Lee Flynn
2011-06-07 00:46:18 UTC
Hi all,
This series of excerpts from the Urtext of ACIM
will feature those portions that specifically reference
the thoughts, reactions and relationships between and
among the three who produced ACIM: the Course's scribe,
her dedicated assistant, and the Author who dictated the
material.
Note:
"HS" refers to Helen Schucman, whose shorthand notes
document the rapid inner dictation that produced the
unedited manuscript (Urtext) of ACIM. The early portion of
her notes also capture her own thoughts and questions, as
well as the Voice's answers, in bracketed asides that reveal
a secondary layer of ongoing personal instruction
and encouragement for the scribes, even as the Voice
pressed on with dictation of the Course material.
"B." refers to Bill Thetford, who regularly typed out Helen's
shorthand notes as she read them aloud, and whose later
role included editing the resultant Urtext manuscript into
the edition of the Course originally prepared for publication.
The Urtext of ACIM was unavailable publicly for the first
25 years of the Course's publication, and though never
intended for public scrutiny, its recent discovery provides
this rich, embedded, 'second layer' of material that essentially
documents, in intimate detail, the entire scribal process.
~ Lee
** Paragraphs that include '2nd layer' material will usually
include an asterisk before the paragraph number.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
[ "HS" is Helen Schucman. "B." is Bill Thetford ]
10. (Plan ahead is good advice in this world, where you should
and must control & direct where you have accepted
responsibility. But the Universal Plan is in more appropriate
hands. You will know all you need to know. Make NO attempts to
plan ahead in this respect.)
11. Miracles are habits, and should be involuntary.
12. They should not be under conscious control. (Otherwise they
may become undemocratic. Consciously selected miracles are
usually dangerous misguided and may destroy this will make the
talent useless.)
13. 6. Miracles are natural. When they do NOT occur something
has gone wrong.
14. 7. Miracles are everyone's right, but purification is
necessary first.
15. 8. Miracles are a form of healing. They supply a lack, and
are performed by those who have more for those who have less.
16. 9. Miracles are a kind of exchange. Like all expressions of
love, which are ALWAYS miraculous in the true sense, the
exchange reverses the physical laws.
17. 10. A miracle is a reversal of the physical order because
it brings more love to the giver and the receiver.
18. (A miracle is misunderstood when it is regarded as a
spectacle.)
19. 11. The use of miracles as a spectacle to induce belief is
wrong. They are really used for and by believers. (HS has some
fear about 11) and doubt about 9) and 10). Probably doubt by
fear of 11).
*20. (When you say "If you want me to I will" please add "and if
you DON'T want me to I won't." This is the RIGHT use of
inhibition. There has to be SOME control over learning for
channelizing purposes. Remember retroactive inhibition which
should be easy enough for you.
21. Sometimes the new learning is the more important, and has
to inhibit the old. It's a form of correction.)
22. Prayer is the medium of miracles. Prayer is the natural
communication of the Created with the Creator.
23. Through prayer, love is received, and through miracles love
is expressed.
24. 12. Miracles are thought-creations. Thought can create
lower-order or higher-order realities. This is the basic
distinction between intellectualization and thinking. One
creates the physical, and the other the spiritual, and we
believe in what we create.
25. 13. A miracle is a beginning and an end(ing). It thus
abolishes time. It is always an affirmation of re-birth, which
seems to go back, but really goes forward. It undoes the past
in the present, and thus releases the future.
26. 14. Miracles attest to truth. They are convincing because
they arise from conviction. Without conviction, they
deteriorate into magic, which is mindless, and therefore
destructive, or rather, the uncreative use of Mind.
*27. 15. Each day should be devoted to miracles. (God created
time so that man could use it creatively, and convince himself
of his own ability to create. Time is a teaching device,
and a means to an end. It will cease when it is no longer
useful for facilitating learning.)
*28. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Notes on this course have to be taken
only under good learning conditions. The same goes for review
periods. I will tell you when, but REMEMBER TO ASK.)
29. 16. Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating that it
is more blessed to give than to receive. They simultaneously
increase the reserve strength of the giver, and supply the lack
of strength in the receiver. BE VERY CAREFUL in interpreting
this.
*30. INSTRUCTIONS: The purpose of this course is integration.
I told you that you will not be able to use it right until you
have taken it. As long as your identification vacillates, (and
B's is weak) you cannot accept the gift that belongs to you.
You are still vacillating between recognizing the gift and
throwing it away. B. regards himself as too weak to accept it.
You do not yet know its healing power. After you have passed
the course, you will accept it and keep it and use it. That is
the final exam, which you will have no trouble in passing.
Midterm marks are not entered on the permanent record.
31. 17. Miracles are the absence of the body. They are sudden
shifts into invisibility, away from lower order reality. That
is why they heal.
32. 18. A miracle is a service. It is the maximal service that
one soul can render another. It is a way of loving your
neighbor as yourself. The doer recognizes his own and his
neighbor's inestimable value simultaneously.
*33. (This is why no areas of hatred can be retained. If you
retain them, your own value is no longer inestimable because,
you are evaluating it as X or infinity minus that amount. This
is meaningless mathematically, which uses the term
"inestimable" only in the very literal sense. Pun intended
especially for B, (who originally did not get it.) Intended as
a special sign of love.)
34. 19. Miracles rest on the law and order of eternity, not of
time. "
- ACIM Urtext
~ Lee
This series of excerpts from the Urtext of ACIM
will feature those portions that specifically reference
the thoughts, reactions and relationships between and
among the three who produced ACIM: the Course's scribe,
her dedicated assistant, and the Author who dictated the
material.
Note:
"HS" refers to Helen Schucman, whose shorthand notes
document the rapid inner dictation that produced the
unedited manuscript (Urtext) of ACIM. The early portion of
her notes also capture her own thoughts and questions, as
well as the Voice's answers, in bracketed asides that reveal
a secondary layer of ongoing personal instruction
and encouragement for the scribes, even as the Voice
pressed on with dictation of the Course material.
"B." refers to Bill Thetford, who regularly typed out Helen's
shorthand notes as she read them aloud, and whose later
role included editing the resultant Urtext manuscript into
the edition of the Course originally prepared for publication.
The Urtext of ACIM was unavailable publicly for the first
25 years of the Course's publication, and though never
intended for public scrutiny, its recent discovery provides
this rich, embedded, 'second layer' of material that essentially
documents, in intimate detail, the entire scribal process.
~ Lee
** Paragraphs that include '2nd layer' material will usually
include an asterisk before the paragraph number.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
[ "HS" is Helen Schucman. "B." is Bill Thetford ]
10. (Plan ahead is good advice in this world, where you should
and must control & direct where you have accepted
responsibility. But the Universal Plan is in more appropriate
hands. You will know all you need to know. Make NO attempts to
plan ahead in this respect.)
11. Miracles are habits, and should be involuntary.
12. They should not be under conscious control. (Otherwise they
may become undemocratic. Consciously selected miracles are
usually dangerous misguided and may destroy this will make the
talent useless.)
13. 6. Miracles are natural. When they do NOT occur something
has gone wrong.
14. 7. Miracles are everyone's right, but purification is
necessary first.
15. 8. Miracles are a form of healing. They supply a lack, and
are performed by those who have more for those who have less.
16. 9. Miracles are a kind of exchange. Like all expressions of
love, which are ALWAYS miraculous in the true sense, the
exchange reverses the physical laws.
17. 10. A miracle is a reversal of the physical order because
it brings more love to the giver and the receiver.
18. (A miracle is misunderstood when it is regarded as a
spectacle.)
19. 11. The use of miracles as a spectacle to induce belief is
wrong. They are really used for and by believers. (HS has some
fear about 11) and doubt about 9) and 10). Probably doubt by
fear of 11).
*20. (When you say "If you want me to I will" please add "and if
you DON'T want me to I won't." This is the RIGHT use of
inhibition. There has to be SOME control over learning for
channelizing purposes. Remember retroactive inhibition which
should be easy enough for you.
21. Sometimes the new learning is the more important, and has
to inhibit the old. It's a form of correction.)
22. Prayer is the medium of miracles. Prayer is the natural
communication of the Created with the Creator.
23. Through prayer, love is received, and through miracles love
is expressed.
24. 12. Miracles are thought-creations. Thought can create
lower-order or higher-order realities. This is the basic
distinction between intellectualization and thinking. One
creates the physical, and the other the spiritual, and we
believe in what we create.
25. 13. A miracle is a beginning and an end(ing). It thus
abolishes time. It is always an affirmation of re-birth, which
seems to go back, but really goes forward. It undoes the past
in the present, and thus releases the future.
26. 14. Miracles attest to truth. They are convincing because
they arise from conviction. Without conviction, they
deteriorate into magic, which is mindless, and therefore
destructive, or rather, the uncreative use of Mind.
*27. 15. Each day should be devoted to miracles. (God created
time so that man could use it creatively, and convince himself
of his own ability to create. Time is a teaching device,
and a means to an end. It will cease when it is no longer
useful for facilitating learning.)
*28. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Notes on this course have to be taken
only under good learning conditions. The same goes for review
periods. I will tell you when, but REMEMBER TO ASK.)
29. 16. Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating that it
is more blessed to give than to receive. They simultaneously
increase the reserve strength of the giver, and supply the lack
of strength in the receiver. BE VERY CAREFUL in interpreting
this.
*30. INSTRUCTIONS: The purpose of this course is integration.
I told you that you will not be able to use it right until you
have taken it. As long as your identification vacillates, (and
B's is weak) you cannot accept the gift that belongs to you.
You are still vacillating between recognizing the gift and
throwing it away. B. regards himself as too weak to accept it.
You do not yet know its healing power. After you have passed
the course, you will accept it and keep it and use it. That is
the final exam, which you will have no trouble in passing.
Midterm marks are not entered on the permanent record.
31. 17. Miracles are the absence of the body. They are sudden
shifts into invisibility, away from lower order reality. That
is why they heal.
32. 18. A miracle is a service. It is the maximal service that
one soul can render another. It is a way of loving your
neighbor as yourself. The doer recognizes his own and his
neighbor's inestimable value simultaneously.
*33. (This is why no areas of hatred can be retained. If you
retain them, your own value is no longer inestimable because,
you are evaluating it as X or infinity minus that amount. This
is meaningless mathematically, which uses the term
"inestimable" only in the very literal sense. Pun intended
especially for B, (who originally did not get it.) Intended as
a special sign of love.)
34. 19. Miracles rest on the law and order of eternity, not of
time. "
- ACIM Urtext
~ Lee