The Scholar’s Toolbox I: Primary Sources Version 1
ACIM Primary Source Documents cross-referenced in PDF format
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The ACIM Pre-Canonical material appears only in the Shorthand Notes. It consists
of 24 handwritten Notes pages which
immediately precede the start of Chapter 1 of the Text. The first page of the Text is dated October 21, 1965. The first page of that notebook, and this
“pre-canonical” material, is 24 pages earlier, and is dated October 19,
1965. We have transcribed this material
into a searchable E-text. In these pages
we find Schucman writing a dream diary but also having conversations with “The
Voice” which indicate that before the Text
began, she and “The Voice” were already discussing some of the key concepts in A Course in Miracles and Schucman
appears conversant with some of these concepts already. Her later assertions that she was an
“atheist” at the outset of the scribing are thoroughly refuted in these pages.
We see instead a deeply prayerful personality.
There is no indication that
there ever was any other “version” of these pages prepared.
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