Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00287)

It looks like it. What about the following: Is it true that The Secret
Doctrine (the book) was, as written by Blavatsky, a huge pile of
handwritten pages, left for others to organize and edit as they saw fit?
If so, then whose idea was it to put it into separate volumes in the
first place?

Eldon B Tucker wrote:
> 
> Bart:
> 
> Perhaps you were thinking of the Adyar edition of THE SECRET DOCTRINE?
> 
> Original Three-Volume Adyar
> Edition Edition Edition
> Vol. I Vol. II Vol. I & II
> Vol. II Vol. II Vol. III & IV
> ******* Vol. III* Vol. V
> ******* ******** Vol. VI (Index)
> 
> * Materials published after Blavatsky's death, including her
> esoteric papers.
> 
> ----
> 
> In the Adyar edition, the original SD appeared in four volumes and
> you have five volumes if you count the extra materials from the
> three-volume edition.
> 
> Both the three-volume edition and the Adyar edition contained
> tens of thousands of editorial changes. The T.S. Adyar decided
> to discontinue that edition. Around the same time, TPH Wheaton
> came out with Boris de Zirkoff's edition of THE SECRET DOCTRINE,
> as part of the COLLECTED WRITINGS OF H.P. BLAVATSKY series.
> 
> -- Eldon
> 
> At 12:44 AM 7/31/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >danielhcaldwell wrote:
> > >
> > > Bart, you write:
> > >
> > > "The two volumes of the Secret Doctrine was originally published as 4
> > > or 5 [volumes?] (I don't remember which off the top of my head)."
> > >
> > > Bart, what is your source for this statement?
> > >
> > > Are you saying that the SD was ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED in 1888 in either
> > > FOUR or FIVE volumes???
> > >
> > > I'm puzzled by your statement.
> >
> > As I stated, I had difficulty recalling. I had been told that the
> >pubishing of the Secret Doctrine as 2 volumes was relatively recent, and
> >I very well may have been misinformed.
> >
> > Bart Lidofsky
> >
> >
> >
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