Theos-Talk Archives (May 2008 Message tt00681)

My views are:

Yes Zaitsev. And thanks!

Interesting is it to read the following conclusion from D. Caldwell's hand. 

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The Myth of the "Missing" Third Volume of The Secret Doctrine by Daniel H. Caldwell

"Nevertheless, some students of HPB's writings have voiced concern about how much Besant and her assistants may have edited the manuscript. James M. Pryse in a review of the third volume of The Secret Doctrine (Theosophy, New York, September 1897, 314-6) wrote:
    If it had been printed as H.P.B. wrote it, then Theosophists generally would have prized it; but Mrs. Besant and others having edited it, they will regard it with a just suspicion.

(It should be noted that, some thirty years later, Pryse reversed his view on this subject.)



Another personal student of HPB's, Alice Leighton Cleather (H.P. Blavatsky: A Great Betrayal, l922, 75), testified:

    It so happens that while it [Volume III] was being set up [for publication] I was able actually to peruse one or two of the familiar long foolscap sheets which H.P.B. always covered with her small fine hand-writing. They were mutilated almost beyond recognition, few of her sentences remaining intact; and there were 'corrections'.



More recently, Nicholas Weeks, who helped in the preparation of the manuscripts of volumes 13, 14, and 15 of HPB's Collected Writings, has expressed similar concerns to me (private correspondence):

    When we were working on BCW 14 we found many differences or changes between the "First Draft" [the Wurzburg Manuscript] and "SD III" [1897]. Some of the most radical are included in the Index to 14. see "Wurzburg MS Interpolations." On pp. 104 & 266-67 of BCW 14 are two examples of HPB's typically sharp criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church that did not appear in "SD III" [ 1897]. I find it impossible to believe that HPB deleted them, or approved of their removal. Thus the question arises, how many other "corrections" and "innovations" were made that HPB would not have permitted?. . . Without the "Wurzburg MS" there would have been not even a clue as to any tampering having occurred.



The issue of the editing of the manuscript of Volume III (1897) needs to be carefully researched in the future."
http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/sdiiipt7.htm



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Allow me to add:


  H. P. Blavatsky said: 
  "The Society founded to remedy the glaring evils of Christianity, to shun bigotry and intolerance, cant and superstition and to cultivate real universal love extending even to the dumb brute". 
  (The Collected Writings of H. P. Blavatsky, vol. 7, p.246) 

  Master KH wrote in a Mahatma Letter: 
  For the opposition represents enormous vested interests, and they have enthusiastic help from the Dugpas -- in Bhootan and the Vatican! 
  (Here is all of Mahtama Letter, No. 55. Dugpas are the same as selfish Magicians.)





M. Sufilight



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Konstantin Zaitzev 
  To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:33 PM
  Subject: Theos-World Re: Secret Doctrine Vol.3


  --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Cass Silva wrote:

  > According to Tsarion, SD3 was suppressed by Besant

  This is long ago refuted by D. Caldwell
  http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/sdiiipt1.htm



   

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