There Were Many Gardens of Eden

Most of us grew up with one Garden of Eden. A man, a woman, a tree you must not touch, a serpent in the grass, and a garden planted in the east. You can still see it. Genesis tells it as one place.

The other books will not leave it there. One writer puts the garden on a lost land in the Pacific. Another puts it on Atlantis. Another puts it inside the Earth. An old name from Iraq puts it at the city of Eridu. Those are not the same ground. Bashar, speaking through Darryl Anka, is the one who says how they can all be talking about a garden. There was not one. There were many.

The garden in Genesis

Open Genesis 2 and the picture is quiet. The Lord God plants a garden eastward in Eden and puts the man there. A river comes out to water it, then splits into four. The Pison runs around the land of Havilah, where there is gold. The Gihon runs around Ethiopia. The Hiddekel goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. One garden. One river. Four streams.

On The beginning of humanity I read that verse as an enclosed place, ground walled off for a piece of work.

And the YHWH Elohim established an enclosed garden within Eden and there they put the humans whom they had predeterminded.

9Nania. Genesis 2:8

The humans are put there already chosen. I have also called that enclosure a workshop, the place where the human line was shaped. The longer reading is on Genesis 2. The chapter itself still speaks of one garden. The thought that there were many comes later.

Many laboratories

Bashar is a being channeled by Darryl Anka. In What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden? he was asked about the garden, the tree, the snake, and the apple.

In terms of the general Garden of Eden, there were actually many spots on your planet where the Anunnaki had these genetic laboratories, but one of the main ones was in what you call the area of the Middle East, in that area near the Euphrates River. And therefore that was considered the original garden. Eden is simply the name that they gave to that particular base.

Bashar. What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?

The Anunnaki, in his account, are an advanced people who came to Earth. Somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 years ago they mixed their own line into the early humans he calls Homo erectus and Homo habilis. What came of that work was us. He calls the male line Adama and the female line Eva. Those names became Adam and Eve.

The snake, for him, is their knowledge of how a body is built, the spiral we draw as DNA. The two snakes on a medical staff are the same sign. They wanted that knowledge kept from the new humans, so the eating of it was forbidden. I follow that account on Adam.

Someone then asked if the work was done at Temple Mount. In The Hidden Truth of Adam, Eve, and Lilith he puts the main laboratory in the Middle East, between the two rivers.

There were many different labs around your planet, but the primary one was in the Middle East.

Bashar. The Hidden Truth of Adam, Eve, and Lilith

Between what you call the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the fertile crescent, being the primary contact point and laboratory and civilization that the Anunnaki established when they came to Earth and spread out from there.

Bashar. The Hidden Truth of Adam, Eve, and Lilith

The story we inherited has been pressed into one picture. The gardens were laboratories. There were many of them on Earth. The one counted as the original was a base near the Euphrates, and Eden was the name of that base. From there the Anunnaki went out into the world.

The name Genesis uses is Elohim, the powerful ones. Bashar says that in the Hebrew Bible this often means the Anunnaki, and that other beings, met over time, sit under the same word.

Dolores Cannon opens The Search for Hidden Knowledge with the story she had told in Keepers of the Garden. An early group went from world to world, looking for planets ready to hold life. Their work was to begin that life, and then leave it alone. Others came later, looking for minerals. They stayed, set the early people to work, and had children with them. A council sent those others away, so the first experiment would not be spoiled. The telling is on The beginning of humanity.

Lyssa Royal Holt, in The Golden Lake, puts groups like these in every part of the world, and says they were to help the new humans remember where they came from, without taking the work over.

In those ancient days, various ET groups worked with new humans. The groups were all over the world.

Lyssa Royal Holt. The Golden Lake

Once that is clear, the other books stop competing. Each of them found a garden. They did not find the same one.

Lyssa Royal Holt says the same thing about the man in the story. In The Prism of Lyra, Adam is a prototype tried in many parts of the Earth. The passage is on Adams and Eves.

The Adam prototype was introduced on Earth to test its environmental adaptability in many areas of the planet. (There were many Adams). When this prototype was satisfactorily adapted, the Adams were recalled.

Lyssa Royal Holt. The Prism of Lyra

The book then makes a female prototype, Eve, and sends both back out. Bashar’s many places are laboratories. This book says many areas, and many Adams.

Matias de Stefano, in a later note on The beginning of humanity, names the lands where samples were taken: South Africa, the Congo, Egypt, Arabia, the Middle East, and India. Different human prototypes were tried there, to see which could live among the others. Some family lines, he says, came from humans and beings of other worlds having children together.

He says the new humans were kept on islands. They did not know where they were, and they could not yet carry what they were being shown. The ones who held that knowledge said the humans were not ready. The islands were where they stayed until they could understand the work they were part of. I read those islands the same way I read the enclosed garden. A place set apart, until the people in it could carry what they were.

9Nania reads the making of the woman as work done in sleep. A cell is taken, and the woman is built from it.

And the YHWH Elohiym caused a deep sleep to fall upon Humans and as they slept YHWH took on of their cells and closely joined the flesh underneith.

9Nania. Genesis 2:21

Huna Flash, a Lemurian elder, uses the garden the same way. In a later session it is his name for laboratories, and he speaks of human DNA being changed more than once.

Kryon names one later change in that DNA. About 200,000 years ago, he says, the human count went from 24 pairs of chromosomes to 23, and the Pleiadians were the ones who made the cut. The note is on Alterations of humanity.

A garden in the Pacific

James Churchward keeps it as one garden. In The Lost Continent of Mu (1926) there is one garden, and it is not in Asia. It is Mu, a great land now under the Pacific. The book is The Lost Continent of Mu (1926).

The Garden of Eden was not in Asia but on a now sunken continent in the Pacific Ocean.

James Churchward. The Lost Continent of Mu (1926), p. 1

A little later he folds several old names into that one land: Mu, the Egyptian Lands of the West, the Maya land of Kui, the Hindu motherland, and the Garden of Eden (pp. 125 to 126). For him, many names still means one place.

He says it again in The Children of Mu. Mu and the Biblical Garden of Eden were one land (p. 16). Writing about Greece, he goes one step further. The Israelites, he says, later took the tale of that destruction and called it the Garden of Eden (p. 140). That book is The Children of Mu.

A garden on Atlantis

Ignatius Donnelly, in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882), goes looking for the river that splits into four. He finds it again and again, and he brings every copy home to Atlantis. I follow that search in The pyramid, the cross, and the Garden of Eden.

But here is the same testimony that in the Garden of Eden there were four rivers radiating from one parent stream. And these four rivers, as we have seen, we find in the Scandinavian traditions, and in the legends of the Chinese, the Tartars, the Singhalese, the Thibetians, the Buddhists, the Hebrews, and the Brahmans.

Ignatius Donnelly. Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882)

He finds the memory in America too. Montezuma told Cortez that his fathers had lived in Aztlan, a happy place, and Donnelly says the name means whiteness. One homeland, remembered under many names. The garden story belongs to more than one people. Donnelly still traces every copy back to Atlantis.

Eric Dubay, in The Atlantean Conspiracy, writes down some of those names. The lines are on Adams and Eves.

For instance the Bible's first man was "Adam," while in Egypt "Atum" was the first man, in Babylon he was "Adamu," in India he was "Adima" and he was always warned against eating the fruit of immortality from the Tree of Life.

Eric Dubay. The Atlantean Conspiracy

Egypt has Atum. Babylon has Adamu. India has Adima. Each is warned away from the tree. Dubay is collecting memories of one story. He does not choose the garden’s ground. Donnelly does, and he chooses Atlantis.

Lewis Spence comes to that same land by another road. In The Occult Sciences in Atlantis, the world before the flood, the Garden of Eden, and Atlantis are one place. A Coptic writing, in what he calls the Arcane Tradition, sets the rivers of Atlantis in circles. Genesis has four rivers running out from one. A later Hebrew telling sets those rivers in the Middle East. I go through his book in the review.

Edgar Cayce sets an Adam on that land. He calls him Amilius. Amilius was the first to see the beings there divide into male and female. Before that, Cayce says, they were closer to thought than to flesh, and the bodies hardened as they reached for a material life. Plato’s Symposium tells a related memory: an older human who was both sexes, and was later divided. I follow Cayce’s version on the early Atlantean body.

A garden inside the Earth

Rolf Telano, in A Spacewoman Speaks (1960), moves the garden off any ground we can walk. The Elder Races made our bodies. The garden was their laboratory. Adam is not one man. Adam is the name of a people. The book is A Spacewoman Speaks.

The Biblical "Garden of Eden" was the biological laboratory of these Elder Races. The word "Adam" is not the name of an individual, but a racial or group name.

Rolf Telano. A Spacewoman Speaks (1960), file p. 4

She then puts that laboratory inside the Earth. The people called the Adams were sent up onto the surface.

As your Bible correctly records (Genesis 64) the Elder Races lived in the Earth, not on it. The Garden of Eden was naturally also in the Earth, and the Adams were sent up and out on to the surface.

Rolf Telano. A Spacewoman Speaks (1960), file p. 6

She cites Genesis 64. There is no chapter 64 in Genesis. On the same page she opens the plural. There was a garden for each of the Elder Races. The lines are also on Elder races lived in the earth.

There were actually several "Gardens," since each of the Elder Races was assigned to populate a certain area. There was close cooperation between these groups, and considerable exchange of technical personnel, since certain groups excelled in certain arts.

Rolf Telano. A Spacewoman Speaks (1960), file p. 6

Different races, each with a garden, and a passing of skilled people between them. I read that as a time of great experimentation. The biblical story, she says, is the garden of one zone only. The other zones kept their own account of the first days.

Anna, called the grandmother of Jesus, remembers that underground place as a paradise. Her people, she says, could live below the surface, and a single life could last for centuries.

We performed mystical practices that took us into the archetypal Garden of Paradise in which the 'Tree of Life' was revealed.

Anna, grandmother of Jesus. Anna, Grandmother of Jesus

A garden at Eridu

One more place carries the name, and this one sits in the country Bashar names. In Sumerian, Edin is a desert or a steppe, the open plain. Sayce and Smith, among others, have said the biblical Eden is the city of Eridu, in the south of that plain, and that the city was remembered as a kind of paradise. That case is on Garden of Eden, desert or steppe.

Eridu is a city in the south of Iraq, in the land of the Euphrates. Scholars offer it as the original garden. Bashar names the rivers. He does not name the city.

Many ages, many gardens

Humankind went through more than one age, and the gardens went with those ages.

The first ones were probably on Mu, the Pacific land in Churchward. After that, the Middle East, between the Tigris and the Euphrates, the base Bashar calls original. After that, Atlantis, where Donnelly and Spence both set the story.

An early garden under the Pacific. Then the laboratory between the two rivers. Atlantis after that. Churchward is speaking of the oldest of these. Bashar is speaking of the Anunnaki base in the age after Mu, and before Atlantis. The name stayed with each of them.

A man made of clay

The country between those two rivers has an older poem. In the Epic of Gilgamesh the gods make a man the way a workshop turns out a piece, because they already have a problem.

Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is two-thirds a god and one-third a man, and the city cannot bear him. The gods call Aruru, the one who created mankind, and tell her to make a match for him, equal to his stormy heart, so that Uruk may have peace. She washes her hands, pinches off clay, and throws it into the wild. The man who stands up there is Enkidu. He is covered in hair. He eats grass with the gazelles. He does not know a city. The telling is on Epic of Gilgamesh: Tablet I.

A woman of the temple keeps him for six days and seven nights. When he turns back to the animals, they run. His strength is less. His understanding is wider. She tells him what he has become.

You are beautiful, Enkidu, you are become like a god.

Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet I. Epic of Gilgamesh: Tablet I

A body is made of clay. Then it is changed until the animals will not stay with it, and it is told that it has become like a god. That is the shape of a laboratory.

Enkidu dies. Gilgamesh goes looking for the one man who was allowed to keep his life. On Mount Mashu the road is guarded by scorpion-people. Past them the poem puts a garden of the gods, full of jeweled trees. At the end of that road is the man who survived the flood. An older reading of the tablets calls him Hâsisadra. Zénaïde Ragozin prints what the gods decide.

Until now Hâsisadra was only human: but now he shall be raised to be equal with the gods, together with his wife. He shall dwell in the distant land, by the mouth of the rivers.

Zénaïde A. Ragozin. The Story of Chaldea (1886), p. 317

He is not driven out. He is taken aside, with his wife, and set down where the rivers meet. That is the country Bashar names. It is also the gift Genesis will lock behind a gate. A life that does not end.

The closed gate

Genesis does not leave its garden open. Once the man and the woman have eaten, they know they are naked, and they hide. The woman will bring forth children in pain. The ground is cursed for the man. It will grow thorns and thistles. He will eat his bread by the sweat of his face, until he returns to the dust he was taken from.

What the garden will not give them is the second tree.

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 3:22 to 24

The knowledge stays with them. The endless life does not. The gate is on the east side of the garden. Cherubim stand there, and a sword of fire that turns every way, to keep the road to the tree of life.

The First Book of Adam and Eve shows them standing at that gate.

And again, when Adam was by the gate of the garden, and saw the cherub with a sword of flashing fire in his hand, and the cherub grew angry and frowned at him, both Adam and Eve became afraid of him, and thought he meant to put them to death. So they fell on their faces, trembled with fear.

The First Book of Adam and Eve

They are outside. The guard of the place is afraid to let them in.

A later telling, on Nag Hammadi Codex II, has the rulers cast Adam out so he will not know more than they do. They are still afraid. They set fiery beings, the cherubim, and a flaming sword around the tree of life, so that no one of the earth can go in. After that they try to cut the years of a human life.

To be sent out is to keep the lesson and lose the workshop. The body will hurt. The ground will fight you. The door to the longer life is shut.

Job is put to the test

The Book of Job feels to me like the same bench, with one man on it.

Job is called the best of them. Blameless, upright, a man who turns from evil. There is a day when the sons of God come to present themselves, and Satan comes with them. He has been walking up and down in the earth. The Lord points to Job. Satan says the man only holds because a hedge has been set around him, and he asks for the hedge to be taken away.

But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand.

Job 1:11 to 12

The test has a subject and a limit. Everything Job has may be touched. His body may not, not in this first round. The animals are taken. The servants are killed. His sons and daughters die while they are eating and drinking together. Job tears his robe and falls to the ground. He does not curse God.

They meet again. This time the body may be struck, and the life must be spared. Sores cover him from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. He sits in the ashes and scrapes himself with a broken piece of pottery. His wife tells him to curse God and die. He will not.

The chapters are set out on Job. At the end he is given twice what he had. The man is not thrown away. He is broken, watched, and put back on his feet.

Adam is not put back. The garden stays shut. Job’s house is rebuilt. That is the difference between the two tests.

Separate gardens, at the same time

There is one more use of the plural, and it means something else. Oahspe, in Bon’s Book of Praise, speaks of gardens set apart at the same time. The Creator in that book is called Jehovih. Readers sometimes take that name for Jehovah. The book says Jehovih. The verse names Moses, Capilya, and Chine.

Into separate gardens in the same time the Creator singled you out unto his own glory.

Oahspe. Bon's Book of Praise, section TUE

The verse is on Bon’s Book of Praise. These are places set apart for people the Creator has chosen. It is a different story from the laboratories. It still speaks of more than one garden.

One name, many gardens

A child is told of one garden, eastward in Eden, watered by a river that becomes four. Bashar says that picture is too small. The gardens were laboratories. There were many of them. The one called original stood near the Euphrates, and Eden was the name of that base. Later he sets it between the Tigris and the Euphrates, and says the Anunnaki went out from there across the world. Cannon’s first visitors came to begin the life and then leave it. The laboratories belong to the ones who stayed.

Then the books show what the other gardens look like. Churchward’s is Mu, under the Pacific. Donnelly’s, and Spence’s, is Atlantis, and Cayce’s Adam, Amilius, lives in that age. Dubay finds the first man again as Atum, Adamu, and Adima. Telano’s is inside the Earth, and her Adam is a whole people sent up to the surface. Anna remembers that inner garden as a paradise under the ground. Telano also gives each Elder Race a garden of its own, with a trade in the people who knew a particular art. Set in the order of the ages, the first gardens were probably on Mu, then in the Middle East, then on Atlantis. The Prism of Lyra has many Adams, tested across the Earth, and Matias de Stefano names lands from South Africa to India where the prototypes were tried, and islands where the new humans were held until they could understand the work. Eridu is the Sumerian city offered for the same name, in the same country as the rivers. The poem of Gilgamesh makes one man out of clay and keeps another, with his wife, at the mouth of those rivers. Oahspe has the Creator singling people out into separate gardens at one time.

Genesis then shuts its own garden. A sword of fire stands at the east, so the people cannot take endless life along with what they have learned. Outside, birth is pain, the ground is hard, and the body goes back to dust. Job is one chosen man, put to the test in front of the sons of God. At the end he is given his life back, twice over. Adam is not let in again.

They were pointing. They were not pointing at one spot. Bashar is the reason the map can hold all of them. The garden was never only one.