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About the Paragraph References

Every paragraph has a “code” at the start which consists generally of four fields arranged in a consistent, predictable, fixed field format consisting of four hierarchical tiers. Each field always contains the same kind of information:

Field 1 = Volume (the initial of the Volume T, W, M, U, P, S, G, SM)

Field 2 = Chapter (1-31 in the Text, 1-360 in the Workbook, etc.)

Field 3 = Section (Generally A-L) ordinal use of letters, A,B,C, etc.

Field 4 = Paragraph (Usually just a number)

The First Field is a letter, and in the Text volume that is always “T” for Text, in the Workbook, it is “W” for Workbook and subsequently “M” for Manual for Teachers and “U” for Use of Terms, “P” for Psychotherapy, “S” for Song of Prayer, “G” for Gifts of God and “SM” for Special Messages.

The Second Field is the chapter number, in the Text, that is 1-31, in the Workbook, 1-365, etc.

The Third Field relates to sections within a chapter.

The Fourth Field is a paragraph number.

In Chapter One, section B, the paragraph number pertains to the “miracle principle number” and where a miracle principle has more than one paragraph, the paragraphs have been numbered a,b,c, etc … and when we reach paragraph 26, or z, the next one is aa, and then ab, etc.

Where omitted material from the Shorthand Notes has been restored into the Urtext we reference this by adding the characters “N1, N2” etc., after the immediately preceding Urtext reference. So the first four fields indicate the Urtext paragraph reference and the final “N#” indicates the relative number of paragraphs inserted from the Notes.

Manuscript Page References

In the text, in-line in bold numbers (bold and red in the HTML version) there are bracketed numerals which indicate the page breaks of the original Urtext manuscript. This is for cross-referencing and proofreading purposes and is really the only reference which is consistent across all versions, save those reproductions which remove the original page numbers. There are two numbers, and one refers to the actual page sequence and the second refers to the number written on that page which, after page 91, is never the same and never consistent. While rather useless because of that inconsistency, it is the only available reference in some of the facsimile copies in circulation.

For copies of the Notes and Urtext and other manuscripts see Primary Source Library.