Theos-Talk Archives (July 2006 Message tt00334)

7/17/2006 5:15 PM

 

Dear Daniel:  

 

Are we children?  What you ask about is incomprehensible to me. This is too
vague.  

 

You write:

 

"Now we find out that the unacknowledged editing of both TC volumes 
MAY HAVE BEEN the handiwork of G.R.S. Mead who also edited the 1893 
edition of the SD which the ULT has consistently criticized for its 
many changes and "corrections"....."



 

Please be specific, so I and all who may read, may know what specifically
troubles you.

 

How can you expect me to say whether G. R. S. Mead edited  [ what specific
books or articles ? ] or did not edit, such vaguely referenced material as
you mention.  This is nonsense as I have said before.

 

It also wastes time.

 

Let those who desire to ascertain the accuracy of any reprint go to the
original printing and study and read for themselves.  

 

At least: Do some independent thinking abut what THEOSOPHY teaches.  That is
important, no all this trashy set of arguments.  Enough has been said.

 

The texts issued by Theosophy Company in THEOSOPHY  Magazine and elsewhere
can be proof read by anyone against the originals.  Their accuracy, or lack
thereof; is thus made plain to all.  

 

The purpose of their publication (since 1912) was to encourage independent
students to use their individual minds [Higher Manas] to LEARN what
THEOSOPHY teaches  --   not to hold a printing and publishing debate.  Your
questions can be solved by anyone,  and need not be launched at any
individual unless you have some particular and so far unrevealed reason.  

 

You write:

 

"Dallas has never explained why it is NOT permissible
for the Adyar TS to publish "edited" versions of
HPB's writings WHILE AT THE SAME TIME it is apparently permissible
and seemingly okay for the Theosophy Company to publish
2 editions of HPB's works that contain hundreds of changes
and "corrections" with NO note in the books indicating
that such "silent editing" has in fact been done.

If Dallas has, I certainly do not remember reading it. If he wants 
to explain the above in simple and direct English, I hope he will do 
it in this forum."

 


What purpose, other than diverting readers' valuable time from the actual
STUDY OF THEOSOPHY is there in your questions?

 

I write this as an associate of U  L  T .  

 

I am to ill to conduct a continued set of answers to questions that appear
to me baseless. 

 

At lease the U  L  T  and its activity along the lines of encouraging
independent STUDY has ben done and is strongly under way.

 

Best wishes,

 

Dallas

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: danielhcaldwell
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 
To: 
Subject: ,, Dallas never explained why....

 

Carlos,

Dallas has never explained why it is NOT permissible
for the Adyar TS to publish "edited" versions of
HPB's writings WHILE AT THE SAME TIME it is apparently permissible
and seemingly okay for the Theosophy Company to publish
2 editions of HPB's works that contain hundreds of changes
and "corrections" with NO note in the books indicating
that such "silent editing" has in fact been done.

If Dallas has, I certainly do not remember reading it. If he wants 
to explain the above in simple and direct English, I hope he will do 
it in this forum.

OBTW, Carlos, do you approve of the Theosophy Company publishing two
volumes of HPB's writings with hundreds of changes and corrections
but with NO editorial note telling the reader that such
silent editing has been done????

At least in my volume of people's reminiscences of HPB, I wrote:

"The narratives have been transcribed from the original
sources with spelling and punctuation modernized. For
people's names, the spelling used in HPB's Collected
Writings (vols. 1 and 15) has been adopted. Material not
relevant to the immediate narrative has been silently
deleted. The original texts, however, can be found from
the bibliographical references. Explanatory notes added
by the editor are enclosed within square brackets."

Furthermore, I was not reprinting the WHOLE documents of each writer
but was trying to tell a story using only selected excerpts.

On the other hand, the TC was printing the entire text of the VOICE 
OF THE SILENCE or the text of hundreds of her complete articles. 
Well, at least we assumed they were complete!!! :)

Now we find out that the unacknowledged editing of both TC volumes 
may have been the handiwork of G.R.S. Mead who also edited the 1893 
edition of the SD which the ULT has consistently criticized for its 
many changes and "corrections".....

Daniel
http://hpb.cc






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