Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00444)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Konstantin Zaitzev" 
<kay_ziatz@y...> wrote:
> All Lucifers which HPB wrote about were distinctly good guys, the 
> light bearers.

That's right. She simply didn't talk about anyone of them becoming a 
bad guy later, neither she said it is impossible.


> If H.Roerich didn't know that, it's her problem,

She did, as can be seen from her letters about Lucifer.

> and the problem of her followers who have to 
> deal with great confusion of terms.

They must have brains for that. And if they don't it is indeed their 
problem.


> If a translator makes SUCH errors the work shouldn't be regarded as 
a 
> translation at all.
> 
> > There's no point in changing the words deliberately 
> > for the entire context clearly shows that the author (HPB)
> 
> She was just shy to correct it radically. "We are not breaking a 
low, 
> we are stretching it" (Police Academy)

Well, I can understand your irritation or even hatred towards her, 
but exaggeration won't help anyway. The entire passage is radical 
enough to make this "correction" useless. Besides, there are other 
places in SD not less radical which were translated correctly. And 
there is not much difference between "as Ragon has well demonstrated" 
and "as Ragon has willed to demonstrate". Human is to err.