Of the Masters of Wisdom, the great world knew nothing until the beginning of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. For the next twenty-five years, information was meagre indeed; but the beginning of the present century, that which ushered in the new age, brought conditions favorable to increasing publicity so that, concerning those lofty beings, we have to-day much information which, earlier, would have been premature. What we shall present in regard to the Master Hilarion, contains nothing not already known to his direct disciples, and little not previously given to the larger company of his less intimate following.

Master H., who is a specialist in the laws of vibration, and in the mysteries of sex, is numbered among the primary seven, whereas, certain other Masters are among the secondary seven, and still others among the tertiary seven. H. is known as the Master - for this world - of the Red Ray occultly connected with the planet Mars; for which reason he is in conjunction with certain Martian conditions. H. does not leave the earth chain, but, because the outer circle of our sevenfold globe impinges on the outer circle of the Martian globe at the nearest arc of its orbit, he can at stated intervals avail himself of that fact, and so in a way become a Martian. He then can identify himself with a people originally very impetuous and belligerent who, in the long ago, put war behind them, and are now living in great communities where law and order need no authority for their enforcement.

The color peculiar to Master H. is the purified red; in other words, the rose, or, rather, the lilac pink. The red places H. among the three who are negative to the positive three in the primary group of Masters. His polar opposite is the Master of the Yellow Ray. As the original red indicated, H. has evolved from a rather low position; but this fact gives him greater grasp of ordinary human conditions than is possible to the almost wholly spiritual Master of the Yellow.

H. might be called the Egyptian Master, for in ancient times he was the head of an order known as the "Star of the Pyramid." However, before the days of Columbus, his interest was centered, as still it is, chiefly in North America, and, to speak definitely, with that portion thereof which now is known as the United States. In the Red Indian, Hilarion discovered certain characteristics which in very remote times were his own; so, to help as far as possible the primitive peoples of this land, he took the humble body and the limited brain peculiar to his lesser brethren by whom he was known and afterwards remembered as Hiawatha, whose great work among the warring tribes was the welding of the Six Nations to which he taught the simpler industries of Peace.

It was for a purpose which Longfellow did not understand, nor need to understand, that he treated the legend of Hiawatha in a poem wherein he broke from the influence of European culture, and became a real American poet, the producer of a wholly original work embodying elements insuring its longevity, and even immortality.

Mr. W. T. Stead occasionally was in touch with Master H. whom he and his associates knew as "a highly evolved intelligence on whom we did not often intrude our mundane affairs." True, the Master did not warn Mr. Stead against passage on the Titanic. Rather, he spoke in a riddle, because what is ordained must be, and obstruction only make more difficult the accomplishment of those high and just purposes which are known to the hierarchies of advanced beings that guide the destinies of the world.

As early as 1901, Hilarion warned his disciples in these words, "Children of the new dispensation, be ye ready; the war of the ages is upon us!" The great original Armageddon even then was being fought in the skies, and its battle front was not merely one thousand and six hundred furlongs in length as was the front of the earthly Armageddon spoken of in Rev. xIv:20. Rather, the conflict between the hosts of Light and those of Darkness which ended in the discomforture of the latter, and the bringing down of the battle to the material plane, was over a line far longer than one thousand and six hundred times one thousand and six hundred furlongs.

From the beginning of the new century until now, Master H. has been chief among many who are preparing conditions suited to a verification of the accessibility of the spiritual realms, a verification that should convince all but the obstinate materialist of whom it can be said that having eyes he shall not see, and having ears he shall not hear.

Furthermore, Master H. - whom certain ones know to be the John the Baptist of the new Dispensation - is preparing the world, and this country specially, for an appearance of one of the Great Teachers; a spiritual being clothed upon, as was Jesus when in the midst of the faithful disciples after the Resurrection: a being whom no one will dare lay hands upon, and against whom no evil mouths will venture to cry out "Crucify him! Crucify him!" If one understand that, in a materialized body, or rather one having the elements of permanency, the atoms will be in a state of flux, he sees that not until the rage and hate engendered by the world war has subsided, can any great number of human organisms be depended upon to furnish the Avatar with wholly pure atoms whenever needed. Hence the day of consummation may be delayed beyond the eight years which yet remain until the time indicated by Master H.