"... he appeared to me not so much brave as happy, because he had found a reason for giving his time wholly to you. For this was what I was longing to do; but as yet I was bound by my own will" (Chapter 5). Augustine's first-hand experience with conversion makes his conversion philosophy one that can be seen as correct.

g make his psychology on conversion a plausible one.

For nine years from 373 until 382, Augustine followed the ways of Manichaeism, a Persian dualistic philosophy which at the time was widespread throughout the Western Roman Empire. With its fundamental principle of conflict between good and evil and its claim of a rational interpretation of Scripture, Manichaeism at first seemed to Augustine to correspond to experience and set up the best platform on which to build a philosophical and ethical system. Another thing that interested Augus

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