Theos-Talk Archives (April 2012 Message tt00176)

The original Secret Doctrine, unedited is available online, free.
Cass



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>Subject: theos-talk Questions about the SD and the 3rd object of the TS
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>Dear friends,
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>1. There is a discussion amongst Portuguese-speaking theosophists about which version of the Secret Doctrine should be used.
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>In Portuguese the only available version of the SD is a translation of a version that was edited by Mead and Besant(and I suppose that the same happens in a lot of other idioms). Many accuse this version of having a lot of interpolations, additions and unnecessary corrections. 
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>It seems that Adyar has abandoned this version in the late seventies and replaced it with the Boris de Zirkoff version.
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>I guess that Boris de Zirkoff made some corrections too, but not so controversial as Besant's.
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>There is also the fac-simile version. What I would like to ask you is which one would you recommend. The original version of 1888 or the one edited by Boris de Zirkoff?
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>2. Theosophywatch's post of April 12th, has this:
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>"The original Third Object was also stated clearly by H. P. Blavatsky in The Key to Theosophy, Section 3, published in 1889, and reads:
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>"To investigate the hidden mysteries of Nature under every aspect possible, and the psychic and spiritual powers latent in man especially."
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>Despite the Founder's unambiguous wording, some Theosophical revisionists have chosen to unilaterally remove both the words "`psychic" and "spiritual" from the last Object. Others followed suit, and today a timid, unauthorized and watered-down version is all the public sees.  How could this happen with a subject that pervades every major textbook the Teachers wrote, and hundreds of their original articles?"
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>The expression "watered-down version" has a link to:
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>https://www.theosophical.org/membership/1043
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>I noticed that the branches associated with TS Adyar have this version. The Edmonton Theosophical Society and TS-Point Loma too.
>Only ULT mentions "Psychic" and "spiritual". 
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>So I ask you, at time of HPB's death how was this third goal of the TS written? If the ULT keeps the original wording (and I do not know if this is so), who changed it and why? 
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>I would like to say that I too agree with Cass. I am not fond of the Besant/Leadbeater literature.
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>PB
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