Theos-Talk Archives (August 2006 Message tt00004)

Dear Daniel,

I hope you will honestly consider the text below. 

Regards,  Carlos. 



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Data:Tue, 1 Aug 2006 06:07:36 -0700 (PDT)

Assunto:Theos-World Kyrie elision

> Re: Silent Editing
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> DC:
> As in almost EVERY instance, 
> you completely avoid the issue involved, 
> and DIVERT your answer away from it. 
> (Of course! Primary Sources should be 
> used if possible - you think I'm some 
> kind of numchuck - I edited a newsletter 
> for 42 issues on was staff-writer for one 
> previous to that - but for common popular 
> papers, it's Ok, or if the sources aren't 
> available, like in your book. Its 
> disgusting and not worth responding to. 
> One of the traditional Buddhist debate 
> tournaments would make mincemeat of you, 
> while the average reader is just - CONFUSED. 
> Of course this isn't a right-hand method - 
> but a left-hand method. (You defend 
> yourself of not just being a 
> "scholar" of HPB but a "student" - as 
> you believe she was genuine. What 
> difference does this make? In analogy - 
> "Does Darth Vadar Believe in Yota? - 
> of course he does. In actuality with 
> your methods, you are developing into 
> a fine Dugpa. In a few more years or 
> incarnations - who knows?
> 
> Relatively and Luckily, Occult World of 
> Madame Blavatsky and its treatment is not an 
> important book in the big scheme. Light and 
> interesting secondary biographical information 
> is good reading, but not too important, and 
> has little to do with the purpose of the 
> Theosophical Effort. (Some History IS important 
> tho - like Tillet's Elder Brother.)
> This arguing is a genuine waste of time, 
> like trying to swat an errant fly which never 
> stays in one place long. I have to go get my 
> first and primary source edition of 
> Aeschylus now.....
> - jake j.
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> DC writes:
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> <....THE OCCULT WORLD
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> "silently edited?" At least the dots (....) 
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> something is missing. With the dots in, 
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> to study but also especially to quote.
> 
> several paragraphs from one of Einstein's book AS FOUND in some
> secondary source. I was taught instead you need to go to Einstein's 
> actual book.
> 
> SECONDARY source. Not a primary source.
> 
> 
> it would be good practice for some author to quote some of the 
> extracts from that work.
> 
> meeting the Master Morya (I posted that excerpt recently on Theos-
> Talk) as they are transcribed in my first edition but you would need 
> to add something like. 
> <"Olcott, Henry S. Old Diary Leaves, Vol. I, etc. AS QUOTED in THE 
> OCCULT WORLD OF MADAME BLAVATSKY, etc."
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> from Old Diary Leaves, Volume I. 
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> own books should not take the easy way out [one of my professors 
> called that the lazy man's approach!!] and just quote from secondary 
> sources. 
> 
> something from HPB's SECRET DOCTRINE I would not use Boris de 
> Zirkoff's edition of the SD to quote from. Why?
> 
> text. I'm not saying that Boris' edition doesn't have many good 
> features. I could list many good points of Boris' edition but since 
> some of his "changes" in certain instances may "distort" HPB's 
> original meaning I would instead prefer HPB's original or at least a 
> photographic facsimile of the original as produced by TUP and TC.
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