| mini-review: 'The Pilgrim Self: Traveling the Path from Life to Life' by Robert Ellwood | anon | y1996 | v9 | i3 | Autumn | p56 |
| mini-review: 'A New Covenant with Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the Renewal of Culture' by Richard Heinberg | anon | y1996 | v9 | i3 | Autumn | p56 |
| mini-review: 'Dialogues with the Living Earth: New Ideas on the Spirit of Place from Designers, Architects, and Innovators' ed by James Swan and Roberta Swa | anon | y1996 | v9 | i3 | Autumn | p56 |
| mini-review: 'Mary's Vineyard: Daily Meditations, Readings, and Revelations' by Andrew Harvey and Eryk Hanut | anon | y1996 | v9 | i3 | Autumn | p56 |
| review: 'Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal' by Kevin Bubriski and Keith Dowman | Georg Feuerstein | y1996 | v9 | i3 | Autumn | p57 |
| review: 'The Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine' trans Barry Clark | Georg Feuerstein | y1996 | v9 | i3 | Autumn | p57 |
| review: 'Working toward Enlightenment: The Cultivation of Practice; and to Realize Enlightenment: Practice of the Cultivation Path' by Nan Huai-Chin | Georg Feuerstein | y1996 | v9 | i3 | Autumn | p58 |
| Music of the Spheres: Letters to the Composer | Don G Campbell | y1996 | v9 | i3 | Autumn | p59 |
| Personal Glimpses | Rabbi David Cooper | y1996 | v9 | i3 | Autumn | p64 |
| letter: Karma Alive But Not Well | Paul James | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p4 |
| letter: Lost History of Humankind, Redux | Ignacio L Gotz | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p4 |
| letter: Of Atman and Experience | Steve Hagen | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p4 |
| letter: Frithjof Schuon and Neo-Traditionalism | Stephan A Hoeller | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p4 |
| letter | Elaine Woodriff | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p5 |
| letter | Tom Wittenberg | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p5 |
| letter | Helen S Bryans | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p5 |
| letter | Dennis Marsella | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p5 |
| Theosophical Views: The Pilgrim and the Pilgrimage [excerpts] | Emily Sellon | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p6 |
| Explorations: The Place Where the Eye Sees Too Far | Pamela Samantha Brown | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p8 |
| Thinking Aloud: Confessions of an Ex-Planner | Kathy Gottberg | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p12 |
| Decoding the Gospels [excerpts] | Richard Heinberg | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p16 |
| Buddhism and Henry Olcott | John Algeo | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p24 |
| The Love of Soul and the Healing of the World | Robert Sardello | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p30 |
| New Age Yoga | Christine Cox | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p36 |
| Hanukkah in the Osage Hills | Joysa M Winter | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p40 |
| Angels in the Jewish Mystical Tradition | Edward Hoffman | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p48 |
| Music of the Spheres: The Monk and the Abbess | Don G Campbell | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p53 |
| review: 'The Shambhala Guide to Yoga' by Georg Feuerstein | John Algeo | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p54 |
| review: 'Science, Paradox, and the Moebius Principle: The Evolution of a Transcultural Approach to Wholeness' by Steven M Rosen | Joseph M Felser | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p54 |
| review: 'Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind' by Alan Wallace | Georg Feuerstein | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p57 |
| review: 'The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe' by Henryk Skolimowski | Georg Feuerstein | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p58 |
| review: 'Theosophia: Hidden Dimensions of Christianity' by Arthur Versluis | Georg Feuerstein | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p58 |
| review: 'The Experience of Nothingness' ed by Robert Powell | Georg Feuerstein | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p59 |
| Personal Glimpses | Michael Grosso | y1996 | v9 | i4 | Winter | p64 |
| [From January 1997 'The Quest' incorporates 'The American Theosophist' and continues the volume numbering of the latter] | - | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p1 |
| Viewpoint: What's in a Name: The Quest | John Algeo | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p2 |
| Rabindranath Tagore and the Ancient Wisdom: Part 5 | Daniel Ross Chandler | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p3 |
| Cain and Abel: A Theosophical Midrash | anon | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p6 |
| The Calling of St Matthew [rprnt - 'For the Love of Life' 1987] | Burton Callicott | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p8 |
| Greetings from Olcott, National Center of The Theosophical Society in America | anon | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p10 |
| A Concordance of letter numbers and initial pages of two editions of The Mahatma Letters | anon | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p13 |
| review: 'Realization, Enlightenment and the Life of Rapture' by A E I Falconar | Alex Pappas | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p16 |
| review: 'The Theosophical Enlightenment' by Joscelyn Godwin [rprnt - 'Theosophy in Australia' 1996] | John Cooper | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p16 |
| review: 'The New Age Movement: The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Modernity' by Paul Heelas | anon | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p17 |
| Studies in Theosophy: Leaves from The Mahatma Letters 2 | anon | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p18 |
| President's Diary | John Algeo | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p19 |
| What is Theosophy? [rprnt] | Annie Besant | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p19 |
| Branch Profiles: Theosophical Society in Miami | Sy Ginsburg | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p20 |
| Branch Profiles: Orlando Lodge | Bill Delahunt | y1997 | v85 | i1 | January | p20 |
| Viewpoint: On the Theosophical View of Death | John Algeo | y1997 | v85 | i2 | February | p2 |
