Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00167)

In addition, here is another HPB quote, published in Nov. 1888, LUCIFER.
Also in CW 10, 181fn.

"Very likely errors... will be found in THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Why should
any of us... pose for infallibility?

Daniel:
>SUBJECT:  There are no mistakes/errors/typos
>in HPB's 1888 edition of THE SECRET DOCTRINE??
[...]

>The 1st HPB quote:
>
>"Save the direct quotations and the many afore specified and mentioned
>MISPRINTS, ERRORS and MISQUOTATIONS, and the general make-up of *Isis
>Unveiled*, for which I am in no way responsible, (a) every word of
>information found in this work or in my later writings, comes from the
>teachings of our Eastern Masters; and  (b) that many a passage in these
>works has been written by me *under their dictation*.
>...........................
>Even for *The Secret Doctrine* there are about half-a-dozen Theosophists
>who have been busy in editing it, who have helped me to arrange the
>matter, correct the imperfect English, and prepare it for print."
>From HPB's article "My Books", April 1891.  CAPS ADDED.
>
>Therefore, is there not room here for MISPRINTS, ERRORS and
>MISQUOTATIONS?
>
>Another HPB QUOTE:
>
>"Thus mistakes have been made in 'Isis Unveiled,' in 'Esoteric
>Buddhism,' in 'Man,' in 'Magic:  White and Black,' etc., etc.; and more
>than one mistake is likely to be found in the present work.  This cannot
>be helped. . . . ."  SD, II, 640.
>
>And from the context of the whole paragraph from which the above was
>quoted, HPB is not referring to just "typos" when she uses the word
>"mistake."
>
>Thanking you in advance for your explicit replies.

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