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 yeah, but it is a really good read, full of so much information

also, what it says in the story was that Adam was invited to this garden, which was basically an agriculture training academy of sorts, it even says as much, in shorter words, in the Book of Jasher where it specifies they spent 7 years there, and i forget how long it was before that thing happened but basically the serpent guy was the ringleader, Apocalypse refers to him mainly as Cronos from the greek version, but that's Saturn and i think the link there should be obvious... also, the big volcano on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands it says that was Tartarus, or the Lake of Fire

i will probably sit down and read it again sometime in the near future, and this time actually follow all the references it makes in the bibliography and maybe get some more books and hard copies... the stories about the "evil sun" and the dragons fighting in the sky and all that all are based on actual stories and they put together multiple connections between those stories and other related stories and the geological record 
 oh yeah, just to clarify... the first chapter of genesis reads a lot like thet first chapter of Corpus Hermetika, and there are other texts too, i think the Book of Thoth also has a similar story and it's part of the cosmology of gnosticism