| filler - "The keepers of the sacred Light did not safely" | K H (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p290 |
| Gifts of the Spirit | Dorothea North (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p291 |
| filler - "Self-discipline, leading to complete self-control" | Kurt Reineman (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p293 |
| A Teaspoonful of Honey | Ann Farthing (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p294 |
| As A Grain of Sand | Don Wilder (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p296 |
| My Wage (vf) | Jessie B Rittenhouse (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p297 |
| The Free Religious Spirit | Peter H Samsom (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p298 |
| Narrow Pathway | Arnold van der Laan (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p306 |
| filler - "When I was a child in England" | Edith Felton (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p307 |
| Sherry | Clifton Meek (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p308 |
| Test of a Man | Nell Dodge (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p312 |
| The Eye of the Beholder | Ronnie Besch (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p314 |
| The Virgin Birth | G de Purucker (L) | y1953 | v2 | i10 | July | p318 |
| Basic Challenge | James A. Long (L) | y1953 | v2 | i11 | August | p321 |
| The Law That Moves To Righteousness | EA Holmes (L) | y1953 | v2 | i11 | August | p323 |
| If There Is Trust | Virginia Page (L) | y1953 | v2 | i11 | August | p327 |
| Our Spiritual Universe | J Frederick Sanders (L) | y1953 | v2 | i11 | August | p329 |
| Music and the Child | Herko Groot (L) | y1953 | v2 | i11 | August | p334 |
| Eclipses and Earthquakes | G de Purucker (L) | y1953 | v2 | i11 | August | p337 |
| Beyond Words | W Fekken (L) | y1953 | v2 | i11 | August | p339 |
| A Thing of Beauty | Elsa-Brita Titchenell (L) | y1953 | v2 | i11 | August | p341 |
| Discussion and Argument | Hannah Berman (L) | y1953 | v2 | i11 | August | p343 |
| Son of the Sun | Hazel S Minot (L) | y1953 | v2 | i11 | August | p348 |
| The Listening Heart | Constance Hostler (L) | y1953 | v2 | i11 | August | p351 |
| The Path of Progress | Katherine Tingley (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p353 |
| The Will of Ahura Mazda | Hazel S Minot (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p355 |
| Fanning the Fires of Faith | Kurt Reineman (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p357 |
| Anybody's Man | Hannah Berman (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p361 |
| The Highest Art of All | Leoline L Wright (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p362 |
| Aboriginal Genius | Madeline Clark (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p365 |
| Stumbling Blocks - or Stepping Stones | Nelia L Conrad (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p371 |
| Saga of Sparrow Castle | Elizabeth Hope Urban (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p372 |
| Before and Hereafter | Alphonse Bihr (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p374 |
| filler - "We wake, and find ourselves on a stair." | Ralph Waldo Emerson (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p378 |
| Ltte - My Hobby - International Friendship | Frances Hanken (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p379 |
| filler - "We are all members of one great family" | James Norman Hall (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p380 |
| Wider Sweep of Responsibility | Ernest J Dadd (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p381 |
| Prayer and Aspiration | G de Purucker (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p383 |
| filler - "Dazzling and tremendous, how quick the sunrise ..." | Walt Whitman (L) | y1953 | v2 | i12 | September | p384z+ |
| Editorial | James A. Long (L) | y1953 | v3 | i1 | October | p1 |
| filler - "The only assurance that we are not missing" | Abraham Lincoln (L) | y1953 | v3 | i1 | October | p3 |
| Forerunners of the Coming Society | Juliana Queen of the Netherlands (L) | y1953 | v3 | i1 | October | p4 |
| Another Chance | WJ Renshaw (L) | y1953 | v3 | i1 | October | p12 |
| Tahquitz and his Dwelling-Place | Letha Olson Reineman (L) | y1953 | v3 | i1 | October | p14 |
| filler - "Although the term awareness is veiled" | Audrey Klosterman (L) | y1953 | v3 | i1 | October | p16 |
| Each in Our Own Way | George J Lindemans (L) | y1953 | v3 | i1 | October | p17 |
| A Pinch of Mustard-Seed | Hazel S Minot (L) | y1953 | v3 | i1 | October | p18 |
| "The One remains, the Many change and pass" (vf) | Percy Bysshe Shelley (L) | y1953 | v3 | i1 | October | p21 |
| Brotherhood of Man | Don Wilder (L) | y1953 | v3 | i1 | October | p22 |
| Bread and Stone | Clifton Meek (L) | y1953 | v3 | i1 | October | p25 |