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Prepared from a microfilm printout of the manuscript. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] changed the spelling Boutlerof to Butleroff, the form preferred by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] in later documents. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[BCW|BCW editors]], [[Zirkoff B. - Appendices (BCW vol.14)#497|BCW 14:497]]</span>)</span> +
[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] links it with The Substantial Nature of Magnetism and tentatively assigns it to the same period, 1887–1888; the exact date is uncertain. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Psychology, the Science of the Soul#333|BCW 8:333]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Substantial Nature of Magnetism#315|BCW 8:315]]</span>)</span> +
One fragment survives in the Adyar archives in an autograph marked page 4. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Scattered Fragments#357|BCW 13:357]]</span>)</span> +
The unfinished autograph is preserved in the Adyar archives; first published in the April 1962 Theosophist, pp. 8–13. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Spinoza and Western Philosophers#307|BCW 13:307]]</span>)</span> +
The manuscript was signed at Ostend on 3 October 1886 in reply to [[Chatterji, Mohini Mohun|M. M. Chatterji]] and [[Gebhard, Arthur|A. Gebhard]]’s statement of 23 September. The first page is missing; its opening was restored from a typescript, and [[Jinarajadasa, Curuppumullage|C. Jinarajadasa]] supplied the title. It first appeared in The Theosophist in June–September 1924 and again in August 1931. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Original Programme of the Theosophical Society: Compilers Notes#135|BCW 7:135-140]]</span>)</span> +
First published in the Banner of Light on 30 March 1878 and revised for The Theosophist in April 1883. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] tentatively regards the Russian Cave of Ozerki in Rebus in January 1886 as Blavatsky’s own translation. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Bewitched Life#354|BCW 6:354-355]]</span>)</span> +
The autograph is preserved in the Adyar archives. First published in the August 1962 Theosophist, pp. 287–301. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Chaldean Vedas or Vedic Chaldees#326|BCW 13:326]]</span>)</span> +
Present in the first draft of The Secret Doctrine sent to Adyar in 1886. The Collected Writings text incorporates additional paragraphs from that draft; related material appears in sections 2–3 of the 1897 third volume of The Secret Doctrine. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Denials and the Mistakes of the Nineteenth Century#224|BCW 13:224]]</span>)</span> +
Published in the October 1891 Lucifer, pp. 95–99. Its reference to Paris leads [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] to place its composition provisionally in July 1889. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Frogs and Chinamen#221|BCW 13:221]]</span>)</span> +
Published in three instalments of Lucifer and left unfinished. According to [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], the promised continuation explaining Pistis Sophia was not carried out. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Esoteric Character of the Gospels#217|BCW 8:217]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#218|BCW 8:218-219,239]]</span>)</span>
[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] notes passages identical with pp. 167–168 of the posthumous third volume of The Secret Doctrine. He suggests that some remaining manuscripts may have been intended to continue this unfinished series, without treating that hypothesis as proven. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Secret Doctrine - Volume III#xxxvi|BCW 14:xxxvi-xxxvii]]</span>)</span> +
An unsigned, undated manuscript apparently sent to [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]] in 1888–1889, during the rapid expansion of the Blavatsky Lodge in London. First published in The Theosophical Forum, vol. XXVI, January 1948. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Facts Brought Before Masters#59|BCW 12:59]]</span>)</span> +
First published in the posthumous third volume of The Secret Doctrine (1897), pp. 234–240. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] identifies it tentatively as the material referred to in [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Animated Statues; some passages were incorporated into the 1888 Secret Doctrine. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Animated Statues#226|BCW 7:226-227]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Idols and the Teraphim#230|BCW 7:230]]</span>)</span> +
First published in Lucifer in May 1892. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] considers composition around 1886–1887 likely; the material quoted places it no earlier than 1885, but the exact date is unknown. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Kabalah and the Kabalists at the Close of the Nineteenth Century#250|BCW 7:250]]</span>)</span> +
Pages 117-121 and 156-171 largely match the second instalment of Dialogue Between the Two Editors. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] also connects this material with Thakur’s conversation with his companions in From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan, published in February 1886. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Dialogue Between the Two Editors#217|BCW 10:217-218]]</span>)</span>
The first edition was issued in London about July 1889 by the Theosophical Publishing Company and printed by Allen, Scott & Co. Its 307 pages had neither glossary nor index. A glossary was added in the second edition of 1890, largely drawing on the Theosophical Glossary then in preparation. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Key to Theosophy#365|BCW 11:365]]</span>)</span> +
Reproduced in the Collected Writings from a faithful transcription of the autograph fragment in the Adyar archives. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Origin of the Pythagorean System#324|BCW 13:324]]</span>)</span> +
The series remained unfinished: [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] found no continuation beyond the instalments in Lucifer for March and May 1889. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Roots of Ritualism in Church and Masonry#101|BCW 11:101]]</span>)</span> +
Announced in January 1884 as a new version of Isis Unveiled; the first instalment promised for March did not appear. In December 1884 the introduction and first chapter were reported to be in type. [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]]’s diary records receipt of a new plan for the work on 9 January 1885. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Elementals#184|BCW 6:184-186]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.6)#xxxvii|BCW 6:xxxvii,xl]]</span>)</span>
The first volume came off the press on 20 October 1888, as recorded in [[Harte, Richard|R. Harte]]’s copy. Mailing to American subscribers began on 3 November. The second English impression used the same plates and was not a revised second edition; the advertised glossary was not included. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Secret Doctrine#157|BCW 10:157-159]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Star-Angel Worship in the Roman Catholic Church#13|BCW 10:13]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge of The Theosophical Society#344|BCW 10:344]]</span>)</span>
The posthumous third volume edited by [[Besant, Annie|A. Besant]] in 1897, subtitled Occultism, contains heterogeneous material, including portions of the early Würzburg manuscript and esoteric instructions. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] considers it unproven that this compilation corresponds to the third volume envisaged by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. In the Collected Writings its contents are distributed among volumes VII, XII, XIII and XIV; the instructions are restored to their original wording. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Secret Doctrine - Volume III#xxv|BCW 14:xxv-xliv]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Secret Doctrine - Volume III#xxv|BCW 14:xxv]]; [[BCW|BCW editors]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Introductory#1|BCW 14:1]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Introductory#3|BCW 14:3]]</span>)</span>
[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] places composition after January 1887 and probably before publication of The Secret Doctrine in autumn 1888. The exact date is unknown. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Substantial Nature of Magnetism#315|BCW 8:315]]</span>)</span> +
An unfinished manuscript by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] in the Adyar Archives consists of four foolscap pages; its continuation is missing. C. Jinarajadasa supplied the title when publishing it in The Theosophist in December 1925. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Ten Sephiroth#315|BCW 6:315]]</span>)</span> +
The unfinished Russian manuscript is preserved at Adyar. According to [[Zhelihovsky, Vera Petrovna de|V. P. de Zhelihovsky]], it was written shortly before [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s final illness. Z. de Álgya-Pap’s English translation appeared in the September 1961 Theosophist; the Russian original in the Boston journal Alba in 1962. The Collected Writings translation incorporates adjustments based on the Russian original. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Theosophical Society#209|BCW 13:209]]</span>)</span> +