Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00169)

Daniel,

Consider the following extract from "The Letters of H P Blavatsky to A P
Sinnett":

"There are more secrets of initiation given out in the *Introductory* Chapt.
than in *all* Isis.  And what comes after is still more interesting.  But I
am utterly miserable about its *mechanical* arrangement.  I have written and
re-written about twenty times this blessed Chapt.  I have cut off and
shifted the paras: and passages and sections and sub-sections until I am
sick of it".

Why the MECHANICAL arrangement?  Why put poor HPB through such painstaking,
"utterly miserable", until she is "sick of it", work cutting, shifting,
arranging paragraphs/passages/sections? Why so? Why is the *mechanical*
arrangement so important?  Why?

> Paul, you even suggest that the Mahatmas were watching, supervising and
> correcting the typesetting of THE SECRET DOCTRINE.

This is exactly what was said (cut 'n paste):

"It is said that Masters 'corrected' MSS during the night etc..  Do we think
They were any less capable, would have been any less active, during the
typographic settings for the original print run?  Would They have wasted
valuable time/energy/occult power 'correcting' hand written/precipitated MSS
only to allow failings/errors to creep in during the type set?  Hardly makes
sense."

> Thanking you in advance for your explicit replies.

There is really nothing much else to add (explicit or otherwise).  People on
the list are free to decide/think as they wish - which is how it should be.

Let us drop the matter and move on.

Kindest regards,
Paul.