In this episode, we turn to Book VII of Augustine's Confessions-the moment where Augustine's mind begins to catch up to the truth his heart has been resisting.

After years of wrestling with Manichaeism, materialist assumptions about God, and false images of evil, Augustine encounters the insights of the Platonists and undergoes a profound shift in how he understands reality itself.

Book VII is a story of illumination without conversion-of seeing the light from a distance but lacking the strength to walk towards it.