INTRODUCTORY NOTES: The ancient HUNA system of beliefs was preserved in past centuries in Polynesia. It became all but lost under the avalanche of modern thought which poured into the Isles of the Pacific after their discovery by men of the West in 1778. The System was recognized as one of value in the early years of the present century, and work was commenced to recover it.

Information was obtained at first from a study of what little was still remembered in Hawaii of the beliefs and practices of the native priests, or na kahuna. Some valuable data was found in North Africa in the hands of a woman kahuna, and there was some evidence that Huna had been known in Egypt before the advent of Christianity. Very soon it was found that Huna had been known to those who had written the Four Gospels of the New Testament, and that they had used a language identical to that of Hawaii as a code to insert Huna beliefs into the Christian writings while at the same time hiding those beliefs from the uninitiated. Other recognizable traces of Huna were found in the Gnostic literatures and some of the early Christian writings (which were not included in the Cannon as the Christian Churches were taking form) the same language and idea symbol code being found there as in the Gospels. The early Yoga of India was found to contain some Huna ideas concealed under the code of symbols. However, in all the sources mentioned, the basic beliefs had been lost for the most part under the common outer beliefs of current religions.

In this Year of Grace, 1963 [?], the last step was successfully taken in uncovering the hidden Huna meanings in the coded parts of the Mystery Writings, among which the literature of the early Christians has been found of greatest value. We now have the System rounded out and sufficiently completed in its recovery to fill in a most satisfactory manner the needs of one seeking a religion. Fortunately, this religion gives as part of itself a knowledge of ourselves as men which is far superior to that contained in the infant science of Psychology.

No one can progress under guidance of a religion unless it can be accepted as true and correct in what it teaches of belief, practice or ethics. That being the case and with many of us wishing to make all progress possible, it has been seen that the need at this time is to set down what we have slowly come to know of Huna and to believe veritable. Accepting Huna as we now do, we gain the element of faith in the verity of the beliefs, and because we can believe, we can begin with confidence to act under the guidance of the ancient System.

The work of recovering Huna has remained in the research classification for some years, of necessity. With the research still to be continued in some matters, such as practical application of healing methods, the time has come, nevertheless, to outline as fully as possible the recovered knowledge so that it can be used with more uniformity of application and so that it can be presented as a readied unit to those who may wish to gain an understanding of the System and begin to benefit from that understanding.

This outline in the form of a Huna Credo, is intended to be used as a unit of comparison. The beliefs itemized are those accepted by me, Max Freedom Long, and if the reader will compare his own beliefs with mine, there should result an eventual clarification which will show to what extent Huna is accepted. As I have spent more time in the study of Huna than any other up to this writing, I feel that my beliefs and the reasons for them will make the best standard to be used in comparison at this point in our mutual growth.

Following the example of early “Credos”, I will set down in numbered parts the basic things which I believe and which I think can be shown to be accepted by na kahuna of the full initiation. As many of us have come into Huna by way of other systems of belief, and have brought with us conflicting elements, it will be good for us to include a negative here and there to point up the difference between Huna and the holdings of other systems.

If the reader finds that he accepts all the items of belief presented here, there will be little need to go on to the following pages where objections to the various items will be taken up with the intention of showing why the Huna concept is best. Where the reader is referred to explanations already made in one of my five books, The SECRET SCIENCE BEHIND MIRACLES, will be indicated by the letters, BM, The SECRET SCIENCE AT WORK as AW, GROWING INTO LIGHT as GIL, SELF-SUGGESTION as S-S and PSYCHOMETRIC ANALYSIS as PA.

HUNA CREDO

1. I belive in God as the highest form of conscious being, beyond the powers of the human mind to understand except vaguely. I believe that all the universe and all of its forces and substances are encompassed in the Huna idea of God. I do NOT believe that God is dual in nature, having Light balanced by Darkness, or a good God equaled by a “Power of Darkness” or devil or fallen angel.
2. I believe that there may be many levels of consciousness descending from God, the Ultimate, to the level of man and on down to the lowest forms of life to include such things as crystals, all things obeying laws or patterns provided for their growth and evolutionary progress. I believe that above the level of the Aumakua, man has little knowledge of the nature of these units of consciousness.
3. I believe in man as a trinity composed of a Aumakua, a Auhane and a Aunihipili. I believe that the Aumakua is made up of a male and female unit of consciousness, blended in the union to make ONE, whom we may call “The Father”, but who always contains the Mother. I do NOT believe in the present Christian idea that there is a “Trinity” which is made up of Ultimate and Highest God, a man, Jesus, who was his “only begotten son” and who was interchangeable with God the Father or the Holy Ghost.
4. I believe that the three spirits or selves of the triune man are separate and individual, but that they are very closely tied together to form a team, and that the Aunihipili and Auhane occupy the physical body during earthly life, the first having the less perfect ability to reason, but having the task of making and preserving all memories as thought-forms made of invisible aka or “shadowy” (ectoplasmic?) substance. The Auhane has the superior form of reason. The Aumakua has a far superior form of mentation and can see the past and a limited distance into the future. It is able to read at will all memories held by the Aunihipili for this or any past incarnation, and may have an ability to read past events recorded in some way in aka substance similar to the “akashic records” of Theosophy.
5. I believe that the vital force, called “mana” by na kahuna, is made by the Aunihipili by burning the blood sugar in the oxygen of the air which is breathed. I believe that we can teach the Aunihipili to accumulate a surcharge of mana on command, and that the process is helped by consciously breathing more strongly. I believe that the mana can be sent on command by the Aunihipili along the aka cord to the Aumakua.
6. I believe that the mana is symbolized as “water” by na kahuna and that it flows along the aka cord of connection from the Aunihipili to the Aumakua, carrying with it, as chips on a stream, the thought-forms which incorporate and picture such things as may be prayed for. These aka pictures of the desired condition are accepted by the Aumakua, and the mana sent along is used to manipulate the aka substance of the “pattern world” where all events are formed before they materialize on the level of the Auhane and Aunihipili as conditions or physical things covering changes that cause healing, or changes that deal with circumstances and conditions. I believe that all prayer or converse with the Aumakua is telepathic in nature and that all telepathic communication can be explained in terms of mental pictures recorded as “things” in aka substance, and sent on a flow of mana from the sender to the receiver of the telepathic “message”. I do NOT believe that prayers can go to a Higher Entity than the Aumakua, unless sent on at its own wise choice, as in prayers for world peace, to “The Great Company of na Aumakua”, of which our own is a member. I do NOT believe that voiced prayer, silent prayer or chanted prayer reaches the intended High Being by way of sound – but because there is always a telepathic element in the sending if the prayer is effective.
7. I believe that a large charge of vital force can act as a controlling “mesmeric shock” to affect one other than the operator, and that this shock may dislodge such spirits as may be obsessing in part the one to be helped. I believe that the mana is taken from the Aunihipili and used by the Auhane to control the Aunihipili or others as demonstrated in hypnosis. I believe that all hypnotic suggestion is made possible by the mechanism of telepathy, the mana and charged thought-forms passing from the operator to the passive subject and being accepted and acted upon.
8. I believe that the “path” or contact along the aka cord reaching from the Aunihipili to the Aumakua can be “blocked” by a sense of guilt on the part of the Aunihipili, or by “complexes” involving guilt or disbelief, also by the presence of obsessing spirits of evil nature who obsess in part or fully the living person and force him, by hypnotic means, to obey their commands. I believe that these “evil spirits” were the things mentioned in the New Testament as things being “cast out” by Jesus and his disciples. I believe that they prompt most criminal and irrational actions today on the part of their victims. I believe that these “eating companion” spirits can be discovered through the means of Psychometric Analysis, and that parole boards could be greatly helped by such readings of prisoners applying for parole from prison. I believe that readings can be made of the three individual selves of a man as well as of any obsessing spirits which may be influencing him.
9. I believe that at the end of a series of several incarnations, the man, as a three self unit or team, can graduate or step up one level higher in terms of evolutionary progress. I believe that when the Auhane is ready to graduate to become a Aumakua, the Aunihipili will have been so trained by the Auhane as to be ready also, and will graduate to become a Auhane in the following incarnation. I believe that a new Aunihipili will be brought up from the animal level to take the place of the graduating Aunihipili. The Aumakua will step up a level at this time of graduation to become a “god High Self” or Akua Aumakua, having still greater power and wisdom. I believe that the Auhane, in graduation, will be joined by one of the opposite sex who has been part of a similar triune team, and that the two will blend and unite to form the new Aumakua Father-Mother of the new triune individual. I believe that the new Aumakua will have in its care two individuals, one male and one female, each having a Aunihipili and Auhane, but the two having a common Aumakua. Conversely, I do NOT believe that each man has a Aumakua Mother-Father all to himself. He shares the Aumakua with the evolving mate. I believe that the mates, once united at the Aumakua level, continue to evolve in the united condition, and that they associate with similar units more and more as upward growth continues.
10. I believe that it is possible for the Aunihipili and Auhane to become separated during life, or after physical death. I believe that this fact explains some forms of insanity, multiple personality and “obsession”. I believe that even in the most complete states of separation, the selves retain contact with their own Aumakua, even if the contact is so blocked that Guidance is all but impossible. Separated or isolated selves fasten themselves on living victims and control, influence or sicken and weaken the hosts. I believe that surviving spirits of good will often contact the living and help them in various ways, as by inspiration, dreams etc., but do not force them to conform to the desired “goodness”. I believe that spirits can take mana from the living and use it in projecting hypnotic suggestion or in poltergeist or other manifestations. I believe that the Aumakua automatically partakes of the mana of its three-self man, and that this mana is needed on the Aumakua level for thinking and work.
11. I believe that the future is automatically (to a certain extent automatically) built in aka pattern substance for the Aunihipili and Auhane man by the Aumakua, the future being made to match hopes, wishes, plans and even fears. I believe that we, can decide upon a different future and picture it strongly as a prayer is made to the Aumakua to bring about the desired future. I believe that the old future is broken down to make way for the new future, and that a series of “bad” events may follow the making of the prayers for the new and changed future. I believe that the old future will not result in lasting damage if “bad” events are endured until the old future is broken up and done away with. The “storm is tempered to the lamb” in such cases.
12. I believe that the Huna lore was known in ancient times by initiates in Egypt and the Near East, also, at a similar period in Asia. I believe that these initiates wished to insert enough coded Huna into religious writings to preserve the knowledge even while protecting it from falling into the hands of the uninitiated. I believe that the code was formed of a selected number of words taken from a language very similar to the later Hawaiian. This language had many words carrying several meanings, and so the “code” could be used to say one thing while meaning another. I believe that this code has been broken and many pieces of coded Huna recovered from the Bible, especially the New Testament, and from extra Cannonical Christian and Gnostic writings of the period. I believe that the language code was not greatly used in India and Asia, but that many of the ideas of Huna and many of its symbols can still be recognized in the beliefs of India and neighboring lands, especially in early Yoga. I believe that there may have been a knowledge of the “graduating” steps of Huna known in Buddhism where escape from the cycle of reincarnation was preached and union with a higher or “real” self was vaguely understood.
13. I believe that the graduation to the Aumakua level was the heart of the mystery or esoteric teachings hidden under the code in Christian writings. I believe that the Aumakua can and will cleanse one who is ready and who wishes to graduate to the Aumakua level, such “karmic debts” as there may be, vanishing before the ministration of “grace” in the hands of the Aumakua. (In the language of the Huna code, “grace” is loko mai kai. The root meanings of this word tell what really happens when we come under grace instead of the karmic law or the law of “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”) “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,” applies when the Auhane accepts the “baptism of the Spirit and of Fire (Light).” I believe that the Auhane changes itself by mental change, and that the Aunihipili is then taken out of the material law of cause and effect to be cleansed by an act of grace executed by the Aumakua to make graduation possible. I do NOT believe in the need to pay off all debts of former actions – “grace” taking over where karma (for want of a better word) leaves off. (I do not believe in the “Lords of Karma” and in the idea that endless lives must be lived to balance one’s debts of hurtful action.)
14. I believe that the only sin is that of hurting another. I do NOT believe the failure to conform to ritual observances which do not involve hurting others is a sin, as, for example, failure to observe the Sabbath or any other day declared holy. I believe that every act may be tested by asking whether it hurts another or hurts ourselves. “No hurt, no sin” is the criterion. I do NOT believe that the Aunihipili and Auhane can “sin against” any being higher than themselves. There is no such thing as “mortal sin”. Even the most hurtful individual or spirit must eventually evolve and grow into the realm of the Aumakua. I do NOT accept any “scripture” as “the word of God.” I reject the authority of all “revelations” given (supposedly) through men, whether by spirits or by a process of pure invention. I accept the ancient Huna System as the most rational and nearest to what, in my mind, stands as religious and psychological truth, but reserve judgment on any and all points should further research show that a change in my conclusions is justified.
15. I believe that Psychometric Analysis readings can be made of all three selves of the triune man, and that his evolution or growth toward the point of “graduation” can be roughly judged. I believe that the pendulum can be used to show when a surcharge of mana has been taken on, and when contact with the Aumakua has been made and the gift of mana has been successfully presented and a return flow given. I believe that obsessing spirits who obsess the living or who are good and who stand by to help, can be touched and read by the P.A. method and the use of the pendulum. I believe that the pendulum furnishes a tool by which a degree of communication with one’s Aunihipili may be carried on. (The method has its pitfalls and not all can use it, but the benefits outweigh the dangers of failure or mistakes in results.) I believe that levels of intelligence can be ascertained through P.A. readings, and individuals classified in such a way that it may be known just how much of the abstractions of Huna they are apt to grasp.
16. I believe that the average Christian (and his counterpart in other religions) who attends church faithfully, seldom has a P.A. degree standing above the 300 level. He cannot grasp abstractions and needs to believe that a man in the actual flesh was God, that he allowed himself to be crucified and buried, but that he rose in living flesh and soon ascended, still in the flesh, to a heaven made of material substances. He can grasp and accept the idea that, on the Day of Judgment, all men will arise in the flesh from the grave and be sent to a material heaven or a hell of actual fire. At the level from 300 to 330 degrees the churchly are able to grasp some elements of abstraction. Here we find the New Thought type of religions, with little said of Jesus, heaven or hell. God becomes the “All Good”, and the material world may be done away with by saying it is unreal and does not actually exist. It is a woe-filled world that fails all too often to conform to the accepted formula of this level, “Think right and all will be right.” The stratagem of denying the actuality of the world and of material things is quite illogical, but touches the edge of ability to work with abstractions in using the argument, “God is all there is, and as God is only GOOD, anything which is not perfect and good cannot exist except as an error in OUR thinking.” In India this illogical method of escaping from the real of ourselves and our universe into the unreal was accepted by the best minds for many centuries. At the level reaching from 330 to 350 degrees, the ability to grasp still more of the Huna abstractions can be observed. Here we find the Theosophists and the Yoga students working happily with the complications of “bodies”, “planes” and the almost endless drift of “karma” and “reincarnation”. Here we find the naturally good psychics  – the mind readers and mediums. They can grasp the simpler concepts of Huna. The levels ranging from 350 to about 384 contains those who, to varying degrees, can grasp the full significance of the Huna abstractions. They are capable of working with the real and the unreal at one and the same time; they can mix the real (if temporary) world of material things with the thin material of mind and disembodied spirits (the world of the Auhane. They can also move mentally from the real to the thinnest mixtures of force, aka substance and CONSCIOUSNESS, understanding to some extent the state and power of the Aumakua, and being able to accept the existence of still higher levels of Beings and forces and consciousness quite beyond the reach of the mind. Above the 384 degree level few are found, and these seem to have grown into a strange condition in which they depend unconsciously on intuitions, and accept consciously “authorities” whose word is law to them in their chosen field of action. The intuition makes for the scientist who gets a flash and goes about testing to see whether his guess was correct. The same brilliant scientist may be held back by blind acceptance of what he feels to be the “ACCEPTED”. (Not always the really well proven facts.) I believe that some  who seem to have a P.A. degree reading in various levels, will be found to have their actual degree raised or lowered by the averaging in of the degree standing of good or bad spirits associated with them, or by the closeness of contact with the Aumakua. (The readings for na Aumakua seem to begin at 450 degrees.) I believe that an exceptionally good memory or a mediumship which allows a good spirit of high degree to “come through” may often account for a person of rather low degree standing appearing to be extra intelligent. People with P.A. readings above 384 degrees very often take Huna in their stride, seeming to understand it intuitively, but rejecting it because it is not yet recognized by those whom they consider to be “authorities”. Many of these people do lip service to the Church, but only because they are in the public eye and do not care to waste time contradicting accusers who may say they are “not Christians”. They should be good material for “graduation” but may be retarded by their dependence on their fine intuition instead of upon their reasoning ability. I believe that in order to get ready to graduate to the Aumakua level, the individual must be able to give careful study to the Huna system, especially as coded in the New Testament etc., and learn just what is demanded of the candidate, and just what must be done to make oneself ready to take the upward step at the end of this incarnation.)
17. I do NOT believe that the New Testament account of the life of Jesus is in accord with history. I believe that the Huna code shows that his life and teachings were symbolic rather than historic. I believe that the command, “Take up thy cross and follow me,” shows definitely that crucifixion on the cross was a symbolic rather than a factual matter. I do NOT believe in the verity of the theory of “Masters” as propounded in Theosophy and elsewhere. (Or in “Astara” or “I Am” claims.)

November, 1957

1.  Getting members: One or two friends usually have to hunt around for others who are of like mind, see that they have read the two books on Huna and understand what is to be undertaken. Only in larger places are there HRAs who might be willing to join, and these must be invited by card to meet those planning the group. Those willing and able to take part can then join in the work of getting started. There is no secretary here at the Study to sort through all the file cards to pick out the HRAs living in a certain place, then writing to each individually. A group wishing such service should supply money for a secretary to be hired for a day. It is better to form a small group at first amongst friends and go ahead, learning what to do and making ready for a later expansion in which the experienced teach the beginners.

2.  Groups seldom can get on without dues and a place to meet. One group in Sunnyvale, California, raised funds to buy a tape recorder and a duplicating outfit. Taped lectures are being made and sent to them for the use of the group, and these can be duplicated and made available to other groups or to individuals who wish them, either on a rental or purchase outright basis. Tape recorders may be had second hand for as low as $25 in larger places. A new Crescent costs around $100. Usually groups can buy on installments. The tapes are 5 inch and of the 3.75 speed. They give on one side a general series of lectures on Huna and on the other more technical information to help group members to learn to use a Biometer based on the Boyle type. Such an instrument may be made up at the cost of about a dollar with materials supplied from the Study.

Some group members are bound to be able to use the Biometer and can than read for the others to see where they need to begin personal work to correct defects or lacks in “will” or “personality.” Outsiders often wish to have Biometric readings to see how they stand, and if a charge is made for this in the form of a donation to the group work fund, the group may soon become self-financing. Experts charge $25 for readings and make a living that way. Group members who aspire to become Huna-type healers should learn to use the Biometer to classify prospective patients and to determine what to do for them in personality and foot-washing rite directions.

At the present time the organization of groups is just getting started, but as the work grows there may be a fine open field for healers and teachers and Biometer readers to work professionally or on part-time or as an avocation. No diagnosis of mental or physical conditions can be made unless one is also a qualified physician, but laying on hands with prayer is sufficient for most needs, with the foot-washing rite to be performed by those qualified to help those complexed or bothered with spirits, known or unknown. (There will be plenty of time later to go into all these promising angles when students are organized and working.) There is no reason why Huna healing should not eventually become as well known as other types.

3. A meeting should be held to organize, once several people are ready. A leader can be chosen and a secretary and treasurer appointed. The organization will be recognized by the HRA and its nane placed on the list. The group should set aside some part of its dues to use as a donation to the work fund here at the center so that the HRA Bulletin can be sent as issued to be discussed in group meetings. All letters demanding secretarial time to be answered from the Study should be accompanied by money to pay to hire secretarial time. Members should own a copy of each book and be encouraged to do missionary work by lending them to friends. When the Biometer is in use, signatures of friends can be run privately to learn whether they are high enough to be able to grasp and use Huna. (Very few are.) All well-financed groups should plan to raise $20.60 to purchase a bound set of the back HRA Bulletins as these contain much material not found in the books and will furnish material for group study or discussion. A group can listen to one side of a tape lecture for 30 minutes, then discuss the lecture or material from the books or Bulletins. Work can then be done on any selected line such as healing, the use of the foot-washing rite with Huna mixed with E Therapy. The Biometer lecture may be given on another evening and Biometric practice and testing carried out. Each group makes its own program.

We all know about the time Max Freedom Long spent in Hawaii. It’s described very well in SSBM. The years spent in Los Angeles and Vista are also fairly well documented and, if you’ve read the Bulletins, you’ve followed the tracks of Huna over those years as well.

Max managed the Bulletins from February 1948 through December 1970. They were pretty consistent, and he didn’t miss an issue very often. They discuss many things, some ending up to be very productive and others being dead ends after further research. Max left no stone unturned if it could shed some light on Huna as he knew it.

Max died in September of 1971. He committed suicide. He had spent the bulk of his lifetime researching Huna and publishing what he had learned. His was a life of writing, mostly, and shedding light on this body of knowledge that he had named Huna, this knowledge in which he truly believed. He recognized the power and ‘magic’ that it held within itself … a wonderful gift for the people of the world if they could see it, learn it and embrace it. Max spent his life developing Huna and by 1970, he’d realized that he would not see its completion in his lifetime. His attempt to alter the HRA research organization into a normal, “community based” church caused a revolt in the membership. Huna was changing and there was nothing Max could do to keep it under control.

In November of 1970, his library had been moved to the library-museum in Fort Worth and he no longer had access to all of his books. He missed them in the last few Bulletins, but he was happy to know that his collection would remain intact. “I am very much pleased with the arrangement as I had feared some of my most treasured books would wind up … with the second hand man or be taken to the dump.” (Bull. #98, pg. 2)

By this time, he had been working with the heir of the HRA for a couple of years. This man would oversee the Huna organization of the HRAs and keep the research going after Max was no longer able to do it. In 1970, Max couldn’t possibly know that this wouldn’t happen, so he probably had no expectations that the HRA would eventually fade away after his passing.

There were others involved who ended up with other components of the existing Huna community structure. Some of it has come to fruition over the years, yet Huna hasn’t made huge progress in becoming more widely spread as a spiritual approach to life and our relationship with the planet.

Max stopped issuing the Bulletins at the end of 1970 because he was in poor health. He had cancer in his left leg bone and in his ribs. He was in constant pain and it was more and more difficult for him to get around. He tried many methods for a cure, but nothing took away the pain. And his companion (and other wife), Ethel Doherty, had fallen and broken both her hips. She was convalescing, but it was obvious that things would never be the same. Max was 80. The years had passed and he was aware that his life’s term was drawing to a close.

In Max’s final Bulletin, there is a short article about the death of a long-time HRA and friend. She had cancer. She’d had the “usual surgery and burning” and it hadn’t worked. She knew what lay ahead for her, so she took a lethal dose of sleeping pills and passed over. Max didn’t have a problem with that. “Some day, when we become civilized and can fight back the Church and its objections, we will have a better way of handling these things. … When one sees that there is no hope … this is an honorable and reasonable way.”

In March of 1971, Max first attempted suicide. Like the woman mentioned above, he tried to ingest a lethal dose of sleeping pills. Unlike hers, his attempt failed. Because of this, however, it became obvious that the Huna material had to be finalized and all the loose ends needed to be tied.

He’d been working on a book, What Jesus Taught in Secret, on which he focused his attention, getting it ready for publication. He culled through his notes; he took care of the loose ends. He didn’t want to leave anything undone that might be confusing or misinterpreted after he was gone.

Once everything was in order, he tried again and was successful. On September 23, 1971, at 11:00pm, Max Freedom Long put a shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger. It was time for him to move on and he knew it. At the time, the Huna group called it ‘graduation,’ moving on to a higher plane, and his spirit was ready to do that. He had done all he could do in this lifetime.

He also left the message, via Clairesthesia, that he would be returning, bringing all the ‘true believers’ with him. According to the Mo`i of the Huna Heiau, in April of 2001, “He should have been born along with them about a year ago. Then [he should] be ready to set his effort with Huna once again in about 2020.” Max hoped that Huna would survive during the time he was gone and that he would be able to find it again once he came of age. Huna is still alive and, should he be here, it is here for him to re-discover. It has been changed and adulterated a bit, but the core is pure and the potential still exists.

Max wanted to heal the world with Huna. Unfortunately, one lifetime isn’t enough, especially when one is suffering with the pain of cancer and the heartache of watching a life’s work go unfinished. But unfinished as it was, it has been a boon to many, many people throughout the world and will continue to be so. He gave us a gift that is very precious and we must be thankful for his dedication and tenacity.

“I offer only the tentative fruits of my research. If something is said that you feel is correct, then accept it, but if not, then do not. Of course, there are different ways to look at things.” (Bull. #96, pg. 2)

“I look upon the ‘final union’ as a thing of ultimate beauty, dearness and fulfillment. To me, it is the Second Salvation, the First Salvation being the discovery that there is an Aumakua and making the first full contact with it. Once we have been through this and have felt the flood of love and wonder from the Aumakua, how can we draw back from the attempt to become one?” (Bull. #97, p. 3)

[Editor: This Final Huna Bulletin was sent by Dolly Ware,
inheritor of Max Freedom Long's personal library, after his death in 1971.]

HUNA RESEARCH CENTER
The Max Freedom Long Library and Museum
Dolly Ware, F.H.F. Editor
1501 Thomas Place, Fort Worth, Texas 76107
Phone (817) 737-5943

Huna Vistas Newsletter

Vol. 1 / No. 2

REMEMBERING MAX FREEDOM LONG ~ October 26, 1890 – September 23, 1971

Our beloved Max has Graduated. Thursday at 11 P.M., September 23rd at his hilltop home in Vista, California. I shall tell the story as simply and factually as possible.

Considered by many to be the world’s greatest authority in the Polynesian religion, we HRAs will grieve because we knew him to be the greatest Kahuna of our era. He was always available, our teacher, guide, ‘secret friend’ and confidante. As a great philosopher, author and writer, he was never too busy to pray for us or to answer our long questions with a personal letter. We rejoice with him as he wings his way ever onward and upward.

He was ready and wanting to go. In a letter to me he said, “My face is clean. I have spent my life trying to introduce others to their High Selves. Don’t worry about me. You could worry if I were young and fighting to stay here, but now that I am old and so nicely finished up with my work and you have done such a wonderful job of making a home for my books and other treasures, I feel happy and contented. My thoughts have begun to turn to the Great Adventure and going across where I will have a new and good body of sorts. Tired and bothered by the leg as I am, it is going to be such a relief and deep pleasure.”

He actually lived his beliefs and teachings unlike so many who talk one way and live another. His gentleness, great patience and understanding tolerance made him a noble and unique man. These are the qualities needed to conquer the tedious challenges hurled each day at the basic researcher. He also applied, coordinated and printed his own research. Max is not gone. He is still here and always will be because the results of his great work is with us. The Talmud tells us that no monuments are erected for the righteous; their deeds perpetuate their memory. Our teacher was a “one of a kind” research scientist, information which helped man in a living way

Now, as a real schoolmaster to “the people,” his books are written as text books complete with exercises, questions and answers. He was always appealing to the greater majority rather than the small intellectual segment.

Someone has said that only one mind is needed to make a discovery … a skeptical, inquisitive mind … which sees the point which has been missed and brings Truth into the clear light of day. His was such a mind.

Our planet owes a great debt to him as he literally lived like a monk in a cell researching, writing and even sleeping in his study day after day and year after year. He called his work “digging” and unnoticed by the orthodox ‘great hierarchy,’ quietly and with dignity befitting wisdom, searched, researched and read comment upon comment as he unraveled the Huna code in all religions. How proud we should be for we are his chosen people, his faithful HRAs.

The late medium, Arthur Ford, once made this wise statement, “People live as if they lived to die, and not as if they lived to live again.”

Max lived to Graduate. This was his greatest and fondest desire. We can paraphrase his name and say, “He Longed for Maximum Freedom.” He considered so called death a triumphant surrender, surrendering the worn out body to triumphantly Graduate. Let us visualize him in a Circle of White Light protected and surrounded by the High Selves, the Great Company of Aumakuas who were so very real to him. He leaves a legacy of faith, strength, dedication, selflessness and inspiration for generations to come who will know him through his enduring works. Each life leaves an afterglow — Max’s leaves a Beacon Light.

His very stature and appearance commanded respect He was tall, six feet three. “Oversize” as he called himself and very handsome, quite British looking with his well trimmed mustache, dark head of hair and lively brown eyes. But always surrounded by an aura of gentle humor, great dignity and utter compassion — a gentleman and a scholar in every sense of the word. I never called him Max, for he was the same age as my father who passed away while I was in college, but always “Dr. Max,” doctor of my soul.

His modern views on many subjects are nothing new to us. You will remember he mentioned his beliefs concerning Euthanasia in the last bulletin which he wrote, and agreed wholeheartedly with Dr. Leslie Weatherhead on voluntary Euthanasia who said, “I have come to regard even suicide as justifiable in certain cases, and am glad that at last it is no longer a crime in England to take one’s own life. To do so might be selfish and cowardly. It might be committed in a temporary mood of depression and this would be wrong. But it might also be an act of courage and self-sacrifice.”

Max emphatically endorsed this philosophy and wrote, “Some fine day, people will come to their senses about forcing the very sick and old and sufferers to hang on and suffer it out when they could be so easily helped across into the bright world of Spirit. Our concept of a vindictive Jehovah is so bad and untrue with the judgment and Karmas and all those utterly useless things. If we have our faces clean well beforehand we can cross safely ahead of time.”

The greatly swollen left leg along with bladder complications left him miserable and suffering constantly. On March 13th, he took an overdose of sleeping pills, was found in time by his neighbor and taken to the hospital. Great thanks are due Dr. John Country who worked a miracle, treating the leg until it was back to normal size and operating on the prostate. The May 1st newsletter tells of his happy and interesting time in the hospital and Convalescent Center. Max said it was like a rebirth, having the many fine cards, calls and letters from his HRAs and with his sense of humor, said it was like reading his own obituary.

In between my numerous visits, Tom Langan took care of him for awhile. Heartfelt thanks goes to Alice Madden Dashiell, HRA and friend of many years. It was Alice whom Max had picked to come and care for him and tend to his business and books. With her already full business life and own home to run she still went every day taking the mail, keeping the books, even cooking many delicious meals. Thanks to Helen Bangs too, HRA from San Diego, who drove up several times each week even bringing a chiropractor to give him treatments.

He spent happy days in his home. Many of you heard from him. He was never free from pain but able to be out in the car even visiting Miss Doherty in the rest home. On July 31st he felt well enough to make the hour’s drive to Laguna Beach and give the closing prayer at the wedding of Alice and George Dashiell. The prayer was given in the Polynesian language with translations. The wedding guests felt the power of it as he paused, building the thought-form and giving it power ,seeing their happy life together and closing with the words, Light – Light – Light.

I have been an HRA for eighteen years, writing often to Max concerning my various projects in ESP but had never met him personally until the last of October in 1968. At that time I spent a busy ten days with a schedule arranged for me by Mr. & Mrs. Riley Crabb, director of Borderland Research Foundation, studying radionics with Dr. Leonard Chapman and visiting other notables in California and Mexico. Most of my time however was spent with Max and Ethel. Since then I have been many times staying in the nearby motel, helping with the meals, but dedicated to the task of getting all his work together and loose ends tied up.

We accomplished much together which I believe gave him great satisfaction.

1. Instead of writing letters to me,I asked that he do the story of his colorful life complete with pictures of family, relatives and friends.

2. He finished the children’s book, How Everything Was Made, complete with cunning illustrations.

3. He completed the Long Lecture Tapes and printed them.

4. He completed the Short Lecture Tapes and printed them.

5. He finished a new, unpublished paperback book, What Jesus Taught in Secret with illustrations

And last but not least,

6. He saw the new paperback by Award Books by the famous Brad Steiger, Secrets of Kahuna Magic selling on the news stands.

How delighted he was to see it in print. The new book arrived on the very day he went home from the Convalescent Center, June 26th. He had a double celebration happily sitting in his own big chair by the picture window in the living room reading Brad’s well done book. Here is his delighted letter to him.

June 28, 1971

Dear Brad:

The book came Saturday shortly after Dolly arrived, and we had come home from the Golden Age to my house, and as the head nurse phoned that a package from Iowa had come, we ran down delightedly to pick it up.

We got into it eagerly and I was so very pleased with the masterful job you had done in condensing and simplifying the very complicated subject of HUNA to make it easy to grasp and readable at the same time.

It seems to me that this little paperback will reach more people who are ready for Huna and arouse more interest than the subject has known in all these years. I am ordering a hundred copies from Award and will send them to select HRAs and local friends.

Dolly joins me in her best delighted praise and our congratulations to a job remarkably well done and most satisfactory in every way.

I am getting settled, thanks to Dolly, and she is restocking the larder, cooking me fabulous meals and helping me entertain the friends and HRAs who have already started to come to see me, now that I am out of the nursing home. Yesterday, being a Sunday, we had invited two good friends, and another 12 assorted friends and strangers dropped in. It was like “Old home week” and we enjoyed it all while I sat in my easy chair and pontificated in so far as Huna is concerned.

Thanks no end for the big help with the spreading of the good word of Huna, and for the inscribed copy for my own library. I value the book.

Our aloha,

Max and Dolly

Trio by a Titan

In the new December 1971 issue of Fate magazine, page 107 is the review of the book by David Techter which I quote:

I have remarked in the past on the volume of material produced by various popular writers in the psychic field. (In all seriousness, of course, this is an economic necessity if one hopes to make one’s living through writing.) Perhaps the most prolific of them all is Brad Steiger who also is my choice as the best of the popular authors. Happily, he is kind enough to keep me supplied with copies of his latest publications. This month there are three paperbacks, rather a lot even for Brad. Two of them display the boast (adopted from one of my columns) that he is “one of the titans of the psychic field.” While in general I find cover blurbs inversely related to the book’s true quality, the three volumes discussed here fully measure up to the billing.

The first, Minds Through Space and Time. The second, Haunted Lovers and the third titled, Long, Shortened.

The third paperback, Secrets of Kahuna Magic (Award Books, New York, N.Y., 1 971, 157 pages, 75c), is quite unlike the first two. For the unenlightened, a kahuna is an adept in Huna, the ancient religious system of the Hawaiian Islands, now almost forced into extinction by Christianity. Those who have heard of Huna will immediately associate it with Max Freedom Long and wonder where Steiger got his information. The answer is obvious: Brad has abridged the material from Long’s six books into a popular account.

One is kept in the dark as to who initiated this effort. Did Steiger feel Huna was being neglected and wish to present Long’s findings to a wider public? Or did Max Freedom Long himself, now elderly and in poor health, ask Steiger to do the popularization? Long’s books have been sporadically available and never aggressively publicized. None has appeared in paperback to my knowledge. Thus about 90 percent of the readers of this volume will be hearing of Huna for the first time from Steiger.

Brad stresses the do-it-yourself aspect and suggests that Huna magic can be employed by anyone. Whoever perpetrated the jacket blurbs has outdistanced my credulity with the claim that “the ancient rites of kahuna magic” will enable the reader to heal the sick, control the weather, raise the dead and develop a superior intellect. Steiger’s material makes no such extravagant claims and some copywriter at Award should have his knuckles rapped.

Actually, Brad presents a fairly straightforward account of Long’s findings. The most intriguing part of Huna is the theoretical material on the three spirits which make up a human being and how they operate. Huna’s high, middle and low selves will remind many of Freud’s superego, ego and id. But the analogy is inexact, for Huna seems to combine both id and super-ego in the lower self, while the Huna higher self seems more akin to Jung’s collective unconscious. There are similarities too, to the occult theories involving the various bodies of’ man and I only wish Brad had discussed this problem. The lower self, like the occult etheric double, possesses memory but lacks the ability to reason. The middle self, unlike the occult astral body, can reason but lacks memory. This inability to remember, it seems to me, presents insuperable difficulties in explaining various spiritualistic phenomena.

Unlike occultism, Huna does not require reincarnation except to state that a lower self eventually will progress to being the middle self of a later human personality. What happens to a progressing middle self is not made clear. Huna’s mechanisms for explaining psychic occurrences, on the other hand, seem quite consonant with occult theories and the facts of psychic research. Clearly, the Huna system deserves more attention than it has received and Steiger’s introductory paperback may considerably increase public awareness of kahuna lore.”

Aren’t we happy?! Happy for Brad as well as Max. I predict Huna will at last have the recognition it has long deserved and that we will be ready with our loved teacher’s work well in order.

Mr. Techter asks how the book came to be written. After my visit to California three years ago I stopped in Las Vegas to attend a seminar held by the late Paul Twitchell of astral traveling fame. Brad Steiger was one of the speakers. While having dinner with Brad and his lovely wife, Marilyn, I suggested he consider doing a book on Huna and Max Freedom Long. A set of books was sent to him and the new paperback is the happy result.

Brad has been asked to speak in Honolulu, February 2 thru 9, 1972 at the First Annual Aquarian Age International Conference on Kahuna Magic and Psi Phenomena. How Max would rejoice and laugh heartily since his work had little acceptance in Hawaii because of the missionaries there. We glory with you Brad as a crusader for Huna. Congratulations from all grateful HRAs.

Rest assured that all was done in our combined power during the summer months and until Max’s death to keep him as comfortable as possible. He took every vitamin and tonic sent by interested HRAs and was kept supplied with a special melon grown expressly for its potassium content by Alice Dashiell. We spent one day at the health farm of Dr. Bernard Jensen in Escondido receiving a diet of special foods and combinations.

Those who want further information may write to me. There were many happy days with letters to answer, friends visiting, one day driving over the countryside in George Dashiell’s fabulous Rolls Royce Bentley car. Another day we had dinner at the beautiful showplace home of Alice and George. George is a retired engineer who breeds Arabian race horses in Escondido.

But always there was the growing pain. Dr. Country had found cancer in the leg bone and another spot in the ribs. Max showed great patience. I left the middle of’ August after having found a full-time practical nurse. She did not work out, but was replaced by Mary Brennan who was excellent and was with him until the end. Mary said that though in pain he was always grateful and appreciative of’ the smallest kindness.

Instead of’ writing, I called every third day the last time being the morning of’ September 23rd. Mary was off for the day, returning for dinner, but the Dashiells came at noon with the mail to check on him and visit. Having prepared for bed with his usual routine, Mary heard him up a little before 11 P.M. She called in to ask if he was all right. He answered, “Fine, Just Fine.” Then she heard the shot. A shot gun fired into the mouth. Oddly enough there was no mark, no bruise, no visible sign. Isn’t this strange?

He had made arrangements with the funeral director years before, stating he wanted no casket, no service and that he was to be cremated and the ashes strewn over the Pacific Ocean.

I spent many hours in his library from Thursday until Monday meditating, praying for him and asking the High Selves to watch over him as he adjusted to his new life on the other side. In the picture are the three red roses signifying the Three Selves with a candle lighted at all times. Our teen-age son took the picture and I was amazed to find the reflection of the flash bulb right over his heart! Isn’t this strange

OBITUARY

In early March Max wrote this Obituary and sent it to me. We reproduce it here exactly as he typed it.

“Remembering Max Freedom Long, October, 1890 -

He advocated and practiced Euthanasia when faced with an incurable leg condition.

His experience included time spent as a printer, photographer, school teacher and in 1917 he began a search for the secret of the Kahunas of old Hawaii – a search that lasted as a hobby for the rest of his days.

He wrote four Detective novels then followed with six hooks on Huna or related subjects He also wrote and sent out research bulletins in an early and late series, numbering over 200.

From about 1936 he gave most of his time to organizing the research work and carried on with the help of an average of’ about 500 Huna Research Associates, leading the experimental work that eventually led to the tracing of the Huna lore back to Egypt in the time of the Fourth Dynasty, finding the ten elements of Huna named in the glyphs of the writing of those days.

The Four Gospels were found to contain almost the whole of Huna in coded form, and his last book, THE HUNA CODE IN RELIGION, reviewed the findings up to the late date of the research effort.

He helped himself over the last hurdle, happily and expectant of being able to Graduate into the Aumakua level rather than return in another incarnation.

In going, the modern way which he suggested to his friends as best, he regretted only leaving his many and dear friends of the years, but anticipated meeting the many who had gone over ahead of him and perhaps finding the time for more research work on the other levels.

He left with much aloha to his many friends and HRAs.”

On Saturday afternoon, I ran the Tarot Cards asking expressly for Guidance and if possible for him to pick the cards.

Here are the seven cards.

The Lovers, Knight of Swords, Page of Pentacles, Wheel of Fortune, 8 of Swords, 5 of Cups and last, his well-loved Temperance card.

What is your interpretation of these cards? Write your views.

Wanting to leave no stone unturned, I flew to Vista and spent the first week in October there. Alice and George were godsends to me, having me for dinner each night. I talked to the doctor who felt his life would have been very brief anyway, the lawyers, the nurse, the funeral director and friends and visited with Miss Ethel.

Of one thing I am most certain. Max is not earthbound. Alice and I both agreed he is not there in his home, and I personally have a peaceful, good feeling about him and that the Temperance card is an omen.

Many letters have come from HRAs who knew of his passing, expressing their love and deep devotion to him. I will quote only a few.

From Mrs. Kiraley of Fresno, Cal.

“This is a natural result of his belief about graduating by one’s own way. The low self always accommodates and helps us follow through on our beliefs. He never felt it was something he had to clear out from his thinking. He was really well integrated with all his three selves. He was certainly a great Kahuna. I bless him and cover him with white light. I believe he will help many of’ us from his new home. Right now he is resting, as he well deserves and basking in the Great White Light of Love and Life.

From Dotty Stanforth, a long time HRA and close friend.

“Max was an educated and devoted man, and I always felt that he was head and shoulders above the majority of so-called advanced students. He was so open minded and gentle. He never hurt any opponent. He was kind and superior. My admiration was unbounded and my greatest regret was that I could do so little to advance the distribution of his books. I knew that the reading of any one of them meant a bigger view for any reader.”

From his niece, Betty Rae Marshall of’ Denver, Colorado.

“It is very hard to believe Uncle Max is really gone. I keep thinking of things I wanted to tell him. I guess it’s always that way when someone goes very suddenly, always so many regrets, so many leftover thoughts. He was always interested, always understanding, always cheerful and full of humor even when he was in such pain, and he was the personification of serenity and gentleness. I’m so glad and grateful for our two recent visits with him, brief as they were. I only wish we’d been able to be with him more — and sooner. He was a wonderful man, truly unique.”

From Isabel Johnson of’ Wenatchee, Washington.

“Is it any wonder that I venerate Max? Using his life to bring understanding of knowledge that would, in all probability, have passed into limbo if he hadn’t persisted against the vicissitudes of writing and publishing a concept so new and different from the orthodox. He has presented it with dignity, without hocus-pocus, flowing robes and temples or the Madison Avenue treatment which would have made him a very wealthy man with proper promotion.”

From Fernand Delarue, a foreign HRA who lives in France:

‘‘I must say to you how joyful and grateful I am when thinking all the work is now preserved from going to dust. Many times I wondered what would happen when Max goes to a higher place. Now I am quiet. Everything can go on. If I happened to be afraid, it was not only because Huna is close to my heart as an idea, but also because of Max himself’. He is so courageous. persevering, open-minded, never peremptory, never dogmatic, always seeking for truth with great goodness and fine smiling. Please excuse my bad English and mistakes. Awkward is the outside, but the inside is True.”

These fine examples speak for all of’ us of the veneration, pride and gratitude we all felt for our Max Freedom Long.

On October 26th Max would have been 81. Mrs. Long’s birthday was October 15th. He asked if I would have each year a Memorial Birthday Party in their honor. On Tuesday, October 19th, I invited fifty young matrons, members of the Junior Woman’s Club Literature Section, for lunch and to visit the library. Many called it “a day of learning.” Interestingly, a group was formed from them to study Huna more thoroughly. I considered it my party too since I was 53 on October 24th.

I pledge my time, effort and best talents to the continuation of Huna Research. Preserving the papers, books, manuscripts and treasures of Max Freedom Long. I will continue the newsletter from time to time for all who write in and are interested, publishing your thoughts on new books, your ideas of Huna and any other related material. There is a warm welcome awaiting each of you here. Mr. Henry Niles of Baltimore visited the library and said, “It is a holy place. I felt I should take off my shoes before entering.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Please write. I will be happy to research any Huna question and welcome your views for the next Newsletter.

1. I will continue the TMHG Prayer Time as Max taught me, braiding the aka cord, which unites all HRAs, but only once daily, seven days each week at evening Prayer Time.

2. Tune in with us sending blessings and power at 7 PM Pacific Standard Time, 8 PM Mountain Time, 9 PM Central Time, 10 PM Eastern Time

3. After the first of the year I hope to have for sale tapes, lectures, instructions for running the Tarot Cards and other manuscripts. If you are interested let me know.

4. Cigbo and his cigar box has moved to Texas, joined by a new aka kitty named Auntie Wild Cat. Along with questions and requests, stamps and a donation are in order to keep Cigbo and Auntie Wild Cat happy and purring.

5. Miss Ethel Doherty is still confined to the Golden Age Convalescent Center, 304 N. Melrose Dr., Vista, Cal. 92083. Cards and mail should be sent to her there.

6. Above all don’t forget our new Huna Address.

Dolly Ware, 1501 Thomas Place, Fort Worth, Texas 76107

If this letter is too long, too detailed or too personal as a historian would view it I am sorry. I feel I have been reporting to Max’s family, for he considered his HRAs just that. Also, with his famous tinned letters keeping us well posted as to the condition of the avocado crop, the pheasants nesting in the trees and his personal day-to-day life, it did not seem in keeping not to tell the whole story.

We are 500 strong and with Huna strength, we will be able to carry his work forward.

We bless you Max. We love you and know you are safely on your long, anticipated journey. God speed as you are guarded by the High Selves.

It seems fitting and proper to close by quoting the MFL Christmas letter to HRAs of 1948 and ending with a little prayer for HRAs by MFL in Huna Vistas 88, page 10.

“We crisscross the world as we braid the strands of fellowship and love, of’ peace and understanding, of’ brotherhood with all its kindly qualities. We know that one individual alone cannot move far toward brightening the world with Light. But we are swiftly coming to know that when we unite to work together, and to open the doors of heaven to the help of the High Selves, we multiply our strength from one power to the next and the next. My weak thread is easily broken when standing alone, but when it is braided with yours, and ours with those of’ our fellows, it can resist the Nth power of breaking strain and perhaps lift the world from darkness.

This is a hope that may well warm our hearts. Shining vistas open before our longing eyes. We may not be able to bring about great changes for the weary world next year, or even the next, but still we grow. We will continue to grow, and ever faster, because we have a tie to bind us together which is clear and clean and strong. Huna will not be the source of internal strife because of’ conflicting dogmas. Its very lack of’ dogma is its strength and its binding force. Its single command, that of non-hurt, and its single challenge, that of learning to work in unison with the High Selves, give us a new banner under which men of all creeds and nations may march side by side.

On this Christmas night of 1948, let us join each other in our telepathic healing time and send out our love and greetings, riot only to each other but to our High Selves and the Great Po`e Aumakua. I will act with you here at the Center in the usual way, and do all I can to braid the threads and direct the flow. Let us give thanks that we have been brought together, and dedicate ourselves anew to such Service as may be entrusted to us to fit the strength given our hearts and hands.”

“Parental Spirits whom I love, and whom I know love me, reach through the door I open wide. Make clear my path to thee.”

Bless you Max, as you have blessed us.

D.W.

By Max Freedom Long – [Mid-Summer 1951]

1. Make a pendulum or “bob” by tying a thread to a ring, button, wooden ball, medium size marble. A locket on a chain works well. Whatever you use should be about four inches from its end to where you hold it between thumb and lst and 2nd fingers. If right handed, use your right hand.

2. The use of the pendulum depends entirely on the “convention” or set of signals you invent and teach your Aunihipili to understand and use. The usual conventions are: A clockwise circular swing means “good,” anti-clockwise, “bad.”

Draw a saucer-size circle on paper and make a [cross] sign to cover it. If the swing is on the vertical line it is “yes” (as you nod the head), if on the horizontal, “no” (as a negative head shake). If on a diagonal, “doubtful.” If no swing, “do not know.”

The number of swings in any direction, when counted, can give a number answer, as 61 swings to answer, “How old is Blank?” To learn how much vital force you normally have, hold the pendulum over the palm of your free hand and count the number of swings. A normal charge for the average is about 250 to 300. Now accumulate mana in the Huna fashion and test again. The count should rise at least a hundred swings. A vital person gets a stronger swing of the pendulum than a weak one in this test. Remember that you have to keep in mind what you are asking the Aunihipili to measure for you, such as vital force, sex of an egg or unborn child (+ or – according to your convention, usually + for males and – for females).

If you wish to know whether certain foods or medicines are good for you, ask the question silently or aloud and hold the pendulum a half inch above the food. Use the “good” or ‘bad” swing convention or the “yes” and ‘no” as you prefer, but stick to one or the other lest your Aunihipili get mixed up. The Aunihipili will learn quickly for some and slowly for others.

Practice for a few minutes daily for a month to train your Aunihipili to the work. If by then you get no swing or no reliable answers to things you ask, give it up for the time being and try later with several other pendulums. The Aunihipili seems to be able to work with one type of pendulum for small problems, but with another for more serious things. Experiment. In a few months you may become expert enough to dowse for water. One of the best dowsers in California tried for two years before he got the hang of it, and for 20 years to become master of the art.

3. In making the Huna type prayer-action (see the HRA Bulletins over a period of 32 years for scattered findings and reports on this matter), it is often found that the Aunihipili is convinced that the person is guilty of some “sin” and does not deserve having prayers answered. Or the Aunihipili may believe that the person deserves to be punished by illness and accidents and bad luck generally for former “sins” or for hurting the feelings of others or doing them some form of injury for which amends have never been made to the one injured, to his or her surviving relatives – or to the world in general by sacrificial deeds performed with the thought in mind that enough good is being done to balance former sins of hurt done others.

(There are no sins other than hurts done to others or possibly to our own bodies or minds by improper living. But often, the early training in the church of one’s youth may have resulted in religious beliefs which are deeply fixed in the Aunihipili and to which it still reacts although we are not aware of it. Many of our ills are found to be the result of such hidden beliefs in the Aunihipili or subconscious self.) If your prayers are not answered except when you pray for good things for others, it may be well to take time to talk, via the pendulum, with your Aunihipili and find by questioning it, whether it feels you are worthy or not of having prayers for good for yourself answered. If unworthiness is discovered, make amends directly or indirectly, then argue the Aunihipili out of its fixation by explaining that you are now worthy of all good things. Repeat the arguments. Do more good deeds. Tithe. Serve selflessly. Fast.

When the Aunihipili is won over, make a fresh start with the Huna type prayers in which the mental picture is sent to the Aumakua with a strong flow of accumulated mana along the ever-connecting invisible aka thread or “silver cord.” The Aumakua, and through it, Higher Beings in which you believe, can confidently be approached for aid if the Aunihipili can be convinced that you are worthy. But if YOU know you are not, you cannot convince your Aunihipili and it will not do its part in the prayer-action.

The Investigation of Huna and How It Came About

DURING THE past century investigations have been made of native magic in Africa, India and other parts of the world. Spiritualistic phenomena have been certified as genuine and studied painstakingly by over a hundred recognized scientists. Religions have been surveyed and the instant or nearly instant miraculous healing at Lourdes verified.

But from all these studies and efforts there has come nothing faintly resembling a definite basic system, philosophy, theory, or psycho-religious science which would explain, even in the most general terms, the phenomena of the various fields. In fact, investigations in these fields began to arrive at a stalemate several years ago. New discoveries have been conspicuously lacking.

Meanwhile, in the years following 1880, in the little noticed field of Polynesia, there was begun an investigation which, after seventy years, has at last produced a general theory that promises to break the stalemate and provide answers for a host of puzzling questions.

This investigation was begun by Dr. William Tufts Brigham, long curator of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. In Hawaii there were, up to about 1900, many na kahuna, or native priests, who, although outlawed, worked among their fellow Hawaiians as healers of body and purse, or used the dread “death prayers.” Some firewalked over lava overflows which were cooled barely enough to bear their weight. A few demonstrated instant healing, and the young scientist was fortunate enough to be able to observe and study a case in which a lad, dead from drowning for sixteen hours, was brought back to life through a use of native magic After firewalking himself under the protection of na kahuna, and verifying the healing and other phenomena which they produced, Dr. Brigham came to the conclusion that behind these and similar activities there must be a single basic scientific system, like a string upon which the beads of religion, psychic phenomena, psychology and native magic were strung. He redoubled his efforts to discover this system.

Na kahuna, (the word means “keeper of the Secret”) had a strict cult of secrecy. They would tell him very little about their lore. What little they did tell, was so unfamiliar and so muddled, because of the use of unintelligible Hawaiian words, that he could make almost nothing of it. The anaana form of the “death prayer,” however, was studied and partly explained in terms of spiritism.

In the year 1919 I went to Dr. Brigham to ask what scientific information might be available concerning the activities of na kahuna, of whom I had heard many wild tales during my three years in the Islands. A friendship developed and I was invited to make use of all the materials which he had assembled and to continue the study if I could.

I was trained in the matter of correct scientific approach to this unfamiliar field and its materials. I had many cases of kahuna healing and other activities described in great detail for my benefit, and discussed these cases with my mentor in the light of what was known in the psycho-sciences at that time, which was very nearly as much as is known in these stalemated days.

Upon one set of conclusions, Dr. Brigham was insistent: 1. That here must be some form, or monad or entity of consciousness which was in man or without him, and which na kahuna were able to contact through ceremonial or prayer. 2. This unidentified consciousness could use an unidentified force in such a way as to control temperature in firewalking or make changes [to] physical matter in instant healing.

As these conclusions pointed inevitably to a basic system of a psycho-religious nature, it was necessary to decide that there was much still remaining to be discovered in the new science of Psychology, and much to be explained in the phenomena of Psychic Science.

In the absence of even the slightest clue to what these things might be, I would certainly have refused to take a part in such a hopeless investigation had it not been for one outstanding fact. This was the fact that this secret and mysterious basic system was not a matter of empty words and theorizing. IT WORKED. It was alive and kicking, even if in its death struggle. Dr. Brigham had been suspiciously careful in verifying the materials of the investigation. I had already verified some lesser things (and was soon to verify some most important accomplishments of na kahuna).

The thing could not be ignored. There was something right there under our very noses which WORKED, and even though it evaded our grasp, it seemed inconceivable that, with modern science so far advanced ,we should not ultimately get to the bottom of the mystery.

A few years later, Dr. Brigham died at a ripe old age, much honored but still with a burning curiosity unsatisfied.

I continued the work, collecting more materials in the field, watching for any new development in the psycho-sciences which might give me a clue to the “secret” of na kahuna, and going absurdly far afield at times, hoping to find a glimmer of light on the baffling problems. Finally, by 1935, new clues had been discovered which led directly to the basic system. In due time it was possible to explain in fairly general terms a part of the basic theory and its methods of application. It was the ancient “Secret” of Huna, of na kahuna.

The new clues came largely through a study of the meanings of the roots of the Hawaiian words.

By the summer of 1935 sufficient progress had been made toward understanding the ancient lore that a report seemed in order.

I wrote this report and it was published in 1936, in London, by Rider, under the. title of RECOVERING THE ANCIENT MAGIC. The study and its materials were described and tentative conclusions given. Assistance was asked from any reader of the report who might have knowledge of this or related fields or of similar materials.

One reader was W. R. Stewart, retired newspaper correspondent, living in England. He had been engaged in his youth in an effort to learn native magic from an isolated Berber tribe in the Atlas Mountains in North Africa. There he had studied beliefs and practices which, years later, upon reading the report, he saw stemmed from the same original source. The words used in naming the elements in the Berber version of the system had been said to belong to a secret priestly language, but, upon comparison to similar Hawaiian words, proved to be identical except for slight changes which may be ascribed to differences in dialect. Such language differences are found among the eleven Polynesian tribal branches in the Pacific. The common language of the Berber tribe was a degraded Turki. Stewart joined the investigation, which by that time, 1937, had reached an advanced stage. He added his findings and contributed in many other ways. Unfortunately his death in 1943 robbed the work of his aid, but, when World War II ended, the basic system was deemed to have been developed as far as would be possible until it could be put to the acid test of practical use.

Efforts to apply the basic system and duplicate the most valued parts of kahuna practice, are expected to correct errors and to make possible the further perfecting of the system.

To this end experimental groups are forming (late in 1945) in Los Angeles, with other groups to be formed in Australia and England.

While this outline report of the investigation is intended as a partial text for the use of experimental groups, it will also be made available to the public.

A much fuller and more detailed account of the long investigation is planned when the last stage, the experimental stage, has added its quota.

PART II: FROM FIREWALKING TO INSTANT HEALING

FIREWALKING (including all fire immunity) and instant healing make very good starting points for an explanation of the ancient Polynesian or pre-Egyptian lore called “The Secret,” or, in Hawaiian, Huna.

There is nothing at all mysterious in bare feet or in glowing coals, hot stones or hot lava flows. There is nothing mysterious in a broken bone or a cancer. Our materials are open to examination. The feet may be examined after contact with the fire in firewalks. The broken bone or the cancerous tissue which has been instantly healed remains simple bone and tissue.

Let us first consider a few cases of firewalking, keeping in mind two questions, (1) What god is prayed to to get fire-immunity, and (2) what form of “purification from sin,” if any, is necessary before one can firewalk?

FIREWALKING CASES FOR CONSIDERATION

Kuda Bux firewalked in 1936 before the University of London Council for Psychical Research. He was a native of India, of the Mohammedan faith. Before his demonstration he closed his eyes, raised a hand, and recited a prayer from the Koran.

In Burma, where a gentleman took motion pictures of mass firewalking in which some natives were badly burned but many were unscathed, years of fasting and other purifying practices were the preparation for the feat.

In the Philippines the Igorotes have for centuries done admirable firewalking. A group of them came to Seattle and performed almost daily at a fair. These people used to be famous for head hunting as well as firewalking.

In Polynesia, firewalking is done after offering a ritual prayer to a “native god.” Dr. Hill, of the University of Southern California, reports seeing a young white man try to firewalkon the same hot stones after the natives were finished. He prayed to his God, concentrated his thoughts, and started across. A dog fight broke out beside the pit and distracted his attention for a moment. In that moment he jerked up a foot, which later, showed a large blister, but continued the firewalk successfully to the end.

A white man who is a professional entertainer, eats live coals, drinks down boiling water, grips red-hot iron bars in his teeth and bends the ends up and down, also lets the iron-cutting flame of a welding torch play repeatedly on the inside of his mouth and throat. He says he is conscious of an invisible entity or spirit presiding over fire, and that he makes a mental request for protection which is instantly granted.

At Palm Springs a few years ago a desert Indian lad took large coals from a fire and held them in his hands, holding them out to tourists in the audience and challenging them to take the coals offered them. Little is known of the preparations made by the fire-handlers of Indian tribes, but they also have their prayers, rites and gods.

In Hawaii, up to the year 1900, firewalking was done on overflows of molten lava as soon as they were cooled sufficiently to hold the weight of large stones thrown on them. Dr. Brigham firewalked successfully over such a lava bed under the protection of three native priests or na kahuna. He refused to remove his heavy boots and during the passage over the lava these were burned from his feet, as were his two pairs of heavy socks. These natives prayed to some god, but Dr. Brigham could not learn about its nature. Outwardly it was the goddess of the volcanoes, Pele, about whom native legends continue to collect even today.

If instant healing had been known only in Hawaii, no matter how carefully it had been studied and verified there by Dr. Brigham and others, there might be some excuse for those who make a flat denial of such a possibility. But, since another and far better known scientist, Dr. Alexis Carrel, has added his verification in his book, Man the Unknown, there is no longer justification for any denial of the basic fact that instant healing is possible. It was brought about in Hawaii by na kahuna and is still being brought about by mysterious agencies at sacred shrines in various parts of the world.

As all roads once led to Rome, so all indications point to the existence of one basic system behind this phenomenon, and to the undeniable fact that it is a workable system.

Instant healing cannot be repeated over and over on the same broken bone or cancer, therefore the patient has no chance to become practiced in his part, as does the firewalker for whom the gods perform a similar magic, over and over, upon request. Instant healing, while similar in its mechanisms, is rare. It is best studied in cases in which a definite part of the body is healed. Casual ills may be suspected of just happening to disappear of their own accord.

CASES OF INSTANT HEALING FOR CONSIDERATION

The best instances of instant or miraculous healing have been verified and studied at the shrine at Lourdes, France. Typical cases are those of the healing of spinal deformities or cancerous tissues. The healing may be instant or may take up to three days. Prayer has usually been addressed to God or Christ or the patron saint of the shrine. The person healed may not be praying for his or her own healing at the time, but someone in the vicinity is thought to be always at prayer at the instant of healing. Various preparations by way of “purification from sin” are made by the patients as a rule.

In Hawaii na kahuna did healing instantly in some cases. Dr. Brigham observed two cases of instant healing. Broken bones were roughly set and a muttered prayer made.

The patient was then declared healed and immediately could use the injured limb. J.A.K. Combs of Honolulu, observed the use of similar methods when his wife’s kahuna grandmother healed a compound fracture of the ankle in this way. The patient was a native man, very kindly and well liked, but very drunk at the time of the injury and during the healing, which was accomplished within a few minutes of the accident. (He had stepped from a standing automobile into a ditch filled with very soft sand.)

In the Hawaiian cases there was sometimes instant healing accomplished with no preparation of the patient, although in cases of long-standing illness purification rites were almost always used as a preliminary.

We may sum up by saying that no particular “god” has to be prayed to. No particular religious beliefs are needed. The ideas of what makes a sin may vary, as may the degrees of effort to gain purification. Or in some instances purification is not necessary. Also, moral values are a matter of geography as seen in the case of the headhunting firewalkers.

While we are not ready just yet to go into the matter of “purification from sin,” it may be noted that the only “sin” recognized by Huna is that of hurting another unjustly. The kindly Hawaiian had imbibed too freely at the beach party but had hurt no one and was not found in need of purification. The healings accredited to Jesus are not at all incredible in the light of Huna. Sometimes he forgave the sins of the ones about [to be] healed and sometimes he did not.

THE THREE THINGS NECESSARY TO INSTANT HEALING

Three things are involved in the mechanism of instant healing and firewalking, as described in Huna:

1. Some intelligence wise enough to bring about the healing or temperature changes when requested to do so.

2. Some force or power to be used in making the changes.

3. The substances which are changed in the healing process.

Also the substances which are involved in the making and offering of the prayer. The three are the basic triad: Mind-Force-Matter.

There are nine elements in man, in the Huna system, with the human physical body to make a tenth. MIND IS DIVIDED INTO A TRIAD OF THREE GRADES OF CONSCIOUSNESS. FORCE IS DIVIDED INTO A TRIAD OF THREE VOLTAGES OF FORCE. MATTER IS DIVIDED INTO A TRIAD OF THREE DENSITIES OF A CERTAIN KIND OF THIN MATTER. The concept is simple and well ordered.

SECTION 1. THE ELEMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS

We cannot use an effort of will or even hypnotic suggestion to the subconscious to cause fire immunity or instant healing, so we must look for a Higher Consciousness which is wiser and more powerful than we are. Immediately we think of God.

But this answer needs more understanding of the nature of God than most of us possess. Let us examine the god-concept of the reconstructed HUNA.

We begin with the idea that our minds are unable to grasp the true nature of God. The ancient kahunas said He was a triune being and that between Him and man were several grades of Conscious Beings. The grade of beings just a step above man were so difficult to imagine and understand that efforts to understand still higher levels were given up as hopeless. It was thought that, if mankind needed to have contact with the still higher levels, the closer gods would see to it that the higher gods were properly approached. That simplifies matters greatly. Now we can consider what has been learned about the beings in the level just above ours. By this we mean beings able to use a form of thinking or mentation next in line of superiority to ours.

SEEING INTO THE FUTURE is something we can try to do hours on end and fail to do. Our hypnotized subjects cannot do it upon order. But often the future is glimpsed by hypnotized subjects, by normal waking persons or in our dreams. Seeing into the future is not our ability, it is an ability of the God just above us. It has some mysterious way of seeing into the future, and it gives us our premonitions, dreams and visions at unpredictable times, never directly to the Auhane mind but by way of the Aunihipili. (These two parts of mind are not permanently united but are separate entities, as we shall see in due time.)

MAKING THE FUTURE is another activity assigned to the Conscious Beings just above our level. The ancients called these Beings na Aumakua. In psychology we may call them the Superconscious. A good term is Aumakua. Considered as a combined community of spirits or entities, they can be our Christ Consciousness or Universal Mind (Man is a trinity composed of three “selves” or spirits, the Aunihipili self, the Auhane self and the Aumakua self.) The FUTURE is seen in Huna to be constructed by the Aumakua. It lays out the main points in the life of the individual of which it is a part. But the day-to-day future is built by taking the thoughts, hopes, fears and plans of the lower two selves, the Aunihipili and Auhane, and using them as figurative “seeds” from which to grow the events of our tomorrows. We have FREE WILL in so far as we are allowed to think what we will, get into trouble, and do quite as we please in furnishing the materials which go (as if automatically) to make our future conditions and life events. This answers the problem of free will and predestination. Except for the determination of the long-term events of our lives, such as birth and race and place, we exercise free will.

INSTANT HEALING is obtained by deciding that we want a future in which we are not ill but healed. If we ask the Aumakua to heal a broken bone instantly and it is done, we can say that the Aumakua changed the future instantly for us in so far as having a broken bone is concerned. We may say the same of firewalking. There are other things involved in such matters, of course, but the point to be made here is that we, as FREE AGENTS, must decide what we want, and hold that decision, as the initial step in getting help from the Aumakua. (This applies to the HEALING OF PURSE AND CIRCUMSTANCES ALSO, a branch of healing even more important than bodily healing.)

THE FORM OF MENTATION used by the Aumakua includes ability to see that part of the future WHICH HAS BEEN CRYSTALLIZED OR BUILT for nation or man. There is much of the future of the individual created from day to day and changed from day to day as we change our plans and thoughts, so the UN-CRYSTALLIZED or un-built part of the future cannot be seen. The past can be seen. Things at a distance can be seen. The Aumakua seems not to be hampered by what we call “reason” or “memory,” which are the forms of mentation used by the Aunihipili and Auhane. We, as Auhane-mind selves, cannot understand a form of mentation higher than our own. We can only observe the things the Aumakua is able to do with its superior form of thinking ability, then draw what conclusions we may. God is unknowable to us. The Aumakua can be known in part. It is much like the relation between a man and his dog. The man looks after the dog and plans the “musts” in the dog’s life and activities. But the dog can do as he pleases for the most part. He may get into trouble, and then, if he is smart, run to his master for help. The master understands his dog. The dog knows a lot about his master, but because he has only a dog mind, many of the activities and purposes of the master must remain mysteries. This dog-master relation is also a good illustration of the relation of the Aunihipili self to the Auhane self.

SECTION 2. THE ELEMENT OF FORCE

We have seen that the Aumakua is the element of consciousness involved in instant healing and fire-immunity. Let us now consider the force it uses.

IN HUNA ALL THINGS ARE TRIUNE. There is always (1) a conscious being using (2) a force or power, to work with, (3) some form of matter, be it dense or etheric.

VITAL FORCE IS THE FORCE USED BY THE AUMAKUA. The triune man has three voltages of this electro-vital force. In the laboratory we have measured vital force in the body. It is of the three to four million volt level. Similar force is found in the brain, but its voltage has been stepped up a million volts to the next higher level. The Aumakua does not live in the body with the Aunihipili and Auhane selves and so has not had its voltage of vital force recognized as yet by laboratory men. Huna recognizes three levels, grades, or voltages of vital force, a voltage for each of the three selves or entities. The voltage used by the Aumakua is higher than that used as “hypnotic will” by the Auhane self, so must fall in the five to six million or “atom smashing” range.

ATOM SMASHING voltages of electro-vital force, used by the Aumakua, are considered to be the answer to how heat is controlled in firewalking, or both heat and cold are regulated when the material substances in a bone break are DISSOLVED TO ETHERIC FORM AND THEN RE-SOLIDIFIED as an unbroken bone.

APPORTS in spiritualistic seances are produced by thinning out the substance of the object or living thing, then transporting it to some other place and re-solidifying the materials. Spirits of the dead are able to get the aid of their Aumakua to produce apports and the phenomena of “transportation, levitation, materialization,” etc. The spirits of the dead are no more able to sense and recognize and understand the Aumakua than we, the living, are. They have tried to explain the phenomena which they are instrumental in producing, but their guesses do not agree. (In learning to use the Huna system it is to be expected that we, the living, will work with the Aumakua and produce such phenomena without the necessity of depending on the dead.)

The VITAL FORCE is made in quantity on the earth level. Plants have it. Animals and men generate it from the foods they use. The Aunihipili self in the body generates and uses the LOW VOLTAGE OF VITAL FORCE. This level of force is taken by the Auhane self and its voltage stepped up to the MIDDLE VOLTAGE OF VITAL FORCE which is used as the “will” to control the Aunihipili. The Aumakua draws vital force from the body and steps its voltages up to the HIGH VOLTAGE OF VITAL FORCE to use in instant healing and other things.

SECTION 3. THE ELEMENT OF MATTER

We have seen the grade of consciousness and the voltage of vital force involved in fire-immunity and instant healing. Now we come to the third element of the triad, MATTER.

There are two grades of matter or substance to be considered. First there is the substance in a broken bone or a diseased or deformed portion of the body. This is the easily understood matter which is dissolved into invisible etheric form and re-solidified as normal or “healed” bodily portions.

The second grade of matter is that thin etheric substance of which bodies are made for ghosts. Everything has a thin, shadowy body which is a MOLD OF EVERY MICROSCOPIC PART OF IT. Each of the three selves has a shadowy body. Consciousness and vital force cannot work without material, so even the Aumakua has to have a body, even if it be but an etheric one.

During life na Aunihipili and na Auhane interpenetrate the gross physical body with their shadowy bodies. At death the shadowy bodies are withdrawn and lived in on “the other side.” The Aumakua lives in its shadowy body all the time, never entering the physical body, but often touching it, especially during sleep. The halo above the heads of the saints in old paintings represented the Aumakua hovering over the saint in its shadowy body.

THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH THE SHADOWY BODIES ARE MADE is ideal for the storage of supplies of vital force. It also is a perfect conductor, The spirits of the dead can take vital force from the living and store it in their shadowy bodies. With it they produce psychic phenomena of limited kinds, eg. moving tables.

The SHADOWY BODY OF THE AUNIHIPILI is a mold of every tissue of the physical body. This mold can be withdrawn almost completely from the body for a time without the materials of the tissues beginning to disintegrate. THIS MOLD is not tightly filled. It has no fixed form but can be stretched, elongated or made a different size. IT IS UNBREAKABLE. A bone may break but not the shadowy body part that is the mold of that broken part. Cancerous tissues may invade the shadowy mold but not change it. SO, THE PROCESS OF INSTANT HEALING IS ONE IN WHICH THE MOLD IS EMPTIED OF BROKEN OR DISEASED TISSUES AND IS REFILLED WITH BASIC SUBSTANCES TO CONFORM TO THE UNINJURED MOLD.

It may be added that the Aumakua can do many other things. It can, either directly, or through its associates of its high level, exercise control over weather conditions or over animal, insect or plant life. We cannot understand just how this control is exerted, but we can observe results obtained, which is, for practical purposes, fairly satisfactory. The kahuna of the Berber tribe known to W. R. Stewart, stated that, according to tribal history, the Great Pyramid in Egypt had been built by her kahuna ancestors. They got na Aumakua and associates of that level to cut the stone and transport it into place in the pyramid structure. Stone of a similar perfect cutting and placing is to be seen in Mexico and places farther south. While we have no way to verify statements such as those of the Berber kahuna, we know from the finding of modern Psychic Science that similar performances on a smaller scale are possible. Parts of stones have been used as apports, the parts being cut off with no seeming difficulty. The cut is not a break but leaves a smooth and sometimes almost polished surface.

PART III: HOW THE AID OF THE AUMAKUA IS OBTAINED

In the psycho-sciences, all of which are new and incomplete, we find no recognition of the Aumakua or its voltage of vital force. Naturally, there has been no effort made to find a way of making contact with the Aumakua or of getting its aid.

In religion, however, there are remains of a mechanism of prayer. It is to prayer that we must look when we turn back to Huna for a working explanation. This is the very heart of the basic system and it is with the prayer mechanism that experimental groups are to learn to work.

The Aumakua does not reside in the physical body, but outside of it. We do not know just where. But when we pray to it for aid we must be able to make contact with it and get our prayer considered. For this reason our first question is one of how the Auhane and Aunihipili can communicate with the Aumakua.

All communication between sentient beings must be done through thoughts, or words representing thoughts, or through thought symbols such as writing. Telepathy is a direct transfer of thoughts and is the method used in prayer to the Aumakua.

Everything has its shadowy body, including thoughts.

Thinking is done with the use of vital force, and vital force works only through matter, dense or etheric. Each thought, as it is formulated either by the Aunihipili or Auhane, or the two working in cooperation, is impressed on a microscopic portion of the substance of the Aunihipili’s shadowy body. THIS IS THEN A THOUGHT FORM.

Our thoughts come in trains or clusters and make bunches of thought forms like clusters of grapes. Each cluster is tied to the next by a tiny invisible thread of the same etheric substance. When we finish thinking a thought and it passes from the focus of the Auhane, it is taken by the Aunihipili and stored as a memory. The storage place of these memory thought forms is not the physical tissues of the brain, but the shadowy body of the Aunihipili. When we die the Aunihipili leaves the body in its shadowy body and is able to take along our memories because they are stored in the shadowy body and so do not decay with the brain tissues.

When a telepathic message of thought forms is transmitted, the sender does not give up his thought form or “forget” it. He may be said to keep a carbon copy for his memory files. In mind reading the mind reader reaches out and examines the thoughts or memories of another and brings back duplicates of them, otherwise the person whose mind was read would cease to have as a memory the item “read.”

The reason telepathy and mind reading are rare is because both must be done by the Aunihipili. The Auhane can direct the Aunihipili to send or receive a message but cannot do it for itself. In hypnosis, the operator reaches out silently or makes contact through the use of words, in either case planting thought forms in the Aunihipili of the subject. These may or may not be accepted and acted upon. As Dr. Rhine has pointed out in his work with telepathy, there can be no broadcast of thoughts in purely electric form because the matter of distance makes no appreciable difference, as it certainly would if electric power were sent out as from a station (We will see soon the Huna explanation of this matter.)

COMMUNICATION WITH THE AUMAKUA occurs naturally during sleep. We know that in sleep we frequently get dreams of the future. Remembering that the Aumakua alone can see into the future, we conclude that in sleep there is a telepathic communication with the Aumakua. Or there may be intimate contact between the Aumakua in its shadowy body and our own Aunihipili in its shadowy body, in which case our stored thought forms could be inspected on the spot.

It is in this contact at night that most of the thoughts of our days are averaged by the Aumakua and used in some mysterious mechanism to materialize corresponding events and conditions in our future. If we fear something, that fear may become a part of our future. If we change our plans and desires frequently, our futures become a jumble of conditions. Psychologists have to believe that perhaps as high as ninety percent of our ills and accidents can be traced back to thoughts from which they must have originated. If we build a picture of our future with bright plans and high faith, we must take care not to kick over the fragile “seed” structure by allowing ourselves a day of discouragement in which we doubt the efficiency of the practice of “holding the thought.”

Our entire lives are predicted by our thoughts. We may say that every thought is a prayer because it eventually is used by the Aumakua to determine the nature of the future being almost automatically built. This is a hard idea to connect with the belief in a loving god or Aumakua. We would expect love to cause the bad to be cast aside and only the good used in making a pleasant future. Experience teaches us that we are served with both good and bad.

As free agents we think into form the seeds of our futures. Only when we correct our thinking or ask the Aumakua to wipe out the bad and materialize a new and good set of thought forms can we get assistance. If it were necessary only to “hold” good thoughts to get them eventually accepted by the Aumakua and materialized into facts in our future, we would have a rather simple mechanism to use. But there are obstacles.

THE OBSTACLES TO COMMUNICATION are the complexed ideas or fixations of guilt or unworthiness, sin, doubt, fear and so on. The Aunihipili stubbornly holds to all its habits of thought. A habit of thought is partly the result of having very large clusters of strong old thought forms lodged in the memory. The instant we begin an action, mental or physical, which calls up those habit memories, we find a fixed set of ideas which are difficult to break down and replace. For example, those of us who have been reared in Christian beliefs frequently have complexes built in childhood with ideas of “sin” and guilt. We may have had an emotional strain at a time when we decided not to “sell all and give to the poor.”

Remember that when we make the thought forms of a prayer and try to communicate with the Aumakua to deliver the “prayer” directly, we MUST CALL ON THE AUNIHIPILI TO TOUCH THE AUMAKUA AND DELIVER THE PRAYER. IF THE AUNIHIPILI HAS A COMPLEX OF SIN, GUILT OF UNWORTHINESS OR DOUBT, IT WILL NOT DELIVER THE PRAYER. Or, it may deliver the prayer but ruin it by the inclusion of thought forms of doubt, fear and endless other contaminating things.

We have the task of clearing out of the Aunihipili entity any fixations. Na kahuna called this process “Clearing the Path.” This was the “path” of the prayer from the Aunihipili to the Aumakua.

THE FIRST STEP IN PREPARATION FOR COMMUNICATION with the Aumakua is to get the path of communication cleared. Several things must be kept in mind at this point. First, we must realize that man cannot “sin” against God or the Aumakua. We are not big enough or able enough. Neither can the flowers or insects or animals sin against Higher Beings. The ONLY SIN recognized in Huna is that of HURTING ANOTHER. And this sin cannot be wiped off (as long as it continues to hurt) by any means other than expiation. We must change our idea of the morals of the Aumakua as we go along. Our morals are filled with dogmas which must be examined and put aside if not valid. The “Do unto others” is sufficient. It is the kahuna, Christian and Buddhist command. The idea of Karma in which we pay in one incarnation for the sins of another, is not valid. It must be greatly changed (as must the general idea of reincarnation) to match the reconstructed Huna.

IF WE HAVE HURT SOMEONE unjustly there is nothing we can do to convince our logical Auhane that we are not guilty except to go and make amends for the hurt. Then WE know we are in the clear, but in the Aunihipili there may often remain weak or strong resultant guilt or unworthiness fixations. These must be drained off or sublimated to open the path.

THE HUNA METHOD OF DRAINING OFF A COMPLEX of this nature is one which was probably connected with the basic idea of sacrifice in the early days. The Aunihipili is illogical. It can only remember and use animal-like reason. It is stubborn. It can best be rid of guilt complex thought forms by the use of physical acts or stimuli accompanied by suggestion or auto suggestion of a mild nature.

Na kahuna usually made certain that all hurts to others had been expiated before going on to the complexes. To get rid of these ,the patient was made to observe a fast or do deeds of service for others or give alms until it hurt. These things were sacrifices. They were done with the thought of making redress for sins of omission or commission. The Roman Catholic Church uses penances in the same way.

The Christian rites of the confessional, penance and baptism for the remission or cleansing away of sin, are all duplications of ancient kahuna practices. If the priests could use light suggestions while sprinkling the individual with holy water, the water would act as a physical stimulus and help impress the Aunihipili that it was being cleansed of its sins. Other physical stimuli were used with their mild suggestion by na kahuna. Anything will do if it is physically impressive and contains a picture of something such as cleansing, washing or freeing.

THE USE OF A PHYSICAL STIMULUS, or a series of penances which act as a series of stimuli, is a very great help in getting suggestion to take effect on the Aunihipili. The use of suggestion by our psychologists would be greatly improved in healing if such stimuli were invented to fit various cases, and always used. Just to pray for forgiveness is not usually enough.

A TEST FOR A CLEAR PATH is the test of prayer. The Aunihipili is always linked up with the consciousness of the Auhane and feeding up memories to help furnish ideas and words with which to pray. If, therefore, when we pray, there is a guilt complex in the Aunihipili, our “CONSCIENCE” WILL USUALLY TROUBLE US. We will be like a naughty child called before a parent, who will hang his head in guild and remain sullen and silent. But if the child has been a “good boy,” especially if he has just finished an arduous task to please the parent, there is a joyous approach with an expectancy of praise and reward well-earned. It is the same with the man who has fasted and otherwise cleansed his Aunihipili of guilts. The path is open to the Heavenly Father-Mother, the Aumakua, (and through That to God if need be). If we have a correctly made prayer-thought-form with no doubts and fears ruining it, we have then the open path of communication to the Aumakua and can go forward in full faith and confidence. If, however, we have not learned to reach out and touch the Aumakua successfully, to give it our prayer, all we can do is to “pray constantly” never varying our prayer, and hope that when the Aumakua takes our daily thoughts to use to construct our future, our prayer will he included without having been too much altered by the Aunihipili.

The Huna TELEGRAPH WIRE USED IN TELEPATHY AND IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE Aumakua is next on the list of things which must be understood and used if instant answers to prayer are to be obtained.

The shadowy body of the Aunihipili is not only a mold of all the tissues of the body, a storage place of memories, a conductor of vital force, but it is the means of connecting us with things and people. It is sticky and when we see anything, it extends out with the sight and sticks a tiny thread of the invisible substance to the things seen. We shake hands and a thread connects us with the person whose hand we have touched. We touch anything and in this way establish a connection with it. Such connecting threads of shadowy body substance last for a great length of time and tie us into our surroundings so to speak.

The sound of Dunninger’s voice over the radio is followed back by the recipient in the audience to make a thread of contact with the mind of the broadcaster. Telepathic communication over fourteen thousand miles of distance between Sir Hubert Wilkins and his New York friend, Harry Sherman, was possible because they had between them threads of this kind.

These THREADS OF SHADOWY BODY SUBSTANCE act as guides when we order our na Aunihipili to reach out to touch someone. The contact once made, the thread is momentarily strengthened by pouring into it more shadowy body substance. This is projected from the shadowy body of the Aunihipili and na kahuna speak of it figuratively as “sticking out a finger.”

Once the thread is thus reinforced, it is a perfect conductor for vital force, and ON A CURRENT OR FLOW OF VITAL FORCE CAN BE CARRIED THOUGHT FORMS. A portion of the sensory organs can be removed from the physical organs and projected to the thing touched, through the projecting “finger.” (The sensory organs are duplicated in the shadowy body of the Aunihipili. After death we have the use of all the senses.) Things at a distance can be seen, touched, tasted, heard and smelled.

These threads bind the clusters of thought forms together as we store them in series in our memories. “Association” of memories is a matter of being able to pull the strings attached to one memory and draw up all associated memories.

A THREAD OR CORD OF THREADS connects us with objects and people often touched. Mediums sometimes can feel these coming from the region of the solar plexus. The mechanism of psychometry is to touch an object, then cause the Aunihipili to stick out a “finger” and follow the threads, which are attached to the object, back to the owner. The owner may be around the world in distance, or dead and living in his shadowy body on “the other side,” but he can be touched and his thoughts and memories inspected, his appearance noted and his surroundings sensed or seen.

THREADS OF SHADOWY BODY SUBSTANCE CONNECT US WITH THE Aumakua, and, if the Aunihipili has no hindering guilt fixations, it can be trained to put out a “finger” and contact the Aumakua, then send a flow of vital force along the enlarged thread to carry the thought forms of the prepared prayer.

THE REACTION OF THE AUMAKUA seems to be automatic. Perhaps there is more discretion used than we suspect,in answering these prayers, but in fire-handling, the Aumakua very seldom fails the performer who depends on instant and constant answers to mental prayers for protection. The prayers themselves become unconscious in so far as the Aunihipili has become trained to touch the Aumakua and present the often used set of thought forms of the prayer for protection. This is a prayer rapport, so to speak. When the hem of Jesus’ robe was touched, the healing was possibly accomplished by this habitual prayer action of the Aunihipili. It is recorded that Jesus felt the “virtue” go out from him and knew that someone had been healed.

THIS “VIRTUE” would be vital force, according to Huna. The Aumakua seems to need little vital force for use on its own level, but when it changes physical or dense materials, it needs a good force supply. This is usually taken from the individual making the prayer. Na kahuna used to order the Aunihipili to generate an extra amount of the vital force and send it flowing to the Aumakua with the prayer. There is nearly always a sensation of electric tingle as the vital force is drawn or sent out, usually as soon as contact is established. In fact, the tingle is the common indicator of contact with the Aumakua. The vital force has, of course, to be stepped up in voltage by the Aumakua to be used. (Vital force of any voltage, when used through the shadowy bodies or their protrusions, seems almost intelligent in its actions, although we know that the intelligence must be resident in the being directing the activity.)

Here are the several steps to be taken in making the Huna “prayer” for instant healing, fire-immunity, change in the future, etc.

(1) The Aunihipili must be trained to put out a “finger” or protrusion of its shadowy body and follow the invisible threads which will guide it to the Aumakua.

(2) It must be trained to send thought forms along the paths of contact, as in telepathy and mind reading.

(3) It should be trained to generate an extra supply of vital force on command, then to send it along the paths of contact as needed.

(4) If contact with the Aumakua is not made, the path must be cleared by removing guilt complexes from the Aunihipili.

(5) The prayer must be most carefully made, after due consideration of possible unexpected consequences should the prayer be answered. When final decisions are reached as to what is desired, the prayer is to be formed by wording it aloud three times over, using the will to impress the prayer on the Aunihipili and to build strong thought form clusters.

(6) The prayer, when thus made, is held in mind and the Aunihipili ordered to reach out and touch the Aumakua. When an answering electric tingle is felt, the prayer is recalled or even spoken again aloud so that it can be sent to the Aumakua with the extra supply of vital force needed to materialize the thought forms of the prayer into immediate or future events.

IF A PRAYER IS MADE FOR THE HEALING OF ANOTHER, this individual must be cleansed of all guilt complexes as a preliminary act, otherwise his Aunihipili will prevent the healing.

PART IV: EXPERIMENTATION AND ITS PROBLEMS

MORE DETAILS OF THE HUNA SYSTEM

IN ACTUAL practice it is anticipated that some individuals will excel in the work of calling down the actual healing action from the Aumakua. Others may be unable to do this, but will be able to get patients ready for the actual healing.

All experimenters will usually try to learn the simple movements of mind first, but will, at the same time, remember the necessity of working toward the end of contact with the Aumakua.

Experimenters with mediumistic ability will sometimes be needed to work with the less psychic members. It is probable that in cases of obsession, or attack by angry spirits from “the other side,” the psychic members will enlist the help of their spirit guides to “see” the spirit causing the trouble and to watch progressive results when exorcism is attempted by other healers. This is a special branch of the work and will be in the hands of those especially qualified to undertake it.

Obsession and the various degrees of “split personality” are accounted for by the Huna system (as it stands at this writing) in fair detail, but the study must be continued in this branch with experimentation helping to feel the way. It is clear that na Aunihipili and na Auhane are often separated from each other at death, and that, singly, they may attach themselves as “split personalities” to the living, or may completely obsess an individual. If there is amnesia in which a new and different set of memories arrive, it can be assumed that the Aunihipili has been displaced. Only this self can remember and store memories in its shadowy body. If there is a change in “personality” but not in memories, only a Auhane has been displaced. If both personality and memory are seen to change, there is a full exchange of selves in the body. Frequently the Auhane is forced to leave the body because of disease or injury, while the Aunihipili remains caring for the body and remembering, but with no Auhane there is no inductive or higher reason, so the insane patient is “irrational.”

In cases where there is this irrational type of insanity, and/or a complete loss of earlier memories, it would appear to be a definite matter of the human na Aunihipili and na Auhane abandoning a body (or being ousted from it in some way) and the body falling into the possession of something which may (1) be subhuman, or (2) may be a very young or injured human Aunihipili. Mediums (and even the insane themselves, when recovering or when their obsession begins) describe seeing these obsessing spirits. Some are distorted or grotesque or dwarfed, some blind, some with features hardly human.

The Huna system presents a theory of evolution in which units of consciousness evolve upward step by step from the group units of rocks and waters, through the vegetable kingdom, to insects, birds and animals.

Man has his three selves or separate spirits and each learns the lessons of its level and then Graduates into the next level above. As an illustration we may call the Aunihipili a first grade student, the Auhane a second grader, and the Aumakua a third grader. Each self is associated with the self next above it in the triune man. In this way the Auhane trains the Aunihipili so that it eventually is ready to become the Auhane of a savage and, when graduation time comes, is born into a savage body. It is then a Auhane and is ready to begin learning, through several lives, the use of inductive reason. In this new savage body there is a new Aunihipili which has just Graduated from the animal kingdom. It may have been the self in a very intelligent pet dog, and it begins its schooling under the new Auhane. With and above them is a Aumakua who, according to Huna, has not just Graduated into that level, but who has been taking a long training in being the oversoul of the lower kingdoms, perhaps as a group soul. (This group soul idea is not greatly important to practical work, but is very interesting.) The Aumakua is called “the trustworthy parental self,” and is supposed to have to demonstrate its trustworthiness before undertaking the supervision of human Aunihipili and Auhane selves.

From this school of selves there are those who “play hookey.” By accident or otherwise, the Aunihipili and Auhane sometimes get separated at the time of death, or when insanity is caused by disease or injury and the Auhane is forced out of the body. Na Aunihipili, when alone and not supervised by a Auhane, on “the other side,” are given to efforts to get back into a body as parts of “split personalities,” or as obsessing spirits. They attend seances and pretend to be normal two-self ghosts. They can read the minds and memories of sitters and will pretend to be a dead friend or relative, even some famous historical character. They are unable to use inductive reason and, while usually as friendly as a stray dog trying to find a new master, eagerly say what they think the sitter would like to hear. Frequently they are very hard to recognize for what they are and the bright banner of Spiritualism has been besmirched by their lack of logic, lies and trickery.

A most surprising situation is sometimes found in instances where the Aunihipili of some advanced individual has, after or before the time of physical death, in some way learned to contact the Aumakua and present to it both a thought form prayer and a flow of vital force. (Here we see another evidence of the Aumakua’s almost automatic response to this stimulus.) This Aunihipili has the memories of its past life and so does not forget the mechanism it has learned to use. It is, however, irrational and childish. It first finds a living person from which it can steal vital force, usually an adolescent boy or girl, and then gets into mischief. It makes its prayers and becomes more than the ordinary poltergeist (who merely uses stolen vital force to break or throw things). It becomes the super-poltergeist who can get fire-immunity, or who can apport fire or water or stones, or do other things. In Italy in recent years a child and her grandmother were bothered by such a spirit. Fire was constantly being kindled near them or in their beds or clothing. In other cases water was apported and used to drench the victims of the joke at odd times. In France paving bricks were apported and hurled in a stream at a certain house for some days and nights. They were apported through the roof and fell thudding inside the rooms, but they were dematerialized as swiftly, so the piles of stones never grew high. Similar cases of stone throwing have been reported from the wilds of Malaya and Java.

It is evident however, that the Aumakua exercises some control over such performances because no permanent injury is done those upon whom the tricks are played. (If a Aunihipili is using stolen vital force without contact with its Aumakua, it may move objects and sometimes come very near to injuring the living.) The Aumakua allows us far more use of free will than the average parent allows a child. In the animal world free will is allowed on a grand scale and animal eats animal, but the evolution of the units of consciousness is not greatly delayed. There are always fresh bodies to enter. Instincts, however, rule the lower kingdoms and in obeying the instincts little free will is allowed. Birds build nests after certain set patterns and in season fly north or south. There is order behind the seeming confusion caused by the evolution upwards toward the stage when a complete free will can be obtained. This final achievement may come after graduation from the Aumakua level; our minds are unable to reach that far and so we cannot be sure.

We are going to make the effort to learn to use Huna and regain the direct help of the Aumakua and its associates of its high level. It is very important that we come to know as much as possible of the actions of the Aumakua in the production of psychic phenomena, especially physical phenomena. Spirits who attend seances are not always what we should expect them to have become before they could contact, and gain the help of, the Aumakua. The spirit known as John King was given to boasting that he had been a murderous pirate in life. He was a rowdy who was not even slightly sanctimonious. His morals might well have been suspect. But, like the Aunihipili super-poltergeists just discussed, he was able to get Aumakua help upon request and produce exciting phenomena. Nearly all the phenomena of Psychic Science (excepting premonitions, ghostly appearances and the like) have been produced by spirits who are able to contact a living medium and use her vital force or that of a circle. A very few of these spirits are able to produce physical phenomena, (apports, materialization, etc.) but those must have learned in some haphazard way to touch the Aumakua and present the right thought forms, with vital force sufficient to get phenomena produced. The point is that none of these spirits know Huna. They have all tried more or less to answer the questions of the living as to how they produce the phenomena. Their answers have been as impractical (and often as illogical) as those given by living psychical researchers. In a hundred years of speculation not a single theory has been put forward which would furnish an acceptable explanation of more than a few simple items in psychic phenomena. In offering a general theory that covers the field except for the mechanisms of a few still dark corners, Huna promises to break the stalemate that has stopped Psychic Science for three decades. The same can be said of our badly stalemated Psychology and its allied sciences.

Religion has been stalemated for some time, the older forms for many centuries, and the newer forms which included modern psychological discoveries (New Thought, Christian Science, Unity, etc.) for about as long as Psychology and Psychic Science have been bogged down.

In the new religious forms, the mechanisms and theories of Huna were partly, if indistinctly, grasped, with the result that instances of healing body or circumstances are frequently recorded. Here we find much evidence of the fact that Huna, in white hands (the darker races are naturally more psychic, which is an advantage in some practices) will work. If so much has been done with such incomplete knowledge, a vastly greater accomplishment should be made possible now that we have more complete understanding of elements and mechanisms.

We should soon be producing the desirable phenomena of the seance room without calling on the spirits of the dead for help and without the need for a medium. We will endeavor to use the circle as a source of vital force, each sitter donating a little, and the leader of the group creating the thought forms of the “prayer,” making touch with the Aumakua, and getting its assistance (and that of its fellows) in healing projects. In England, during World War II, an experimental group endeavored to use Huna methods through the ritual of the Church to open the doors of heaven and invite the Poe Aumakua to take a hand in ordering affairs in the world. Unfortunately, it is impossible to know whether fortuitous turns in the struggle were aided or caused by such efforts. It was a splendid gamble and, considering the world situation since the war, might well be undertaken on a large scale lest the free will allowed us on this level bring us to ultimate social or even physical disaster.

We do not know to what extent we can depend upon the Universal Associate High Selves (or Beings above that) to help us work out a social system which will provide justice, freedom, and an order in which we help one another instead of competing selfishly and with the fierceness of the animal kingdom. The English group tried to call for the prophesied “World Judgment” to balance race injustices, no matter which races were found at fault and caused to pay a price for bettered world conditions. We can be safe in saying that, for a beginning effort the experimental groups, when organized to work on a large scale, cannot go wrong in formulating a “prayer” envisioning reforms which would tally with the Golden Rule. Even the negative version, “Do not unto others,” would be a great tool if we could use it. Later, as this study of Huna progresses, every effort must be made to see whether or not we can get from the Poe Aumakua glimpse of a perfect plan for a world social organization or, failing that, help in formulating a plan of our own which we can perfect in the course of time.

The Huna lore of old pointed to normal living as the great criterion. Each living thing was thought to be in its intended stage of evolution and there was sufficient time for all to grow upward. Family life was good. All normal living was good. There was no doctrine of asceticism and self-denial. There was plenty of time to grow to the stage where graduation into the next level of consciousness was due.

This is in strong contrast with certain dogmas which crept into Christianity and other early religions. The contrast needs to be stressed. All of us cannot “sell all and give to the poor,” else we would have nothing but poor beggars. All of us cannot leave friends and families and take the yellow robe and beggar’s bowl of Buddhism. All of us cannot become hermits living half starved in caves hoping to find God. The practice, so common in India, of leaving friends and family at forty and retiring to monastic life in order to “see God,” is not justified in Huna. In Huna, one teaches or helps or heals, each according to his ability, even when he has come to be able to touch the Aumakua, whether once in a long time, or at will.

PART V: HUNA AND THE SEVERAL RELIGIONS

THE ANCIENT system of Huna seems to have been known in full form in Egypt at the time of the building of the Great Pyramid. This would give us an approximate date of 2600 B. C. (There may have been “Atlantean” origins of Huna as far back as 50,000 B. C. This is all purely speculative.)

After the building of the Great Pyramid, named “The Light” according to the legendary oral history of the Berber kahunas, the Secret Lore, or “Light” as it was also called, disappeared with the tribes who knew it and who migrated largely to the Pacific or, in the case of one tribe, to the Atlas Mountain region of North Africa.

In Egypt the Huna lore was kept secret and the language (later the Polynesian) was never reduced to any form of writing. This language bears every evidence of having been the one used when terms for the several elements in Huna were invented. Small common root words were united to make longer words, each root describing some feature of the thing named. (Or some long and complicated meanings were represented by short symbol words used as a part of longer terms.) It is, therefore, evident that people speaking what is now a Polynesian language, were the original holders of the knowledge of Huna.

Otherwise the words would be artificial, or substitutes, and their root structure not uniformly a source of the full word’s meaning. The tribes who lived in or around Egypt migrated, touching India and other lands and leaving behind them parts of the original Huna which can still be identified in various religions.

In India there is a great similarity between the idea of Pranic energy and the three voltages of vital force used by the three human selves. Perhaps the division of the pranas into forty odd kinds (for taste, sight, hearing, etc.) came later when the practical use of Huna was forgotten (if ever fully known). The same may be said about the ideas relating to the three shadowy bodies inhabited by the three selves of man. In modern Theosophy, which is drawn from the several religious systems of India, we find the three shadowy bodies expanded to seven, of which some are supposed to house elements related to emotions or mind or to be of an “astral shell” type. The idea of thought forms was well preserved and, while not known in such detail as in Huna, was recognizable in terms of the Old Secret. The Bhagavad Gita speaks of our Aumakua, and of the two lower selves considered as a single self. The triune idea was perhaps known after a fashion, but was applied more to the gods.

The doctrines of reincarnation and karma, while enlarged, as were the ideas of prana and the shadowy-bodies, retained some of the original significance. In Huna, the matter of evolution through a series of incarnations was part of the general system, but the theory was made to fit the changes brought about in the course of Graduation from one level of consciousness to the next. It is apparent that it is not the same man who incarnates after a Graduation in which the Auhane and Aumakua have stepped up, leaving the Aunihipili to take over as the Auhane in the next incarnation, and a new Aunihipili to join the man from the animal level. The involutionary idea of a man being forced back to become an animal. In some incarnation cause of “sin” has no part in Huna so far as has been ascertained.

The doctrine of karma applies, in Huna, only to the law of cause and effect as it operates under the free will in single incarnations. After death the man makes a thought form world or “purgatory” in which he lives as in a dream, and there such things as he may have on his conscience haunt him until he has made what amounts to a retribution. As memories are not carried from incarnation to incarnation and, as no mechanism has been discovered for carrying the results of past sins or good deeds across, it would seem that what karma there may be must be in the hands of the Aumakua. Perhaps the Aumakua sees that we are punished for hurts done others in past incarnation but, in any event, the idea of karma would have to be made to apply individually to the three selves of man, as in the idea of reincarnation. It is evident that the law of justice in the animal world (to which the physical body and Aunihipili seem to belong) is quite different from the law of justice conforming to the inductive reasoning powers of the Auhane. The justice of the level of the Aumakua is probably still different. Be that as it may, Huna recognizes no karmic law which says that a man must be forced to suffer from illness, accident or social tangles to expiate past-life karma.

In Theosophy much stress has been placed on the Masters. Under Huna, a master would be one who was able to contact the Aumakua and get help of a “miraculous” nature. It is unfortunate that so little can be learned about these highly evolved legendary men or their activities. It is, however, very possible that men can evolve, come to know the Aumakua and Graduate to the levels above in orderly fashion, and still have no definite and detailed knowledge of Huna. In all races we have had our saints who have reached their elevated state through a deeper inner realization of the great verities, rather than through what might be called a scientific understanding of themselves and their elements.

IN CHRISTIANITY there is to be found much of the Huna lore, some things badly overlaid with dogma, or distorted, others in a surprisingly good state of preservation.

With the beginnings of the early Churches, many rites and practices were adopted which, while not well described in the New Testament as it has come down to us, belonged to Huna.

With the passage of time the rituals of the Church (Roman, Greek and derivative Churches) came to be used with little understanding of their original purpose. The injunction of Our Lord to go forth to all the world, healing and helping, could not be fully obeyed. The healing mechanisms were gradually lost until only their outward forms remained.

After the Dark Ages there were many who sensed this lack in the Church, and who tried to get back to the early and more practical doctrines by fresh studies of the Bible. The protests against priests and rituals rose in volume and Protestant Churches were formed. In these, the priests were discarded and the members tried to find God for themselves, through Jesus as the Son of God. The trend was back to the austerities. But still there was little healing of a predictable kind.

In modern times the science of psychology began to take wavering form soon after the discovery of mesmerism. Quimby, a New Englander, and after him, Mrs. Eddy, recognized and tried to use for healing the “Wisdom” and the “Power,” which was a recognition of the Aumakua and its high mana force. Elements from Indian sources may have given the idea of “holding the thoughts,” and a denial of unwanted conditions was used with even better results than might have been expected. In New Thought much the same methods were used, but with less drawing on Christianity in constructing new doctrines and dogmas. The Unity movement in Christian circles followed the trend with new applications of doctrines and dogmas. In many lesser Mental Science groups where a religious approach was kept, similar steps toward better understanding were taken. But as these were all steps largely made possible by the advance of knowledge in the science of Psychology, and as this science became stalemated some decades back and could offer no more guidance, the modern religions also bogged down, and then began slowly to freeze their dogmas and reject outside ideas.

For Christians, the understanding of Huna is not difficult. The teachings of Jesus have much in common with the older lore. Jesus demonstrated ability to contact the Father at will and, in explaining the miracles, pointed out the fact that it was through the Father that those things were possible. Na kahuna believed that instant healing was possible only through the Aumakua, which was to them the Aumakua or “Older, most trustworthy parental” Self. As the Christ, Jesus is often considered universal in nature. Na kahuna believed that all na Aumakua were so closely related that they could as one unit aggregate of consciousness, and thus take on the universal aspect, even while remaining individuals.

Jesus was closely identified with the Father, being a very part of Him, or Son. The Father worked through him and seemed to be in him. This feeling that the Aumakua is inside one, is explained in Huna as a sensation experienced when contact with the Aumakua is made, through the mechanism of the connecting thread or cord of aka material. Thought forms of future events are brought to us from the Aumakua along this cord and are presented to the focus of consciousness of the Auhane, “inside” us. We do not get the impression that our premonitions or premonitory dreams come from without, but from within our own physical bodies in some mysterious way. (It may be, however, that, at rare intervals, the Aumakua actually may enter the physical body in its aka body.)

Jesus told of the love and the joy of the Lord. Worshipers of many faiths have felt the sudden emotional surge of love, joy and devotion that comes to bless the devotee. Na kahuna knew it. It is the reaction of the Aunihipili when able to contact the Aumakua. We, who are the Auhanes, have no ability to cause emotion. That is part of the mentation peculiar to the Aunihipili. But we can and do share the emotions generated or felt by the Aunihipili. The joyous emotional upsurge, like the feeling of an electric tingle, are common indications that we are in contact with the Aumakua. This is our most tangible sensory proof of the verity of the Aumakua (or the “Comforter” of Christianity. The Aumakua is also the counterpart of the Holy Spirit in Christianity.)

In India a religious state known as samadi is attained. It is this same emotional joy and love and devotion. But contact of this nature is not made through religion alone. The telepathic experimenters and others, working with psychic abilities, often report such contact. It is unpredictable in its coming, but unmistakable once it comes.

In Upton Sinclair’s book, Mental Radio, his wife has been quoted as she writes of her methods of using telepathy. She speaks of the conscious mind and the subconscious but knows another consciousness which she calls “The Deep Mind.” She tells how she finds the telepathic impressions from the subconscious (our Aunihipili) dim, fragmentary fleeting and not always accurate. But sometimes the “deep mind” seemed also to answer her questions, and its answers are unmistakable, clear and convincing. With these answers there comes a great feeling of “gladness,” and in describing this type of experience on page 201, she undoubtedly shows that she has frequently touched the Aumakua.

In healing work, Jesus at times used a physical stimulus to accompany words and commands that unquestionably may have had strong powers of suggestion. Recall the blind eyes covered with a mud made of earth and spittle. This is similar to the kahuna use of a physical stimulus to accompany and strengthen suggestion.

Jesus sometimes forgave the sins of those about to be healed, but not always (see the case of the blind man). Na kahuna ordered their patients to make amends for hurts done others, then used some physical stimuli to aid suggestion in draining off guilt fixations. (So that the Aunihipili of the patient would be restored to a condition in which it could be healed by the Aumakua. This condition was one in which the “path” of contact with the Aumakua was said to be “unblocked.” It was the condition of feeling oneself cleansed of guilt. It was a condition necessary to the restoration of faith, without which no healing was thought possible.)

The concept of “salvation” is not a definite mechanism in Huna. It was believed that men could, however, be greatly helped and saved much stumbling about, if they could be told that there was an Aumakua and that it could be touched and asked for aid and for a certain degree of guidance-under-free-will. This belief was expanded in India to become the salvation to be obtained by breaking the chain of reincarnations. The grip of karma was to be broken through having all sins worn out by suffering.

In Christianity we find only indefinite traces of the doctrine of reincarnation. Karma is found only in the day to day application of the law of atonement for sins. The Jews hoped for a Savior to redeem the race from bondage. The redemption in Christianity was from accumulated sin, a slightly similar idea to that of karma.

Jesus, as the Christ, can well be understood in terms of Huna. In Huna we cannot pray directly to the Beings higher than the Aumakua. We must ask the Aumakua to exert its superior mind power in our behalf and, so to speak, send on any prayer or praise of ours which should go to God or Higher Beings. Christians are, likewise, directed to address all prayers to God through Christ. Jesus said that he would pray to the Father for the disciples, and in this aspect he stood as the Christ or Aumakua, if we are to judge by the light of the Secret lore.

The externals of the reconstructed Huna system are cold, but within lies all the possibilities of those deepest, warmest responses to the Aumakua. In the old religions, even when stripped of healing, there has remained something so mystical and deep that even when dimly sensed we are swept by waves of nostalgic longing to get back to some greater verity of being.

The new church, the “Huna Fellowship,” has been envisioned as one in which the lost things will again be known and used. In it we will perhaps get quickly back to those nearly lost verities of experience, restore our touch with the Aumakua, and through it with Ultimate God. To those of us for whom religion has been a deeply integrated part of our lives, the prospect of such a restoration has about it a breathless quality of expectation, a quality of upward surging. It will not need to be described for those who feel it for themselves.

PART VI: THE EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO HUNA

THE PROOF of the pudding is in the eating. The proof of the correctness of the reconstructed Huna system is its workability. Huna worked for na kahuna. It should work for us.

A long and detailed explanation of how the conclusions concerning the elements of Huna were reached may be of academic interest in years to come, but at this time experimental groups have agreed to accept all conclusions as tentative and see if they are workable in practice. Additions and corrections to conclusions can best be made during and through experimentation.

Very little has been learned about the methods used in former years to train na kahuna. In Hawaii the children were sometimes taken to the mountains by their kahuna teachers and taught the lore. But the only thing recorded was that the training began at about the age of thirteen, and that its first stage of success was indicated when the youngster could hold in his (or her) hand a small piece of fragile pumice stone, say a “prayer” and cause the stone to crumble into dusty particles without using physical force.

In beginning her instruction of W. R. Stewart, the Berber kahuna gave daily talks on the legendary history of the tribe and began at the top of the theories by discussing the concepts of God, then of each level of consciousness and being below, bringing consciousness down to its deepest immersion in matter and starting it on the upward swing. At the beginning period of the training she took the young Englishman and her daughter to hilltops and there showed them how to contact the Aumakua level and the beings who directed lower forms of life (Akua Makua). One day she asked that birds be instructed to gather at the hilltop, and very shortly a large number of birds of various kinds gathered. She asked the Akua Makua to show itself as a form and they saw a dim outline of something that had a human face but a large bird-like body.

Snakes were called together, on another day, and within an hour a surprising number of them were to be observed on the rocks or soil or in the bushes. They did not come near the three who sat on the crest of the hill and departed swiftly as at a given signal. No Aumakua was seen at that time.

Stewart was unable to explain, in later years when telling of his experiences, why his teacher had not foreseen the danger of a stray bullet, the bullet which killed her before her instructions had reached the practical stage of the training of her pupils. He expressed the opinion that she had failed to ask to be shown the future, not anticipating a danger so remote.

An interesting point in the preliminary teaching of Huna theory was explained by this teacher. She said that it was taught that in the course of evolution the animal called man became ready, and then a god came down and assumed the place of a Auhane, living inside the animal body, training the Aunihipili, and causing changes in the brain to enable inductive reason to be also the “will.” The animal mate of the first human was soon put into a deep sleep and the Aumakua into male and female parts, the female part entering the female body. The teacher thought this old Huna legend was the original of the Adam and Eve story. She pointed out the significance of the division of the Aumakua, by saying that when it was divided into two parts to rule over two animals of opposite sexes, it lost its god-like powers. It could no longer see the future without help from above, nor could it change matter or directly control nature. This was, she thought, the original idea of a god incarnating in a man animal, and so making the supreme sacrifice of itself, to make possible the salvation or continuing upward evolution of living things on the earth.

When Stewart mentioned the idea of “soul mates,” she said that all consciousness was male-female. Human bodies are presided over by a mated pair of na Aunihipili came together only superficially. Na Auhane could think identical thoughts and could come more closely together. As na Aumakua, perfect union could be attained through an interblending of aka bodies and a union of consciousness. This interblending, she said, enabled the creative work of the highest order to take place. It was her practice to “pray” that her Aumakua Mother-Father parts come together to hear her further requests and take action of a “magical” nature on them.

Continuing her account of theory, he pointed out the fact that all telepathic and other actions of mind or aka body materials was greatly easier and more perfect on the level of na Aumakua, thus became possible for all na Aumakua to form a single interlocking unit (we would say, a Christ Consciousness or Universal Mind in our new Christian religions), but at the same time, paradoxically, the unit Poe Aumakua retained their individuality. Because of this close association of Aumakua units, the thoughts of people on the earth level were considered in their relations to others, and their combined thoughts evaluated to make their futures. The future of each person is dependent on what his associates, or even strangers, do as their individual futures unfold. In other words, our futures are made for us in relation to our associates and through some form of cooperation of na Aumakua of ourselves and associates. This rapidly becomes such an involved mechanism that we are forced to remember that we can have but a very vague understanding at best of the Aumakua and its powers and form of mentation.

It is because of this inability to understand the Aumakua level and its ways of doing things, that we make wild guesses and these guesses become fresh dogmas which gradually snow under the basic things.

In Hawaii from the time that Dr. Brigham began the present investigation, no kahuna ever revealed the Huna lore to any extent. They spoke of the two lower selves and of the Aumakua, which they referred to as one of the gods or “the god.” Not GOD. W. R. Stewart made a study of the common and religious secret (Polynesian) language in order to understand his Berber teacher, and thus was told in detail the exact meaning of important words. But in Hawaii neither Dr. Brigham (nor later, the writer) could have understood the native words, even if used to explain Huna. (Of course, there were no counterpart words in English known to na kahuna which would have enabled them to describe the lore.)

Missionaries arriving in Hawaii in 1820, soon made a dictionary of Hawaiian words, but at that time there were no words in English for such things as the three selves and their aka bodies and the three voltages of mana, nor for thought forms or invisible threads of aka substance. The words for the low, middle and high selves were, respectively, Aunihipili, Auhane and Aumakua. In the dictionary (still in use today) these were assigned the meaning of some variety of ghost or spirit of one deceased. The three terms used for the three mana voltages, low, middle and high, were, respectively, mana, rnana-mana, and mana loa. These were translated, in the order given, (1) “supernatural power,” (2) “to branch out and form several divisions” (which was the symbolic stepping UP of voltage), (3) “strongest or divine supernatural power.” (Of interest here is the use of mana with the causative: ho`omana, which means, “to worship.” This is another example of the kahuna use of words as symbols of more complicated mechanisms. This “worship” is the act of generating an extra supply of low voltage mana, then making contact with the Aumakua and presenting the prayer thought forms, with the supply of mana, to be stepped up in voltage and used to materialize the prayer into fact.)

It was not until late in the investigation of Huna that the writer discovered how badly the words used by na kahuna had been mis-translated and misunderstood. It was only then that fresh translations from the roots of the words, and studies of the symbol meanings of terms, gave an insight into the significance of observed practices. In no long time the system was uncovered in outline. Later, the information held by W. R. Stewart added greatly to the outline, especially in its theory and in the matter of the origins of Huna.

Until a little headway had been made in the West toward developing the psycho-sciences, it would have been all but impossible to reconstruct Huna. However, with a partial understanding of the sub-conscious and conscious as parts of mind, of manas of two voltages, and of mesmeric and hypnotic forces of suggestion, it was possible to see that in the beliefs and practices of na kahuna (and words used by them) there were to be found definite parallels for our psychological ideas. At first an attempt was made to fit the kahuna ideas into the modern ones, but soon it was realized that the task must be reversed and modern ideas changed and expanded to fit those of na kahuna. The same thing occurred in examining the materials of Psychic Science and those Huna ideas retained in recognizable form in religions.

In the New Testament there were many passages which, when Huna was understood, could be made to fit neatly into the Huna meaning. But before Huna is understood, the meaning was not such that it could be used to add clear and definitive parts to the old lore. For instance:

In Luke 8:5 to 16, we read the parable of the sower and that the disciples were told, “Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.” A study of these several passages would seem to promise a glimpse of the mysteries. With a knowledge of Huna one can open up the possible meaning of the parable.

In the parable the sower scattered seeds, some of which fell in good soil and grew, some of which fell on barren rock and withered, and some of which fell among thorns and were crowded out. In kahuna lore we have the idea of the thought-forms of prayer. These have to be carefully constructed to include no thought of doubt or fear or of a contaminating negative nature. This prayer must be planted in the correct place, or aka body of the Aumakua. If it is scattered elsewhere, it falls on barren rock. If the prayer includes doubts and fears, these can be said to “crowd out” the desirable thought forms.

In Hawaiian, the word for “seed” (a symbol of the thought forms) is ano-ano. This word and its root, ano, give several meanings when translated. The following list of meanings taken from the Hawaiian dictionary will show how this word can be used as a symbol to cover much of the mechanism of creating and offering a thought form prayer.

1. “A solemn stillness. A sacred place.” (Note that this sacred place is the Aumakua to which the prayer is directed.)

2. “Expression of certainty of something doing or to be done.” (Note the faith indicated here.)

3. “Now, at this present time, immediately.” (Note the idea of the instant reaction of the Aumakua in answering the correctly made prayer.)

4. “Seed or seeds.” (Note: This is the basic symbol of thought forms in a prayer.)

5. (Root ano alone). “The meaning of a word or phrase. Likeness or image of a thing. The moral quality of an action, as good or evil, or the moral state of the heart. To change or transform. To change the external appearance. To set apart or consecrate for a special purpose. Doubt or fear.” (Note how these several meanings can indicate some phase of the making of the prayer thought forms. The guilt complexes are implicated in the “moral” element. The image of the thing or circumstances desired, is found in the thought form prayer, which is transformed or changed into the answer to prayer by the Aumakua. In making a prayer, the element of fear or doubt must always be present and can never be safely ignored, for if there is a thought form of doubt or fear mingled with the prayer inadvertently, it is a sowing on barren rocks or among thistles.)

Similar studies of many Hawaiian words used by na kahuna have been a great help in understanding how they thought and what they believed.

Our experimental groups will have to blaze a pioneer trail through the wilderness ahead. Fortunately the mechanisms of Huna are simple enough to be understood, and the materials upon which they rest are sufficiently logical in nature as not to cause their rejection before they are examined and compared. There is no necessity to affront our reasoning selves by a denial of the reality of the world about us. To understand the ability to see into the future we do not need to try to see time and space as a single fourth-dimensional entity . Free will and predestination need no longer be stumbling blocks. The dogmas of “sin” boil down to simple concepts and take on new meanings since we know the nature of the complex.

An experimenter may be of any religion or hold any set of scientific convictions, but will, of necessity, have to set his or her previously gathered convictions to one side while considering Huna and experimenting with it. This ability to be of an open mind is important.

As few of us have a natural ability to use or produce the simple movements of thought forms, aka body materials, or manas, these abilities must be learned.

There is, of course, nothing to prevent an immediate effort to contact the Aumakua and obtain fire-immunity or instant healing, but it is thought that, for the average person, this effort should at least be made parallel to growth in simpler abilities.

Fortunately for us, these first steps are not new or incredible.

There is a fine [body of] literature to tell us the experiences of others in learning to use telepathy and mind reading. We need only study those accounts and read into them the elements from Huna which better explain their mechanisms. Any library will have at least a few books on these subjects. Upton Sinclair’s, Mental Radio, Eileen Garrett’s, Telepathy, and Dunninger’s, What’s On Your Mind, are excellent, as are several others. Dr. Rhine’s on Extra Sensory Perception are heavier but useful. Experiments along these lines – a daily practice is indicated – will also bring some clairvoyance, in which distant scenes may be observed or visions of the future may well up from storage in the Aunihipili (or come directly from the Aumakua through the Aunihipili). Psychic abilities of other kinds may also begin to show themselves, and even the presence of those on the “other side” may be noticed.

For those who wish to invite dreams of the future, and through them an early but unpredictable contact with the Aumakua, Dunn’s book, An Experiment With Time, will give a simple method which has repeatedly been demonstrated by readers on first trial.

Everything is grist for the experimenter’s mill. He may invent new practices to develop his abilities. There are few limitations in this new field where each individual is a pioneer.

“STICKING OUT A FINGER”

A slightly different development is needed to be able to cause the Aunihipili to protrude a part of its aka body to a slight, or greater, distance. Na kahuna speak of this as “sticking out a finger” of the aka body.

With this “finger” must be projected a fractional part of the five senses, which are naturally resident in the aka body (and which are removed from the physical body at death). These senses are usually tightly integrated with the organs of sense in the physical body, and it is only after some practice that most of us can protrude a “finger” containing some shadowy body sensory organs.

This training can be begun by trying patiently to get the Aunihipili to go out and get an impression of some object, concealed in a paper box or container, then bring the impression back to show the Auhane. The order is, “Go sense it, and then come back and show me what it is.” (One experimenter found that his Aunihipili went out to see what was in his row of small cardboard boxes, but did not understand that it had to make an image of things seen, to show to the Auhane.)

The Aunihipili is much like a dog who chases a ball, but does not bring it to his master until patiently coaxed. The Aunihipili is like an animal and must be treated with kindness and coaxed. If suggestion or auto suggestion is used in this training, it must be acceptable to the Aunihipili or it will reject it and refuse to take part in the work. If the work is made into a game, it will go much better.

Under hypnotic influence or when in a trance condition, individuals have often been able to see with the eyes closed, or through the skin. The shadowy body of the Aunihipili can be projected to a distance during sleep to use the five senses in observing distant things. (See Astral Projection by Carrington and Muldoon.) The blind now are taught successfully to project “fingers” of the shadowy body to sense the location and nature of obstacles placed before them. (This adds to the theory that an echo of sound is caught by a mysteriously quickened sense of hearing and used to locate and identify the obstacles. Sound only helps in projecting the “finger” in the right way. The failure to sense obstacles in a snow storm with a silent fall of snowflakes, may not be the fault of the silence. It may be the difficulty caused by the multiplication of small moving objects between the blind person and larger obstacles.) A “finger” can best be projected following the guidance of a shadowy thread or sound track, but can also be projected at random without them.)

In this projection practice, the experimental groups just formed at the time of this writing, used sets of five small pill boxes, placing a variety of small objects in them and mixing the boxes around with closed eyes. Fingers were laid on the boxes or they were looked at from a short distance. Several experimenters learned almost at once to project a “finger” and get a sensory impression of the contents of these boxes. No one was perfect, but one young lady successfully picked out a box containing keys five times in succession. Another correctly identified five out of six objects in one try. Objects were twice correctly identified on first try from across a room. It is most exciting to find that one has these abilities and to watch them begin to develop and show themselves. (It will be still more exciting when one can place a hand over a flame and not be burned, or cause instant healing.)

As experimental groups progress in their training, there will come the fascinating effort to see if we can contact the Aumakua and get apports, materializations – the physical phenomena of the seance room, but WITHOUT the mediation of spirits working through mediums.

Experiments will be made with the curious properties of the mana force, especially as it is projected “fingers” partly filled with ectoplasm substance, (slightly densified or thickened shadowy aka material) body. Baron Eugene Ferson demonstrated some of the curious properties of this mana force of ours. His books may be found in some libraries. Other studies of the force may be found recorded in Nandor Fodor’s excellent Encyclopedia of Psychic Science, or in some of the many books on psychic phenomena. Na kahuna made use of this mana in several ways, and we may be able to do much with it. The mana is increased in the body by a simple act of will. A variation of the Ferson method works well. In it, one stands with hands outstretched at the sides at shoulder level, and with feet well apart. One then makes the affirmation, “I am accumulating a large extra charge of bodily mana. I feel it tingle in my hands.” One soon learns the trick, or rather one’s Aunihipili learns it, and the presence of the extra charge creates a tingle in the extremities. If a person or animal is stood before one so charged, and facing away from him, hands may be placed on the person’s shoulders or on the animal’s rump and, when drawn away slowly, will exert a strong magnetic pull on the person or animal. (Max took Baron Ferson’s course, The Science of Being, while still a young man in Honolulu. He and a friend of his experimented with Ferson’s techniques. Max obtained a small puppy, and built up a surcharge of mana, and was able to pull the puppy backwards across his linoleum floor in his kitchen several times before the puppy grew tired of the “trick” and turned around and bit him!) There is much in this corner of the field yet to explore.

Normal health and mental balance are necessary qualifications for anyone who proposes to carry on experiments. If the work leads into psychic experiences where the spirits of the dead (or Aunihipili spirits) are seen or felt, great caution should be observed, and the help of an experienced medium obtained if further work in this direction is to be carried out. While lack of fear is in itself a protective element, one should know when to let well enough alone. Obsession is possible.

Deep breathing exercises often help to get one ready to begin experiments. Accounts of the uses of this simple mechanism will be found in many of the books on telepathy and mind reading. Deep breathing with a willed effort to accumulate an extra charge of mana is good if one is to use any form of auto suggestion to try to get the Aunihipili to act as desired. The breathing is an excellent stimulus to accompany auto suggestion, as are spoken words of command.

The yogi of India have learned to breathe deeply for a time and suggest themselves into a deep trance condition. It is probable that an excess charge of mana may be taken by the Auhane and raised in voltage to use as a power in giving suggestion to the Aunihipili. Na Aunihipili and na Auhane are driven apart by the impact of a very large charge of vital force from without. This may come from a mesmerist and need not be accompanied by the transfer of thought forms in suggestion. Hypnosis, on the other hand, uses far less vital force and either worded or silently projected thought forms of suggestions. Na kahuna in Hawaii in the old days used their wills to cause very large charges of vital force (low voltage) to enter wooden sticks. They could toss these sticks at the enemy during battle and, upon contact, rendered the one touched unconscious. The American Indians had medicine men who could accumulate such a charge of vital force that at contact through a finger placed on the chest of a strong brave, the brave would be rendered unconscious. In raising the dead, a large supply of mana is poured from the hands into the dead body and the Aumakua is asked to restore the conditions necessary to life. Na Aunihipili and na Auhane belonging to the body are called and commanded to make their way back into the body. Dr. Brigham watched this process and made note of the odd fact that the spirits (na Aunihipili) were ordered to reenter the body through one of the great toes.

Incredible as such operations may seem to us, we must take care not to crystallize our ideas of Huna. We do not know where the limit of actions may lie, nor what limitations are natural to the Aumakua. By no means should we put an arbitrary limit on phenomena until there is evidential reason for doing so.

The reconstructed system of Huna is a religion, as it always was in its original form. Religion is a belief in Higher Beings and a Supreme Being, as we accept the idea of religion today. But in essence, religion is the science of man and his relation to Higher Beings. Huna includes all that relates to the knowledge of man and his three selves, all that the Auhane can grasp of the nature of God, and even all that the Aumakua can reveal concerning Beings higher than itself.

We will try to reconstruct Huna in its works, philosophy and organization. We will have our Church and our healers or “priests,” classified according to their degrees abilities and duties. We will have our laity. We will have everything but the old cult of secrecy. Surely humanity has advanced to the point where all are entitled to know as much of any truth as they are able to grasp.

The new church, the “Huna Fellowship,” is being incorporated as a non-profit organization under the laws of the State of California.

How long it will take to complete the experimental work is hard to predict. At this writing it is just being organized. Word will have to be spread of the project and its materials. Many shoulders must be put to the wheel.

Membership in the Huna Fellowship will be open to all applicants of sound mind and morals, regardless of religious or racial affiliations. Experimental members will give what time and talent they have to experimentation. Sustaining members will offer their various contributions and help, and encourage the experimenters. Associate members will do what they can, watch progress sympathically, and spread the news of the rediscovery of the Huna system. All members will be eligible for such benefits as may be made available when and if healers are developed.

In due time it is anticipated that a foundation will be established for, or within, the organization, and places be provided for church use and hospitalization.

As there is no necessity for the denial of the reality of physical or social ills, in so far as Huna is concerned, these things can be approached in the ordinary way. It is only when ordinary remedial means fail that recourse must be taken to the psycho-religious healing practices of Huna. Of course, the day may come when people learn to contact the Aumakua for themselves, and will heal all their ills through its help, but that day is hard to imagine.

In practice, physicians of the several schools, psychologists, and healers will work together. Much of the healing done by na kahuna was of the slow or psychological kind. This form of healing may turn out to be a great help to medical, surgical and manipulative healing.

Patients applying for healing will probably present medical records, then be conditioned by psychologists to get them free from guilt and other hindering complexes. This will save the time of those who will then contact the Aumakua and construct the prayer for instant (or less than instant) healing. There must be no retrogression. All available knowledge must be used wherever possible.

One definite innovation, however, will come in the healing of social tangles and circumstantial ills. Healing in this classification will begin directly with the use of psychological conditioning after a preliminary study of the individual case. A decision will be reached by the joint efforts of patient and psychologist as to just what changes in conditions are to be requested. After that, the healer will take over to complete the work of presenting the prayer for a changed “future” to the Aumakua. Work under this classification is of far more importance than would appear at first glance. It has many ramifications. Its implications are great and vital to health and happiness.

The prospect before us seems very bright indeed. At last we have before us a basic psycho-religious system which seems to be a serviceable restoration of Huna. We can be certain that this system was not merely a jumble of dogmas and superstitions. In it we have at last a system known to have worked right up to modern times in the hands of the kahuna firewalkers and healers.

Even more encouraging is the fact that we have the scientific knowledge which may help us begin bringing the ancient basic system to further perfection and workability. We inherited Mathematics and Astronomy from the elder races, and we have been able to bring both to much higher stages of development.

In any event, a start is being made. It may be that too few will take an interest in the project to forward it to completion. It is possible that it will have to be dropped now, and left to some future generation to take up and carry forward. On the other hand, if there are a sufficient number who can see the shining possibilities and who will set to work with a will, spreading the information about Huna and the experimental project, there could result, in a very short time, an organization of such size and scope that undertakings which are impossible at the moment will quickly become accomplishments.

It is greatly to be hoped that wide interest and eager enthusiasm will enable the work to move swiftly forward on such a scale that, in some one of many experimental groups, the way back to the workable Huna will quickly be demonstrated. There are so many who need help. Some cannot wait too long for it to come. Love and compassion urge us to make haste.

THIS IS A LETTER ABOUT RECENT DISCOVERIES which have to do with THE VERY LATEST AND MOST EFFICIENT METHODS OF MAKING PRAYERS.

Dear Friend,

For three years, my friends and I have been experimenting with the methods of prayer found in a recently rediscovered and very ancient system of thought, belief and practice which had no name, but was always spoken of by the initiates who knew it, as “THE SECRET.” The system was based on religious knowledge and psychology. It appears to be the “strong meat” which Jesus reportedly reserved for his disciples – a secret lore covering the ways of getting miraculous healing results through a certain method of making and delivering prayers.

This letter is for our fighting men and their loved ones. It is to explain in the fewest possible words just how to use the new prayer methods. It is to teach the man endangered in war to pray in the best possible manner for protection from all forms of danger. It is to teach the loved ones at home how to pray for the safety of the ones at the front or on the sea or in the air.

The customary methods of making prayers need not be changed. What they need is to have a few things added to methods now in use. We all know of the miraculous answers to prayer recorded in World Wars I and II. There can be no question about the protection that can be called down by prayer. All that need concern us is the matter of being more CERTAIN that the prayer will get the desired results.

While the ancient system of which I speak was not a part of Christianity – because it was developed and lost long before Jesus lived and taught – there is so much of it thinly hidden in Christian teachings that this presentation can best be made in terms of the New Testament. Of course, it can be applied by people of any faith. Its inner and secret teachings may be found in all great religions if one knows what to look for.

(For those who remain behind while a loved one goes to fight for our liberties, a full account of the ancient system may be found in my book, SECRET SCIENCE, BEHIND MIRACLES, should more complete information be desired.)

I think that most of you who are new to “THE SECRET” will find little difficulty in understanding the fact that “as above, so below” applies to the trinity of God in the highest reaches of conscious being, the “Three In One,” and, on the other hand, to us who are “created in His own likeness” on the human levels of consciousness. Man is made up of three “selves,” the conscious mind self, the subconscious mind self and a Superconscious Mind Self which we know as the Guardian Angel, of which every man, woman and child, without exception, has one. Modern psychology recognizes the first two selves, but is still puzzling over the third because it is not something to be taken into the laboratory.

The Guardian Angel or Aumakua, is much older and wiser than the other two selves, being able to see and shape the future. All three selves are going through the school of life. We might say that the subconscious is in grade school, the conscious self in high school and the Aumakua in college. Jesus spoke of the Aumakua as the “Father” and of himself as the “Son.” This was a veiling of the secret lore and has not been clearly understood until now. Jesus taught, “The Father and I are one.” He disclosed the fact that all the miracles which he performed were made possible by the action of the Father. The secret of why and how was given only to the disciples. Jesus also taught that all prayers to the Highest Being in the Universe, GOD, must be sent through the Father, or in the name of Jesus as ONE WITH THE FATHER, which amounted to the same thing.

What I wish to tell you is that in the “SECRET” we have found the how and why of this. We cannot pray directly to Ultimate God, whose very nature is beyond our comprehension, so we must send our prayers to our Aumakua and depend on its greater wisdom to know how to forward them on to the next higher levels of Beings when necessary. (Yes, there are many levels of conscious Beings between the Aumakua and Ultimate God, and all are triune in their nature. But, because these are quite beyond the reach or comprehension of men, Jesus had little to say of them. He knew that in so far as men were concerned, the thing of greatest importance was that they learn to know and to work with the “Father” Aumakua.)

That covers the first point in the new way of making prayers. We pray to God as usual but address our prayers to Him through our own Guardian Angel. One may pray to God in the customary way, asking things in the name of Jesus, or one may address the prayers to the Guardian Angel asking that they be handed on to any other Higher Being if necessary. It makes little difference to whom our prayers are addressed for the simple reason that all prayers automatically go to the Guardian Angel or Superconscious Self.

The reason for this is that all prayer is sent by telepathy and that the Guardian Angel of each of us is the only one tuned in to pick up our telepathic prayer message. In the Bible we read of the “silver cord.” This is invisible to ordinary sight but people gifted with psychic sight have often seen silvery cords leading away from the body of a friend. Not only are we naturally tied to our Guardian Angel with a strong and unbreakable cord of this kind, but we are tied to loved ones and close friends in a similar way. The threads or cords carry our mental pictures like the wires of a telegraph, our vital force acting as the electricity needed in the process.

In recent years many experiments have been made with telepathy. It has been proven to be a fact at several universities, but a strange thing was observed from the first. Words, which are vocal symbols of things or thoughts, are far more difficult to send telepathically than mental pictures of things or conditions. The eye is the oldest and most highly developed organ of the senses and it seems to play the major part in this matter. And, this being a fact, as all books on telepathy tell us, our prayers are best sent as mental pictures. In other words, one prays best if one holds before his mind’s eye a picture of the condition which is desired to be brought about by the Guardian Angel.

For example, one might pray, “Heavenly Father – Guardian Angel – this is the condition I ask that you bring about in the future. It is a condition in which, day and night, in battle and out, I am surrounded by your protection as by a WALL OF LIGHT AND MIGHTY INVISIBLE AND INVINCIBLE PROTECTIVE POWER.”

We do not need to tell the Guardian Angel how to bring about this condition of protection under all circumstances, for it is older and vastly wiser. It knows. But in saying the words, we may select to describe the circumstance and the way the protection is given, we help OURSELVES make a complete and detailed MENTAL PICTURE of what we desire and, even as we say our prayer, aloud or silently, we send that picture telepathically through the intervening space, large or small, to the Guardian Angel Self who hovers directly over us at all moments of danger, protecting and directing in a way hard for us to sense, but that is effective to the last degree.

One may picture the Guardian Angel as a shining human form standing above one with arms outstretched in protection, and with the WALL of protective Light and Power falling all around one as a cone. No matter how this is pictured, it carries the telepathic message of what is being asked in the prayer.

On the other hand, one must take great pains NOT to let fear or anxiety cause one to make during prayer a picture of the condition which may be feared, such as death, being wounded or otherwise injured. This is because of a law which we do not understand because it seems contrary to the loving action of a Guardian Angel to allow such a picture to form as a reality in the conditions of the individual’s future. It is enough to say, in this short exposition of the “SECRET,” that each human being has been given the priceless gift of FREE WILL. He is allowed to decide for himself what he will or will not do, and is thus enabled to learn by experience. The Guardian Angels are bound under this law NOT to interfere and to keep hands off of the Aunihipili and the Auhane UNLESS their help and guidance and protection is asked for through prayer.

Because of this FREE WILL, which is ours by divine edict, we, as men, blunder along and learn the hard way. We make wars on our fellow men, and often wonder why God allows such things. Knowing of the LAW of FREE WILL, we have the answer to the question.

However, all life is growth, and at some point in his growth, each human being makes the discovery that there is a HIGHER BEING above him which is wiser, kinder, more loving and more powerful, also that it can be appealed to in prayer and that, when invited to take a part in his life, can and will do so in a way that seems no less than miraculous.

One is “converted” in terms of Christianity, when one becomes aware of the actuality of the Higher Beings and their yearning love. Often the contrast between his acts and those of the loving and utterly trustworthy Guardian Angel – and even higher Beings – is so great that there follows a strong “conviction of sin” and a turn into better ways. SALVATION comes from the fact of knowing of the Guardian Angel and working with it – in this way giving all three of the triune SELVES the rightful share in living the life of the individual. Change the words Guardian Angel to the words Jesus the Christ and Savior, and you will see how this fits into all Christian teachings.

When one is caught in the wars and other desperate situations brought about by ourselves because we have used FREE WILL blindly, the “REDEMPTION” comes through the facts that Jesus taught and which the more ancient “SECRET” contained. This teaching is that only when we become aware of the Aumakua – the Superconscious, the. Guardian Angel, the Christ-in-us – and begin to work with it and under its guidance, do we progress as individuals and as nations.

It makes little difference who is right and who is wrong when a man is caught in the blind struggle of FREE WILL war and forced to fight – to kill or be killed. All that counts in terms of growth and real progress is that the Higher Beings be recognized and the door opened by prayer to invite them to take their just parts in our lives. It may safely be left to them to adjust the entire matter of right and wrong in war – which is, in any event, something the fighting man is helpless to do anything about. One lives as kindly and humane a life as is possible while confidently leaving it to Higher Powers to adjust the spiritual values of right and wrong. On all the lower levels of life the strong devour the weak. It cannot be helped. But when we tie ourselves back – which is the literal meaning of the word “religion” – to the higher levels and part of our triune being, we come under the new dispensation where love and kindness hold sway in vaster worlds.

We have seen how the prayer is to be delivered telepathically to the Guardian Self. Now we must consider a very vital matter, the vital force or electrical life energy which is the driving force behind the whole mechanism of prayer and its answer.

In former years we did not know why hands were laid on those who were to be healed or who were being blessed. We did not know what the “virtue” was that left Jesus when the woman touched his robe and was healed – the ‘virtue’ that he actually felt leave his body. Now, thanks to modern research and to the “SECRET,” we know that it was electro-vital force. We know that this force must be present and be put to use in every act of thinking, picturing and forming plans – even in remembering and dreaming. It is a force which is used by each of the three selves of man, but it is manufactured by the Aunihipili in the body, that being one of its jobs. The conscious mind self draws on this supply of vital force to get what it needs for thinking, which is, primarily, its job. And now comes something of great importance. If the Superconscious Self (Guardian Angel) is to have sufficient power to mould future conditions and to do actual protective work of a miraculous nature in response to prayers, it must also be supplied with a goodly amount of electro-vital force.

Because we cannot see the Guardian Angel and because it uses a wisdom and skill which we have still to come to know and possess, we have overlooked the need for its part of the vital force drawn from the lower and denser levels of physical living. In modern Psychic Science we have excellent evidence that this is a fact, and in the “SECRET” we have much information, the most important point [is that] the vital force in the hands of the Guardian Angels can make instant changes in physical matter. Instant healing of a broken bone is an example. The broken parts of the actual bone are changed and put back in the former condition. In miracles of healing where parts of the body are changed or restored, it is the same. Always, it is actual physical matter instantly turned to nothing and as often returned to some better original state. In Psychic Science our great investigators have observed, under the strictest test conditions, the passage of living animals and men through walls. They have seen metal and stone objects, ice, flowers and insects – endless things – chanced to an invisible form and returned to the natural form, usually after being transported from other places and passed through closed doors or walls. (Over a hundred famous men have testified to these things, but because they could not be explained, we have heard little of them in schools or journals. However, all good libraries can furnish pages of testimony in scientific verification of the phenomena.)

In Spiritualistic seances under test conditions, scientific studies have shown that so much vital force was taken from the living for this work of changing solid or living objects, that the members of the circle and the medium were often left nearly exhausted at the end of the sitting. If the training you have had makes you doubt what is being related, that is of little consequence. The important thing which is to be got across is the basic fact that if enough vital force is not available to the Guardian Angel, it cannot make changes in the matter on the physical level or shape circumstances except by very slow stages – as vital force can be obtained little by little. In battle, instant changes in the material of bullets or shells or flame may be necessary in forming the WALL of protection.

This brings us to the actual methods used as a vital part of prayer to supply this electro-vital force. Ordinarily, a man or woman in normal health has more vital force stored in the body than is needed. One may suddenly begin to run, and can go on for a short time on the supply already in the body, but if the exertion is to keep up, more must be made in short order. The subconscious self will do this, but it may take a few minutes to get the sugar in the blood burning in oxygen and the manufacture of the force going full blast – so that we “get our second wind.”

Fortunately, we have but to think strongly that we are making a large extra supply of vital force, and the subconscious will at once set to work to make it. We can test this action of mind by imagining ourselves getting set for a race. As we imagine we are getting set, we will find our bodies tensing and our breath quickening – more vital force being provided. There is another way we can test the amount of vital force stored in our bodies. We do not have to have the modern instruments that measure the force in body and brain in laboratories. All that is needed is a ring or other bit of material to tie to a bit of thread about four inches long to make a plumb bob or pendulum. Holding the improvised pendulum with about three and one-half inches of thread between object and fingers, it is suspended over the free palm. Give the mental or oral command to the subconscious self to make the pendulum swing to indicate your normal charge of vital force. It will usually swing with a moderate motion. Or you can ask that it swing a number of times while you count the swings to get the number of the charge. The average number of swings has been found to run between 250 and 350. The swing is usually back-and-forth, but can be circular. Some people may not be able to get a reading, but can be read by a friend if he holds the pendulum over the palm of the one to be tested. Some are so constituted that the pendulum will not swing for them or will just keep on swinging. That only shows that the Aunihipili is not grasping the idea of the test. We all have vital force if we are alive, and can accumulate a surcharge if we can think, exert the will and instruct the subconscious self.

The subconscious will learn in surprisingly short order to accumulate a large surcharge of vital force when asked to do so. One may stand with feet spread far apart and arms extended at the sides level with the shoulders. One begins by taking keeper breaths and says or thinks, “I am now accumulating an extra supply of vital force and storing it in my body for use. I am filling myself with the universal life force from toes to the top of my head. I feel it tingling in my hands NOW.”

Usually a tingle will be felt in hands or elsewhere in the body. One’s sight will become keener and details at a distance will stand out. One will be more alert mentally and able to remember or to memorize faster. One will be able to solve mental problems with numbers faster and more accurately. There are many indications. One will feel better, throw off depression and overcome fear or nervousness. The pendulum test is very good, however, as it is something all may see. After trying to accumulate a surcharge, say for two or three minutes, make the pendulum test as before and see how much stronger the swing is or how many more times it swings while you are counting.

When the tests show that one can quickly accumulate a surcharge of vital force, practice at making a complete, effective and powerful prayer-action should very quickly show results.

The prayer steps are these: (1) Decide what you want to ask for and try making a clear and complete mental picture of it. When that is done, (2) accumulate a surcharge of vital force as instructed above. There is no need to test its strength once you have learned the knack. (3) Pray to your Guardian Angel or to whomever you are accustomed to pray (all prayers go to the same place in any case), and as you ask for a condition to be brought about, picture it in your mind and describe it in words to help yourself make the picture. This picture will go telepathically to the Guardian Angel. (4) Say, “I am now sending to you, my Father Guardian Self, a large supply of vital force. Accept it and cleanse it. Use it as you see fit for your own purposes and to bring about the conditions I ask for and picture in my mind. Use the pictures as seeds; use the life force I send to make them grow into material conditions on this level soon.

This sending of force and holding of the mental picture may go on for a minute or more. Each person soon senses the length of time best suited for his own prayer-actions. (5) Give thanks that the desired condition has already been made a reality in the invisible and is soon to appear in the visible. Word your thanks and feel your joy while you make a gleaming mental picture of your own joyful face filled with gratitude. This emotion of gratitude and joy is very important as it is something in which the subconscious self takes part and finds a form of expression. If one feels a stir of emotion, that is the sure sign that the subconscious self is doing its full part in taking the prayer and sending the telepathic pictures and vital force that must go to the Guardian Self. (6) Say “Amen” and end your prayer in orderly manner. Let go of it mentally and be confident that it has been properly made and will be answered. This confidence is “having faith.” Expect to see the conditions requested come about and refuse to imagine the contrary as happening.

The prayer action may be repeated after a few minutes of rest and relaxation in mind, if not in body. Even in action one may soon be able to accumulate a surcharge and make a prayer-action swiftly. The Catholics learned long since that by praying for something every hour for a day or more (a “novena” or nine-day rite), answers were best obtained. Now we know that all depends on how much vital force can be accumulated and supplied to the Guardian Self to use in building the answer to the prayer – in bringing about the condition requested on this material level of life and action.

The secret behind all offerings in religion is that one must offer his own vital force. “Offer yourself, a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable etc.,” as we read in the veiled words of the Bible. This vital force, when in the hands of the Guardian Father Self ,is the “Light” and often one sees a spread of the whitest imaginable light behind one’s eyelids when praying. It is the “Water of Life” also, and has been hidden in symbols all down the centuries from the time when, in the far, dim past, the ancestors of the human race came to know the inner secrets of the relation of the three selves of man – the relation of man to God though the Father.

Those who can overcome their natural shyness in speaking to friends of such matters as this, can benefit greatly by joining others in making the same general prayer, such as a prayer for the safety of the squad. Once such a prayer has been discussed and a picture of the desired condition agreed upon, several men may join and silently go through the steps of the prayer while one acting as leader speaks aloud the words of the prayer in which the picture is described and the request is made for it to be brought about. The wording is not important but the picture made by all in the group must be as nearly the same as possible. In this way, the joined power of the Guardian Angels of the men of the group is shared in such a way that it can be focused in its entirety for the protection of any one in the group who may momentarily be in the path of danger. There is great truth in the “Where two are gathered in my name …” and with numbers, the power increases proportionately. A sincere chaplain of any faith should be able to lead this form of prayer if he is not blinded to the truth behind the newly uncovered “SECRET” method. The new way of prayer can be used in addition to any other religious observance or apart from it. It is fitted to men of any faith or of little or no religious background.

A great service can be done a friend who may not readily grasp the idea of how to make this type of prayer for himself. You may pray for him effectively, but one thing he must do for himself to the best of his ability, however slight, and this is to ask in whatever prayer he can make, that the Guardian Angel Self watching over him take a hand in his life and help in whatever way is seen best. This is the step needed under what seems to be the ironclad law of allowing the fullness of experience under FREE WILL. This is opening the door and inviting help. If the individual will request that help as best he can, his friends or loved ones at home may pray through their own Guardian Selves to HIS, asking for a WALL of protection in exactly the same way as for themselves. In this way the men for whom prayer is strange or difficult may be brought into the group where his Guardian can work with the others, share the accumulating supply of vital force and use it for the good of all. Pray even for a man who gives reluctant consent to being prayed for. It may work miracles for him, and if he is one of your squad, prayers for him may keep the entire squad from being touched.

Those at home can also pray, and in the same way. Distance means nothing in telepathic contact, and prayer for another makes the basic thing, “church,” to multiply power. Frequent prayer gets best results. Five times a day is the way the Moslems advise us to pray. In emergencies many pray almost “constantly” as is advised in the Bible at one place, or “without ceasing.”

Any who wish to have prayer-actions made with and for them, may send in their name to me, Max Freedom Long, P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood. Station, Los Angeles 28, Calif. There are a number in our H.R.A. organization who will be praying for your safety on the hour at almost any hour of the day and far into the night. You fight for us; we’ll pray for you. Any person who will pray for himself will be eligible as a part in our circle of prayer. This includes the wounded who are asking for healing.
Sincerely, Max freedom Long for HRA