Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00200)

DC and Silent Editing, Crosbie Dyzan
  
    Man, Dan, you are so full of it.  
You regard it as rationale support for 
you silent editing of "Esoteric World 
of Madame B." because there exist 
purposeful Abridgements of the SD and 
Isis.  And you probably think you are 
a rational philosopher too, instead of 
just a RATIONALIZER! The SD and Isis 
can be had in most any large library 
- but your silently edited sources can't 
be had anywhere except in speciality 
theosophical libraries.  Admit it!  You 
were SUCKERED by Wheaton/TPH to silently 
edit without the (....) AGAINST your 
better judgement!  You were suckered 
my man!  'And now no self-respecting 
researcher can quote from the book!
  
   Carlos made a good point on where
the "authority" comes from to start an
esoteric group or the like, as in the 
Crosbie case - when he said 'not from outside
authority but from the heart" - although
that would be a hard one to prove or
verify.  
  
                 - jake j.
  
Dan writes:
   
  <1. Other Examples of Silent Editing
    Posted by: "danielhcaldwell" danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com 
danielhcaldwell
    Date: Wed Nov 1, 2006 10:18 am (PST)
  <For comparison purposes, interested students
might want to look at the following works.
All of them are products of "silent editing".
  <[1] Michael Gomes' abridged edition of ISIS UNVEILED
  <[2] Christmas Humphreys & Elizabeth Preston's
abridged edition of THE SECRET DOCTRINE
  <[3] Katharine Hillard's Abridgment of THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
  <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.
  <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.
  <By reading the Gomes and Humphreys-Preston volumes,
one 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...
  <One more example:
  <Theosophy Magazine has done over the years many collations
from HPB's works. For example:
  <Studies in Isis Unveiled:
A Compilation from H.P. Blavatsky's First Book
  <http://blavatskyarchives.com/isisunveiledselections.htm
  <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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