Theos-Talk Archives (July 2006 Message tt00432)

#2 Bottomline:  

And the undeniable fact is that the Theosophy Company's 
edition of HPB's mystical gem THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE
is a product of SILENT EDITING or as Dallas phrases it
INVISIBLE EDITING.

And what both Peter M. and Dallas T. write below EQUALLY
applies to the Theosophy Company's VOICE OF THE SILENCE:

Here are Peter's words:

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Speaking for myself, I would rather have HPB' writings as they were
completed and published by her. I don't want somebody in-between
correcting the text according to his own ideas of what HPB *might*
have put if she had reflected upon it later.

While HPB's says all her works contain mistakes I would not want to
be the one who decides what they are and corrects them on her
behalf, nor would I want to decide for others what is a service to
them by changes I might make to the SD. Even with the mistakes, my
many years of studying her works has left me feeling confident in
them as they are. That is not a feeling of confidence I would be
willing to place in Boris de Zirkoff, though I admire the work he
has done collating the material for the Collected Writings.
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Here are Dallas' words:

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Those who insist on using the ORIGINAL WRITINGS from which to
study and grow in understanding are, in my esteem, not being
dogmatic, they are merely being careful.

For their understanding they can (in case of The SECRET
DOCTRINE ) recall that the Mahatmas gave Dr. Hubbe-Schleiden a
signed certificate ( reprinted by Mr. Judge in PATH Magazine,
Vol. 8, p. 1-3 ) This certificate stated that The SECRET
DOCTRINE was the produced under their triple authorship.

Personally, I have a great pity for those who have made
alterations and invisible editing in such an important work. I
include all who may have done this in my mind. On the opposite
hand: I feel gratitude for those who have offered "corrections
needed in the ORIGINAL" and that they think will be helpful to
students, but who have been careful to IDENTIFY and FOOTNOTE
their changes so that the said student has a choice.

By what amounts to "concealing" those changes made in the
ORIGINAL (yet using the Original Title) and thus tacitly
attributing those new and interposed changes to the Author - who
has had no chance to agree to them -- they may have blurred or
obscured some meanings. Just how important those altered
meanings and changes are, need not be a subject for restudy if
one deals with the ORIGINALS to begin with.
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Bottom Line: the undeniable fact is that the Theosophy Company's 
edition of HPB'S mystical gem THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE
is a product of SILENT EDITING or as Dallas phrases it
INVISIBLE EDITING.

And unfortunately for more than 70 years there has been NO
editorial note to this edition warning readers that such
INVISIBLE EDITING has been done....

Daniel
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