Theos-Talk Archives (November 2004 Message tt00132)

Hello Krishtar,

Yes, this Peking Voice is a very special edition, and my favorite of all 
that have come out over the years. I'm still looking for a genuine 1889 
1st edition of the Voice, which has been very frustrating to locate a 
copy for sale. 
The SD was first re-edited in 1893 by Annie Besant and G.R.S. Mead, 
though I have somewhere a letter by Mead denying that he have much if 
anything to do with this edition, and puts the responsibility for the 
changes onto Besant. A ULT student remarked some years ago that he 
found some 10,000 changes. In 1897, Besant published a third volume 
which is really a mishmash of mss HPB left behind. In a case or two the 
material was actually an earlier draft of something already published 
elsewhere. Some of the material was actually HPB's three ES 
instructions, which Besant re-edited. Some of the material actually 
appears to be mss material that would have formed part of a third 
volume, if she had lived to complete it. A uniform three volume edition 
came out in 1925 and went through numerous re-printings. I don't know 
off hand if further changes were made in this one. This is the edition 
that Alice Bailey uses in her writings. The six volume edition came out 
in 1938. If was again re-edited by a committee working under George 
Arundale. It was promoted as an affordable edition, and was published 
at cost. I remember buying a copy of the latest re-printing in 1964 for 
$16.00! Lately, I've seen booksellers asking $100.00 or more for it. 
Is the Brazil edition you mention a Spanish translation of this 1938 
edition? 
Best
--j





krishtar wrote:

> Dear Jerry
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> Thank you very much for the PDF on the Peking foreword.
> Very amazing to start reading all those considerations on the lamas hierarchy.
> It is a pitty that many further editions do not contain many of the earlier proems and prefaces.It occurs very often in many works.
> When SD was first printed in Brasil it came in 6 books sold separately, they showed many " corrections and retouchings" ( deliberately between quotation marks) and in other words nearly half of many books´ contents was introductions and prologues either by Annie Beasant or someone else, but not so much worth reading.
> It´ll be quite a pleasure to read it.
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> Warm Regards
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> Krishtar
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