| Antiquity of the Vedas (5) | Krishna Shastri Godbole | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p72 |
| A Pious "Fiasco" | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p74 |
| The Grand Inquisitor, an extract from "The Brothers Karamazof" (2) | M Dostoevsky | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p75 |
| Weird Phenomena | Ram Das Sen | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p75 |
| ("Weird Phenomena", comments) | (HPB) | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p75 |
| Is Creation Possible for Man? | H. | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p79 |
| Our Answer [to "Is Creation Possible for Man?"] | Ed. (HPB) | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p79 |
| The Theosophists (rprnt Light) | Gerald Massey (1828-1907) | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p80 |
| Editor's Note | [Ed.] (HPB) | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p81 |
| Paragraph Flashes from the Four Quarters | various | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p82 |
| The Pupil of Swami Dayanand at the Congress of Orientalists (Shyamaji Krishnavarman) | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p82 |
| A New Steamer | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p82 |
| Silver in sea-water | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p82 |
| The Alleged discovery of the Aztec Mysteries | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p83 |
| Faber's Talking Automaton | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p83 |
| The oldest man in the world | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p83 |
| The Crimes of Preachers in the United States | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p84 |
| Cursing and Swearing | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p84 |
| A Posthumous Censure | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p84 |
| A New Thaumaturgist | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p84 |
| Miscellaneous Notes | anon (HPB) | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p84 |
| [A Bishop on the Secret Societies in Europe] | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p85 |
| Infidelity in Germany | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p85 |
| [two remarkable hills (? ancient Temples) discovered in the Mangya Tungya range] | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p86 |
| [Jain fasting for 91 days] (rprnt Amrita Bazar Patrika) | anon | y1881 | v3 | - | December | p86 |
| Letter | Sanderson & Co | y1882 | v3 | - | Jan+ | p1 |
| A Personal Explanation | HP Blavatsky & HS Olcott | y1882 | v3 | - | Jan+ | p1 |
| Letter | Major-General Rostislav Fadeew | y1882 | v3 | - | Jan+ | p2 |
| Our Branch Societies - The Colombo (Ceylon Branch) | HS Olcott & 12 others | y1882 | v3 | - | Jan+ | p3 |
| Articles of Agreement | HS Olcott & 21 others | y1882 | v3 | - | Jan+ | p4 |
| Return of a Series of Lectures delivered by Colonel HS Olcott in the Western Province of Ceylon | WF Wijeyesekara | y1882 | v3 | - | Jan+ | p6 |
| Annual Meeting of the General Council | DK Mavalankar | y1882 | v3 | - | Jan+ | p8 |
| The Galle Branch | Damodar K Mavalankar | y1882 | v3 | - | Jan+ | p8 |
| Note to "War in Heaven" | Mirza Moorad Alee Beg | y1882 | v3 | - | Jan+ | p8 |
| The Galle Branch Ceylon [summary of the [buddhist] Priests' Convention; Olcott's work in Galle] | anon | y1882 | v3 | - | Jan+ | p8 |
| acknowledge, with thanks, (the following) subscriptions for volume III, all paid in advance. | The Proprietors of the `Theosophist` | y1882 | v3 | - | Jan+ | p9 |
| The Theosophist, Bombay, January, 1882 | Editor | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p87 |
| The Civilization that India needs | HS Olcott | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p87 |
| Notice [imperfect copies of the previous issue of the Theosophist may be exchanged] | anon | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p87 |
| "Is it Idle to Argue Further?" | anon (HPB) | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p90 |
| Esoteric Axioms & Spiritual Speculations (quote from review by A. Lillie in Psychological Review) | anon (HPB) | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p92 |
| The Aryan-Arhat Esoteric Tenets on the Sevenfold Principle in Man | T Subba Row | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p93 |
| Editorial Appendix to "The Aryan-Arhat Esoteric Tenets on the Sevenfold Principle in Man", by T Subba Row | HPB | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p98 |
| Supplemental Note to "The Beni-Elohim" | Mirza Moorad Alee Beg | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p99 |
| Lakshmibai (The Authentic story of a Bhut) | Piarai Lall Chachondia | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p100 |
| footnotes to "Lakshmibai" | (HPB) | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p100 |
| Ghosts | anon | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p101 |
| The Universe in a Nut-shell | Jehangir Cursetji Tarachand | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p102 |
| Editor's Answer | Ed. (HPB) | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p103 |
| Dream-Land & Somnambulism | anon | y1882 | v3 | - | January | p103 |
