Theos-Talk Archives (October 2003 Message tt00079)

Dallas, you wrote:

"We can debate after the passage of 100 years +/- the alterations to 
the form of the published VOICE OF THE SILENCE. We cannot alter 
those. But some of the observations seem to delve, as guess work, 
into the nature of the motives of the changes made."

But Dallas, we can AVOID any debating if we refer students to the 
Kessinger photographic facsimile of the original 1889 edition of 
HPB's VOICE. This way students can read the ONLY EDITION AUTHORIZED 
by HPB. 

See the Kessinger reprint which is found at the following web 
page (see edition listed at top of the 4th column):

http://voiceofthesilence.net

". . . this [Kessinger] edition is a PERFECT FACSIMILE of the 
original edition and can be RELIED UPON as such."

Dallas, you write:

"But some of the observations seem to delve, as guess work, into the 
nature of the motives of the changes made."

But by using the Kessinger reprint of the original, we don't have to 
worry about what changes were made and "the nature of the motives of 
the changes made."

Furthermore, by using the Kessinger reprint, we don't have to be 
concerned about whether the "corrections" of HPB's Sanskrit 
scholarship in the Theosophy Company's edition are GRATUITOUS or not.

"ITS EXACT AUTHENTICITY, however, cannot be determined without 
LABORIOUS COMPARISON with the ORIGINAL. . . ."

By using the Kessinger reprint, we do not have to worry about the 
EXACT AUTHENTICITY of the edited version by Judge. Furthermore, one 
need not engage in LABORIOUS COMPARISON with the ORIGINAL. Instead 
by using the Kessinger reprint one can focus one's study on the 
teachings in the VOICE.

Don't you agree?

Daniel