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... achieve the will to almost completely abolish the ever looming threat of the abyss. For Augustine to write a book, then, that purported to make truth and seek light was not merely a reflection upon the actions of his life but pure act itself, thought and writing become the enactment of ideas. Augustine is urgently concerned with the right use of language, longing to say the right thing in the right way to God. By Augustine writing, "None of this is contained in the Platonists' books. Their pages have not the mien of the true love of God"1 he is not referring to any certain one of Plato's works, but rather just making a broad statement. It is around this area in the Confessions that Augustine begins his journey away from the Platonists beliefs that have been following him, since his days of the beliefs in Manichaeism, now to a reformed ...