Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00058)

lpha@dircon.co.uk wrote:
> >       HPB's book ABOUT the Secret Doctrine (read the introduction) was
> >originally a big pile of pages. The editors put it into five volumes,
> >and later condensed them to two. There is some evidence that a good
> >chunk of what Annie Besant released as the third volume actually came
> >from the pages that were not used in I or II.
> >
> >       Bart Lidofsky
>
> It is difficult to know what point you are making.  Whatever might have been
> is not what is.
> The SD IS in TWO volumes.  And is it possible that it relates to the dual
> nature of MANAS?  Cosmogenesis/Anthropogenesis.

	My point is that the fact that it is in two volumes was not HPB's
doing, but the doing of a later series of editors and publishers, and
that, I believe, knocks out any significance to it being in two volumes.

	Bart Lidofsky