The Secret Doctrine Volume I. Cosmogenesis. Part I, Cosmic Evolution - brrot

czandra · Post by **czandra** » January 28th, 2024, 11:05 am

The Secret Doctrine,Volume I. Cosmogenesis. Part I, Cosmic Evolution, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831 - 1891)

to be provided - Book I part 2 has been recorded already (Summary by Czandra)

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Post by **brownrottger** » January 29th, 2024, 8:01 am

Hi Czandra, I love working with you. I will be MC.

Post by **brownrottger** » January 29th, 2024, 8:05 am

Before I get the MW, there are prefaces and an "Introductory". It is strongly encouraged to read all that is included in the book. Can I add a Section 0 or are you planning on including them starting at Section 1? Just double checking.

czandra · Post by **czandra** » January 29th, 2024, 8:40 am

Hi, Christine:

Delightful! This is a difficult book and has lots of Asian pronunciations I don't know how to do... And we will need a PL person.

I have 2 prefaces as one section, and Intro in two parts... so yes, a section 0 is good.
Czandra

Post by **TriciaG** » January 29th, 2024, 8:40 am

A couple things I noticed, comparing this with the already-cataloged project:

1) The previous project (part 2) is named "The Secret Doctrine. Volume I. Cosmogenesis. Part II. The Evolution Of Symbolism." Perhaps it would be good to set this up with a similar project name. (I didn't look at the intros on the other project, but they could probably be similiar.)

2) File names on previous project are symbolism_##_blavatsky_128kb, working off the part name. Since this is "Part I. Cosmic Evolution" in the text, perhaps this one should be evolution or cosmicevolution in the file name?

Post by **brownrottger** » January 29th, 2024, 8:56 am

czandra wrote: ↑January 29th, 2024, 8:40 am Hi, Christine:

Delightful! This is a difficult book and has lots of Asian pronunciations I don't know how to do... And we will need a PL person.

I have 2 prefaces as one section, and Intro in two parts... so yes, a section 0 is good.
Czandra

I will be your DPL. Now that we have Elsie's Vacation off our minds.... or do we?

Post by **brownrottger** » January 29th, 2024, 8:57 am

TriciaG wrote: ↑January 29th, 2024, 8:40 am A couple things I noticed, comparing this with the already-cataloged project:

1) The previous project (part 2) is named "The Secret Doctrine. Volume I. Cosmogenesis. Part II. The Evolution Of Symbolism." Perhaps it would be good to set this up with a similar project name. (I didn't look at the intros on the other project, but they could probably be similiar.)

2) File names on previous project are symbolism_##_blavatsky_128kb, working off the part name. Since this is "Part I. Cosmic Evolution" in the text, perhaps this one should be evolution or cosmicevolution in the file name?

Thanks Tricia!
Are these good with you Czandra?

czandra · Post by **czandra** » January 29th, 2024, 1:19 pm

TriciaG wrote: ↑January 29th, 2024, 8:40 am
1) The previous project (part 2) is named "The Secret Doctrine. Volume I. Cosmogenesis. Part II. The Evolution Of Symbolism." Perhaps it would be good to set this up with a similar project name.

2) File names on previous project are symbolism_##_blavatsky_128kb, working off the part name. Since this is "Part I. Cosmic Evolution" in the text, perhaps this one should be ... cosmicevolution in the file name? ...

Yes to both. thanks for the research.

Cz

Post by **brownrottger** » January 29th, 2024, 1:45 pm

Your MW is in place. Please post in thread when you have completed it and I will move us to Readers Wanted!
Best,
Christine

czandra · Post by **czandra** » January 30th, 2024, 7:36 am

I've set up the MW. Maybe you could comment on my division of the commentaries. They comment on the seven stanzas, but are of unequal length, so I divided them according to length more than by section number. This might be frustrating to a reader who is looking for something specific?
To do otherwise would require more complex section titles....

Czandra

Post by **brownrottger** » January 30th, 2024, 8:00 am

I need a little time to look at this so I am moving us back to Launch Pad.

Post by **brownrottger** » January 30th, 2024, 8:02 am

brownrottger wrote: ↑January 30th, 2024, 8:00 am I need a little time to look at this so I am moving us back to Launch Pad.

The system will only let me move it to "On Hold". I will get to this today. So by the end of today we can have it back in Readers Wanted.

Post by **brownrottger** » January 30th, 2024, 9:01 am

This book is an absolute mess.

These are my opinions. Comments on MW:

"to p. 15" is unclear to me. Instead put "read to end of p. 15" or "read to end of p. 14" whichever is correct. Do this with all the other sections as well.

It helps the reader if you put the word count in each Section's Notes. This is easy to do with Gutenberg. I copy and paste into word and use the Word Count function.

Section 4 should be "Stanzas I-III" as its title. This will help listeners locate themselves.

Section 5 should be "Stanzas IV - VII" Also, should be "read to end of p. 66 (not 65)

Commentary Section Titles should be "Commentary on Stanza #" I would split the Commentaries according to the Stanzas. Making parts if the Commentary on a particular stanza is too long (i.e. greater than 9,000) Remember to put in "read to end of page #"

Sections 15 through 17 need the notes to be changed to "read to end of p. #"

Section 18 should be titled Commentary on Stanzas 6 continued and so on.

czandra · Post by **czandra** » January 30th, 2024, 2:04 pm

I've added detail to the Magic Window, and am happy with what's there. The page range should give readers a sense of the length of each section, along with a few word counts. Maybe I'll add more another day when I have nothing better to do....

I like Brrot as abbreviation: daily bread!

Cz

Post by **brownrottger** » January 30th, 2024, 2:26 pm

czandra wrote: ↑January 30th, 2024, 2:04 pm I've added detail to the Magic Window, and am happy with what's there. The page range should give readers a sense of the length of each section, along with a few word counts. Maybe I'll add more another day when I have nothing better to do....

I like Brrot as abbreviation: daily bread!

Cz

Ok. Just one thing. As DPL, I need the sections to say read to the end of p. #. Is that ok? I will make the change in all the Section Titles.