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All new 6 Volume Exhaustive Concordance

 

This remarkable “Electronic ACIM” includes:

v    the complete HLC Text (25% longer in the first five chapters than the familiar FIP Abridgements)

v    the complete Sub-Urtext* Workbook

v    the complete Sub-Urtext* Manual for Teachers

v    the complete Sub-Urtext* Use of Terms

v    the complete FIP Psychotherapy supplement

v    the complete FIP Song of Prayer supplement

v    printable scanned image files of the most original available primary source manuscripts

v    the capacity for a variety of word and phrase searches and listings making it very easy

v    to find quotes or study how particular ideas are discussed in the Course.

 

Below is a screen shot of the Web Concordance.  We’ll give you a description.  You see the screen divided into four frames.  The top, horizontal frame is the Navigator Frame.  It’s a busy frame and we hope to improve its appearance in the future.  To begin a search click on “HERE” after “Start New Search:”  Then, as it says, click any blank spot in the leftmost Wordlist Frame and then press Ctrl+F to load the search dialogue box.  This is the most common use of the Concordance, to look up all instances of a word.  In the Navigator Frame you can also bring up Tables of Contents for each Volume, or even the original documents from which the Concordance was made.  The HOME button takes you to the start of the website.  Once you’ve loaded it, it’s much easier to see than on this reduced sample.

 

  On the left is the vertical Wordlist Frame which contains all words and numbers which occur in all six volumes.  In this example we have just searched for the word “world” and found 2,063 instances of that word.  (see bottom line of leftmost frame).  After we click on that word, we’ll see to the right in the Concordance Frame the first scrollable and searchable screen of the 2,063 instances of the word “world”.  Note how the word we searched for stands out in red. On the right in the Concordance Frame in blue we see the chapter, section, paragraph and page number references.  We’ve clicked on T II A 1 (20) which has turned it from blue to violet.

On the bottom right is the Text Frame which contains the full text plus footnotes to all six volumes

We’ve just clicked the one that’s violet, T II A 1 (20)” and the Text Frame (bottom right) has scrolled to that line in the text.

 We can search for phrases within either frame to narrow our search to only those lines which contain additional words. 

      This is an example of the simplest and most common of searches which can be done.

 

More complex searching is possible,  so, for instance, if you want to find “the real world”, having found “world” you’d search for “the real world” in the Concordance Frame.  Proximity searches are also possible.  Having located “world” if you then search for “real” you will find all instances where “real” and “world” occur within five words of each other. Much more powerful searches are possible with the Full Concordance, but the Web Concordance contains the basic and most frequently used capabilities.  If you remember only one or two words of a quote, you can usually find it with the Concordance in seconds, along with the reference, page number, and you can also see it in the full context in the Text Frame in Which it is perfectly possible to read the entirety of ACIM on screen.

 

All text in all frames can be “cut and pasted” into other applications.  This is great when you want to look up and include a quote along with the reference and possibly some context quickly in something you’re writing.

 

Try out the ON LINE CONCORDANCE.  It’s “wordlist” is shorter than that on the CD version, leaving out many of the most frequently used words to keep size down and speed up.  So, there is no “if, and, or but!”  Depending on your Internet connection, the ON LINE ADSORDANCE may be rather slow.  The Concordance on CD, or installed on your hard disk, is not at all slow. Even on an antique Pentium II with a 233 MHz CPU, the Web Concordance on CD responds in a second or so.  On faster machines, the response is less than a second.

 

 

$20.00  The Concordance comes in two versions, the WEB Concordance ($20) and the FULL Concordance.($70)

You can try out an abridged, limited version of the WEB Concordance online here.  The CD version has all the words in all volumes and is much larger.  This extremely economical “E-ACIM computer CD” transforms the student’s experience of looking up something in the Course.  With full Tables of Contents for all volumes, and the full text of all volumes able to be displayed on the screen, you can readily read the entire Course on your computer with this disk.  When it comes time to turn to a known reference or look up a word or phrase, the WEB Concordance allows split-second access to even rather complicated searches.  Usually the quote you’re looking for can be found in less than ten seconds even if you recall only one or two words of it correctly.  And it works across ALL VOLUMES!

                                                                   

 

The FULL Concordance allows for many additional and more complex and powerful search patterns and has the capacity to make full and detailed printouts.  You can search for a wide variety of word combination patterns and almost instantly get a display.  The context display is almost infinitely adjustable.  You can browse the wordlist according to a dozen different criteria.  Many of these same capabilities are – “sort of” -- accessible in the WEB Concordance with a good deal more skill and effort.  The Serious Scholar will find the Full Concordance an absolutely indispensable tool. One can purchase the software directly from the Publisher and get a product description here:   Concordance  Without the data files, the Concordance software by itself is rather useless.  We Will sell you that data files separately (if you already have a copy of the Concordance software), for example, for $20 or we’ll sell you both the Software and the data files for $70 which saves you $50 over the single copy purchase price of each alone.  (see order form ORDER a copy now)

 

 

*The term Sub-Urtext is used to describe what many mistakenly call the “Urtext.”  At the USCO a collection of documents were filed with the title “Urtext” of a Course in Miracles which, upon closer scrutiny, turned out NOT to be the actual “’Urtext” or Thetford’s original manuscript.  The material is clearly of a later date and reflects significant amounts of editing and abridging vis-à-vis Schucman’s original Notes insofar as we have fragments of the latter against which to compare.  In its Text portion it is older than the HLC material, so it could be called “pre-HLC” but so far as we know the HLC was completed before the WB and Manual were even dictated, so we can’t quite call an edit of the latter “Pre-HLC.”  The term “Sub-Urtext” was thus chosen since this material arose after the Urtext and is clearly derived from it.  We also preserve that word Urtext by which this material has mistakenly come to be known.

 

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