Theos-Talk Archives (September 2003 Message tt00082)

Yes, Jerome, those words/quotes relate partly 
to what I was trying to get across in my "re 
Besant's Preface to SD III" post. Apparently 
I failed to get my intended meaning across, 
again (?), since you're not quoting from, or 
responding to, what I thought were some of 
my key concerns: such as about whether or not 
Cleather might've been correct about Besant's 
editing ways re SD III (ie, in spite of the 
wording in that Preface). But don't worry 
about it, Jerome, on my account.

Jerome selectively quoted Mauri, rearranging 
Mauri's sentences: <<Thanks, Jerome, for that 
"Preface" from Annie Besant for (apparently?) 
HPB's SD III. In the following, I'm 
responding to Annie Besant as if she were a 
member of this discussion list. Or, in other 
words, if you had trouble figuring out what 
HPB might've meant to say, why not leave her 
"possible meaning" intact in the sense of 
leaving the words as you found them? Or did 
you do just that? Of course (?), if you saw 
yourself as HPB's successor, then the 
temptation to offer your "own opinions" 
might've led to ... well, the kinds of words 
you offered in that Preface? I guess we all 
tend to interpret about "exoteric/esoteric" 
somewhat personally? >>

And, in the same post, Jerome quoted from 
Annie Besant's Preface to SD III, again, 
partly this time: <<'In a few cases I have 
filled in a gap, but any such addition is 
enclosed within square brackets, so as to be 
distinguished from the text. In "The Mystery 
of Buddha" a further difficulty arose; some 
of the Sections had been written four or five 
times over, each version containing some 
sentences that were not in the others; I have 
pieced these versions together,taking the 
fullest as basis, and inserting therein 
everything added in any other versions. It 
is, however, with some hesitation that I have 
included these Sections in the Secret 
Doctrine.' Preface. AB. SDIII. HPB. >>>
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Speculatively,
Mauri