Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00866)

Daniel,

Indeed, too much wind for no substance.

Carlos. 
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Data:Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:08:29 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World To Konstantin: 1893 Edition of the SD

> Konstantin,
> 
> I wrote the following about the 1893 Edition of THE SECRET DOCTRINE:
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> The Theosophy Company publishers tell us that the 1893 edition ...
> was "marred by many thousands of alterations, some of them trivial,
> some actual mutilations of the original text."
> 
> How many of these thousands of changes were "trivial" as
> opposed to actual mutilations?
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> You replied:
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> I've heard this accusation for the first time around 10 years ago from
> Dallas Tenbroek. I asked him to show at least one change which 
> affects actual meaning. Nevertheless in all these years till his 
> death I didn't receive from him any example.
> 
> I have found some alterations which improve English grammar and make
> text more easily readable, and that's all. These alterations cannot be
> compared with those in "Voice of Silence" to which you have shown.
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> I have done some preliminary work on comparing THE KIND of changes 
> that one finds in the 1893 ed. of the SD with the KIND of changes to 
> be found in the Theosophy Co. ed. of the VOICE.
> 
> I find SAME kinds of changes in BOTH works. For example, the 
> changing of a smaller case letter to caps or vice 
> versa. "Corrections" of HPB's Sanskrit scholarship. etc.
> 
> I assume these kind of changes are the kinds of changes that the 
> Theosophy Company publishers were labelling "trivial" when referring 
> to SOME of the changes in the 1893 SD. 
> 
> [NOTE: I do think that there are some serious changes in the 1893 SD 
> that are not covered under "trivial" but I think that this also is 
> true of the 1928 TC VOICE.]
> 
> We should have the SAME STANDARD for comparing the kinds and 
> significance of the changes in both the 1893 SD and the 1928 TC VOICE.
> 
> Notice also that the Theosophy Company publishers state that the 1893 
> SD is MARRED by all these changes.
> 
> So if we find SIMILAR changes in the TC edition of the VOICE, then 
> can we not also fairly conclude that this ed. of the VOICE is also 
> MARRED?
> 
> Again the TC publishers make a remark about one edition of the SD 
> which I quote below:
> 
> "Its exact authenticity, however, cannot be determined without 
> laborious comparison with the original."
> 
> The gist of this statement gets to the one of the CORE ISSUES I am 
> addressing:
> 
> The EXACT AUTHENTICITY of both the 1893 SD and the 1928 TC VOICE 
> cannot be determined without LABORIOUS COMPARISON with the originals 
> of both the SD and the VOICE.
> 
> Therefore most readers and students who want to read both the SD and 
> the VOICE as they were originally published and authorized by Madame 
> Blavatsky herself would do well to read photographic facsimiles of 
> the originals. 
> 
> TC and TUP publish photographic facsimiles of the 1888 SD.
> 
> Kessinger is the only publisher that I know that actually publishes a 
> photographic facsimile of the 1889 VOICE.
> 
> See the Kessinger facsimile at: http://tinyurl.com/nrthz
> 
> Daniel
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