"Are you really aware of this difficulty that comes, as it were, from behind? The question is not whether you have gone backward since the time you became a believer, whether you have abandoned the faith. One could indeed draw a conclusion in this way: it is self-evident that I am closer now than when I became a believer, because now is a later moment than when, therefore it is self-evident, unless, as said, you have since that time abandoned the faith. Nothing is self-evident if it is not certain that at some time you became a believer, that you have experienced the moment when you became a believer. When, then, did you become a believer? It is of enormous importance that you get this determined if you are going to be able to determine where you are now."
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