The Scholar’s Toolbox I: Primary Sources Version
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ACIM Primary Source Documents
cross-referenced in PDF format
Thetford
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Thetford Transcript manuscript
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0.
Preface 0. Preface
1.
Text 1. Text
2.
Workbook 2. Workbook
3. Use
of Terms 3. Use of Terms
4.
Manual for Teachers 4. Manual for
Teachers
5. Psychotherapy 5. Psychotherapy
6. Song
of Prayer 6. Song
of Prayer
7.
Gifts of God 7. Gifts of
God
8.
Special Messages 8. Special
Messages
9.
Pre-Canonical 9.
Pre-Canonical
10.
Miscellaneous 10.
Miscellaneous
Bill Thetford is on tape describing how he typed up Helen Schucman’s Notes as she read them to him, and then
read back what he’d typed to ensure accuracy. Later Wapnick and FIP were to
report that this original Thetford
Transcript was the “urtext.” Well, an
urtext is not necessarily an original transcript. The word usually refers to a
document pieced together from available primary sources where there are more
than one, and the Urtext to a Course
in miracles really is an Urtext, in
that sense, not an original
transcript, at least for the Text
volume. For more information on
manuscript identification and authentication, see the Urtext article from the Documentation
Menu.
Only the Song of Prayer and Psychotherapy
volumes of the so-called “urtext” material show any evidence of possibly being
the original Thetford Transcript. Otherwise, I have no access to any of the
original transcript, I don’t know anyone who does, and I am not even sure it
still exists.
Due to the uncertainty
regarding the two volumes which I suspect might be the original transcript,
they are included both in this section and in the Urtext section.