The Illuminated Text: Commentaries for Deepening Your Connection with a Course in Miracles, Vol. 1: Commentaries on Chapters 1-4

by Robert Perry, Greg Mackie

The Text is the foundation of A Course in Miracles. Doing the Course is simply a process of learning and internalizing its thought system, and the Text is where that thought system is laid out. It is an unparalleled spiritualtour de force. Careful study of it will change your outlook in ways that perhaps nothing else can. Many students, however, find the Text to be very hard going, and wish they had a deeper grasp of what they were reading. The Illuminated Text is drawn from the Text Reading Program, the Circle of Atonement's one-year study program of the Text of A Course in Miracles. It will guide you, in detail, through the Text, enabling you to get a deep understanding of this spiritual masterpiece.

284 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2009

Reviews

[Linda Snow · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve been a student of A Course in Miracles since 1994, and it’s a seemingly complex spiritual path at first. Philosophy has always interested me as I have sought to discover a better way for all living beings to exist harmoniously (including inner peace for myself ). Haha, right? It’s apparently a “circle of lunch” in this world. I have read and studied these volumes myself and with other students many times, so I finally decided to list them at long last! Also because I overshot my reading challenge for 2023 by five books. 🤣

These volumes weren’t published until 2011, and they have been immensely helpful in my continued studies, even as I’ve become a certified teacher of ACIM from the nonprofit organization that published them, the Circle of Atonement. Both of the authors were my teachers and in 2017, they published A Course in Miracles: Complete and Annotated Edition. If anyone taking the time to read this review is interested, I would not recommend reading these volumes first, but rather go and find on YouTube called Exploring A Course in Miracles in 60 minutes and then you’ll have a beginner’s grasp on the journey.

[Ronald Fife · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Illuminated Text series is an excellent tool to help readers understand the Text of A Course in Miracles. The original Course text is very heavy and written in a kind of prose that can be difficult to take in. Robert Perry does a good job of breaking the text down paragraph by paragraph.