Theos-Talk Archives (July 2006 Message tt00392)

Daniel,

You have been defending Besant's SD here in a tireless way. 
And that edition is as authentic as your book "The Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky".  Fortunately, Adyar abandoned Besant's SD. 

Best regards,  Carlos. 



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Data:Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:10:47 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World "According to Daniel Caldwell's theory, Besant SD was 'authentic'."????

> Carlos, you write:
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> "According to Daniel Caldwell's theory, Besant SD was 'authentic'."
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> Did I say that?
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> I simply stated what anyone who takes the time can
> determine for themselves.
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> I repeat BELOW what I wrote previously and as far as 
> I can see you simply ignore these important facts.
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> HPB's COLLECTED WRITINGS Vol. 14 heavily dependent
> on Besant's 3rd Volume (1897) of the SD
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> In the 1897 edition of Volume III of THE SECRET DOCTRINE,
> there are (excluding H.P.B.'s esoteric papers at
> the back of this volume), 52 sections (or chapters)
> covering 432 pages of text.
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> 40 of these sections or chapters of the SD Vol. III were SIMPLY
> transferred by Mr. de Zirkoff into HPB's COLLECTED WRITINGS (most of
> them into Vol. XIV).
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> It should be clearly stated here that the ONLY EXISTING copies of
> these 40 sections are the printed version found in Besant's SD Vol. 
> III.
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> Mr. de Zirkoff had NO OTHER versions of these 40 sections to rely on
> or work with.
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> Furthermore, these 40 sections constitute more than 300 pages of the
> text of SD III.
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> For the remaining 12 sections of SD III which have corresponding
> text in the EARLIER Wurzburg manuscript, Mr. de Zirkoff and his team
> compared the two sets of text, [the SDIII version with the Wurzburg 
> MSS] etc. and then decided what to publish in the COLLECTED WRITINGS.
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> IN SUMMARY:
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> Mr. de Zirkoff transferred into the COLLECTED WRITINGS volumes (most
> of it into Volume XIV) these hundreds of pages of text DIRECTLY FROM
> Annie Besant's Vol. III.
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> In other words, COLLECTED WRITINGS, Vol. 14 is heavily DEPENDENT on
> Annie Besant's 3rd Volume.
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> Daniel H. Caldwell
> Blavatsky Study Center
> http://blavatskyarchives.com
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