| Literary Notes | C. & G. & JHF | y1897 | v12 | i2 | May | p60 |
| Mirror of the Movement - tours of lecturers | anon | y1897 | v12 | i2 | May | p61 |
| The Return of the Crusade | anon | y1897 | v12 | i2 | May | p62 |
| The Screen of Time | ETH | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p65 |
| The Sheaths of the Soul (rprnt Lutr v10 1892 June p323) | William Quan Judge | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p69 |
| Ireland Behind the Veil | AE (George W Russell) | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p73 |
| Influence of Oriental Thought on Occidental Civilization | BO Flower (ex ed. `The Arena`) | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p78 |
| A Short Outline of Theosophy | Jerome A. Anderson | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p82 |
| Faces of Friends - Franz Hartmann | anon | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p88 |
| illustration - Franz Hartmann (with hat) | undeciphered | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p88a+ |
| An Indian Yogi before a Tribunal of European Psychologists | Franz Hartmann | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p89 |
| Health & Disease | Archibald Keightley | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p91 |
| The Genesis & Pre-Natal Life | Alexander Wilder | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p96 |
| filler - The Soul (from Phaedrus) | Plato | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p102 |
| Mystics & Mysticism in Christianity | JD Buck | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p103 |
| filler - True Spirituality | Thomas a Kempis | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p108 |
| Capital Punishment | EL Rexford | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p109 |
| For Ever Free (from Vivekachudamani, #351 to end) | Shankara (tr Charles Johnston) | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p115 |
| The World of Science (1) introduction | LG | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p118 |
| review - | Albert ES Smythe | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p122 |
| Questions & Answers | ETH | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p122 |
| Mirror of the Movement | various | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p126 |
| Indo-American Theosophical Society | Ajit Prasada | y1897 | v12 | i3 | June | p128 |
| Visions of a Life | P. | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p129 |
| The Essence of the Teaching (from the Bala Bodhani) | Shankara Acharya (tr Charles Johnston) | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p133 |
| The Teachings of Shankara | Charles Johnston | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p137 |
| The Problem of the Pyramid | DW Lockwood | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p140 |
| Theosophy Generally Stated | William Quan Judge | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p149 |
| Fairies (vf) | Sydney Dobell | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p154 |
| Why I Believe in Reincarnation | JD Buck | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p155 |
| The Teachings of Plato | Alexander Wilder | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p158 |
| Principle or Sentiment? | JWL Keightley | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p164 |
| A Great Unpunished Crime | JM Greene | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p170 |
| The Inner Man | Zeta | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p176 |
| filler - Motives (from The Mirror of Life) | HO Smith | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p178 |
| The Screen of Time | ET Hargrove | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p179 |
| filler - Strength (from The Mirror of Life) | HO Smith | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p181 |
| The World of Science | LG | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p182 |
| The Literary World | Albert ES Smythe | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p187 |
| A Talk about HP Blavatsky | JWL Keightley (= Julius) | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p191 |
| Mirror of the Movement | various | y1897 | v12 | i4 | July | p192 |
| Visions of a Life (2) | P. | y1897 | v12 | i5 | August | p193 |
| (vf) (The Black Riders) | Stephen Crane | y1897 | v12 | i5 | August | p198 |
| A Conscious Universe | Jerome A. Anderson | y1897 | v12 | i5 | August | p199 |
| Richard Wagner's Music Dramas (6) The Ring of the Nibelung (4) The Dusk of the Gods | Basil Crump | y1897 | v12 | i5 | August | p204 |
| The Three Objects of the Theosophical Society in America (1) Universal Brotherhood | Franz Hartmann | y1897 | v12 | i5 | August | p213 |
| Buddha's Renunciation | Charles Johnston | y1897 | v12 | i5 | August | p217 |
| Impersonality (vf) (The Black Riders) | Stephen Crane | y1897 | v12 | i5 | August | p225 |
| Music - an interview with E Aug Neresheimer (with photo) | anon | y1897 | v12 | i5 | August | p226 |
| Why I Believe in Reincarnation | E Aug Neresheimer | y1897 | v12 | i5 | August | p231 |