Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00292)

dorothy lord wrote:
>
> Daniel Caldwell
> If one reads - absorbs - and tries to live by the seven virtues as
> expressed by H.P.B.
> does it really matter whether it is a facsimile
> or not???
>          Dorothy Lord
>


Dorothy has a good point.
Ultimately the one who reads, assimilates and lives accordingly is the
great winner of the wisdom transmitted by HPB to all of us.
The rest of us will read it and added to our vast knowledge and it will
remail as information to be quoted which is good too.

And what about  me and thousands of others who study the Voice, SD, Isis
etc in other languages, where every word has been interpreted,
manipulated and translated.

My opinion in these matters is (not that matters to anyone) that we
should have available the original writings of HPB for reference, and
also publish the improved version in areas of  spellings, typos, modern
renditions of  names like Krishna, Amon, etc. In this way, we may
benefit from the time, research  and knowledge from past (present and
future) editors like Besant, Mead, Boris dZ..

We should not be afraid of correcting, editing the SD, etc. That's is
why I suggest we gather our marbles of research and create the online
annotated version of the SD, where every page will contain our notes in
footnotes, along with concordances and more bibliographic references.



Martin Leiderman