The serpent conjured up two illusions that hide the truth from us - one directly and one indirectly. The serpent conjured up an illusion that sugarcoats the sourness of the valley of tears. The serpent conjured up an illusion that camouflages the sweetness of paradise from us.
As our propinquity to the age of Adam and Eve grows ever more distant in space and time, the sweetness of paradise fades from our memory. Our long exile in the valley of tears raises an illusion that obscures from us the sweetness of paradise. The most Holy Trinity dispatched the Son of God from heaven to earth to reaquaint us with the sweetness of paradise. The Son of God is the sledgehammer of truth sent to shatter the illusion as the blow of a hammer shatters glass.
Why is it more difficult for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle ? The illusion that sugarcoats the sourness of godlessness is thicker for the rich man than for the poor man. Its thickness makes it harder to shatter. The thicker the sugarcoating, the harder the sledgehammer of truth needs to work.
The illusion that sugarcoats the sourness of the valley of tears is a direct illusion conjured up by the lie of the serpent - his empty promise of deification without God in the valley of tears . The illusion that camouflages the sweetness of paradise is an indirect illusion. It arises as the distance in time and space to the life of Adam and Eve in paradise increases.