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"A paper read before the Aryan Theosophical Society of New York, December 14th, 1886." Part I; ends "(To be continued.)" +
"Read at a meeting of the First Theosophical Society of Cincinnati, O." Copyright, 1887. The last item in Volume I; issue and volume close on the same page with a quoted precept from the Saddharma-Pundarika and "OM." +
"Recorded by one of the authors of 'Man: Fragments of Forgotten History'" (i.e., by [[Chatterji, Mohini Mohun|Mohini M. Chatterji]] or Laura C. Holloway, jointly credited as that book's authors, but not further specifiable from the text) and "(Copyrighted.)" "(To be continued.)" Issue closes on the same page with a quoted precept and "OM." +
"Some Curious Psychic Experiences": correspondents' accounts of an inner "Voice," apparent magnetic healing and psychic impulses, and precognitive impressions, with a warning against the "left hand path" and material motives in occultism. +
"Three Who Sought Out the Way," an allegory of three seekers on the spiritual path told by Judge's recurring "Tale-teller" narrator. +
"[Reprinted from the Dublin University Review, May, 1886, by permission of the author.]" +
A Child's Story: on New Year's Eve, Uncle John explains Fohat to little Carlo as the great Son of Light who kindles the stars and atoms into life and motion, binds the worlds together with threads of love and music, and lights the "Christ-spark" in a loving human heart. +
A Christmas Eve tale of a man drifting toward an engagement he does not truly want, startled out of a sleep-born memory of past lives by a photograph and an anonymous note written in his own private hand, who recognizes at last that his true love is his fiancée's cousin, whom he had loved, unknowingly, since before this life. +
A Christmas allegory in which a small boy, Carlo, torn between his atheist father and devout, dying mother, is answered by the Christ-child of his Christmas tree, who teaches that Christ is the inner Spirit and Voice present in all hearts and all things. +
A Christmas story of a dying merchant whose refusal to identify his murderer, "in justice" rather than vengeance, begins the redemption of the burglar and his companion. +
A Master's messenger explains why the whole truth is not given out at once, through jottings on the "Death-Cult" of spiritualism and on elementals. +
A Volks Legend. A Baltic peasant tale of a Bishop who tells a singing, joyful water-sprite that he has no soul and no salvation, then unwittingly performs a miracle that grants the sprite a soul, and with it sorrow. +
A brief unsigned notice of an international congress on medical magnetism to be held in Paris in October 1889. +
A call for Theosophical Sunday Schools to teach children Karma and Reincarnation, on the grounds of their natural closeness to the Unseen. +
A circular, dated July 20, 1890 and signed by Judge as General Secretary, announcing a libel suit against Dr. Elliott Coues and the ''New York Sun'' and reciting Dr. Coues's earlier threats against the Society. +
A circular, signed by Judge as General Secretary, announcing a new scheme for circulating the best Branch papers in print among all Branches, and appealing for Branch subscriptions to fund it. +
A close examination of the wording of the Esoteric Section's Pledge and its accompanying memoranda. +
A collection of readers' anecdotes of apparent thought-transference and premonition, and a theory of "synchronous vibration." +
A collective letter of 10 January 1888 to H. P. Blavatsky, signed by W. Q. Judge and 25 others, urging her not to withhold publication of ''The Secret Doctrine''. +
A commentary on Prof. William H. Parker's "Arguments for the Unseen" (''The Forum'', December 1887). +