Theos-Talk Archives (July 2006 Message tt00433)

Daniel, 

Not at all.

How many words you claim have been changed in "The Voice"?

Carlos. 


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Assunto:Theos-World #2 Bottomline: Theosophy Company's Ed. of VOICE is a product of SILENT EDITING

> #2 Bottomline: 
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> 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.
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> And what both Peter M. and Dallas T. write below EQUALLY
> applies to the Theosophy Company's VOICE OF THE SILENCE:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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