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The Sub-Urtext Concordance [now included on Condordance CD]

 

When this project began, we set out to proof the HLC text first.  That project is now completed.

 

There were other manuscripts pre-dating the 1975 edit which became available in late 2000.  Although

these documents are called the “Urtext” Text, Workbook, and Manual, I don’t know of anyone

who actually believes they are Bill Thetford’s original typescripts.  They are almost certainly

Helen’s re-typing of the original “Urtext” with some editing changes.  Precisely how many is

impossible to determine until we can compare them to the original material.  Because it is not

the “Urtext” but is earlier than the HLC, we’re calling it the “Sub-Urtext”.  It is the same

material widely, but mistakenly being called simply Urtext.

 

However, the material is still considerably earlier and significantly different than previously

published ACIM material.  In the case of the early chapters of the Text, it is very much larger

even than the HLC, and includes a large amount of fascinating additional ACIM Scribing.”

 

We have just begun the proofreading of the Urtext.  For that process we required a Web

concordance and so made one.  It has the unique feature of permitting the user to display each

page of the original manuscript individually while scrolling through the text.  The purpose is,

of course, for comparison.  As with the HLC Audio, which was made for proofreading only,

we are aware that the currently available material, despite being unproofed and far from

perfect, will be of use to some students.  We’ve therefore chosen to make it available “as it.”

 

The text is not proofed and is known to have many errors, especially where the HLC and the

Sub-Ur  differ.  It appears that after the first few chapters,  those who compiled the text document

simply copied the HLC and didn’t proofread it very carefully.  ACIM has been plagued from

the beginning by a lack of proofreading!!

 

By adding the instant reference to the original photocopies, however, the user can check anything

that has been looked up to find out if the digital text is in fact the same as the original text!

While we eagerly await the day when we’ll have an ACCURATE Sub-Ur Concordance,

this is the best there is at the moment, and it’s far more useful than nothing!

 

Except for this additional feature of displaying each manuscript page, individually, and not including

any other volumes, it is substantially identical to the HLC Six Volume Concordance, including the

ability to view the entirety of the original photocopy, as well as one page at a time.

 

There is of course ALSO a “FULL ADSORDANCE” data file available for those with

the “Concordance” software from  http://www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/

 

 

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