Evil is a human construct derived from the correlation of the tangible threat from predators on our children to the threat from Man. The story of Adam and Eve is about the first ordered family forming after woman realized this very idea. Women, logically, being physically and emotionally vested in the rearing of the child was the first to realize the magnitude of the loss of child to predation. The 'capture' or 'taming' of man by the CHOICE women make to mate is the precise driving force behind the success of our society and culture. Nature is that which selects. Women have taken on the roll of the selector in the social order of the hierarchy removed from nature. Women chose the most capable man who can climb the hierarchy of competency. These men are more likely to provide resources, shelter, companionship/assistance rearing child, etc.
The root of the realization of evil is in the consciousness of woman. Women are surrounded with their inevitable burden for life. They're inoculated to gore through their reproductive cycle. They're the care givers, whom we all know can be corrupted. This is why they worship women. Where the FIGURATIVE manifestation of evil in the collective consciousness is Satan, the actual observation and practice of evil is woman at the highest (lowest?) meta level. Not to say that woman is inherently evil. Remember women are that which selects. They're the bearers of life, at the same time the wretched witches practicing evil. Man has his own archetypical duality but that's not the subject at hand.
This all means that the Garden of Eden is a figment of naive bliss. It's not a true paradise, it's a description of a simpler time where the threat of evil was simply unacknowledged. Only when you know the truth do the scales fall from your eyes to reveal the true reality. When this last happened we ordered ourselves in a way where we protected ourselves from nature, and tamed man through the application of monogamous family structure.
There are tremendous parallels to the time we're living in now and the story above. I believe we are entering into an evolution of consciousness, a great awakening of sorts, where the scales will fall from our COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS' eyes to reveal the exploitation, industrialized horrors, and COLLECTIVE EVIL that we have been subject to for millennia.
Enjoy Eden while it lasts for I feel it will be thrown into chaos which will allow humanity to emerge from it as a worldwide force, hopefully. A transition phase, a metamorphosis. We are in the crystalline phase just prior to erupting into the true world. WIll we spread our wings and fly or will we be stillborn?
Addendum: maybe this is the 100,000 ft view. How do you move a sleeping giant? you scare the shit out of it. Get it to it's feet so it may lumber to a better position. How do we move all of mankind from tribal footing to global perspective? To interplanetary exploit? What if in order to have mankind survive and thrive, "(((they)))" needed to be invented to generate an evil so horrible to scare the sleeping giant? My analogy of the butterflies crystalline made me think of MKULTRA and Monarch. A macabre idea that the torture and horror applied to a single individual is in service if the true greater good? A difficult thought to encapsulate indeed.