ACIM Text 1972 edition
Tom Fox
http://acim.home.att.net/acim_tx-1972.html
This is a downloadable and printable modification of the EA transcript, done by Tom Fox, a founding Director of the Course in Miracles Society.
This document, Fox’s “ACIM 1972,” provides an economical ‘print-it-yourself’ edition with mostly sufficient accuracy for many applications and I’m sure there’s many an ACIM study group deeply grateful for this work.
I say “mostly sufficient” because while it is based on the 2000 EA text, which is “not bad” much of the time, there are three sections left out, involving a little less than 5,000 words, apparently inadvertently, which causes a severe accuracy problem, but only for those sections! You can see where they are on the second last page of Raphael’s comparison.
It is perhaps appropriate to quote Tom Fox’s own statement of his design objectives:
This website, however, is for the simple purpose of presenting the Course in an easy to use form,
while laying aside all extraneous matters.
To some, proofreading is extraneous. Fox’s intent was apparently to make “what was available” to him readily available to others, and not to “edit” or “correct” it beyond doing his “Zap the caps” thing with capitalization conventions! And that one is quite remarkable. The convention adopted in “scriptural” writing has for millennia been to capitalize names of God and pronouns referring to a person of the Holy Trinity. This is a nearly universal stylistic convention. Helen and Bill stuck to that, although they made many, many errors in failing to capitalize such words on occasion. Fox solves the inconsistency problem; he gets rid of all the caps. Whitmore, in the CIMS(2) “Original Edition” zaps the caps on names of God, not pronouns, but proceeds to purge most of the commas.
Otherwise from a cursory inspection, this material is the same as CIMS(1), it is the Endeavor text with a few inadvertent spelling mistakes introduced and those apparently inadvertent omissions of 8 pages or so.
A modest amount of proofreading and a restoration of the original capitalization conventions would make of this document one to be seriously considered.
Fox’s website also offers a paper capture of the “Criswell” which Tom tells me is not accurate, and on-line editions of the Workbook and Manual for teachers. We’re not going into these other volumes right now because these reviews are for the Text volume only.