Theos-Talk Archives (February 2006 Message tt00291)

Dear friends,

I get Konstantin might be a friend of Daniel's and David Green's.

Carlos.


> From: "Konstantin Zaitzev" <kay_ziatz@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Theos-World Re: More on "Tampering" with HPB's THE VOICE OF THE 
> SILENCE
> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:43:50 -0000
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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Alaya" wrote:
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> > One should look at the peking edition of the voice of the silence if
> > he wants to read the original voice. It was edited by Alice
> Cleather.
> > She made an effort to publish it without besant's "corrections",
> which actually altered the orginal.
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> It's enough to see extracts you have quoted below to make sure that
> TC correction are far more sreiuos:
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> > The Theosophy Company's edition reads (p. 5):
> >  It stands generally for the 100 years or "age" of Brahma, the
> >  duration of a Maha-Kalpa or a period of
> > >  311,040,000,000,000 years.
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> Different numbers.
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> > Once, again, the original VOICE reads on p. 82:
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> > Bodhidharma called them in China---from whence
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> > The TC edition changes this passage to read:  (p. 25)
> > The *Bodhidharma*, Wisdom Religion in China---
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> The ingorant editors from TC didn't knew that Bodhidharma is a proper
> name of man, who brought Busshism to China!
> So they typed it in italics and translated its meaning as it were
> name of religion!
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> Besant corrections affect rather style tham meaning (as in SD too) -
> commas, articles, etc. Moreover, I vaguely remember that when HPB
> wrote it she asked AB to check her style herself, and AB said that
> all is OK and made only slight corrections, and they already are in
> 1st printing. Yet I don't rememver where I've read this.
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