Somewhat unexpected for today’s reader, Cantemir frequently returns in Sacro-sanctae Scientiae Indepingibilis Imago to the motif of self-knowledge. More precisely, of good self-understanding. Since he aims to clarify some not quite ordinary matters, he seeks above all to review his own inner condition. He does it in the guise of a narrator who confesses at length, sometimes with dramatic accents. He then sees himself far from “the living face of the truth”, as if in a terrible exile. It also presupposes a good guide: a friend sensitive to one’s self-doubts and to the path sought, someone who has followed a certain way of knowledge, or, ultimately, the very One who is “the way, the truth, and the life”.