Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00273)

Dallas, you write:

"It is also significant that after HPB's death Mrs. Besant
arrogated to herself the right and 'duty ?' of editing HPB
as she thought HPB would like it. This manifests as early
as 1893 -- two years after HPB's death."

But Dallas, it was not only Mrs. Besant who edited HPB. Even William 
Q. Judge decided to "edit" HPB. See his editing of THE VOICE OF THE 
SILENCE. He made hundreds of changes as can be found in the current 
edition of THE VOICE published by the Theosophy Company.

Could we therefore also justifiably write (using your same 
phraseology) that Mr. Judge "arrogated to himself the right 
and 'duty' of editing HPB as he thought HPB would like it"?

And it is this TC "edited" version of THE VOICE that you apparently 
prefer to use and recommend instead of HPB's own orginal.

Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://blavatskyarchives.com/introduction.htm