Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00138)

At 04:24 PM 9/10/1998 +0100, alpha@dircon.co.uk wrote:
>>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

Glad you brought up the Peking Edition, a copy of which I recently received
from a friend of mine.

Does anyone know if this is available on Internet for download?.

mkr