Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00298)

Daniel,

What are you trying to say that we don't already know? 
--j



Daniel H. Caldwell wrote:

> Jerry,
>
> You wrote:
>
> "A careful analysis of reprinted ULT
> material will reveal quite a lot of examples of
> differences from the originals. For the most part,
> these were errors of ignorance. The point is that
> they, unlike other organizations, were not trying
> to 'improve' on the original writings." 
> Are you contending that the changes
> and corrections to Theosophy Company's 1928 edition
> of THE VOICE were "errors of ignorance"?
>
> Notice what the Theosophy Company wrote in their
> two letters in 1928:
>
> In a letter dated March 30, 1928 and signed by THE
> THEOSOPHY COMPANY, the anonymous writer informed Dr.
> H.N. Stokes:
>
> "The Theosophy Company is just bringing out an
> entirely new edition of *The Voice of the Silence.* .
> . .. Sometime ago the Theosophy Company came into
> possession of a copy of the original London edition of
> *The Voice of the Silence* with the typographical
> changes and corrections made by Mr. Judge in his own
> hand, and it is this text which is followed in the
> edition just being issued by the Theosophy Company. .
> . ." [quoted in O.E. LIBRARY CRITIC, July 1928.]
>
> In a follow-up letter dated May 1, 1928, THE THEOSOPHY
> COMPANY again stated to Dr. Stokes the following:
>
> "This new [TC 1928] edition . . . is set up *verbatim
> et literatim* from a copy of the original edition of
> *The Voice of the Silence* as corrected by Mr. Judge
> in his own handwriting. This copy we have in our
> possession. . . ." [quoted in O.E. LIBRARY CRITIC,
> July 1928.]
>
> Notice the words:
>
> "....changes and corrections made by Mr. Judge...." 
> "...as corrected by Mr. Judge...."
>
> These letters show that The Theosophy Company KNEW 
> that changes and corrections had been made in the 
> edition that they published in 1928.
>
> And neither on the title page or elsewhere in this
> edition did the Theosophy Company tell readers that
> "changes" and "corrections" had been incorporated
> into this edition of HPB's work.
>
> Several years ago when I first wrote about this
> 1928 edition and the changes, a good number of
> ULT students wrote me either not believing that
> there were such changes or wrote shocked that
> such changes were in the T.C. edition. 
> So the further question comes to mind:
>
> Why didn't the Theosophy Company in their 1928
> edition inform readers that this edition contains
> changes and corrections by W.Q. Judge? 
> And are you contending that the Theosophy Company
> in 1928 was NOT "trying to 'improve' on the original"
> VOICE when they published such changes and corrections??
>
> And yes I agree that we should be thankful to the
> Theosophy Company's efforts to preserve the original writings.
>
> Daniel
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