Huna Bulletin 68

The Ikon from Ethiopia

December 15, 1951

For Huna Research Associates
Covering the experimental approach to the use of Huna in HUNA
and related religious and psychological fields.
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.A.

The Ikon

The ikon has been completed and has arrived from HRA George Sandwith who mailed it from Australia before leaving for England, where he will remain for a time before returning to Australia to head a scientific expedition into the hinterlands to make further studies of the magic of the Australian Aboriginals. (I am greatly pleased to be invited to go along, even if I cannot accept for various reasons.)

THE IKON is the outcome of a project which was discussed at some length over a year ago in the Bulletins – the investigation of the nature of ikons and the rediscovery of the art of making them. HRA Sandwith, then in Tonga, was fortunate enough to own an ikon over four centuries old and still potent. It is in the form of a 10×13 inch carved and painted wooden plaque – a carved figure of Jesus on the cross with Mary and John standing at either side below. It was presented to him by an artist in Ethiopia, and through it as a contact center, he has been able to converse psychically with a spirit which seems to preside over the ikon – the spirit of an Ethiopian woman. Read more

Huna Bulletin 67

Moods & Prayer

December 1, 1951

For Huna Research Associates
Covering the experimental approach to the use of Huna in HUNA
and related religious and psychological fields.
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.

IS THERE A BEST TIME TO MAKE THE PRAYER-ACTION?

We have been making Huna studies and have been carrying on experiments now for some time in order to learn HOW to make a prayer-action most effectively. We have come upon many most significant things, such as the need for building up a good mana surcharge, of making contact with na Aumakua, and presenting the pictures of desired conditions on the flow of the mana which we offer as the true form of sacrifice – the thing in all sacrifices that can matter. Now comes the question of whether one time is better than another in which to pray in the Huna fashion or in any other way, be it by rote, by ritual or by surreptitiously reaching into a pocket to rub a rabbit’s foot. Read more