Theos-Talk Archives (July 1997 Message tt00060)

Dear Fellow-Students:

With respect to Dan's remarks about the Glossaries, let's first
recall that the ~Theosophia~ article did not propose to be a full
treatment of the problem of authorship.  Many years later, before
he passed away, Boris was working on an expanded Glossary, in the
form of notes written into his own copy of the printed
~Theosophical Glossary,~ drawing upon other Blavatsky's
definitions.  In his notes to me as executrix, his plan was for a
Key/Voice volume (as part of the UNNUMBERED series of the
~Blavatsky Collected Writings~) to be eventually published by
Wheaton, with an expanded Glossary at the close [perhaps even as
an appendix].  His annoted copy of the ~Theosophical Glossary~
should still be with his Mss.  for that future ~Key-Voice~ volume
in the B.  de Z.  archives at Wheaton.

I do not know if this volume has been delayed by the Quest
miniature production of ~Voice,~ which contained an edited
version of Boris' Introduction, as well as a portion of his
index, or is awaiting the highly anticipated ~Blavatsky Collected
Letters~ which John Cooper is editing.  Those letters would also
be a part of the ~Unnumbered~ series of ~B.C.W.~, as are the
~Caves and Jungles....~, ~Isis Unveiled~ and the ~Secret
Doctrine.~ With so many editions of the ~Key to Theosophy~ and
~Voice~ in print, I can understand the publisher's decision to
give precedence to the unpublished letters of H.P.B.  However, I
do sometimes lament that I will be able to see all of the series
Boris' had envisioned in my lifetime.  Until those Mss.  are
fully examined, we will not have a clue as to what Boris had in
mind for the expanded ~Glossary~, wherein he hoped to include
only those entries of Blavatsky herself.  We certainly can agree
he knew her style after long decades of study.