Theos-Talk Archives (May 2001 Message tt00162)

Thanks Vera for your feedback.
I will look at this more closely later.

Daniel

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>Daniel
>
>"it" reffers to the circle divided by a perpendicular
>line she mentions above:
> ... when the figure became the circle ... with the
>races of our Fifth Race it became ...  
>
>I don't have the "Source of Measures" here, but she
>states (footnotes) that sacr' is a phallic word so,
>I'm gessing, just guessing that both sacr' and
>N'cabvah have to do with phallicism ( worship of the
>phallus especially as symbolic of power or generative
>principle of nature- according to Random House) 
>
>Peace
>
>Vera
>
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>escreveu: > 
>> SUBJECT: Boris de Zirkoff's "corrections" of
>> variant spellings
>> 
>> As a student of HPB's writings, I am always trying
>> to understand what 
>> she is writing about. Many times I have to try to
>> grapple with a 
>> word that I don't understand and I try to ascertain
>> what is the 
>> meaning of the term, etc. 
>> 
>> Take the words on the following pages of the SD:
>> 
>> QUOTATION A: sacr' n'cabvah SD, I, 5
>> 
>> QUOTATION B: sacr n'cabrah SD, I, 390
>> 
>> QUOTATION C: Zachar Nakobeh SD, II, 127
>> 
>> QUOTATION D: sacr n'cabvah SD, II, 467 
>> 
>> Are we to conclude that there are only TWO Hebrew
>> words under 
>> discussion and on these pages of the SD we have 3
>> variant English 
>> spellings of each Hebrew word?
>> 
>> Hebrew Word 1 = sacr' = sacr = Zachar
>> 
>> Hebrew Word 2 = n'cabvah = n'cabrah = Nakobeh
>> 
>> What is the significance (if any) of the differences
>> in spellings?
>> 
>> I assume Boris de Zirkoff concluded that the subject
>> matter involved 
>> only two Hebrew words and that for whatever
>> reason(s) variant 
>> spellings had crept into the SD manuscript. He
>> probably consulted 
>> with Anava Kantor about this matter. See Vol. I p.
>> [79] in CW 
>> edition of SD. Following guidline 3 on p. [77] Vol.
>> I he corrected 
>> all spellings to "zakhar" and "negebah". [He was
>> not totally 
>> sucessful in these corrections since there is still
>> one variant 
>> spelling in the CW edition!]
>> 
>> If anyone believes that there is some significances
>> to these variant 
>> spellings I would like some feedback on what these
>> variant spellings 
>> are intended to convey that is not apparent to the
>> "scholarly eye".
>> 
>> Also I do not completely understand what HPB is
>> trying to convey in 
>> the following quotation:
>> 
>> ". . . With the races of our Fifth Race it became in
>> symbology
>> the 
>> sacr', and in Hebrew n'cabvah, of the first-formed
>> races;* then it 
>> changed into the Egyptian . . . ." SD, I, 5
>> 
>> What does the first "it" stand for?
>> 
>> Specifially, what does this phrase mean:
>> 
>> "in symbology the sacr', and in Hebrew n'cabvah"
>> 
>> One student has emailed me saying that he believes
>> HPB is writing in 
>> this phrase about only ONE Hebrew word; not two.
>> 
>> I notice in the Boris de Zirkoff edition that Boris
>> has not only 
>> changed the spelling of the two Hebrew terms but has
>> also rearranged 
>> and changed some of the other words in the sentence.
>> Why was this 
>> done????
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> 
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