The serpent and the light (back to Genesis)

Now, we have said that Jesus is the l"light and the path" and that this light exists within us, all around us, and is what all things came out of. So why does the God of the old testament deny us the fruit of the tree of knowledge. In all mythology knowledge is associated with light and ignorance with darkness, so why would the God who walks in the garden, the god who later gave us the light in the form of "his only begotten son," demand that his followers live in darkness, while Lucifer translates as "bearer of light"?
The answer can be found in another tenant of gnosticism (the framework which my whole biblical interpretation will be based on)that the God of the Old Testament is a demiurge who is neither a kind god, nor the only, for he speaks of others.
Others, you say?
Yes, in Genesis God says "behold, he has become like one of us" after man has eaten the fruit and this worries him... He also says he creates man in "our image." Who is this "us" is it the royal we? Most bible thumper sites on line attribute this to God speaking with the angels, but the angels are not God's equals, they are his servants, and at this point in Genesis there is no mention of angels, they aren't mentioned until man is expelled from the garden and with this flying sword of flame and all, one has to wonder how close the angels really are to man and God, my guess is not very.
I think God is talking to the other dieties. Even the commandment "thou shalt have no other Gods before me" seems to concede the existence of others. So what happened to them?
Nietzsche says they all died of laughter when Elohim said he was the only, but gnostics believe the true benevolent deity came in the form of a serpent that man's eyes might be opened.
And as Plotts points out, it is God that lied when he said "thou wilt surely die." The serpent told the truth, "thou wilt surely not die" and then the Bible says that Eve saw, not 'wrongly believed' or 'thought,' but "saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,she took of the fruit" (Genesis 3:6).
What a list! The tree so responsible for all our pain and suffering shown so beautiful and desirable and good in so many ways! How can this be if not that the God of the Garden and the entire old testament is actually what the Zorostrians called the Druj, or "the lie" the one who seeks to keep us in darkness, turn us away from our true nature as fulfilled human beings, (and here I boldly declare a heresy) as GODS!