| 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 |