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The Rise and Fall of Paradise
The Rise and Fall of Paradise
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Paradiseor the ordered universe or the cosmosbegan with the discovery of time and its revelation that the universe operates according to universal laws. As Earth's people endeavored to live in harmony with these newfound principles, Paradise evolved into a religion as well as a science, and its truths were meticulously recorded in the myths and symbols that are the archives of preliterate peoples worldwide.

The Rise and Fall of Paradise follows Paradise from its distant prehistoric beginnings through the many millenniums of its evolution to its destruction in the Fall. Though now deemed irretrievably lost, enough of the ancient Paradise's scattered symbolism survives to offer an alternative perspective on how life might be lived on this Earth.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateDec 14, 2015
ISBN9781491735275
The Rise and Fall of Paradise
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I. K. Fleming

I. K. FLEMING uses myths, symbols, epics, legends, religious and alchemical texts, folklore and fairy tales to re-create the long-forgotten history of the original celestial––and ultimately Earthly—sacred landscape of Paradise. This is the author’s first book.

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