Theos-Talk Archives (July 2006 Message tt00583)

What was in discussion n the 1966 Adyar Conference was the unconfessed "updating" of books by CWL and Annie Besant  as their  grave mistakes got obvious. 

Tehre is nothing necessarily wrong with making an open and public abridgementof a book.   

There is at least one famous abridgement of Shakespeare's works, for children.   

Changing originals  in an unconfessed way, as proposed by USA theosophists,  was questioned by Radha Burnier, N. Sri Ram and several others. 


Regards,  Carlos. 





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Assunto:Theos-World Other Examples of Silent Editing

> For comparison purposes, interested students
> might want to look at the following works.
> All of them are products of "silent editing".
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> [1] Michael Gomes' abridged edition of ISIS UNVEILED
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> [2] Christmas Humphreys & Elizabeth Preston's
> abridged edition of THE SECRET DOCTRINE
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> [3] Katharine Hillard's Abridgment of THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
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> As stated above, all of these books are
> products of "silent editing". The famous
> dots are NOT used to indicate any deletions.
> The only exception to this is in the Humphreys-
> Preston abridgement where HUGE gaps of deleted
> material is indicated by ... Other than that
> there are no dots (...) used in the volume to indicate 
> where "normal" amounts of text have been deleted.
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> Now I have heard some Blavatsky students describe
> these documents as almost products of the "devil"!
> But for the purpose of giving overviews, I believe the
> 3 volumes are excellent.
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> By reading the Gomes and Humphreys-Preston volumes,
> one sorta has the gist of both Isis and the SD in
> about 500 pages. Not bad for many students who
> look at the originals of ISIS and the SD and consider
> them too daunting to read and end up never reading them...
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> One more example:
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> Theosophy Magazine has done over the years many collations
> from HPB's works. For example:
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> Studies in Isis Unveiled:
> A Compilation from H.P. Blavatsky's First Book
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> http://blavatskyarchives.com/isisunveiledselections.htm
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> Again no dots... to tell the reader that maybe something has
> been deleted!! or where deletions might occur !! ...but these types 
> of collations are still very helpful material.
> 
> Daniel
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