pseudo-devices.
Paradise has been ported to
Sun,
DEC, Sony MIPS,
Verdex compiler, DEC compiler, Alsys/Systeam compiler.
Version 2.0 of the library. E-mail:
<paradise-info@cnam.cnam.fr>.
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Paradise
An earlier family of graphics cards for PCs from the Paradise subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation, Irvine, CA.Copyright © 1981-2019 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Paradise
according to most religious teaching, for example, in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism, the place of eternal bliss for the souls of the righteous.
Sources for the concept of paradise go back to primitive beliefs in the existence of the soul beyond the grave. In the Old Testament, paradise is depicted as a beautiful garden in which the “first man and woman,” Adam and Eve, lived until they were driven out after they fell from grace. In the subsequent development of Christian doctrine, paradise was conceptualized as a place to which the righteous returned after death.
In many religions, the bliss of paradise is contrasted with the torments of the sinners in hell. Unlike the detailed elaborations of conditions in hell, however, representations of paradise are vague and sketchy. The concepts of “paradise” and “hell” are used by the clergy for the religious aims of influencing the consciousness and feelings of believers.
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