Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00367)

Sometime back I was able to dip into the MS of Michael Gomes' abridgment
of ISIS UNVEILED. Now the actual book is in my hands. The hope is that
this popularized version will reach people that the full 1200 page
edition did not. It will I am sure. May they also pursue HPB's writings
much further.

Since I still have only dipped into the book, my first impression may be way
off the mark -- I do hope so. But the publisher, John Algeo, was rather
too much involved in the actual editing of Gomes' work. Or perhaps there
was not enough cooperation between the two. At any rate, one example
of, at least, poor communication, may embarrass Gomes or Algeo or both.
Perhaps a future printing could resolve it.

The second volume of ISIS was titled THEOLOGY. In Gomes' MS it was so
given. Also in Gomes' Foreword to this book he writes of her 2nd vol.
"dedicated to *Theology*". Yet RELIGION is now the title of that 2nd
part of this abridgement.

I suppose it would be cheaper to change Gomes' wording in his foreword,
than to replace all the running heads in the 2nd half of the book.

A long sigh.

--
Nicholas <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
 See yourself as Divine; see others as Divine. Turn away from all else
 in you and others. That is the essence of spiritual living.
 Sathya Sai Baba