Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00369)

At 03:23 PM 11/21/97 -0800, Nicholas Weeks wrote:
>
>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

Glad to see the feedback.

The Vol II was titled Theology, but Table of Contents has "Volume Second --
The 'Infallibility' of Religion' and the title of page 1 of the volume is
titled "Isis Unveiled -- Part Two, -- Religion".

In addition, the preface to Part II says:

 An analysis of religious beliefs in general, this volume is in particular
directed against theological Christianity, the chief opponent of free
thought. It contains not one word against the pure teachings of Jesus, but
unsparingly denounces their debasement into pernicious ecclesiastical
systems that are ruinous to man's faith in his immortality and his God, and
subversive of all moral restraint.
==

>From what you have seen in the book, is the abridgement going to help reach
more readers, in your judgement?

mkr