Following the change of the journal's title from Tomorrow to Studies in Comparative Religion, editor F. Clive-Ross thinks it advisable to re-state the mission of the journal: Studies is devoted to the exposition of the teachings, spiritual methods, symbolism, and other facets of the religious traditions of the world, together with the traditional arts and sciences which have sprung from those religions. It is not sectarian and, inasmuch as it is not tied to the interests of any particular religious group, it is free to lay stress on the common spirit underlying the various religious forms..

Frithjof Schuon states that "in order to understand the nature of the Bible and its meaning, it is essential to have recourse to the ideas of both symbolism and revelation. Without an exact and, in the measure necessary, sufficiently profound understanding of these key ideas, the approach to the Bible remains hazardous and risks engendering grave doctrinal, psychological, and historical errors." So that the scripture might retain "all its vitality and all its liberating power," Schuon's essay explains the critical points of the Bible's use of symbolism and its sacred origin.

Dom Aelred Graham addresses a Catholic audience on the subject of meditation by speaking his own experience with it as a young Benedictine monk. He warns of the possible pitfalls of an overly intellectual approach to God through one's meditative efforts, but also discusses some possible benefits to the spiritual life. Graham shares some thoughts on Buddhist insight and manner of meditation and draws some parallels with Christian precepts. There are also strong cautions against obliging everyone to engage in meditation and against practicing intense meditation without the assistance of an experienced guide.

The text begins with a short introduction by Martin Lings to the geographical presence of Sufi branches having Darqawi lineage. The Shaikh Al-`Arabi Ad-Darqawi (1760-1823) was a great Moroccan saint, from whose disciples many branchings of his Sufi Order spread. The Letters of this great Muslim sage contain wonderful spiritual and mystical counsel to his disciples. Titus Burckhardt's translations from the Arabic of the original were compiled into a short book, and this text provides several representative samples from that book.

Marco Pallis was one of the best informed Europeans on all aspects of traditional Tibetan life, and one of the most authoritative on its spiritual center, and thus its related expansion into the arts. This brief survey of a variety of traditional Tibetan arts proceeds from the perspective that the light of the Buddha's Doctrine reveals itself through the particular symbolism of the traditional arts. Pallis surveys Tibetan architecture, painting, the plastic arts (such as the art of modeling images of Buddhas and Saints, along with metal casting), woodwork, metalwork and weaving (including rug-making). His brief survey nonetheless gives fascinating insights that illustrate the basic point: "The supreme work of art, in Buddhist eyes, is Enlightenment itself; the human art of living, with all its component arts, is as a bow bent to speed an arrow to that target."

Guénon examines various correspondences in ancient Hindu, Celtic, and Greek traditions in which the symbols of the wild boar and the bear appear. He informs us that the wild boar and the bear "symbolize respectively spiritual authority and temporal power, that is to say, the two castes of the Druids and Knights, the equivalents, at least originally and in their essential attributes, of the Brahmins and the Kshatriyas." Using mostly linguistic evidence, Guenon suggests how the symbols moved from the earliest primordial tradition through more recent traditions. He reminds us of the place of "the boar" (spiritual authority) as fundamentally superior to "the bear" (temporal authority).

Martin Lings reviews the book Born in Tibet, by Chogyam Trungpa. It is a "unique autobiography [which] falls into two parts, the story of the upbringing and education of a young Tibetan Lama from his earliest years until the age of nineteen, and the story of his escape to India when his country was invaded by the communists." In the review, Dr. Lings both summarizes the book and cites its major strength: The book "has succeeded in painting a vast canvas in which the human individuals and their paths and the bridges that they cross are dwarfed and overshadowed by the setting itself. That setting is the civilization of Buddhist Tibet." Chogyam Trungpa's book, Lings says, leaves us "especially struck by the sheer quantity of spiritual riches" of that time and place.

William Stoddart reviews My Dear Time's Waste, an autobiography by Fr. Brocard Sewell. It "consists mainly of a sequence of recollections and anecdotes about the people he has known throughout the various stages of his life." Stoddart notes that "Fr. Sewell is at pains not to 'reject' contemporary trends. Indeed, he makes it his business to 'accept' irresponsible, ignorant (but far from unpretentious) innovators in literature, ideology and morals." The reviewer would have preferred more discernment from a religious figure during a time of great change in the Church, and devotes some space in the review to correcting several views woven into the autobiography.

Noted traditionalist author Marco Pallis responds to a previous issue's correspondence on reincarnation. He begins with an objective look at Guénon's tendency to use a harsh tone when attacking modern tendencies, but also charmingly notes this necessary mission requires "special qualities, in the man, such as rarely go with delicately adjusted expression." Pallis makes some very interesting points in his response to Mr. Calmeyer's correspondence, summarized in the phrase that "human birth is a rare and correspondingly precious opportunity." Pallis suggests several corrections to Guénon's conclusions on reincarnation, and offers some thought-provoking insights on the subject in general.

In this article Chogyam Trungpa gives an overall description of the practice of meditation in Buddhism. Before discussing this, however, he begins with a general overview of Buddhist history, he begins of course with the life of the Buddha in India, and then traces Buddhism through the major points where it changed and spread. The three turnings of the wheel are discussed, so as to give the reader an idea of the context that Buddhist practice emerged from. Then Trungpa begins to explain the actual meditation practices in Buddhism. To explain meditation Trungpa outlines the four Principles of Buddhism, Impermanence, Suffering, Emptiness and Selflessness. And in the last part of the article the reader has a more concrete description of the practices of meditation from an emotional and practical side.