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Original Dictation

 The Original Dictation combines the Shorthand Notes and the Scribal Urtext in a single volume. 

The Shorthand Notes is of course the first written form of A Course in Miracles and the Urtext is the first typed copy currently available.

Due to the substantial similarity between the Notes and the Urtext, and the fact that the differences between the two are what interests most people, rather than publish the Notes as a separate printed book, we’ve combined the Notes material not present in the Urtext with the Urtext in this combined complete collection of the “Original Dictation.”

The Notes facsimiles and e-texts (where currently available) are listed in the table below

 

Links to the following files are also found in both the Reference Room and the Reading Room.  To order a print copy, go to the Bookstore.

Note: HTML files are optimal for on-line reading.  Reference PDFs are searchable e-texts paginated identically to the facsimiles and are intended mainly as tools to reference the facsimiles which are not searchable.  The PDF(reading) file is also optimized for on-line reading and permits text searches across all seven volumes.  The facsimile files for the Text and Workbook are huge and may take some minutes to load.

 

 

Facsimile

HTML

PDF (reference)

PDF (reading)

 

 

 

 

Text

Ch 1 & 2

Text

All Seven

Workbook

 

Workbook

 

Manual

 

Manual

 

Use of Terms

 

Use of Terms

 

Psychotherapy

 

Psychotherapy

 

Song of Prayer

 

Song of Prayer

 

Gifts of God

 

Gifts of God

 

Special Messages

 

Special Messages