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  CONFESSIONS - BOOK III - CHAPTER XI
  by St. Augustine
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19. And now thou didst \"stretch forth thy hand from above\"[80] and
didst draw up my soul out of that profound darkness [of Manicheism]
because my mother, thy faithful one, wept to thee on my behalf more than
mothers are accustomed to weep for the bodily deaths of their children.
For by the light of the faith and spirit which she received from thee,
she saw that I was dead. And thou didst hear her, O Lord, thou didst
hear her and despised not her tears when, pouring down, they watered the
earth under her eyes in every place where she prayed. Thou didst truly
hear her.

For what other source was there for that dream by which thou didst
console her, so that she permitted me to live with her, to have my meals
in the same house at the table which she had begun to avoid, even while
she hated and detested the blasphemies of my error? In her dream she saw
herself standing on a sort of wooden rule, and saw a bright youth
approaching her, joyous and smiling at her, while she was grieving and
bowed down with sorrow. But when he inquired of her the cause of her
sorrow and daily weeping (not to learn from her, but to teach her, as is
customary in visions), and when she answered that it was my soul\\

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