The Scholar’s Toolbox I: Primary Sources Version
1
ACIM Primary Source Documents
cross-referenced in PDF format
Shorthand
Notes Menu
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of the source documents into your PDF viewer. To view two or more see the
Tutorial
Click on the Volume name in the left
column to view the original manuscript facsimile, or in the right column to
view the searchable e-text
The Shorthand Notes manuscript facsimile
Original
Manuscript facsimiles
Searchable E-text copies
0. Preface 0. Preface
2. Workbook 2. Workbook
3. Manual for
Teachers 3. Manual for Teachers
4. Use
of Terms 4. Use
of Terms
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
V.3 of 22 10. Miscellaneous
In this edition we have only a limited subset of E-text or transcripts
of the handwritten Shorthand Notes. For the Text
volume, chapters 1, 2, 3 and 31 have been transcribed. Volume 4, Use
of Terms has been transcribed in its entirety. The Pre-canonical
pages from the Notes and the Special Messages have been
transcribed. All of the currently
available Notes pages for the Song of Prayer volume are also
transcribed into E-texts. No
guarantees are provided as to the accuracy of this material. What it does is provide a “look-up tool” so
you can search for a text string and identify the page of the original Shorthand Notebooks on which that text
occurs. Without such a searchable
reference, finding anything in the Notes
can be quite time-consuming.
This does cover many of the most significant variations from the Urtext which is otherwise largely an
accurate transcript of the Notes.
I have been told by reliable sources that good quality e-texts of all or
most the Shorthand Notes have been created and do exist, and have
existed for some time. However, those
who are in possession of that material do not see fit to make it available at
this time. Therein lies a tale, but this is not the place to tell
it. I am fully aware of what a severe handicap to ACIM scholarship
the lack of this material is, and how much effort is being totally wasted by so
many trying to reproduce what has already been done. One reason I’m not
so keen to get to work on a transcript of the Notes is that since one
already exists, I’d really be wasting my time, and there are other things that
need doing as well.
However well or poorly done that extant e-text transcript is, access to
it puts the scholar years ahead of starting from scratch!
In time a complete e-text of the Notes will emerge, as other
things which people wished to keep secret have.
Failing that, it will simply be done again.
Eventually, of course, the ideal thing would be hyperlinks between the
reference points such that you could “click up” corresponding pages side by
side! One day!