Abraham’s Bosom (Samadhi / Nirvana / The Void) Paradise, Garden of Eden

"The Adamic being is given dominion over the Garden, always a symbol of the astral world, what Levi the transcendentalist calls the astral or magical light. The same allusion to the garden occurs in the story of Parsifal. Here Klingsor attempts to delude the Knights of the Grail by creating a magical garden filled with the enchantments of the senses. In some of the ancient books the universe is called a garden, and the planets and suns are flowers blossoming in space.

Luk_16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
Luk_16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Psa_35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Luk_23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
2Co_12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Rev_2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Reincarnation

Isa_65:6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
Isa_65:7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
Karma
Luk_6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Abraham’s Bosom

"It is also important to remember that nearly every personality described or discussed in the Bible is primarily a symbol, and not an historical individual. It is a great mistake to believe that there is great spiritual virtue in the perpetuation of history or the worship of ancestors. The virtue lies, not in the accepting of the sacred writings, but in the discovery and application of the ever living truths secretly hidden in the Scriptural books of the world.

The creation of Adam is described in Genesis 2:7. The Creating Power formed man “of the dust.” In the Cabala this man is called Adam Kadmon, or the species formed of the red earth. The meaning of red earth in this sense is most obscure, but certainly it has no reference to physical soil. In a cosmic sense the universe is fashioned of a fiery nebula, and the whirling fire-mist from which the Cosmos was formed is the red earth. The ancient writings, in describing the generation of the physical bodies of the animal and human kingdoms, declare these vestments “coats of skins” to have been exuded from the auras or superphysical bodies of a divine race...

Man consists of three parts or natures. The first is the divine principle, a spiritual substance identical with spirit and space. The second is a sidereal nature, sometimes called the soul, and constitutes a superphysical body—the “luminous chiton,” the garments of glory, or aura. The third is the sublunary nature, the objective body with its several systems—muscular, arterial, glandular, etc. Man as Spirit dwells in the substance of the One, or undivided from the Divine Principle. In the Bible this state of identity with the Supreme is expressed by the statement “abiding in Abraham’s bosom.” This has the same meaning as the Samadhi or Nirvana of the Eastern metaphysicians. At the beginning of the Day of Manifestation, that great cycle of time figured in Genesis as the Seven Days of the Formations, the innumerable natures of living things emerge from the Original Unity, and “God” becomes “the gods;” whereas the Cabala expressed it, “the multitudes emerge from the simple unities.” This emergence of the gods is their descent into the state of individualized living things. The Primordial Sparks robed themselves in the “luminous chitons” or superphysical bodies.

The gods are therefore described as spheres of light, and of this order of beings is man himself, inwardly a divine nature participating in the Supreme Effulgency. This is explained in the Bible by the placing of spiritual humanity (Adam and Eve) in the Paradisiacal sphere called Eden. Here souls dwelt garmented only in light and truth, the auras, as yet undefiled by contamination with physical matter. The records of this ancient time are preserved in the mythologies of all classical civilizations. It is beautifully described in the Gnostic Hymn of the Robe of Glory wherein the Paradisiacal state is represented as the homeland or fatherland which all exiled humanity is seeking. With this key, the mystery of Eden is easily unlocked.

At the gate of Eden the Creating Power placed Cherubims and a flaming sword to guard the sacred Garden that Adam and his progeny might not return to it again. It is interesting that Solomon, when he built the “everlasting house” should have placed upon the doors of the temple Cherubims with the flaming sword. This is the key to the whole mystery. Eden is the first Holy of Holies. Its significance is identical with that of the Adita of ancient temples. It is the heart, the sacred place. It is also symbolic of the state or condition of sanctity. The temple is not a building, but a state of consciousness, an inward realization. He who attains to this realization enters the holy place which is guarded from the profane by the keepers of the gate, the testers or initiators. Philo Judaeus declared the Cherubims to represent clouds or obscurations which conceal Eden from the profane. These clouds are the ignorance, benightedness, or perversion of the unredeemed, which must forever obscure sacred things.
Hall, Manly P.. How To Understand Your Bible: (p. 22).

2Co_5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.