Lee Flynn
2011-06-17 19:50:16 UTC
**201. P.S. The reason you have been late recently (for work)
because you were taking dictation is merely because you didn't
remember to ask me when to stop. This is an example of the
"indiscrimate or uncontrolled" miracle-working we already spoke
of. It is well-meant but ill-advised. ....
**204. Note also that you closed the book & put it aside WITHOUT
consulting me. Ask "Is that all?" Answer: No: add the
following: These notes are serving, among other things, to
replace the "handwriting on the wall" which you once saw next
to your own altar, which read "You have been weighed in the
balance & found wanting." ~ Urtext
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 ]
" 159. 35. The miracle acknowledges all men as your brothers and
Mine. It is a way of perceiving the Universal Mark of God in
them.
**160. (Tell B. that this is the true "strawberry mark" of
Brotherhood. This is just a sign of special concern for him,
because he keeps worrying about this.)
**161. You might add that his false idea about his own exclusion
from Universal Love is fallacious in your terms, and arrogant
in his. HIS real specialness does NOT stem from exclusion, but
from inclusion. ALL My Brothers are special. He should stop
interpreting this as "all except B." This is ridiculous!
**162. Tell him that the implied lack of love that his version
contains is WAY off the Mark, and misses the level of right
thinking entirely. He MUST heal his perception in this respect.
He must work a miracle on behalf of himself here. (See the
point about miracles as a perception corrector before he can
effect miracles as creative energizers, which they are.)
163. (Tell B. that 50,000,000 Frenchman CAN be wrong, because
the notion is too fragmented. What CAN'T be wrong is the
Universal Sonship of which he is a part.)
164. God WOULD be mocked if ANY of his creations lacked
holiness. The Creation IS whole. The mark of Wholeness is
Holiness, not holes. The Sonship has no holes anywhere.
165. 36. Wholeness is the perceptual content of the miracle. It
thus corrects (or atones for) the faulty perception of lack.
166. We now turn to the fundamental distinction between
miracles and projection. The stimulus MUST precede the
response, and must also (determine) (influence) the kind of
response that is evoked. The relationships of S and R are
extremely intimate. (The behavioristic terminology is because
this part deals with behavior.)
__________
**171. (Hs raises point that Biblical language is hardly
behavioristic terminology. Answer: No, but they needn't be OUT
of accord with each other, either.)
_________
174. Since you and your neighbor are equal members of the same
family, as you perceive both, so will you behave toward both.
The way to perceive for Golden Rule behavior is to look out
from the perception of your own holiness and perceive the
holiness of others.
**175. B. & you need considerable clarification of the channel
role. Look carefully at Mrs. Albert. She is working miracles
every day, because she knows how she is. I emphasize again that
your tendency to forget names is not hostility, but a fear of
involvement or RECOGNITION. You had misinterpreted human
encounters as opportunities for magic rather than for miracles
and so you tried to PROTECT THE NAME. This is a very ancient &
primitive way of trying to protect a person.
176. NOTE: The very old Jewish practice of changing the name of
a person who is very ill, so that when the list is given to the
Angel of Death, the person with that name will not be found.
**177. This is a good example of the curiously literal regression
which can occur in very bright people when they become afraid.
You & B. both do it. ....
*178. A similar mechanism works when you get furious about a
comparatively minor expresion by someone to whom you are
ambivalent. A good example of this is your response to
Jonathan, who DOES leave things around in very strange ways.
Actually, he does this because he thinks that by minor areas of
disorganization he can protect his stability. I remind you that
you have done this yourself for years, and should understand it
very well. This should be met with great charity, rather than
with great fury.
*179. The fury comes from your awareness that you do not love
Jonathan as you should, and you narrow your lack of love by
centering your hate on trivial behavior in an attempt to
protect him from it. You also call him Jonathan for the same
reason (see previous reference).
________
183. Returning to Mrs. Albert (not Andrews), she corrected your
error about her name without embarrassment and without
hostility, because she has NOT made your own mistake about
names.
184. She is not afraid, bec. she knows she is protected. She
made the correction ONLY because you were inaccurate, and the
whole question of embarrassment did not occur to her.
_________
*187. (HS note: If you ask somebody what he believes before you
tell him what you believe, then you are implying that you will
say what he approves. This is not "the real authority.")
*188. You took a lot of notes on "Those who are ashamed of Me
before men, them will I be ashamed of before God." This was
rather carefully clarified, even though the quotation is not
quite right, but it doesn't matter.
**189. The important thing is that elsewhere in the Bible it also
says "Those who represent (or plead for) Me to men will be
represented (or pleaded for) BY Me before God." (Note: This
quotation is also not the correct Biblical phrasing, but it IS
what it means.) Note that one who represents also "witnesses
for." The quotation thus means that you represent or "witness
for" the authority in whom you believe.
________
**194. B's very proper emphasis on "changing your mind" needs
clarification.
195. Whatever is true & real is eternal, & cannot change or be
changed. The Soul is therefore unalterable because it is
ALREADY perfect, but the mind can elect the level it chooses to
serve. The only limit which is put on its choice is that it
CANNOT serve two masters.
_________
199. The Creation of the Soul is already fully accomplished.
The mind, if it votes to do so, becomes a medium by which the
Soul can create along the line of its own creation. If it does
not freely elect to do so, it retains this creative ability,
but places itself under tyranous rather than authoritative
control. As a result, what it creates is imprisonment, because
such are the dictates of tyrants.
*200. To "change your mind" means to place it at the disposal of
True authority. The miracle is thus a sign that the mind has
elected to be guided by Christ in HIS service. The abundance of
Christ is the natural result of choosing to follow him.
**201. P.S. The reason you have been late recently (for work)
because you were taking dictation is merely because you didn't
remember to ask me when to stop. This is an example of the
"indiscrimate or uncontrolled" miracle-working we already spoke
of. It is well-meant but ill-advised.
*202. I prompted that call from Jack (taxi man - couldn't pick
HS up, etc.) to show you that this is not necessary. Also, the
other man needed the money more today.
***203. Note that you managed to fill your scribal role with no
interruptions, and were also on time.
**204. Note also that you closed the book & put it aside WITHOUT
consulting me. Ask "Is that all?" Answer: No: add the
following: These notes are serving, among other things, to
replace the "handwriting on the wall" which you once saw next
to your own altar, which read "You have been weighed in the
balance & found wanting."
________
**206. The following is in relation to question about sex. Tell
B. "the one more river" is related to sex. You might even
explain it to him as a "tidal wave", a term which he will
understand. YOU won't. "
~ Urtext of ACIM
~ Lee
because you were taking dictation is merely because you didn't
remember to ask me when to stop. This is an example of the
"indiscrimate or uncontrolled" miracle-working we already spoke
of. It is well-meant but ill-advised. ....
**204. Note also that you closed the book & put it aside WITHOUT
consulting me. Ask "Is that all?" Answer: No: add the
following: These notes are serving, among other things, to
replace the "handwriting on the wall" which you once saw next
to your own altar, which read "You have been weighed in the
balance & found wanting." ~ Urtext
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 ]
" 159. 35. The miracle acknowledges all men as your brothers and
Mine. It is a way of perceiving the Universal Mark of God in
them.
**160. (Tell B. that this is the true "strawberry mark" of
Brotherhood. This is just a sign of special concern for him,
because he keeps worrying about this.)
**161. You might add that his false idea about his own exclusion
from Universal Love is fallacious in your terms, and arrogant
in his. HIS real specialness does NOT stem from exclusion, but
from inclusion. ALL My Brothers are special. He should stop
interpreting this as "all except B." This is ridiculous!
**162. Tell him that the implied lack of love that his version
contains is WAY off the Mark, and misses the level of right
thinking entirely. He MUST heal his perception in this respect.
He must work a miracle on behalf of himself here. (See the
point about miracles as a perception corrector before he can
effect miracles as creative energizers, which they are.)
163. (Tell B. that 50,000,000 Frenchman CAN be wrong, because
the notion is too fragmented. What CAN'T be wrong is the
Universal Sonship of which he is a part.)
164. God WOULD be mocked if ANY of his creations lacked
holiness. The Creation IS whole. The mark of Wholeness is
Holiness, not holes. The Sonship has no holes anywhere.
165. 36. Wholeness is the perceptual content of the miracle. It
thus corrects (or atones for) the faulty perception of lack.
166. We now turn to the fundamental distinction between
miracles and projection. The stimulus MUST precede the
response, and must also (determine) (influence) the kind of
response that is evoked. The relationships of S and R are
extremely intimate. (The behavioristic terminology is because
this part deals with behavior.)
__________
**171. (Hs raises point that Biblical language is hardly
behavioristic terminology. Answer: No, but they needn't be OUT
of accord with each other, either.)
_________
174. Since you and your neighbor are equal members of the same
family, as you perceive both, so will you behave toward both.
The way to perceive for Golden Rule behavior is to look out
from the perception of your own holiness and perceive the
holiness of others.
**175. B. & you need considerable clarification of the channel
role. Look carefully at Mrs. Albert. She is working miracles
every day, because she knows how she is. I emphasize again that
your tendency to forget names is not hostility, but a fear of
involvement or RECOGNITION. You had misinterpreted human
encounters as opportunities for magic rather than for miracles
and so you tried to PROTECT THE NAME. This is a very ancient &
primitive way of trying to protect a person.
176. NOTE: The very old Jewish practice of changing the name of
a person who is very ill, so that when the list is given to the
Angel of Death, the person with that name will not be found.
**177. This is a good example of the curiously literal regression
which can occur in very bright people when they become afraid.
You & B. both do it. ....
*178. A similar mechanism works when you get furious about a
comparatively minor expresion by someone to whom you are
ambivalent. A good example of this is your response to
Jonathan, who DOES leave things around in very strange ways.
Actually, he does this because he thinks that by minor areas of
disorganization he can protect his stability. I remind you that
you have done this yourself for years, and should understand it
very well. This should be met with great charity, rather than
with great fury.
*179. The fury comes from your awareness that you do not love
Jonathan as you should, and you narrow your lack of love by
centering your hate on trivial behavior in an attempt to
protect him from it. You also call him Jonathan for the same
reason (see previous reference).
________
183. Returning to Mrs. Albert (not Andrews), she corrected your
error about her name without embarrassment and without
hostility, because she has NOT made your own mistake about
names.
184. She is not afraid, bec. she knows she is protected. She
made the correction ONLY because you were inaccurate, and the
whole question of embarrassment did not occur to her.
_________
*187. (HS note: If you ask somebody what he believes before you
tell him what you believe, then you are implying that you will
say what he approves. This is not "the real authority.")
*188. You took a lot of notes on "Those who are ashamed of Me
before men, them will I be ashamed of before God." This was
rather carefully clarified, even though the quotation is not
quite right, but it doesn't matter.
**189. The important thing is that elsewhere in the Bible it also
says "Those who represent (or plead for) Me to men will be
represented (or pleaded for) BY Me before God." (Note: This
quotation is also not the correct Biblical phrasing, but it IS
what it means.) Note that one who represents also "witnesses
for." The quotation thus means that you represent or "witness
for" the authority in whom you believe.
________
**194. B's very proper emphasis on "changing your mind" needs
clarification.
195. Whatever is true & real is eternal, & cannot change or be
changed. The Soul is therefore unalterable because it is
ALREADY perfect, but the mind can elect the level it chooses to
serve. The only limit which is put on its choice is that it
CANNOT serve two masters.
_________
199. The Creation of the Soul is already fully accomplished.
The mind, if it votes to do so, becomes a medium by which the
Soul can create along the line of its own creation. If it does
not freely elect to do so, it retains this creative ability,
but places itself under tyranous rather than authoritative
control. As a result, what it creates is imprisonment, because
such are the dictates of tyrants.
*200. To "change your mind" means to place it at the disposal of
True authority. The miracle is thus a sign that the mind has
elected to be guided by Christ in HIS service. The abundance of
Christ is the natural result of choosing to follow him.
**201. P.S. The reason you have been late recently (for work)
because you were taking dictation is merely because you didn't
remember to ask me when to stop. This is an example of the
"indiscrimate or uncontrolled" miracle-working we already spoke
of. It is well-meant but ill-advised.
*202. I prompted that call from Jack (taxi man - couldn't pick
HS up, etc.) to show you that this is not necessary. Also, the
other man needed the money more today.
***203. Note that you managed to fill your scribal role with no
interruptions, and were also on time.
**204. Note also that you closed the book & put it aside WITHOUT
consulting me. Ask "Is that all?" Answer: No: add the
following: These notes are serving, among other things, to
replace the "handwriting on the wall" which you once saw next
to your own altar, which read "You have been weighed in the
balance & found wanting."
________
**206. The following is in relation to question about sex. Tell
B. "the one more river" is related to sex. You might even
explain it to him as a "tidal wave", a term which he will
understand. YOU won't. "
~ Urtext of ACIM
~ Lee