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Hugh Lynn Cayce Version (HLC) Manuscript
Original HLC Manuscript
facsimile Searchable E-text
copies of
varying accuracy
0. Preface 0. Preface
1. Text 1. MPF
“Corrected” HLC (2006) Text
Other
Editions
2. Workbook 2. JCIM: CIMS First Edition (2000)
3. Manual for
Teachers 3. HLC Replica:
preserves original typos
4. Use of
Terms 4. Whitmore’s “Original
Edition” (2007)
5.
Psychotherapy 5. HLC editions compared
“Original Edition” editing
changes
6. Song of
Prayer 6. Song of Prayer
7. Gifts of
God 7. Gifts of God
Hugh Lynn Cayce Version (HLC) e-texts
The Hugh Lynn
Cayce version only ever existed in one volume, the Text volume. While many have
stated otherwise, I’ve never seen any evidence, or met anyone who has actually
seen any evidence that the HLC ever
had more than one volume. That one
volume was stored in four physical binders, which may have been the source of
the notion that there were “multiple volumes” represented. The Editor’s
Notes at the end of that volume contain additional documentation.
The
first version to have chapter and section breaks, this was Helen’s final
re-typing of the Text volume prior to
the editing of 1973-75 which resulted in the 1975 FIP Abridgement. Reports on this vary but all agree that the Text was retyped at least one more time
than the other volumes, and that the others were all retyped at
least once after the Thetford Transcript.
We
do have two typed manuscripts for the Text
and only one for each of the other volumes, which according to all accounts
means we are missing one typed copy of the original dictation. It’s impossible to be absolutely sure whether
we have the first, or second, or even possibly a third re-typing represented in
those manuscripts, however.
What
we do know of the HLC from Kenneth
Wapnick is that this is the version he and Helen abridged into the 1975 FIP First Edition, removing about a
quarter of the first five chapters (which had already been severely abridged
from the original version) and substantially re-writing much of what they left
in. And we know that some time before
1974, Hugh Lynn Cayce was given a copy.
Indeed he was given the very copy of which this is a facsimile
photocopy.
In
addition to a basic MPF “Corrected
HLC” e-text, there are
additional HLC e-texts in circulation
which will be of interest to some students, which are included here.
JCIM: This is the original Course in Miracles Society “first edition” which
is a largely accurate e-text of the HLC. There are about 300 genuine typos, as opposed
to changes from the manuscript that correct spelling, etc. See the end notes to
this edition for a more extensive discussion
This e-text was prepared
primarily for proofreading purposes. It
seems to replicate the HLC manuscript
page for page, keystroke for keystroke, and attempts to make no changes or
corrections of any kind. If there are
any differences from the manuscript we are not aware of them.
Tom Whitmore’s “Original
Edition:”
This is Tom Whitmore’s
personal “interpretive edition” of the HLC
which is highly original in wording, emphasis and punctuation. While rather loosely based on the HLC it contains over seven thousand
undocumented variations from the manuscript, most of which are Whitmore’s
original creative input and not drawn from any earlier or later source
material. As with the other documents,
the end notes attached to this file offer more extensive information and
analysis.
This article offers some
information about the differences between several editions of the HLC.