Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00132)

>At 12:31 AM 9/10/1998 +0100, alpha@dircon.co.uk wrote:
>>
>>It is incredible that one has to go outside the Adyar TS to get a facsimile
>>of the original edition.  At times one wonders if they know what the word
>>facsimile means.  See page 8a to the fairly recent edition of "The Voice of
>>the Silence", Wheaton, TPH: "The text of this edition is faithful to that of
>>the original publication, being a facsimile reprint of the 1889 version.  A
>>few obvious typographical errors that might confuse the reader have been
>>corrected."
>
>Did the above edition explain what the typos were and how they were
>corrected and who did the correction?

No it doesn't.  - that would make a difference.  The Publisher's Preface is
signed TPH, Wheaton, 1991.   In the Peking edition of "The Voice of the
Silence" there is a 4-page editorial forward, but the rest of the comments
are put at the end, which includes a list of the changes made.  So, for
example, where it says "but *Tao* is there mispelt *Tau*.....*Tau* is the
Egyptian cross T".   The student may then ask is Tau restricted to being the
Egyptian cross?  On page 5 PROEM of the SD the tau is described "the glyph
of the third root-race to the day of its symbolical Fall ..."  The student
is made aware of the changes made, rather than just having to take on trust
the "authority" of some editor.

Hopfully this makes things clearer?
>
>Could it be that the copyright (and the consequential business) issue may
>have also played a part in the typo correction?

Can't see why.  On the title-page verso it does say : "All Rights Reserved.
Second Quest Edition."  Published 1992.  It has a publisher's preface and
"How the Voice of the Silence was written" by B de Z. Then a nice facsimile
of the half-title of HPBs copy of the Voice of the Silence.  Then, "The
Voice of the Silence" itself.  It seems a pity that the actual work is
preceeded by 39 odd pages.

Tony