December 15, 1952

GOOD NEWS

It was recently arranged to bring out a reprint of SSBM, which I announced was on the verge of being out of print and which is out at this writing. The reprint will probably be ready at some time in January. New friend and HRA, Gordon Collier, son of the late Robert Collier, of book-selling fame, has leased the plates of SSBM and will have the new edition done, I am told, under his own imprint. He will soon begin a mail-selling campaign, offering SSBM with a gift book on the Great Pyramid by Worth Smith, the two packed together and sold at the price of $3.89 post paid. The address for those wishing to order this combination is, Robert Collier Publications, 72 Orchard St., Tarrytown, N. Y.  So far as I know,  it will be impossible to get SSBM separately. Under the plate lease contract, Mr. Collier is not allowed to sell at a discount to the book dealers. No word has been received as to whether or not the original publisher, Kosmon Press, 2208 West 11th St., Los Angeles 6, Calif., plans to continue selling SSBM at the old $3 postpaid price with the give-away book on Sleep Suggestion, or whether the book will be sold alone at the regular retail price of $4 – best to inquire as to the new price before ordering or to send $4 with the order. Books selling mainly through mail-ads are not handled as are the books published to be sold through dealers or book clubs it must be remembered. Please do not send to me for SSBM until I find out more about the situation and whether I can again arrange to supply autographed copies with the addition of Cigbo’s “Birthday present” set of eight full page photo illustrations to “tack” in as one finds time and glue for the purpose. This GOOD NEWS is most pleasing to me as it keeps SSBM in print and even spreads the word of the existence of Huna to more and more people.

WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR MIDDLE NAME?

This question has come to me so often that it may be of interest to others to know. When I was an infant, I was to be named after a grandfather, always known to his friends as “Mac” for MacCoy Long, but as a nickname was not very elegant. Also as I might be confused with my grandfather, I was called “Max.” The middle name, “Freedom,” was given to me as a heritage from an uncle of that name – on the Diffendarfer, my mother’s, side of the family. Uncle Freedom had been born in Civil War times and had been given his name in honor of the freeing of the slaves which was done by proclamation by President Lincoln at about the time of my uncle’s birth. Many years later, when I tried my hand at writing murder mysteries, I signed them “Max Long,” and, when I came to write about na kahuna, not wanting to get the two lines of writing mixed up, I signed the Huna books Max Freedom Long.

Perhaps, now that we have found Huna hidden in the teachings of Jesus, the middle name can assume a bit of significance in so far as a new freedom from the present churchly mass of dogmatic beliefs may be offered. Personally, the freedom from the old dogmas was long since attained simply by refusing to accept them. However, there are many still held and hampered by the ideas that were injected into Christianity, and who would be much more clear-seeing if they could be freed and given back the teachings as they were originally presented. Slogan: “Freedom through Huna” what?

THE TEST FOR DOGMA has been lacking for centuries. Men have been unable to decide what belonged in Christianity and what did not. Now that we have Huna for our criterion of truth, we have but to look at the translation of the New Testament into the language of na kahuna to see whether or not certain passages are in keeping with Huna or have been added at a later date by those who knew nothing of Huna.

FOR INSTANCE, take the dogma of the virgin birth of Jesus. We know that virgin birth was assigned to many of the sacred teachers in ancient times, and for this reason conclude that it was, even if true to fact, no proof that Jesus was the only teacher to be born of a virgin and a paternal divine being. The Huna test is simple. The basic word for virgin, in the language of the Secret, is puupaa (from the Hawaiian translation of the book of Matthew, 2:23). The meaning is simple and direct, it being that of a woman whose generative organs are still “closed.” There are no secondary meanings in the roots of the word to indicate that this matter of virginity has anything to do with the truths of Huna.

THE HOLY GHOST, said to have fathered Jesus, was unknown in the Old Testament, and it is highly improbable that it would have come into the picture before the birth of Jesus. In any event, it was the Holy Spirit which was mentioned later in the New Testament, and the word “ghost” is borrowed from the Germanic languages and is not to be found in the Huna vocabularies where even Holy Spirit is a term that must be made up instead of taken from the language of na kahuna. The only holy Spirit or “self” in Huna is the Aumakua, and it is certainly not a male angel such as appears in the account given by Luke of the events which took place before the birth of John and Jesus.

WE CONCLUDE that, regardless of the truth of the virgin birth, there is no Huna or SECRET meaning hidden there for us to understand and to use in our efforts to free ourselves from sins, complexes and obsessional influences so that we can make better contact with the Aumakua. The word for “holy” is hemo`lele, however, and this will tell us what the Aumakua, as the Holy Spirit or Self, does as its significant part in our lives. It loosens (hemo) and it lets something rise upward, (lele). The thing to be loosened is the blocking in the path, in other words, the complex, fixation or obsessional influence, or the sense of guilt – anything that prevents the Aunihipili from making contact along the aka cord of connection – the “path” – with the Aumakua or Holy Spirit. From the word for “holy” we see that the Aumakua has something very definite to do about unblocking the path, and in the foot-washing rite established by Jesus (already discussed in detail in earlier Bulletins), we have the explanation of HOW the path is opened by the Aumakua after being supplied with mana by the one doing the foot-washing and presenting the request for the opening.

I am working steadily on these many meanings and will, in time, be able to give you a more full report on the changes which are to be made by checking Christian dogmas with Huna originals. The whole picture of the teachings and ministry of Jesus changes when one knows the meanings hidden behind the externals. I can state confidently that Jesus did not die for the sins of mankind – the sins originating with Adam. A belief in Jesus as a personal savior is not mandatory to attain salvation. Na kahuna taught the same way of salvation many centuries earlier. Salvation depends on individual understanding, on growth into a hurtless way of life, and on the clearing of the path and the restoration of normal relationship with the Aumakua.

ANOTHER FREEDOM offered by the application of the test of Huna to Christianity, is freedom from slavish worship of a man or a personality. Once given the basic outline of Huna beliefs, (be they right or wrong) the TEACHING becomes a thing apart from the MAN. What I am trying to say is that it makes no difference whether one believes that Jesus never existed or not. It makes no difference WHO taught Huna, or when or where or how. All that matters is that we come in some way to understand Huna and, if we find it worth our consideration and testing, that we try it out. The same thing must be said of any psychological or religious system. In fact, the morals of all religions, once separated from the dogmatic beliefs which cannot be proven or disproves, are much alike. All systems agree that man should cease to hurt man. Some add the command that man should also be kind to all living things, taking no life under any circumstances. Huna offers a sane point of view on this last matter, showing that as animals, the man has to live in the animal world and be subject to the law of survival of the fittest. On the levels of the Auhane and Aumakua, he must live in accord with the rules which he may conclude apply on those levels. Fortunately, most men are sufficiently sane and practical not to be misled by the “teaching” presented from various sources, such as those that make a certain cult in India allow vermin to live in the hair for fear of sinning if sanitary measures are taken. (Blessed be sanity, also sanitation!)

A PECULIAR THING has been noticed in the study of Dr. Brunler’s work with the Brunler-Bovis Biometer readings. While the level of evolution or soul intelligence or whatever it may be, may vary largely from person to person and may range from the average reading of 250 degrees to the great height of 725 occupied by top-level individuals, they have one thing in which all seem equally endowed. This thing is the ability and tendency to hold to a given belief – once it has been accepted – with a death grip, and not to allow anyone to change it without a last ditch struggle. This strange characteristic seems to account for the apparent lack of ability to use ordinary reasoning powers to examine the dogmatic beliefs of religion. It makes not the slightest difference whether such a person lives up to his set beliefs or not. He may believe utterly in certain dogmas, practice not a fraction of the things commanded by those dogmas, and still make war furiously on anyone who questions them. As human beings we are, indeed, “terribly and wonderfully made” – especially when it comes to the head and heart, especially the latter, it being the Aunihipili which loves its complexed beliefs to the bitter end.

THE HRA IS SPLIT TO SOME EXTENT on dogmas. Here at the center I may get several letters in the same mail, each one bringing me comments on the late discovery of Huna-in-Bible, and each from one holding more or less to a different set of dogmas or angles of belief or disbelief. A number of HRAs have been lost from the fold because they objected in no uncertain terms to having the Bible meanings (as they understood and accepted them) tampered with. To some it was “the word of God” and woe betide any M.F.L. who dared question a word of it. On the other end of the line might be a good HRA who had long discarded the Bible for something else, and who would not tolerate any approach that seemed to suggest that there might be an iota of truth in the Bible – not even if it were Huna. Others have written with much heart-burning to object that I should have found Huna in the religious teachings and writings which they accepted as utterly and exclusively valid. I have striven to be reasonable in all cases, and have examined several religious systems with care trying to find Huna hidden in them, but up to this time, I have failed. Over and over I have explained that my pet interest is Huna, and that I am engaged in the task of trying to run down its sources and hidden meanings in as orderly a research and experimental process as I can manage. I am very happy to say that only a very few HRAs have failed so far to be able to approach the Huna research with an open mind and to reserve judgment as to its validity or usefulness until such a time as our studies and tests have been completed or at least have been carried to the point at which we can decide whether or not the search is worth continuing.

It must be admitted that open minds and ability to make the cool and careful approach of a student and researcher is rare in the extreme. The vast majority of men and women accept some teaching offered by some “teacher” or other, very seldom demanding valid proofs of source materials, and closing their minds thereafter to any contrary belief. It is because of the rarity of open minds that I value so highly the members of the HRA. To me they represent the hope of humanity. They prove that there actually are men and women in the world who are still able to make such an approach as we are making to tangled and often contradictory materials. My hat is very much off to 992 of you. To the remaining Ω% I can only say that perhaps some day we can discover something that will give us instant healing and swift answers to prayer, and that, when and if we do, we can forget differences in theories and share the benefits of working methods. I might add: While we are searching for something workable, how about trying to be kind, if nothing more? There are so many other painful things to be faced in life that it seems hardly reasonable to go out of the way to find discomfort in the resentments we foster against those who do not happen to agree with our views or beliefs.

HUNA DIRECTORY ADDITIONS

• No. 59. Mrs. Hazel Marsh, Box 81, Airway Heights, Wash. Interested in psychology and new approaches such as those of E Therapy
• No. 60. Mr. Bond Collier, Box 303, Pickney 2, Mich. Seasoned HRA who wants in on the list and writes, “I may be missing something.”

GHOST OF SCIENTOLOGY is the new name given his letter releases by HRA Clem Johnson, Boca Grande, Fla. No, this is not a letter to conduct psychical research into any ghostly remains of L.Ron Hubbard’s “Scientology” (which replaced his “Dianetics”). Clem used to publish a journal named “Ghost,” full title, “Boca Grande Journal Ghost,” survivor of the Journal itself. The new “Ghost” will soon be printed on a spirit duplicator (which seems quite in keeping) and is sent to those interested in this special line of investigation without cost. This, by the way, is very generous of Clem. Issue No. 2, he tells me, cost 60 cents per copy to send out, not counting time, stamps or envelopes. Clem is much engaged studying Scientology, using a big E-meter, and doing his best to sort out and test the materials in that field and pass on his finding to the rest of us. He deserves the heartiest thanks we can give him and the warmest encouragement.

The “GHOST” gives a fine digest of Huna in the issue of December 3rd, also a chart of the tone scale of Scientology as Clem sees it. Here is a quote from page one in which Clem answers a letter from one of the “Ghost’s” correspondents: “Yes of course we are still interested in Dianetics, but we feel that one should, by all means, take up Scientology, as the processing is so much faster and easier than the processing used during the Dianetics period. It is estimated that it is over twenty times faster, but the main thing is that Dianetics processing is said not to last, but will charge up again. I have definitely found this to be true in my own case. Whole track auditing gets at the basic incidents which may be hundreds of BILLIONS of years ago. Dr. Hubbard now says that Dianetics produces only meager results when addressed to this life only, while Scientology, with the use of ‘Black & White’ and ‘Constant Running’ addressed to the WHOLE TRACK brings amazing results within a very short period of time.”

THE EIDETIC FOUNDATION (P.O. Box 345, Fairhope, Ala.) with two valued HRAs in the organization, has recently sent me a mimeo unit by Ronald B. Howes, Ph. D., famous Dianetics “clear,” who seems to have joined those who have elected not to follow Mr. Hubbard into Scientology but to invent their own “techniques” and theories. The unit just mentioned is titled “SELF-AWARENESS TECHNIQUES.” I would say that it proposes some excellent methods by which one may become more acquainted with the Aunihipili and its ways of reacting.

The Eidetics Foundation calls its teaching “NEXOLOGY” and is busy organizing groups here and there in which the system may be studied and applied. I have received Part One of the “BASIC COURSE IN NEXOLOGY,” (Lessons 1 through 5), and find it very well mimeographed and nicely bound in a stiff cover with edges all well. trimmed. For a system that does not recognize either the subconscious or such things as the complex, this is a very interesting approach to the problem of working over our mental attitudes and bringing them up to the best possible level or condition.

MARKHAM HOUSE PRESS, LTD., (31 Kings Road, London S.W.3., England), will be happy to send a list of their publications on request. They deal with many subjects including pendulum matters, metaphysics and little known theories and healing methods. I have just received for review a 2 shilling booklet, THE EVOLUTION OF MATTER, which will interest those with a scientific turn of mind. It deals with modern concepts of the place of the atom in the scheme of things. A one shilling booklet called, QUICK AID FREE HEALING, deals with the use of the pendulum to find out trouble spots in the body – these then to be treated with the natural current of force found (with the pendulum) to flow around a loop of insulated wire. Drawings illustrate the simple techniques, and instances of successful healing are given. A thin booklet at six pence is GASTONBURY, by Egerton Sykes, telling of the lost parts of the Abbey which has been the subject of much interest in the psychic world of late. For those interested in an effort to reconcile the views of Blavatsky and the scientist, Hoerbiger, there is a larger booklet for two shillings sixpence, BLAVATSKY & HOERBIGER. In this one, the Secret Doctrine is discussed first, and the end of the discussion is based on the Book of Revelations. Owing to the difference in exchange rates, this complete set may be had, post paid for a dollar bill. Much interesting reading and food for speculative thought as well as a good description of a unique healing method to be studied and tried out. (If you find time to try it, please let me know the outcome.)

HRAs George and Helen Sandwich who have left Samoa and Fiji to go on to Australia after much very fine investigational work with fire-walking and the mana-charged stones and ikon-like objects, may presently be addressed care of The Bank of New South Wales, George St., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia. They recently obtained for our collection a set of pictures of a ceremony known as the “Ratib.” It is performed by East Indian residents of Fiji who belong to the Mohammedan faith. Mr. Abdul Rahiman Manu, J.P. and prominent resident of those parts, was kind enough to give information on the rite, it being in a way similar to the fire-walking ceremonies performed for centuries by people of the same race but who embrace a different religion and direct their prayers to a different version of Higher Being. Instead of protection from burning, protection from cutting is prayed for and obtained. The rite, in this case, was performed by a man from India who was helped by the local congregation. Here are the captions furnished to go with the seven pictures: [These pictures are not available with this bulletin.]

(1) The photo shows the people sitting down after finishing a prayer from the Holy Quran. (Koran.) They are about to read the history concerning the birth of the Prophet, Mohammed, and the start of Islam.

(2) This was taken after the prayer had been made and the reading finished. The man seated on the floor before the knives, swords and dagger-like instruments, is an authorized person from India who is about to undertake the Ratib ceremony.

(3) This shows the first part of the actual Ratib. More prayers are being recited and small hand drums are beaten.

(4) In this picture the performer has come to the priest, and he wants to play with the knives while the drumming is going on. The drumming will not cease until the Maulvi (or priest) stops it.

(5) This shows the performer lying (folded limply, with body bare and the blade of the long sword pressing into his middle) on a sharp steel knife (held by a man at either end of the long blade, at about four feet from the floor) while a man is jumping on the top of him. (The weight of both men is made to press the bare flesh against the sharp edge of the blade. The feet and dangling arms of the performer do not touch the floor.)

(6) The performer is standing with bare feet on a very sharp knife.

(7) The performer leans forward and presses his throat against the point of the very sharp dagger. (He is in no way injured at any time during the performance, and this is taken to indicate that the prayers have been heard.)

COMMENT: From the letters which I have received from the Sandwiths concerning the unmistakable protection obtained for the persons participating in the fire-walking and Ratib rites, I begin to share their feeling that we of the West are rank amateurs when it comes to making our religious or psychological beliefs work in a real and impressive way. One is reminded of the old saying, “Seeing is believing.” Again, our warm thanks to these HRA investigators.

BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN there appears no censorship on research of the kind we do in Huna in the field of the psychologies and religions. Letters come out freely and the HRA Bulletins arrive, even if the mails are slow for them. Some of you have enjoyed correspondence in the past with HRA Mila Liscova-Novakova, who has just sent her Christmas greetings and a letter of excellent opinions concerning the Huna work. She has a new address, please note. It is: 48 Engelsove Nabrezi 48, Prague II – 388, Czechoslovakia, Europe. I am sure she would appreciate hearing from any of you. The enclosure of a dollar in your letter would be most appreciated, I am sure. Stamps cost considerable for letters of reply, and resources are limited. She translated some of the Huna materials into her own language from the English a few years ago, so do not hesitate to write her in English. She also appreciates books as gifts.

LANDSLIDE VOTE FOR EISENHOWER seems to have been predicted in my dream reported in Bulletin 90, page 3, as interpreted by HRA O. Bond Collier, who writes: “The slides obviously meant a landslide, as you interpreted it, but your George also told you even more plainly who it was, by means of the ice or eis, as – Eis in Eisenhower.” That is perfectly clear, once one sees it. The trouble is in the seeing, not the dreaming. I nominate O. Bond C. for the position of official dream reader for the HRA.

HOO`LA AND REV, JESSIE CURL (HRA) recently visited San Diego and were happy to find that a patient so far along with cancer of the breast that she contemplated doing away with herself, had been completely healed in the one treatment given her. Another patient (who wrote me a short letter telling of his experience) had been completely and permanently healed in one treatment. He had suffered for a year and a half with skin poisoning which medical treatment had failed to help. I am very anxious for us of the HRA to get on the point at which we can test out the foot-washing rite offered by Jesus to see if we can help those in need of healing to get their fixations and spirit obsessional influences cleared away. It seems very reasonable to believe that it is only the blocking of this kind in the aka “path” of contact with the Aumakua which prevents successful healing in all cases. Or, we may find that if the complexes are removed, by the utilization of the E Therapy or similar methods, healing can follow.

It is evident that the ability of the spirit guide, Hoo`la and his friends to heal is genuine. If this is so, there must be something in the patient which prevents the healing from taking place when healing fails. As all kinds of ills have been cured, the block must be mental or spiritual rather than physical in nature. This brings us right back to the complex, the sense of guilt, the influence of “eating companion” spirits or lack of either faith or of a sufficient supply of available mana for use in making the changes to bring the normal condition. On the other hand, healing should, theoretically at least, be available as a direct answer to the Huna-type prayer, once the contact with the Aumakua is reestablished by unblocking the path. I believe the time is fast approaching when we will have completed our efforts to finish our research in this direction. I also feel very certain that we are on the right track and that the anticipated results will be obtained. It is probable, however, that there will always be the need of healers to help those who have little idea of what lies behind the scenes in Huna healing.

WE SHALL SERVE, EACH ACCORDING TO HIS GIFT

So predicts HRA A.J.L of Everett, Wash. He quotes from Paul’s letters to the Corinthians, and while there seems to have been a distinct lack of Huna knowledge on the part of Paul, this passage seems to fit the situation. I quote: (Cor. 12:8.) “For this man, perhaps, is given through the Spirit philosophical reasoning; but to another, by means of the same Spirit, comprehension of thought; and to a different person faith by the same Spirit; while to another gifts of healing by means of the same Spirit; and to another a genius for government; while to another eloquence; to another discernment of character; and to another a genius for languages, and to another talent for translating languages.” (Fenton translation.)

PHYSICAL AIDS TO THE REMOVAL OF THE COMPLEX have been found most useful by Dr. A.J.P. who writes: “To my own satisfaction I have proved that most complexes and obsessions have a physical as well as a mental origin and that they can be corrected by proper physical means. When there is an interference to the flow of mental impulses between the brain and the periphery, an abnormal expression will result. This abnormal result or expression may be called anything in the book, the name matters little, the big thing is to find the interference and to correct it. When this is accomplished, a higher rate of vibration will result and normalcy will again be attained; all functions working in harmony to express health.

“Even if the complexes are cleared, the body must then be refined and spiritualized so that it can be used by the Aumakua for its expression. The Aumakua is limited by the vibratory rate of the body through which it has to express. If I am wrong in this, I shall be glad to know it. Methinks that Dianetics, Eidetics, E Therapy practitioners are going to be disappointed when their enthusiasm has been exhausted. I do not care to find fault or to criticize, but over thirty years of experience has given me a different perspective on this subject.”

Comment: HRA Dr. A.T. Westlake, in England, wrote some time ago to say that he believed we were on the verge of finding physical aids to the removal of the complex. I take it that he had in mind the radiation methods of stimulating glands to bring them up to normal functioning. Gradually the gap is closing between the strictly physical methods of healing and the mental-spiritual. It seems inevitable that a combined or composite therapy will one day be worked out and perfected.

ROUND ROBIN magazine is out again with a most interesting issue. The choice morsel is news of the landing of a flying saucer in California at a spot near Desert Center. A mixed party of people first saw a cigar-shaped object, then one of the party, Prof.  Adamski, left the party and went apart about 12 miles. A saucer landed near him and out stepped a man resembling a Chinese and speaking English as well as some other language. He left footprints, these having strange designs imprinted by the soles of his shoes. The designs are illustrated in the release for all to try to figure out. Interesting – if true.

SPECIAL VACATION (MAYBE) NOTICE

If you do not get your next HRA Bulletin at the usual time, you may safely conclude that it is being skipped and that Cigbo and I are taking a bit of vacation – first for months.
(TMHG daily at regular hours.)  MFL

December 1, 1952

GOOD SPIRITS AND BAD need to be understood for what they are and what they do. “Birds of a feather flock together,” applies in the matter of evil spirits bent on feeding on the mana of the living and influencing them to evil, also to the good spirits who, while also helping themselves to the mana, exert what they consider to be a good and helpful influence. It is evident that we change little when we die because we take with us our full set of memories, complexes and attitudes, to say nothing of our hates, loves, hopes and fears. If, when we die and continue life in the aka bodies, we still hanker for the things of earth, we will stay on the earth level and fasten ourselves to the living who may be in a position to experience the earthly emotions and sensations which we still crave. We become what na kahuna called “eating companions.” On the other hand, if we have come to see that the better things in life are of the Auhane (or Aumakua), we will no longer try to share the animal actions and satisfactions and sufferings of the living na Aunihipili, but will strive to help the living – either that or let the living take care of themselves while we enter into the new kind of life on the other side of things.

THE EVIL SPIRIT INFLUENCE OF VOODOOISM is reported by a good friend of the HRA, J.G., who has just been released from military service after a period spent as a worker in the neuro-psychiatry wards where the schizophrenic patients were treated as combat casualties, and where marine “boots” were studied for mental troubles before being dropped as of no use.

“The most interesting of these,” reads the report, “were the Puerto Ricans, most of whom suffered from inner conflicts which had a psycho-religious tinge. The main factor was the Voodoo influence, mixed with the primitive Catholicism of the island. Many of these complained of hearing voices and seeing visions. One of these boys was of pure Spanish blood. His father was a lay church worker in a small village. This man used to cure the afectos in which the symptoms of the influence of the Esperitualistas, or Voodoo adherents, were causing trouble. These victims were considered by the local people to have a demon dwelling in them. The symptoms were similar to those of epilepsy in some ways. Prayers were said for these unfortunates by the church laymen. Many men suffering from these symptoms were rejects from the Marines.

“As to what forces were present, I cannot say, but I am certain that they were of an evil nature. My observations were based on the conversations with these men. I often interpreted for them as I know Spanish. In most cases there is mixed blood, usually with that of the Negroes prevailing, for these were more often in touch with Voodoo. I asked the boys for information as to the methods used by the Esperitualisticas, and learned of rituals in which candles were burned and the divination of the future practiced with the use of water – all a mixture of Shamanism, evil Spiritism and Voodoo. All carried on apart from the Catholic Church.

“The psychiatrists under whom I worked were Freudian in their training and concepts. They did nothing to try to heal these individuals, simply observing them to be able to be sure they must be classed as ‘misfits.’”

“TRY THE SPIRITS, WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD: because many false prophets are gone out into the world,” wrote the disciple, John, (I John 4:1). The word for “try” in Hawaiian is hoao, meaning “test.” The roots tell us that the test is one aimed at seeing whether or not the spirit is of the “Light” and not of evil or darkness. The strange reference to the spirits perhaps being “false prophets” would make little sense without Huna. A second word for “test” is given in the dictionary, kau`la`i, and this also means “A PROPHET.” That gives us the connection, and the word for “prophet” means “a strong cord,” this symbolizing the aka cord which a prophet must use to contact his Aumakua in order to see into the future. All this simply indicates that the test of the good spirit was whether or not he was in full working contact with his own Aumakua or not. If so, he was bound to be GOOD, and worthy of friendship. If we are to accept the evidence of this passage attributed to John, we see that communication with the spirits on the other side was not forbidden by the followers of Jesus, but that the evil spirits and the obsessional “demons” were known to be a major menace – known to be pretenders and liars of the first water. In modern Spiritualism and psychical research, the test advised by John would not be of much use for the reason that very few kahuna spirits would be met with at sèances, and the other kind would not have the slightest idea what was meant by the aka cord or the Aumakua. The only test possible, in most cases, would be one which would show (1) the good intentions of the spirit, (2) the ability of the spirit to bring about healing as a proof of helpful and good intentions, and (3) the possible ability of the spirit to contact the Aumakua and get accurate knowledge of at least some close-at-hand future events.

REV. JESSIE CURL and her spirit friend, Hoo Ola, are excellent examples of those who themselves desire to help and to heal, and who have attracted to themselves spirits with like desires and with the ability to contact na Aumakua and get them to assist in the healing work. I take it that instant healing, which demands a change in physical tissues, can only be done through the help of na Aumakua, and only then if enough mana is placed at their disposal. An instance of such instant healing was reported recently in a letter to Rev. Curl. I quote a part of it:

“The septum in my nose had bulged on each side closing each nostril until there was only an opening the size of the head of a pin in each nostril. This had been the condition for thirty years. My husband, [a doctor],  said only plastic surgery could correct it. As an operation in the nose is prone to be followed by an infection, I had decided to be a mouth breather the balance of my life. Your healing was instantaneous. I was able to breathe through my nose for the first time in thirty years and could insert my little finger high into each nostril and can still do so. May God bless you for your work.”

Comment: It is to be hoped that when we have rounded out our Huna knowledge and can first remove the complexes and spirit influences of the evil kind, instant healing can follow more frequently.

“HEAVENLY WAYS OF EARTH’S GRADUATES”

This is a book recently sent in for inspection and review by HRA Rev. Arthur S. Morton. The authorship is given as “by Several of them.” This is a typical example of the interchange constantly going on between the living and the spirits of the dead. While no information is offered as to who acted as the medium (or, in fact, whether the entire book is simply a work of fiction), so it has to be “tested” and judged entirely on its contents. This leaves the reader no possible chance to determine whether these supposed spirit writers are correct in what they tell of their lives and activities after death, or whether they are pulling a long bow for reasons of their own. The story told concerns the adventures of men killed in the fighting with the Germans in 1918. The authors died, became aware of their new surroundings, and began to adjust themselves to the new form of life. They helped to rescue others as they came across and needed help. They met teachers and guides and made much progress, some being given robes of light. At times the livings were visited, and on page 33 one reads:

“One of our buddies did get a few messages through to his mother, who made a book of them which helped. It was the oracle of God to begin the work of establishing communication between heavenly planes of life and the earth-plane at that time, and several writers were doing good work. Many sorrowing ones were given the truth about their sons who had been called out of the physical manifestation. Many others rejected the writing as being a fake and not according to scriptures. Human frailty has always hampered God’s Perfect Plan, because God leaves the way open for human beings to work out their own evolution into the perfect sons of God which He intends them to become. God is giving new ways of life to His people. Once more civilization has reached a high level of development, and God still gives man his power to choose to destroy it all or to advance into the New Age God has waiting in answer to prayers from millions of human hearts. Writing this book is the latest effort of our (the spirits’) amalgamated service on earth.”

On the last page, No. 64, one reads, “At this time God is sending this written message to you. It is a personal letter from God to each of you whose hearts have burned within you as you read. It is His urgent appeal to you to come into His Army and advance with Him into the Golden Age Future.”

Comment: Price $1.25. Publisher: Pacific Coast Publishers, Redwood City, Calif. What else can one say of works of this nature, other than that one must read and “test” for themselves, if they can, to decide the veracity of the spirit writers and whether their intentions are good or not. It is interesting to compare what this set of spirits has to say with what the Mark Probert spirit communicators put forth via Mark and released often in the mailings of BSRA and in ROUND ROBIN by HRA Meade Layne. Unfortunately we cannot tell when one spirit is correct in what he says and another is incorrect, but, fortunately, the test of healing is more to the point. If the spirits can heal a fair part of those treated through the medium with whom they work, that is proof in itself.

A STRANGE CASE that may or may not involve spirits, mediumship or mana, has been reported and a letter sent to see if more can be learned of the matter. A certain California man has “so much power that it frightens him.” He drills wells, and not long ago had a rock fall into the hole he was drilling and prevent the pulling out of the drilling tools. Giving up the attempt to get the matter adjusted by mechanical means, he directed his strange “power” at the rock to remove it. Going back to the hole, he again tried raising the string of tools and they came up without the slightest trouble. The drilling was resumed. The rock seemed to have vanished like an apport at a sèance, into thin air. The evident strength of this “power” has made this gentleman fear that he might inadvertently direct it at someone with whom he might become even slightly angry. I have, of course, suggested that the “power” might be used in healing – perhaps healing of a spectacular nature. I will report developments later, if there are any.

THE PROBLEM OF OBSESSION

[This problem] is one that has long occupied the minds of many investigators. I believe it will be well here to pause to quote from Dr. Fodor’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, as it is out of print and hard to find by now. I quote from the article under this heading on page 265 of my battered copy.

“OBSESSION, in psychiatry, means that the mind of the patient is dominated by fixed ideas to which an abnormal mental condition corresponds. In psychical research, obsession is an invasion of the living by a disincarnate spirit, tending to a complete displacement of normal personality for purposes of selfish gratification which is more or less permanent. The difference between mediumship and obsession is not in principle but in purpose, in duration and in effect. Mediumship, or to be more precise, trance possession, does not interfere with the ordinary course of life, [and] does not bring about a demoralizing dissociation or disintegration; it shows consideration for the medium and its length is limited. After a certain time it ceases automatically and the medium’s normal self, held in voluntary abeyance for the time being, resumes its sway.

“Obsession is always abnormal; it is an accompaniment of a shock, organic lesion, or, in case of psychics, of low morale and weakening will power, induced by an unstable character and debility of health. Once the existence of spirits is admitted, the possibility of obsession cannot be disregarded. Perhaps a lesser assumption is just as sufficient to point out the possibility. ‘If we believe in telepathy,’ writes Dr. Hyslop in Contact with the Other World, ‘we believe in a process which makes possible the invasion of a personality by someone at a distance. It is not at all likely,’ he says at another place, ‘that sane and intelligent spirits are the only ones to exert influence from a transcendental world. If they can act on the living there is no reason why others cannot do so as well. The process, in either case, would be the same; we would have to possess adequate proof that nature puts more restrictions on ignorance and evil in the next life than in this in order to establish the certainty that mischievous personalities do not or cannot perform nefarious deeds. The objection that such a doctrine makes the world seem evil applies equally to the situation of the present life.’

“How are we to distinguish obsession from multiple personality? It was explained to Hyslop by the Imperator group of controls that even for the spirits it is sometimes difficult to state how far the subconscious self of the patient is acting under influence and suggestion from spirits or from a secondary personality. Nevertheless Hyslop found a highly satisfactory method to ferret out the truth in cross reference. He writes: ‘I take the patient to a psychic under conditions that exclude from the psychic all normal knowledge of the situation and see what happens. If the same phenomena that occur in the patient are repeated through the medium, I am able to establish the identity of the personalities affecting the patient; or if I can obtain indubitably supernormal information connecting the patient with the statements made through the psychic, I have reason to regard the mental phenomena observed in the patient as of external origin. In a number of cases, persons whose condition would ordinarily be described as due to hysteria, dual, or multiple personality, dementia precox, paranoia, or some other form of mental disturbance, showed unmistakable indications of invasion by foreign and disincarnate agencies.’

“Prof. William James, shortly before his death, surrendered to the same belief. (That obsession was due to spirits.) He wrote: ‘The refusal of modern enlightenment to treat obsession as a hypothesis to be spoken of as even possible, in spite of the massive human tradition based on concrete experience in its favor, has always seemed to me a curious example of the power of fashion in things scientific. That the demon theory – not necessarily the devil theory – will have its innings again is, to my mind, absolutely certain.’

“The short history of a famous case is this: Mr. F. L. Thompson, a Brooklyn goldsmith, was seized in 1905 with an irresistible impulse to sketch and paint. The style was plainly Robert Swain Gifford’s style. This well-known American artist died six months previously, but this fact was unknown to Thompson who hardly knew him and, except for a slight taste for sketching in his early years, never showed artistic talents. He had visions of the scenes of the neighborhood of Gifford’s country house and often the hallucination that he was Gifford himself. He saw a notice of an exhibition of Gifford’s paintings. He went in and heard a voice whisper, ‘You see what I have done. Can you take up and finish my work?’ The desire to paint became stronger. Soon it was so overpowering that he was unable to follow his former occupation. He grew afraid that he was losing his sanity. Two physicians diagnosed his case as paranoia. One of them, without expressing a hope of curing the malady, expressed a desire to watch the progress of the disorder. Thompson came to Prof. Hyslop for advice. He took him to three different mediums. They all sensed the influence of Gifford, described his character and life and confirmed the vague possibility, which Dr. Hyslop wished to investigate, that the case was not the result of mental disorder. As soon as the case was proved as spirit obsession, treatment was comparatively simple. Gifford was reasoned with and persuaded to desist.

“Sometimes the obsession serves beneficial ends, as in the case of  Lurancy Vennum. Her malicious obsessors were forced out by the spirit of Mary Roff, who departed from earth life eighteen years previously in the same city. Mary Roff lived in Lurancy Vennum’s body, but in the house of her own parents for sixteen weeks and satisfied everybody of her identity. Her long inhabitation somehow made the body safe from malicious invasion and when she finally yielded its control to the returning ego of Lurancy Vennum, the girl’s health was mentally and physically re-established.

“(Dr. Titus Bull is quoted as follows:) ‘An obsessing personality is not composed of… one disembodied being, but is, in reality, made up of many beings. The pivot obsessor, or the one who first impinges upon the sensorial of the mortal, is generally one with little resistance to the suggestions of others. He or she, therefore, becomes an easy prey to those who desire to approach a mortal in this way. Some departed ancestors attempt to mould the lives of those incarnated who are akin. The more clannish the family group, the more likely this is to be true….’

“According to Dr. Bull, obsessors ‘have three major points of impingement, namely, the base of the brain, the region of the solar plexus and at the center governing the reproductive organs. As there are three major points of impingement, it may be assumed that there can be three composite groups, each starting with a pivot entity. What satisfaction is to be gained this way includes the whole gamut of human emotions. Many (of these entities) were (themselves) victims of obsession before their passing (and so bring with them their companions).’

“Another important point is the ‘possibility of obsessions passing on to the body of mortal pangs which were part of their own physical life.’ They retained in their memory the possibility of producing pain and as often they are unable to inhibit the production of it in the obsessed body, it must be beyond their control.’

“It is a fair assumption to say that often the migratory pains of the living are caused by the memory pangs of the dead.”

(In the article, it is explained that if spirits are driven away from their victims without being convinced by arguments that obsession of the living is wrong and that they should leave the living and get on with their progression, the entities driven out by “shock” methods simply hunt up another victim. It may be added that the victims they select are usually those who tend to have the same natural leanings as they themselves had in life – good or bad, usually bad.)

“WHEN AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT HAS GONE OUT OF A MAN” (Matthew 12:43-45 reporting a saying of Jesus when speaking of the healing of an unrelenting sinner, apparently) “he walked through dry places, seeking rest and found none.” (Note: A “dry place” is the Huna symbol of a lack of mana, and the spirit finds no “rest” or ma`ha, which from the root is “continuing breathing” – symbol of a steady mana supply made by the living.)

“He saith, I will return unto my house from where I came out; and when he is come, he found it empty, swept and garnished.

“Then goeth he and taketh with himself seven other Spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.”

One wonders if Dr. Bull was influenced in any way by the above quotation, at least in deciding that obsessing spirits were usually to be found in groups of like leanings. The Huna angle seems to be that if a spirit is driven out of a wicked man who has not given up his wickedness, he will invite fresh obsession by being “empty” of the good leanings that should have attracted to him guardians.

The house which he returns to find “empty, swept and garnished,” and which attracts the spirit and causes him to return, is, in Huna symbols, very interesting. To “sweep” is kahili. The root kahi means “to cut,” and the thing cut off is indicated by the far word, which means (hili), to “plait or twist,” symbolizing the aka cord. In other words, if the spirit who has left a man returns to find that the aka cord that was cut off by “sins” so that he is out of contact with his Aumakua, is not put back into normal condition for full interchange, there is nothing to prevent a return to a well “garnished” house – one well furnished with mana. “Garnished is lakolakoia, which means to supply with all needed foods and decorations.

THE BRUNLER-BOVIS BIOMETER

HRA Dr. Grace Brunler was kind enough to telephone to give information concerning the Brunler-Bovis Biometer, mentioned in a recent Bulletin. Only four of these instruments exist at the present time and no more are being made. Courses will continue to be given by Dr. Grace, just as her husband, Dr. Oscar Brunler gave them when alive. These courses run for six months and the tuition is $195. Those who take the course and who later can qualify as able to use the instrument well and as having professional need for an instrument in such work as counseling, etc., may borrow an instrument. Dr. Grace is an expert with the Biometer and is fully able to keep up the work begun by Dr. Oscar Brunler. She plans soon to move to quarters which are easier to reach than the “Castle” up on the side of the Hollywood Hills. Biometric readings continue to be taken as before, as a part of counseling and guidance work – the readings being those of the “soul” as Dr. Brunler was always at pains to explain when with us. The fee for this form of assistance is $25, I understand. Readings are taken only for those able to come in person. Pay lectures open to the public are often given. Those in or near Hollywood who wish to attend may phone Dr. Grace for information as to the lectures as well as concerning classes and other matters.

HELL, THE PLACE OF EVIL SPIRITS

[This] should be discussed in the light of Huna as we presently understand it. The question arises, quite naturally, as to why the evil entities do not go to hell, as they are supposed to do after death, and not remain on the earth level of life to tempt, mislead and obsess the living. The great threat which kept Christians in line in the old days was that if they sinned and died un-cleansed, they would go to hell and burn forever. This threat had considerable value as a deterring influence which kept men from wickedness. However, it threatened men for an ever-growing list of dogmatic taboos, and gradually lost its policing force.

In most religions and in the traditions which were not more than the tales of primitive peoples, hell was, basically, the grave. Only in lands in which survival was accepted as a fact did the dead live on, and only as this idea was expanded did the good and the bad come to have reward or punishment. The good went to some form of heaven and the bad to hell. In some sets of beliefs there was a chance for the wicked to reform and eventually gain heaven.

The Old Testament sheol (or hell) was a rather indefinite state as well as place. In the New Testament, Matthew (5:22) tells us that Jesus said that anyone who called another a fool was in danger of hell fire. Luke (10:15) quotes Jesus as saying, “And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell.” Also, (16:23) “In hell he lifted up his eyes (The selfish rich man), being in torments, and seethe Abraham afar off and Lazarus (The beggar whom he had treated badly) in his bosom.”

All this amounts to little more than the use of the accepted Jewish ideas of the time in giving his outer or non-Huna teachings to the public. Fortunately, we now have Huna as the basis of what was taught in private to the disciples, and can use it to check back for the original and more fully developed concepts.

Huna had no place of fire in which the wicked dead were subjected to torture. When the Bible was translated into the Hawaiian, a coined name had to be used for “hell,” luahi, or “Fire pit.” Na kahuna, as I gather from a study of the materials to be found in the legends and words and roots, symbolized the Aunihipili as a dweller in darkness, and the Aumakua as a dweller in light. Earth, which is a place in which darkness and light divide the day between them, was the symbol of the normal state in which the conscious and subconscious selves live in normal and happily progressive union, making evolutionary growth in goodness so that the condition represented by light may eventually be attained.

Some of the old legends of Polynesia have preserved rather well the kahuna concepts. They tell how the dead person goes to the spirit land under the earth or sea, Po, or “Darkness,” after passing a guardian of the path to that place, then crossing a river, and being called by name on the opposite side and offered food. This tale may be the original one from which came the legend of the River Styx, beyond which lay Hades. In any event, if the spirit was filled with greed and could not restrain himself from eating the food (mana), he was retained in the underworld for an indefinite time. On the other hand, if he was not greedy, and if he stoutly refused the food, he was allowed to return to the place of light above the earth after a short pause on earth to call on friends (in some accounts). This gives us a good picture of what happens after death. Those who have not learned to control their  Aunihipili and who die greedy and hurtful are still under the control of their  Aunihipili and not of their  Auhane. Moreover, they have no direct partnership with their  Aumakua. After death, they remain held and controlled by their  Aunihipili to a greater or lesser degree. If they refuse to join other spirits in the dark level and to become “eating companion” spirits stealing mana from the living and influencing them, they can, in due time, work their way back up to the level of  Auhane and the lesser light. The level of the unseen Light is that still higher and is the condition of na Aumakua in symbol.

In the Polynesian legends one finds most interesting versions of several stories of ancient heroes who braved the underworld and managed in one way or another to escape from it or to rescue loved ones who had gone there and were held. The work of praying souls out of purgatory, as practiced in the Church of Rome for centuries, reminds one strongly of the rescues accomplished in the legends of the people of na kahuna. In fact, there is very little in the rites of the Catholic Church that cannot be better understood by turning back to the “Secret” as taught by Bible na kahuna, especially by Jesus. We of the HRA progress rapidly these days in our knowledge of the original Huna. The “Veil” thins for us.
MFL

November 15, 1952

THE “WALL” STILL HOLDS

HRA S.H. of Glendale, Calif., added to my faith and pleasure with a letter of Nov. 6th, in which she writes, “I wish to report that my son-in-law has today returned safe and sound from Korea. His plane and that of his wing man were the only two in the squadron which did not get a single bullet hole. I wish to thank with all my heart the TMHG group which has been working on the “Wall of Protection.” It evidently is very potent action and so very much worthwhile. Our group here still has Breakfast Meetings – and Huna still works for us. Thanks again.”

We still have a perfect score on our “Wall” boys. The visualized “Wall of Protection” and the prayer to establish, strengthen and keep it around each of them, is made in the TMHG just after the gift of mana to na Aumakua through the “braided cord” – this mana is for their use as they see fit – and following the visualization and prayer for world peace and progression into the New Day of Hurtlessness, Helpfulness and Enlightenment. The signature, in ink, of your fighting man or one near to you for whom you will work faithfully, may be sent in for the TMHG at any time. A report on such men is to be sent in whenever there is a change in their service, such as leaving any part of the service that may endanger them. If any of you plan an auto trip of some length and wish such prayer protection as can be had through the TMHG, let me have the request and dates and the signatures of those making the trip a few days before the start.

THE MATCH BOX EXPERIMENT WORKS well for her, reports HRA Mrs. H.G.G, of Long Beach, California, who is one of our brand new HRAs and who is reading and testing out the things laid out for training and testing in the early Bulletins. She has followed the suggestion that one take several of the small match boxes to be had at the grocers, remove the matches and use the boxes instead of the pill boxes, which are more difficult to come by.

DEAR MR. LONG,
I am so excited at this point I’m not sure my letter will make good sense. However, I’ll risk it, knowing you have been through a similar experience! Tonight is the third time I’ve tried the match box experiment, and I’ve hit it four out of four!  “George” seemed to tell me what was in the boxes, then I checked on each one again with “George” and the pendulum before opening the boxes. The first and second times I tried the experiment I was only able to get what was in the first box; the other three I couldn’t get straight with either “George” or the pendulum. You will know how I feel this evening, having got all four correct.
Sincerely,
Mrs. H.G.G.

Yes, the Aunihipili can be trained, rapidly with some of us, more slowly with others. It is a good idea to try George on the boxes now and then to see if he is in good working [order].

ELECTION PREDICTIONS

Election predictions made by the use of the pendulum (despite my recent warning that prediction of the future was most uncertain with the pendulum) were attempted. Three pendulum tests made by Democrat HRAs who hoped Adlai would win; all came up with “yes” swings. Two tests made by Republican HRAs hoping that Ike would win, got “yes” for him, and one got correct answers on a number of other favored candidates who later won. Cigbo, who was not very well briefed as to what it was all about, suspended his pendulum from his tail and in due time voiced the somber prediction, “pendulum Harry is the one who is going to be ejected.” Later on, after consulting with Mr. Thomas Kat, in our alley, he was able to explain everything. He said, “It is very clear and unmistakable that only Republican Uncles and Aunties can predick with a pennylum, anyway, in this ejection.” I hurried out to consult Mr. Thomas Kat myself to get the straight of the matter, and he issued the following sage dictum. “Georges are always the same as the people that owns them. They wasn’t trying to predick. They just wanted to cast their votes.” If any of you got a pendulum prediction in this matter which was contrary to your personal hopes, will you kindly let me know so I can stand corrected on a blanket agreement with Mr. Kat?

SCRYING ALSO MISSED for a good Democrat HRA who allowed a full five minutes to get himself subconsciously neutral before looking into his glass to see who would win. An image formed and he saw a plane land and Adlai get off, soft dark hat and all. He took that to be the answer.

A TRANCE PREDICTION was obtained last December on the 16th (‘51) by HRAs Hal and Mary Falvey of Chicago. Larry did the trance prediction, helped into trance by light suggestion. No spirit influence so far as I know. Their letter, sent to the Study at that time, is in the files and can now be checked. She had worked to get a telepathic contact with their son. When Mary was ready, Hal asked, “How’s son doing at the tank training camp?” Mary replied:

“Having a fine time. He likes it. (Pause) The fighting is about over anyway … 2-mile neutral strip in Korea … nobody’s to enter it but both sides do, though not to fight. (Pause) Elections coming. Same two miles of neutral zone in other countries. In about 18 months the lid blows off. Strange thing, we have no president then, not as we have now. A deputy or Premier runs things; the President is told he wasn’t elected to handle things as they have developed, and he is quite agreeable. It is all quite legal; it’s still the same U.S.A. Mr. Taft is in there somewhere, and in complete agreement. The Premier, or whatever he is, is a tall, dark-haired, balding square-faced man. Thus we get in there and really whip the situation.”

Hal wrote on October 28th, commenting on the matter and giving a later prediction. I quote:

“Note the ‘neutral strips,’ which have not only characterized the Korean treaty zone but, recently, East-West Europe. Acheson seemed to think last December 16th, that the Korean situation might blow up at any minute, but Mary did not, and it hasn’t.

“We were curious about Taft at the time; the prediction has him ‘in there,’ as well he might be, but not as President. We think that general predictions deal not only with ultimate events but the minds shaping them; the minds can shift as things develop, but the event will happen. Thus the time intervals can change, between now and the event, but the event has to happen ultimately. Predictions for individuals can be much more precise, we find, but even these, when dependent on other minds somehow involved, can happen sooner or later than predicted.

“All business predictions, including Mary’s, are that business will probably be good, indefinitely. A military government, the logical one for all-out war, might change that, though it would not necessarily stop the making or buying of goods.

“(Later) I asked Mary in trance just now about business in general. This is her first try at predicting in exactly this way. She says: ‘Good business for the next two years except for a slight, short dip next March, and expect trouble from the Russians next June’ — tho’ this evidently does not affect business. Says we get more military participation in government by next August.”

COMMENT: Our thanks for this interesting material, Hal and Mary. The letters go into the files for later checks. This type of prediction, with good documentation, is what we need. I can think of only one tall, dark, balding man at the moment who might take over in conjunction with Senator Taft in a war emergency, and this is General MacArthur. General Ike is not “dark,” but he is “in there” now and it may have been his shadow cast ahead that was seen.

OUR ASTROLOGERS ALSO PREDICTED, and one of our best in HRA circles comments in a recent note, “I sure thought that Saturn on Ike’s sun would be likely to do him considerable blocking, especially as old Saturn seemed to be favoring Adlai. Mr. Clancy, who publishes an astrology magazine was sure Ike would miss being elected, and some time ago, as reported in the Bulletin, another of our HRAs had checked the stars and decided that only Harry had stars good enough to win an election – this was before the conventions and she had checked on Taft as the main opposing entry. I tried for a dream of the future to see what I could get just before the election and dreamed I came out of a hut where men had gathered around a fire. Outside it was very cold and I stood on the top of a smooth, round hill top facing a long steep slope covered with ice. Taking a hand sled, I flattened myself on it and began to slide down, faster and faster, suddenly realizing that I could not stop, that I had forgotten to dress warmly, and that there was now no turning around. Ahead was a vast lake with spots of open water which I feared I might slide into, but I managed by inches to avoid them. Awakening, I asked my George for the meaning of the dream, and got the flash “slide.” I thought that one over and suddenly got the symbol. George had given me the nearest he could to a “landslide,” but had failed to make it understood which candidate it was to be for. Never having seen a landslide, but knowing about sled slides, he did his best to get at least that part of the idea across. The water and ice were clear in the dream, so I take it things will be tricky ahead of us, but that we will manage one way or another to keep from falling in.

A THREE-TIME WINNER of the “Pegleg Liars’ Contest”

The winner at the convention of mining men and prospectors held in the desert country recently, is our HRA Howard Clark. He tried to keep quiet to give the others a chance this year, but they made him get up and tell one, and, naturally, won the prize. Here’s his yarn.

“I was slipping on a ’slichenslide’ surface toward a vast chasm, when I saw that I was nearing a very small crack in the rock. I quickly seized my trusty grubstake and drove it into the crack, and held on. My grubstake was pretty small in them days.”

In his letter, in addition to the story, there was, as usual, much interesting information and comment. He writes, “I was much interested in Bulletin 89 and the report of the man of the Eidetics Foundation – as on page 3 – saying that they had found such things as demons. Recently I read a most amazing book dating from the 1880 period, edited by Emma Hardinge Britten, and covering the life of a gifted psychic. He was terrified in localities by apparent ‘demons’ in the shape of ‘elementals’ – immature forms of life in nature, forms and shapes in partial development, utterly without an idea of anything but mischief, torment, terror, etc. These were visible to his psychic sight and often terrified his horse, giving rise to accounts of ‘haunted’ areas in the back country of Britain 100 years ago.”

Incidentally, the story of the lost mine discovered by Pegleg Smith, years ago, so HRA Clark and others tell me, is one of the best authenticated of the many such tales. The old prospector turned up after a prospecting trip in a part of the South West that is very broken and full of confusing jumbles of hills, canyons and washes. He reported that he had become lost, had come out on the top of a hill, and had been amazed to find the ground there strewn with large gold nuggets. (Go away, Cigbo! Stop trying to read over my shoulder!) To prove his story he had his pockets filled with the nuggets. The spot was never found again, although it has been searched for time and again and although several men have lost their lives in the maze of the desert in which the discovery was made.

Dr. Brunler hoped to be able by map dowsing with a pendulum, to locate some of the lost mines or buried treasure, and he and his friends made many long trips into far places to see what might be found at places marked on the map during the dowsing tests. One very promising spot marked on the map was investigated, and when the party arrived at the far place which had been indicated – it was at the end of a desert road which was hardly more than a track in the desert – the gold was there, and no question about it. The only catch was that someone else had found it first and that a mine was in full operation there. Pendulums and radionics instruments used in dowsing for gold, may one day turn up Pegleg’s mine. (Cigbo says that if any HRA should find it, to remember that he has – right now – put dibs on a nice big nugget for his cigar box.) If the lesson learned by the HRA experience with the pendulum in predicting the election is worth anything, it should warn us that when we use the pendulum to dowse for gold, we had better make certain that George is not all loaded up and over balanced with the hope and expectation of finding gold. I have a pet theory that I want to try out some day when I can find a good map dowser and a spare few hours. I would give the dowser a “sample” to hold while he used his pendulum. The sample would be natural gold – a small nugget, if I could get one for love or money, or borrow one. It would be wrapped in something so that the dowser would not know what he was dowsing for, and all precautions would be taken against the dowser being told that if he found the Pegleg mine on the map, he would be cut in on the deal in a large way. Of course, I have still to find a way to keep his George from finding out what was in the “sample” – and at the same time to recognize the substance of the gold so he could go in aka body to search for the stuff. Know a good dowser who never saw a nugget or native gold in the rocks?

MORE ABOUT E-THERAPY

As explained by HRA A.L. Kitselman, its originator, in response to Bulletin 89 touching on his work and the general field of Dianetics. Here is his letter:

“I am afraid I didn’t make things very clear to you on my last visit. The new therapy, ES or E-Suggestion, is an E-plus therapy and not a new form of E-Therapy. E-Therapy itself is simply opening the mind, heart and body to therapy by the Aumakua, and it is not, in itself, a method or ‘technique.’ Nor would I have any idea how to change or revise E-Therapy, since I have never known how to do E-Therapy in the first place. It is therapy done by ‘E’ – the Aumakua.

“Everyone who has called upon the Aumakua for help has been engaging in E-Therapy – to the extent that the mind, heart and body are willing to manifest whatever the Aumakua directs. There is nothing ‘new’ about this and I don’t see how there can be anything ‘old’ about it, either. So do not expect any changes in Aumakua.

“On the other hand, the Aumakua manifests in their cases with only about two-thirds of the population. In one-third of the people, the Aunihipili (low self of Huna) is distorted with some form of block. ES and other E-plus methods are ways of operating on the Aunihipili so that the manifestations of the Aumakua will no longer be blocked. These are ‘methods,’ and they come and go, but Aumakua-Therapy itself is timeless.

“Also, on behalf of Mr. Hubbard and myself, I must ask you not to speak of E-Therapy as a form of Dianetics. Both he and I – he first – have emphatically stated that E-Therapy is not Dianetics. In the language of SSBM, E-Therapy is Aumakua Therapy, whereas Dianetics is Auhane therapy. That is to say that Dianetic techniques and procedures are directed and controlled by the conscious mind of the auditor, the pre-clear, or of both, whereas E-Therapy is controlled only by the Aumakua of the observer, or of the transient, or of both. That is quite a difference.

“In reference to Mr. Johnson’s communication, he says that early Dianetic auditing produced ‘only a couple or so people who ever reached what they thought was a state of MEST clear.’ I don’t know where this statement came from, but when I was Executive Officer of the Hubbard Foundation in Honolulu, we had it straight from headquarters that fifty ‘clears’ had been produced before September of 1950, and one of them was put in charge of our branch of the Foundation. It is so easy to make claims. I have met most of the leading lights in both Dianetics and E-Therapy, and it is my sad duty to report that I do not know of any ‘clears’ produced by revery therapy alone, whether by Dianetics, psychotherapy, E-Therapy or hypno-therapy. Good ‘releases’ may be so produced, but stable clears are produced only by the age-old techniques of disidentifying such as are found in the teachings of Kapila, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Christ, and Krishnamurti. I know a number of such clears, but they were not produced by revery-therapy.

“I have an E-Meter and have done much work with it, but it seems curious to me that the 1500 or so na Aumakua whom I have watched at work – and many of whom I have talked to – have not, to date, seen fit to expound to me any of the extraordinarily exciting revelations about the ‘ARSCLYANS,’ etc. I guess I’m just not one of the favored few.

“There is a voice within me – a demon circuit, maybe? or an injected entity? – which keeps suggesting that Mr. Hubbard is a reincarnation of Madame Blavatsky. Of course, I keep saying, ‘Preposterous! Go back where you came from, foul imp!’ but the voice answers, ‘Just look at the facts. Both taught former lives, different races of beings, planetary incarnations, exaltation of super-beings; both complained of being persecuted and misunderstood; both received and dispensed revelations; both were world-travelers; both were disarmingly candid in evaluating their own importance, and both followed the same pattern of professional conduct.’ Can anyone free me from this obsession?”
(Signed) A.L. Kitselman

Comment: As they say cautiously in the magazines and on the radio, the opinions of the writers of letters to this Bulletin are not necessarily those of the Bulletin or its editor. I would hate to have Madame Blavatsky rise from the grave to sue, or Dr. Hubbard arrive from Arizona for the same purpose.

THE SUCCESSFUL USE OF HUNA

The successful use of Huna was reported in a letter of October 10th by HRA H.B.D. of Evanston, Ill. I quote:

“About a month ago the 17-year old son of some good friends of ours was stricken with polio, arms, legs and neck paralyzed. I heard about it the second day and decided to include a request for his recovery in my prayer. The very instant that I mentioned his name in my prayer I got a powerful tingle all over, a charge of mana going places. This for 5 or 6 consecutive days, then no more. Upon inquiry I found out that he was over the hump and on the way to recovery. For a week his condition had been critical and the doctor didn’t know which way it would turn. Two weeks later he was about 100% recovered and took part in a sailboat race.

“This would seem to indicate that the Aumakua accepts mana only as long as there is need for it for use in a worthy cause. If this line of reasoning holds water, then there must have been a terrific need for the mana I offered one evening about three weeks ago during the DEG period. I got a terrific tingle all over for about five minutes. It left me groggy for a while. The only request I made in that prayer was that I might help with whatever cause you were praying for at the time. It might have been an emergency in the Wall of Protection.

“Aside from this, I have kept down the aches and pains of my wife, but have had to repeat treatment every three or four weeks. We can’t seem to get to the cause of her troubles. I no longer transfer her aches to myself. I include in my prayer the request that I be permitted to radiate off harmlessly any off-key vibrations I may have picked up, into infinite space. This seems to work for me.

“About two months ago I had an accident – backed accidentally into the hot exhaust pipe on my boat with my bare back and got a burn of about 25 square inches, about half of it second degree and a little of it third degree. I willed a charge of mana to go to work on the burn and in approximately two minutes all pain was gone. I used no dressing. The next morning the blisters were torn open and it was quite a mess, so I decided to try autosuggestion that there should be no infection … and there was none, in spite of considerable irritation while driving my car, and while sleeping on it at night.

“Ten days later it was healed perfectly, leaving no scars. In the past, ruptured blisters frequently became infected when not dressed and took longer to heal.

“In the past I have been bothered with nose bleeds which would last from ten to thirty minutes. Lately I have willed a charge of mana to stop the bleeding and, so far, it has always stopped it in from ten to fifteen seconds. Once I tried faith alone, and told myself that with the help of the Aumakua this could stop instantly, and I got a tingle and it stopped right then.

“In Bulletin 61, page 7, you tell of the spirit kahuna who said ‘Think only good, good, good, and some day you will see a big white light, Once in her life, my wife has seen that kind of an intense white light. Her sisters were with her at the time, but did not see it. They thought she must have been dreaming.

“In Bulletin 64, page 4, I am again with you 100%. I, too, want to know WHY, very much so. If this leads to the seventh deed of Maui, so be it. Before I read your book I was a complete materialist, never went to church, don’t now – can’t swallow the dogmatism – but man needs religion, and at long last the study of Huna gives it to me. It makes sense and lets me hope that I may yet get guidance from the Aumakua, come hell or high water – or even conditions such as described in the BSRA release, ‘LAST DAYS.’ It may be very late.

“Meanwhile the study of Huna is to me a spiritual anchor to windward [and] much needed. It is the most interesting and the most worthwhile study that I have ever undertaken, but because my psychic ability, if any, seems to be very nearly nil, it will probably never be much more than just a study with me.”

Comment: Many thanks for such a good report, H.B.D., and for trying out things as you get into the Huna studies. Huna is to be put to use as well as to be used as material about which to speculate. Your experience of finding at times that the mana moves in you greatly, with much tingling, is a very familiar one to me, as is the use of so much mana at times that I have suddenly awakened, the TMHG letter box still in my hands, to find that I had either blacked out or fallen asleep when the mana supply gave out. I agree that this gives every evidence of being the indication of a time of emergency when na Aumakua have very important work to do on the dense earth level and are only too pleased to have a place where mana can be obtained for what they have to do. We may serve better than we know. In any event, I have yet to feel more than a momentary lack of vital force after such an experience. Often there is a fine uplifted feeling after strong tingling actions have stopped.

THE PAMPHLET, “PROJECTION OF THE MIND”

This pamphlet, and the small globes made of light blue glass, which HRA Walter Bissel-Smith (Am. Gas & Electric, 30 Church St., New York 8, N.Y.) made available not long ago to HRAs who wished to test his system of “Mental Projection,” have resulted in interesting reports. Letters offering these items for those who wished to test the method were sent to 34 HRAs listed in the Huna Directory sheets. Seven did not reply. Five said ‘no,” and twenty-two agreed to make tests and were sent the literature explaining it and a globe. HRA Bissel-Smith received a number of interesting reports on results, among them one from George and Helen Sandwith who ran tests in Suva. Fiji, down in the South Pacific, where they are hard at work.

I have been happy to have a copy of the report to read and pass on:

“Your generosity in sending the glass spheres and pamphlet is much appreciated … Helen, my wife, saw a thin mist and shapes trying to form for several days, then, suddenly, one day she saw a beautiful Polynesian girl, her back turned toward her, sitting under a tree with her lap full of flowers. She says the coloring was superb – like a tropical sunset, and the golden skin of the girl gleaming.

“Two nights later she saw a herd of small, light brown humped native cattle race past, their coats shining and radiating. Behind them stood a grove of palms of a kind she said she had not seen before. A few days later on, when we were driving up country, she exclaimed, ‘There are the palms I saw in my vision!’ They were a Fijian type that I have never seen elsewhere.

“On one occasion I found myself looking down a street in Suva. The road was dusty and a herd of dark humped cattle were passing along it. I get better results not using the sphere, but imagining it, or using the idea behind it. I find that I am in closer touch with the Entities of our ikons and can converse with one of them far more easily than in the past. The idea of the glass sphere was emphasized for us both recently when we were initiated as associates of a Hindu Fire-Walkers’ temple. The High Priest made the mark on our foreheads of a third eye with yellow ochre. Incidentally, our fire-walking friends say they can see the goddess, Kali, walking about the inner sanctum of the temple. Her power certainly can be felt! I have also seen picture writing on the wall at night without a sphere and with my eyes open.
Very kind regards from us both. We hope to learn a lot about Fijian Sacred Stones using your methods.”
August 26, 1952  (Signed) George Sandwith

The Sandwiths have just spent some time in Samoa and have sent a fine report on the sacred stones there, together with a most interesting set of pictures, three enlargements of which await pendulum tests as well as Aurameter investigation for radiations. Fine work in the field and much appreciated by all of us, I am sure.

MORE HUNA DIRECTORY NAMES

56. Mary C. Hanscom, P.O. Box 132, Claremont, Calif., who has had some very excellent results in her use of the Huna methods. A very experienced hand in the general field of the occult and metaphysical.

57. Mrs. Bessie Cornelison, 2246 So. Bannock St., Denver 10, Colo. Phone No. SHerman 1335. One of our HRAs who has been with us from the early days. Would like to know other HRAs, especially in the Denver area.

58. Louis H. Scherb, 727 Cornelia Ave., Chicago 3, Ill. One of our newer members, but long a student of the many philosophies in our part of the field. He writes a very good letter.

ABOUT BRUNLER-BOVIS BIOMETER SUPPLY

I have had many recent inquires, [and] I can only say that at present these are not available. When Dr. Brunler was alive, he had a few made up for his students who had taken the $200 course in the use of the instruments. The price of the instruments probably ran as high as $500 each. The Bovis Biometer [is] not made now.
MFL

November 1, 1952

RATHER AMAZING NEWS has been coming in of late concerning the rapid changes and developments in Dianetics, Eidetics and E Therapy. This Bulletin will be given over largely to this news and comments on it, but first let me explain why. I believe that one of the primary duties of the HRA is to hunt out any information bearing on Huna or related fields, especially if it is new or so little known that it needs spreading among us. Most HRAs are unable to obtain such information, and few have time to study it and conclude what it may be worth. I, however, here in the middle of things, have information constantly being offered. I have the opportunity to study it and to try to give it a proper evaluation, even if this is frequently impossible. In the Dianetics field, it is my feeling that we will do well to keep careful watch. A large number of earnest enthusiasts are at work there, and all sorts of things are being tried out. New theories are being evolved, and practical testing runs along side-by-side with speculation. It is to be hoped that, sooner or later, some simple and sound methods of draining off the complex may be discovered. As we all know, na Kahuna believed that the “path” had to be cleared of the several kinds of “sins,” including the complex and the obsession influence. We are fortunate to have several exceptionally active HRAs in the various parts of the Dianetics field, and they have been doing for us the laboratory type of investigations which we have not been able to do for ourselves. What they have to report to us merits careful consideration, no matter whether we agree with their conclusions or not. In any event we owe them a debt of gratitude.

SUGGESTION HAS BEEN ACCEPTED by E Therapy, I was told by HRA Kitselman recently when he called at the Study. I gather that the method formerly advocated did not produce the results that had been hoped for and so, as in other parts of the Dianetics field, “new techniques” were in order. The main trouble in the use of the E Therapy method has been to get full contact with the “E” or our Aumakua, and to be able to get it to take over the task of bringing back the right memories at the right time and causing them to give up their content of complexed material – to the end that it may be drained off with appropriate physical actions such as yawning, panting, jerking, flushing and the like.

In the lore of na Kahuna there was no expectation that the patient would contact his Aumakua before his fixations and “eating companion” obsessions were located and removed sufficiently well that the Aunihipili would feel free to reach out to make contact along the aka cord. More than that, the patient had, as his very first step, to admit his guilts, make amends for hurts done others, and go through a very definite form of conversion or turning away from the hurtful  way of life. Not until this was done, could the kahuna help him to open his path to the Aumakua and obtain help and healing. Jesus, whom we have discovered to be a kahuna of the fist grade, had the same ideas on this approach as did later na Kahuna.- This has not been a fully recognized necessity as yet in Dianetics, although full recognition is coming inevitably, judging by all the signs.

Through light suggestion, Mr. Kitselman hopes to enable the Aunihipili of the one being helped to make contact with his Aumakua “E” in a much shorter time and in a more complete way. As I understand it, this will be the only use to which suggestion will be put. For some time, despite the effort made in early Dianetics processing to avoid even a touch of suggestion, it has been believed by many that it could not be avoided so long as one person was relaxed to a great extent while his guide was mentally driving him to recall memories which would reveal “engrams.”

The early experiments with the use of the Indian practice of eating the narcotic peyote buttons to release the Aunihipili are being continued with the refined narcotic element, under proper supervision, and tests are being made to learn whether or not this may assist one to get into contact with the “E” more rapidly, or to get instructions in dreams, visions or through symbols from the Aumakua.

Mr. Kitselman is lecturing, demonstrating and traveling. He has plans afoot for a rather expensive and elaborate center at Pyramid Lake, north of Reno, and is working to raise $50,000, which he offers to match with property worth $64,000. It is to be a place where the members can come to rest, to be helped and to spend vacations. As is the case with all the offshoot branches of Dianetics, the work of teaching the new “techniques” as they are evolved, is done in part through lectures recorded on tapes and distributed to the several centers, where they are listened to by those desiring the instruction.

EIDETICS RECOGNIZED SPIRIT OR OBSESSIONAL INFLUENCE some time ago, and I now learn that in Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard’s new brand of Dianetics, the thing at first thought to be impersonal and named “demon circuit,” has been accepted as spirit influence of an obsessional nature, ranging from slight to strong in different pre-clears. This checks with the Huna of Polynesia and of the Garden of Eden and of the New Testament.

In July, HRA Bert Avera, of the Eidetic Foundation in Alabama, gave me the first news I had of this major change in the field. Here are parts of his letter.

“We have been making some very interesting discoveries here at the Foundation, relative to the problem of spirit possession. And these discoveries have had some astonishing repercussions on the astral plane. We have found a number of people who have discarnate entities attached to them and attempting to influence their lives.

“In two cases we have exorcised these entities by having the pre-clear locate the agreement to have them. (Note: agreement is apparently the acceptance of spirits or of any event that may occur, by the Aunihipili, although in Eidetic no distinction is made between conscious and subconscious. In this adoption of the Gestalt brand of psychology, all offshoot schools of the original Dianetics seem to follow the lead of Mr. Hubbard.) There is always an agreement (or tolerance?) or the entity cannot attach itself. The agreements are found in the same way any agreement is found, as described in SIMPLIFIED PROCESSING (Mimeo unit, price $2.) with one addition. It is necessary, or at least advisable, for the pre-clear to erect about himself a shield against counter-emotion and counter-thought (those opposing his own), because these entities will negate strongly against any attempt to get rid of them. If the pre-clear is running with an auditor, the auditor should erect a shield about himself too. If the auditor has any perception on the astral plane, these entities can be seen and heard very clearly while they are being ousted. They frequently plead frantically with the auditor when they realize that they cannot be felt through the pre-clear’s shield.

“Entities such as these are people who have died and have refused to accept responsibility for their death; hence they must maintain for themselves the illusion that they are still alive. They frequently do this by living with incarnate people, generally ones they knew when they themselves were alive. They try to gain and to maintain control over these people. This can be accomplished, as I have said before, only if the incarnate individual desires it. There is ALWAYS A REASON for this type of agreement, and it must be found if the exorcism is to be permanent.

“Also, we have found that there are such things as demons. Real honest-to-goodness demons. They are a life form which has its lowest material existence on the astral plane, just as our lowest material existence is on the physical plane. They do attempt to possess people. When they succeed, they are responsible for a great deal of insanity, since their sole desire toward humans is to harm them and feed on their life force. But, once again, they cannot possess an individual except through his own agreement (acceptance) to be possessed. Frequently, in the case of demons, this is through an individual’s fear of the so-called supernatural. Their greatest weapon against us is our fear of them.

“As a child, an individual may hear ghost stories that lead to the acceptance of the reality (belief firmly established) that the ‘things that go bump in the night’ are capable of doing limitless damage to poor ‘defenseless’ humans. This is a form of agreement that leaves this individual wide open to the attack of any entity intent on doing harm, and there are plenty of these.

“For the past ten days we have had a siege of demons. They have been attacking because the discoveries that are being made here are extremely dangerous to them. The data we have is a definite threat to the continued existence of demons as such. We have killed several of them experimentally – that is, we have destroyed their astral forms.

“I suggest that, if you have any fear of  ‘the horrid things of darkness’ (mentioned in SSBM), you find where you have accepted realities concerning their ability to harm you, and blow them out. While you are doing this, it would be advisable to erect a shield such as I have described. This is easy to do. Just will it to exist and it does. Make certain that it encompasses your entire body. This is a genuine shield, and not merely insensitivity to counter-emotion and counter-thought. In this business it is a good idea to be on guard against any and all sorts of low-toned attacks. (Attacks from entities of evil intent.)”

NOTE: Recently, HRAs George and Helen Sandwith sent in fine photos of Hindus involved in fire-walking, also of their temple and images. I was requested to try to run Biometric tests on individuals, the fire, the images and so on. I tried repeatedly, without success. The pictures seemed dead to me from a psychic contact point of view. Later, they sent in a fine set of photos of native Fijian fire-walkers in action, and I had little trouble making contact with them and getting their readings. (All had the “will” reading straight up-and-down.) It was my conclusion that the Hindus had surrounded themselves and their temple, images and fire with a “shield’ of some sort that kept my George from touching them when he projected an aka finger along the line of the aka threads tied to the photos. There is evident power in such a surrounding shield. In our “Wall of Protection” set up by will and action of mind and prayer, there seems to be something very similar. By-the-by, no man in the service who has been included in our “Wall” group has yet been injured. We build on the Wall twice daily in the TMHG right after offering mana to the Po`e Aumakua and making our request for a world at peace. Work through me in this. I have the names and signatures of them or of a dear one through whom we work if we lack a direct aka thread connection via a signature.

SCIENTOLOGY HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS recently and for a report on this we are indebted to HRA Clem W. Johnson, of Boca Grande, Fla., who has been spending time and money freely to test out the Dianetics-Scientology ideas. Here are parts of a recent letter.

“Speaking of Dianetics – I am not a clear yet! I have had about 150 hours of old style auditing, and must say my health has certainly improved as well as many aberrations that I now realize that I had. But the new system of auditing with the electro psycho-meter offers me hope of becoming a THETA CLEAR in the next few months. It is the first time that Hubbard has come out with a technique that has excited me.

“Scientology has now come to deal with fire-walking, seeing behind walls, instant healing, spirits, Huna, Yoga and all the other known forms of mysticism.

“With the new technique 88 in which Black and White is used, it seems that the present aberrations of life are unimportant and a waste of time. The secret now is to clear the Thetan – our Aumakua, on the WHOLE TRACK of his aberrations, which goes back 70 trillion (70,000,000,000,000) years to the time when he first left the ‘Home Universe.’

“With the use of Black and White, one simply gets a concept of an incident and then proceeds to turn everything white around it. When black encroaches, run it away and turn it to white. When one can KEEP the field white, the incident has been reduced or cleared. This has to be done with the use of the E-meter, but a person can audit himself even, with this case.

“With the old systems of auditing present life engrains, there were only a couple or so people who ever reached what they thought was a state of MEST clear; but they had a habit of sliding back. It is now known that this was because the Thetan was not audited. Now, it is much easier to produce a Theta clear than it used to be to produce even a false or temporary MEST clear.

“Hubbard claims to have proven the new technique on 20 people and on himself, saying that he is, himself, a MEST clear. The latest news from Scientology Journal is that five Theta clears were produced in five days at Phoenix.

“The following information was gleaned from the 20 people who were audited and who ‘lived’ through these incidents. (See the $2.50 mimeo release, “What to Audit,” Scientific Press, Inc., 1405 No. Central Ave., Phoenix, Arizona – By L. Ron Hubbard.)

“It seems that there are at least two lines of spirits. One is called the ‘Genetic Line,’ and incidents of abrasive nature have happened to this entity during processing through the line from the Photon, Photon Converter – algae – Jellyfish, Weeper – water squirted – Clam, Being Eaten by Birds While a Clam, Sloth, Early Ape, Plithdown Man, Neanderthal Man, Early Civilizations, Before Conception, Conception, Birth, and Present Time.

“It would seem that the Genetic Entity is a double spirit, since it can be, and is, run through the ovum and also the sperm cells before conception. This I know, because I ran that myself.

“The Theta line begins about 70 trillion years ago when there was an incident of BEING REJECTED FROM THE HOME UNIVERSE, SEPARATION FROM UNIVERSAL SUPPLY OF THETA, BODY BUILDER INCIDENT, CAPTURE BY  ARSCLYANS, ELECTRONIC FIGHTS, DEPARTURE FROM DEAR SOULS – with several incidents in dear souls area – ENTRANCE INTO MEST UNIVERSE- upward of 1 trillion years ago. Then there is the city of Arsclycus set of incidents in which the Thetan has a double life track, one body being held in pawn while he goes elsewhere and is born into a MEST body. About 10,000 such lives. Each time he dies, he goes back to the body held in pawn until time to be born into another body. Then there is the incident of the collapse of Arclycus, followed by the effort to get into a new body line. The dates on these incidents are not quite clear but seem to be upward of 1 trillion years ago.

“There are many other incidents – without being standard – down through time until we reach the area in time which varies from person to person, which is called ‘Facsimile No. 1 – or Engram 1.’ They may be anywhere from 35,000 to 200,000 years ago. This would be entrance for the first time into the present body line. Many births and deaths in the present body line have been experienced by the Thetan up to the present time.

“It is very easy to recognize the Aumakua as the Thetan, and it is very simple to recognize the Genetic Entity as the Aunihipili It is also easy to recognize other spirits or entities – or split-off pieces of the mind – in the body. So far I have not been able to put my finger on the Auhane in this system, but perhaps it will be revealed later.

“The demon spirits which Hubbard used to call ‘demon circuits’ are now called ENJECTED ENTITIES. They will bear auditing from now on, and sometimes people get better for a while after auditing them, but it won’t last. After auditing the Thetan, they simply vanish. So now they are ignored. They vanish very rapidly in auditing the Thetan.

Now here is a point. The Thetan is BEST placed is his own body and in his own world. The next best place is about three  feet behind and above the MEST or physical body. The WORST place he can be is INSIDE the MEST body, as then he is very badly aberrated, degenerated and decayed. He comes to think that the MEST body is all there is. He is the control of the MEST body then because the Genetic Entity has turned over most of his control to him, and so all he has to do is to try to keep the body running in some sort of condition until he decides to give up and take a new body. The Thetan knows this and leaves the body before death. The Genetic Entity stays on until quite some time after death, or until the COMPLETE DEATH of all the cells.

“Thus the Thetan carried all of his aberrations with him into a new body which he enters sometime just before birth. The Genetic Entity enters before conception.

“Now in auditing, the only thing one does really is to remove the occlusions and restore memory. Once one remembers his other realities, he is relatively un-aberrated. For instance, once one remembers that he once could defy fire or walk on water, it becomes his reality and there is nothing more to it – he just goes ahead and DOES IT.

“Therefore, Huna, Yoga, Hinduism, Metaphysics and all related subjects – even Christianity – are based on the same thing:

1. Getting rid of sins, recovering memory of incidents
2. Unblocking the Path
3. Working out Karma
4. Faith – dim memory
5. Concentration – bringing back some memories.
6. Going back to 10,000 years ago, and back and on back

“It should be noted that in auditing, the only incidents which amount to anything or have any aberrative power-charge on them are OVERT ACTS. They are acts which you have once done to somebody or something else. THERE IT IS IN A NUTSHELL. Huna says, DON’T HURT ANYONE ELSE – another, your brother, or what not?

“So we really have to thank Mr. Hubbard for proving Huna to be almost 100% perfect. I have always, since Dianetics came out, believed that clearing the mind was all that was needed in Huna to become a kahuna. It should be something attained instantly, not as the result of 4o years of meditation.

“Mr. Hubbard says now that about 80 hours auditing with the E-meter, using the new techniques, will produce a MEST clear and, after that, it does not take long to go to Theta Clear.

“There are now several recognized states of clearness:

1. A 15 or Optimum – not stable
2. NEST clear – cleared of aberrations of this life, and of enough on the Theta or Whole Track, to make one stable
3. A CLEARED THETA CLEAR. One who cannot yet be imagined. So called. One who does not  have to depend upon a MEST body, but who can come and go from it at will. He would have perfect control of any powers that have been contributed to any person on Earth, such as the most fantastic miracles of a Yogi or of Jesus or of anyone.

“The most fantastic stories of fiction, writers cannot describe what the Theta Clear can do, let alone the CLEARED THETA CLEAR. In my case, I am not interested in the latter – just working to become a Theta Clear.

“One has to get a great deal of charge off the incidents of this life before he can even CONTACT his Thetan or Theta Being. A Thetan does not have a MEST body. It is the person, according to Hubbard, NOT the Genetic Entity or the MEST body.

“It is a theory of Scientology that a person cannot conceive of or imagine anything unless he has once experienced the same kind of incident. It is my belief that every story, myth or legend originated from some basic fact, whether related to this world or not. Whether these tales or imaginings are true does not matter, nor does it matter whether or not you believe them to be true. Mr. Hubbard says, however, that it is absolutely necessary that they be audited and run out of a person to clear him.

“To me, it would seem to be fantastic if these incidents (of the past 70 trillion years) were run by only one person, but when more than 20 people have run the same incidents – Well, to me that sounds like the facts were genuine. Be that as it may, the incidents, whatever they may be, must be audited out of one.

“In Bulletin 87 you asked how fire-walking can be done. Very simple. All one has to do is run out his ‘hurts to others’ over his Whole Track, and then find some time when he could or did fire-walk, and see how he did it at that time. That’s all, Brother!

“My E-meter just came yesterday and I have put about four hours into auditing with it – self auditing – and it is simply fascinating to watch the needle show charge on incidents in this life, and then watch the charge or emotion go down and reduce. I tried it today on incidents reduced yesterday, and there is no charge on them now. I can’t even find some of them which have been reduced.

“I’ll let you hear more later. After I am a Theta Clear, I will come over and demonstrate how to become a kahuna.

COMMENT: After much coaxing of the reluctant and doubtful Cigbo, I managed to get him to scratch up the price of the What to Audit book. It has come and so I can review it briefly. In the foreword, Dr. Hubbard writes concerning the new technique …

“This one has really found it. So all I am going to say is, you’ve got it now. Let’s get this show on the road. That isn’t Greek. It’s a call to action.”

In his second foreword he begins by writing, “This is a cold-blooded and factual account of your last sixty trillion years.” On page 2 he explains why he gave up auditing the  engrains of the present life and went over to addressing himself to the many past lives instead. He writes, “I used (on 20 test cases) the most modern techniques – 1952 – and did a standard auditing addressed to the current lifetime of each one. I obtained mediocre results, partial recoveries, slight betterment in attitude. Then I audited each case addressing only past track, prior to this lifetime: the results were swift and spectacular. Thus I validated, for myself, the reality (belief) that in auditing the whole track, one can obtain excellent results that in auditing the current lifetime, one can obtain slow and mediocre results.    From this series came this conclusion: THE AUDITOR WHO INSISTS ON AUDITING THE CURRENT LIFETIME ONLY, WHEN HE HAS THE WHOLE TRACK TECHNIQUE AVAILABLE, IS WASTING TIME AND EFFORT AND IS, IN FACT, SWINDLING HIS PRECLEAR.”

A rather alarming situation is indicated in his following lines in which he tells of investigating the many auditors who “held back” and did not wish to accept the new ideas which were offered to them. He took several of these auditors through a number of sessions, and reports that, “I found several noteworthy similarities about them; they were so low in tone it was almost impossible to get them to register on the old style Mathison (E-meter), their cases were utterly bogged (down), they generally made a practice of refusing any auditing, their general record with pre-clears was very poor, their own lives were running badly, they not only fought past lives, as they called the ‘whole track,’ but they fought any technique evolved since the summer of 1950 or used later techniques poorly. They would not run any overt acts even in this lifetime; they needed, so far as their cases were concerned, the most careful auditing.” It is to be hoped that these – “a large number of auditors” – were not graduates of the early $500 courses and were not auditing pre-clears when they were, themselves, so lacking.

VERY DISTRESSING NEWS came recently in a form letter from the publishers of ARC LIGHT and PLUS & MINUS. They, HRAs Dee and Bill Swygard, simply announced that, as of September 20th, they were suspending publication and closing their book sale and rental service. Refunds were promised on the balance of subscriptions. They explained that they were closing down “for reasons diametric to those we had for starting them.” One can only wonder whether it became necessary to begin to eat again. Twenty cents per copy to make up and send out an eight-page journal to a small list of subscribers, leaves little above expenses. HRA Meade Layne has struggled along for some years getting out ROUND ROBIN, and feeding himself on the side. Cigbo could tell some tall tales about his experiences scratching up enough to get past times of crisis with the HRA Bulletin. My hope is that Dee and Bill may have become auditors equipped with E-meters and 88 technique, and are ready to set up in business at $25 the hour to help produce clears – or something which promises to be as lucrative. On the other hand, I do hope that they did not suddenly gag over the diversified materials offered in the Dianetics field – and just throw up everything.

MORE BAD NEWS is that Secret Science Behind Miracles is now down to a few copies. I tried to get five copies to hoard against “rare book” days and prices, but my publisher, Kosmon Press, could not promise to let me have them until a count was made of the recent orders and the number of copies left in storage at the press in Kingsport, Tenn., where address labels are sent to be pasted on and copies mailed. There is a long chance that a reprint may be made later on, but nothing certain yet. Hold the thought that the reprint will eventually be made. HRA keeps alive by the arrival of new members from the later readers of the book, you know.

MFL

Oct. 15, 1952

READING OF THE “WILL” PATTERN

KUDA BUX, who uses “eyeless sight” and who fire-walks, as mentioned in the last Bulletin, seems to be traveling most of his time and giving exhibitions of his trained psychic powers. However, HRA Edward S. Schultz, of Buffalo, N.Y., will try to make contact with him and see if we can interest him in the HRA efforts and get his help in such matters as he may see fit to discuss with us. It would be very interesting to run tests on his signature written at the beginning of his training, say around 15, and as of today. The Biometer might show some interesting changes in the will or personality pattern or the reading in degrees of the brain radiation.

THE BRAIN RADIATIONS OF HYPNOTISTS, by the way, are very interesting because they give the “will” pattern reading of the perfect will. Most people have a “will pattern” which Dr. Brunler classified as less than perfect. Let me illustrate the manner in which the pendulum moves over the plate of the Bovis Biometer (which I have on loan through the kindness of HRA Dr. Hanoka, of Buffalo, Missouri). The arrows show the direction of the swing.

The diamond-shaped plate on the Bovis Biometer is the exact size shown above [Probably not, editor 5/27/2010] and has lines printed to show exact horizontal, vertical or diagonal swings. These line are not shown in the drawings, but the movement of the pendulum is shown as approximately over the lines when a “pattern” reading is taken.

THE PATTERN CAN BE CHANGED with practice and effort to make the “will” reading more perfect and the circle more what it should be. However, Dr. Brunler found that to change from the general counterclockwise to the clockwise, was so difficult that it was seldom accomplished. The brain radiation reading may increase up to six degrees, we are told, but the average growth in this respect is from one to three degrees.

THE PATTERN READING should be of great value in all work of the type being undertaken in psychoanalysis, E Therapy, Eidetics or Dianetics. (Or “Scientology” as L. Ron Hubbard – now “Dr. Hubbard” in all the mentions of him in the Scientology literature to come out of Phoenix, Arizona  has renamed what was once called by him, “Dianetics.”) While the Brain Radiation degree reading should not make a great difference in deciding whether or not a person (“pre-clear”) was a proper candidate for help or “processing,” it would tell the “auditor” or “guide” or “observer” or “analyst” the general level of intelligence of the one to be worked upon. The Pattern, on the other hand, would indicate how far off the ideal or normal the pre-clear might be, and, by repeating the reading test from time to time, progress could be checked. Our friends of the Eidetic Foundation (252 Mershon St., Fairhope, Ala.), who have been most helpful and ready to run lab tests on Huna lines and to give us the benefit of their growing research program and experience, have had several of the staff there read for their present patterns, and will check betimes as they progress further into the “optimum” or fully normal and perfected state.

THE “OPTIMUM” STATE was first postulated by L.Ron Hubbard in his book, DIANETICS. He also spoke of it as a state in which one was “clear” of all compulsions, neuroses and psychoses, also of all repressions and psycho-somatic ills. However, it was not enough for a person to be normal, with a normal memory and a normal ability to think rationally. Mr. Hubbard pointed to the fact that, under hypnosis, a subject might be caused to “regress” in time and to relive a past event with all the physical sensations “revivified” or brought to life and lived over exactly as during the event itself, but without the actual muscular action, vision, smell and so on – only with a form of complete remembering and reliving of the sensations.

THIS SENSORY MEMORY, in addition to the ordinary memory of the event, in which sight, taste, smell ,etc., are recalled but not actually and vividly re-experienced in full time sequence, was pronounced to be of value in reaching a “clear” state, and while hypnosis was not to be used to get back this recall, the auditor sat beside the pre-clear lying on the couch, and mentally “pushed” to get him to develop the ability to make the sensory type of “return” as well as the usual return in ordinary memory.

MEMORY RESIDENT IN EACH CELL was postulated to account for the full sensory recall and reliving of an event. As recall seemed to go back to the moment of conception, it was then postulated that memory was full and complete in the sensory level even in the sperm and ovum cells. Soon the new recall led back into former incarnations, where no cells with sensory memories were to be found, and the theory bogged down more or less.

HOWEVER, TO BECOME “OPTIMUM,” it still seems to be agreed in the Dianetic offshoot schools of belief and practice, that one must develop ability to recall and relive any and every incident from conception forward, using this combined cell-mind type of memory and revivification to bring to the surface any abnormal mental impression or reaction to such impressions. Once the “aberrational” material was successfully recalled and subjected to the rationalization process, it became normal as a memory and ceased to stand in the way of becoming “cleared.”

RON HOWES, FAMED AS ONE OF THE OPTIMUM CLEARS, has been discussed in the literature which has accumulated around Dianetics, and his augmented mental abilities affirmed. In a letter addressed to “all optimun and pre-optimum humans,” some months ago, he gave the primary steps needed to create an “optimum race.” He wrote in Basic English, and it is interesting to see if the way he writes and the things said show the superiority of one who has attained the optimum condition.

He wrote: “The primary step in the production of an optimum race is the invention of a higher tone reality. To be optimum, this reality must have self-corrective machinery determined by firm, dynamic goals. The inventor of a suitable reality is forced by the race life-cause and assisted by race-intelligence to communicate the invention.” He went on to give other “steps,” the (again I quote) “fourth step is establishment of true communication among all groups and units of the race. Race dynamics insure the integrated results of all steps.” (And now comes the greatest exhibition of an optimum’s ability of which I have as yet heard.) “To aid in the progress necessary for application of the above principles, certain mechanical features may be brought into use. Since the second month, tenth day, of this year, there has been in existence a field of psycho-mechanical structure. This field is directional and can be beamed through an area three thousand miles in radius. The source of the field will stand unknown. The field produces the following. (1). Amplification of causative factors in the race. (2). Temporary enrichment of mind-reality applied to desire and need, (and) (3). Communication enhancement among units of the race.”

I never heard what, if anything, happened following the creation of this “field” by its unidentified creator, but that is how an optimum lays it on the line for the other optimums or not-yet optimums. The goal and the benefits to be had upon reaching the goal, once loudly included corrections of mental and physical health, I believe. Now, little mention is made of these features, but one is supposed to desire even more greatly to reach the completely “cleared” state.

“NOW ITS UP TO YOU,” says an ad in the new “Journal of Scientology” put out by the revised Hubbard Center in Arizona. (Subscription rates, $2.50 per year. Address 1405 No. Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona.) The ad in question shows what the pre-optimum can do to approach the desirable state. They offer access to sixty lectures on tapes by Dr. Hubbard, with fifty texts to study. In addition, one can have 100 hours of supervised co-auditing with the Mathison Electropsychometers, and enjoy the benefits of the use of the newest techniques “from Effort to Black and White.”

THE SOURCE OF THE LIFE ENERGY HAS BEEN FOUND

Dr. L. Ron Hubbard is pleased to announce in the latest issue of the new journal. He writes that qualified engineers, in addition to himself, have observed the energy, measured its flow, observed it in its isolated state (!), and have invented a very simple new technique which in about 25 hours will enable the individual to get a startling manifestation, if I read the article correctly. Those further advanced in Scientology may make the grade in as little as two hours of special processing. It is further reported that some pre-clears have been burned by the energy, and that care must be taken to ground anyone when the energy is to be utilized in whatever way attempted. It is said that the energy is an AC flow and that it is of very high frequency. The matter is made clear and simple in this paragraph.

“The energy source is also the awareness of awareness unit of being and is considered by himself to be himself.” Of course, this possibly could be typographical error, but it seems not to be. It is quite possible that to one familar with the new terms used in Scientology this makes a very complete and convincing explanation of where the energy of life comes from. The similarity of this “first time” discovered energy to the mana of Huna, is suggested in the statement in the article that it can be conducted from body to body (as is also done in the Eeman circuits) and that it can be increased by the use of the proper technique so that there is danger, if the subject is not grounded, of destroying some vital part of his being. The “serpent fires” of Theosophy were said to be made up of life energies generated by special techniques, but, if not very properly controlled, apt to burn out one’s brain or otherwise ruin the one arousing the forces and allowing them to rise along the spine.

THE ORIGINAL CONCEPT OF “CELL MEMORY,” so far as I have been able to learn, was proposed by our own  HRA L.E. Feman, of England, first printed in 1929. Mr. Eeman was a flyer in World War 1 and was hospitalized, because of injuries, over a period of some time. As doctors failed to cure him and bring an injured shoulder back into action, he began to study himself and his muscles, also his conscious and subconscious reactions. Eventually, he discovered that a complex was causing the shoulder trouble. He found that there were areas of muscular tension which indicated subconscious complex knots, and that he could work from muscle tensions back into the subconscious and bring up the incident which caused the complex to form, enabling him to rationalize it. The shoulder was released and restored.

But he did not stop there. He followed through in his mental exploration of his subconscious as it was found resident in his body, and learned a method of relaxation and of using his powers of internal observation. He gradually became able to observe the bodily reactions to mental pictures of such things as running, walking, seeing colors, feeling heat or cold or warm sunshine. It is a long and fascinating story. In the end he was able to recall vividly and relive practically any memory of physical experience. In his book (Chap.9, page 183) he passed on a question which at the same time gave some of his basic findings. I quote:

“If it is a fact that self-suggestion is absolutely indispensable before any conscious action of any kind can take place, why do people find it so terribly difficult to accept that the same law may hold good for all subconscious actions? Why do they find it much easier to accept by implication that unconscious actions just happen without any intelligent or intelligible force having any say in the matter?

“Why cannot they understand that our continuous subconscious or unconscious actions, the heart-beat, breath, circulation, digestion, only persist in virtue of the unconscious suggestion involved in the memory of their having been done before, and done in a certain way, with a given rhythm; individual memory, organic memory, cell memory?”

Mr. Eeman explained how the thought of running caused the subconscious to react as if to suggestion and to make the heart beat more rapidly, the breathing to quicken, and all the body to react in some degree as if actually engaged in running.

From this he deduced the fact that energy was produced (he decides that it is drawn in from the surrounding ether, just as is done in real, instead of imaginary, running) but was not expended except to a small degree. This left an excess of energy (much like the Huna surcharge of mana) which could then be turned into evolutionary channels of use.

This excess energy, directed by mental action, was the key to a form of conscious quickening of bodily evolution toward fullest muscular, organic or other powers and perfections. The observing and directing mind, with daily practice, came to be aware at will of the sensations inside the body which, I take it, only the subconscious ordinarily senses. It is a method by which the conscious becomes aware of the subconscious in an amazing way, and is able to train and guide it to develop the physical vehicle, and soon, to develop its latent but natural psychic powers such as those of telepathy, prevision and clairvoyance. Every part of the man is developed, and his health and sense of well being is perfect, as are his skills in such games or actions as may demand muscular development and coordination. The memory becomes perfected and includes memories of bodily actions and experiences when there is reason to recall them. The usual powers of conscious mind mentation are increased to their highest level, and, in due time, after going through a very interesting set of development steps, there comes awareness of the superconscious realm much as in Zen.

This last part of the development rests on the earlier steps, and, while not the whole of the goal, offers the most advance. We all know a degree of bodily and mental perfection, but few of us have known the awareness that opens on the next higher level of being, that of the superman, and for that reason, the greatest lure attaches itself to that part of the total goal. The implication cannot be escaped that it is, in this way, possible to make a sufficient, complete and conscious evolution in a single lifetime, and so reach the goal set before us by the Creator of life in human beings.

Whether or not the “optimum” condition includes the goals which HRA Eeman has set before us, I am not in a position to say, but one thing seems fairly clear, and that is the fact that the goals were more fully outlined, the methods of attaining them more clearly given, and the basic philosophy more perfectly fitted to match methods, than in any of the later systems in which methods are still being changed at the rate of a new “technique” a month and in which theories change even more rapidly.

I strongly recommend that any HRA who plans to make even a tentative study of the materials of the now scattered Dianetics field, begin by obtaining the book which has just been discussed ($1.30, post free), and, while ordering, a copy of CO-OPERATIVE HEALING, a later book of great value. ($2.60, post paid.) Owing to the advantage we enjoy because of the exchange rate, this is indeed a bargain value for two such important books. Address: L.E. Eeman, H.R.A., 24 Baker St., London W2, England. Say you are an HRA and ask to have your copies autographed directly to you if you plan to keep them.  (Much more will be said in the Bulletins concerning this work of discovery so ably carried out by Mr. Eeman. He has generously given permission to quote from both books, but, of course, there is no substitute for a full study of the books at first hand.)

INVITING POSSIBILITIES in the Eeman methods

Contained in his summary of the steps (Self and Superman, Chap. 11, pg. 206 and on), which lead from one level of consciousness to the next. I quote:

“A rough outline of what the explorer may expect to discover as he invades successive regions of the subconscious may not be out of place.

“He enters upon his voyage of exploration of the subconscious realms in the attitude of the most perfect quiescence he can achieve, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

“What then is his state of consciousness?

“At the outset, he will notice that those things which impinge on the consciousness are objective. They are things of the outside and reach him through his senses. He feels the weight of his body on the couch, the cold atmosphere, his clothes. He hears voices, noises, the traffic outside. He sees the wall, senses the passing of time. He dwells in time and space; his consciousness is nourished on relatives.

“This state may be termed objective consciousness. For a while this state endures; the subject continues to receive impressions from the outside; his perceptions merely reflect the reactions of his senses to the objective world.

“After a time the vividness and intensity of these outside messages weaken, and eventually, although the objective world still continues to act upon the subject just as before, his senses seem no longer to function, and outside all appears silence and peace.

(“There follows a period of apparent blankness, during which the subject’s consciousness does not seem to be affected by any phenomenon. This period varies in length from subject to subject, and from time to time, and its characteristics are also more or less marked.

“It is merely a period of transition – as careful observation will establish – and is occupied in the gradual transference of energy from the objective to the subjective processes.

“Under wakeful conditions, the amount of energy devoted to subjective processes is just sufficient for current needs of the system, and these processes are not carried out in a manner sufficiently vigorous to attract the subject’s attention to their performance. Moreover, the subject’s attention is generally fully occupied at such times in the observation of objective activities.

“When the objective activities are reduced and eventually cease, the energy saved is gradually transferred to subjective work. This is intensified, and gradually attracts the attention of the subject.

“When this has fully developed, the consciousness becomes exclusively engrossed in the inside sensations of the body, to the exclusion of all external perceptions. The subject has then entered the second state of consciousness, subjective consciousness.

“This is recognizable by all, although a little more care in observation and a certain determination to remain conscious are required.

“For a while this state endures; the subject continues to receive physical impressions from the inside, he becomes more and more conscious of his breathing, improving circulation and the resulting warmth; he feels this warmth spreading into parts of the body that were previously less warm although he had not been aware of the fact; he is struck by an increasing sense of glow and well being that seems to spread its beneficent action more and more deeply as the body becomes heavier and heavier. The subject then realizes that his body is asleep, and that its work is being performed extremely well although he himself has remained awake.

“As the intensity of the metabolic processes increases it tends to reach the level of power at which they appear to be outside the reach of the subject’s observation, or so one would conclude from the fact that gradually his consciousness of them completely vanishes. With his physical self, apparently, all has become silence and peace, just as a little previously, outside, all had become silence and peace.

“There follows (a second period of apparent blankness during which the subject does not seem to be affected by any phenomenon. This is merely a period of transition, and is marked by gradual transference of energy, increased in quality through rest, from satisfied physical processes to mental processes. Gradually the consciousness of the subject, which has, by now, completely lost sight of both objective and subjective physical phenomena, becomes aware of the fact that he is still AWARE, but aware of nothing physical, aware of himself, obviously, since he is aware of the fact that he is aware, and yet is aware of nothing of the body.”

When this has developed, the consciousness becomes exclusively engrossed in mutation, in the self, merely being and acting metaphysically. The subject has then entered the third state of consciousness; self or super-consciousness. “This is also recognizable by all, but all will not reach it at the first attempt. Until they do, they are at liberty to deny both its existence and its accessibility, but it were charitable to warn them that such denial will offer insurmountable obstacles to their attainment of it.

“Fierce determination to remain conscious – although, to all outside appearances, fast asleep – and great concentration are essential.

“For a while this state endures; the subject becomes more and more clearly aware of his existence as an individual, apart from his physical shell, he experiences more and more definitely what he may feel must be true contact with his self, his soul, and out of this experience he may evolve a conviction of survival after physical death which nothing will ever endanger, a certainty of the unending and untrammeled beyond.

“Gradually this state of self-consciousness, as all its predecessors, seems to elude the subject, and if he then is fortunate enough to retain his consciousness, be may enter the fourth state of consciousness: one-consciousness.

“Anyone who has ever been blessed enough merely to set foot on the threshold of this plane of consciousness is not likely ever to forget the indescribable sense of beatific revelation it engenders. We seem at one instant to be divine, to leap to understanding of things as yet undreamt, to vault in but one second the dense barriers of ages, to pierce in one fierce burst the veils of generations, and then fall by the way, dazed by the revelation, rejoicing though, beyond the force of words, that, knowing not what we have known, we should still know beyond the pangs of doubt, that in one spark we had known All.

“What is left after that? The sense of oneness with the Infinite, the sense of at-one-ment with the true, the just, the unending, the unlimited, the sense that one is a part of that whole, and that whether it takes years or days, ages or seconds, the time will come when the consciousness of that oneness shall be our patrimony, a consummation that is worth waiting for.”

THIS GOAL RESEMBLES MORE THAT OF ZEN REALIZATION than does the more poorly defined goal of the “optimum” state. In Self and Superman, little is said of the complex and its removal, but in the later and larger book, Coperative Healing, Mr. Eeman has gone into that angle more fully, describing his methods of getting at the complex and removing it, and giving his methodology the name of “Myognosis.” In this method he depends on the clues offered by tensed muscles to point the way to the complex. The older, slower method of “free association” is avoided as less safe, rapid, specific or controllable.

HRA Rev. Jessie Curl is out of Los Angeles until about October 26th, at which time she will return and open her new office at 1515 Wilshire Blvd., Apt. 2, Girard Apts., Los Angeles 17, Calif. She reports continuing good results in her healing work done with the spirit aid of Hoo`ola, who recently has been joined, I am told, by his spirit wife. Rev. Curl may also have her own church soon. Her absent healing work continues, and she may be reached at the address just given.

THE TMHG HEALING WORK OF THE HRA has been set back an hour to conform with the return to standard time for the winter months. 3 and 7 P.M. are still the hours, seven days a week. I am very happy to be able to report that almost every mail brings some good report on the healing results. One mail recently brought four good reports. It is possible that the new plan of limiting treatments through TMHG to those who have written in at the beginning of each month, has helped by preventing waste of time and energy on requests from those HRAs who may long since have ceased to sit in at the appointed hours or to offer their share of the mana needed by the Poe Aumakua to aid us as the energy is directed to one HRA after another. It is also possible that the self-cleansing (of complexes) which I have been doing, has made me a better channel for the flow of mana and its direction. The two spirits connected with the small ivory ikons by the Sandwiths, are invited to help at all sittings, and the work is conducted facing the large healing picture so kindly sent to us by HRA Mrs. Kingsley Tarpey, of London.

THE SELF-CLEANSING METHOD which I am using consists of taking a few minutes each night (or after any period of slight upset during the day) to “forgive” or let go of and put aside any conscious or half-sensed irritation or worry, then to make contact with the Aumakua, ask that it finish the clearing away of all such things (I say, “Please forgive…”) and then relax and wait. There come a few yawns or other slight physical reactions, and all is cleansed – the state of mind being left serene. This is proving to be a most helpful and practical method, and it does not call for the help of a second person, a factor greatly in its favor.

HRA Florence E. Wilcox, 2921 Francis Ave., Los Angeles 5, Calif., would like to meet other HRAs living near her.

The new Tregear Maori Comparative Dictionary is helping turn up many new and helpful word and root meanings. I consider it the first unit of equipment in our proposed HUNA LABORATORY. A recent study brought to light the strange fact that na Kahuna had only the word lima to use to designate the entire arm and hand. In the following passage (Isaiah 40:10), the translators had to insert “hand” because only “arm” appeared in the original as given by a good kahuna: “Behold, the Lord God will come with strong (hand) and his ARM shall rule for him…” The secret is that the fingers were always mentioned separately by na Kahuna, using the word mana`mana for them which hold the secret meaning of the mana being divided between the Aunihipili and Aumakua to make the latter strong and able to “rule” or make changes on the dense physical level in answer to prayer, or on the level of the future aka pattern world as well. The passage also says, 11 …his reward is with him.” Utu, is “reward”, but the secret comes out in its secondary or Huna meaning of “to absorb water, like a sponge,” which confirms the fact that the Aumakua MUST be given its share of the low mana to enable it to work for us.    
MFL

October 1, 1952

THE AURAMETER by Verne L. Cameron

The Aurameter has at last come off the presses and mimeograph, and a fine example of such combination printing it has turned out to be. The work of editing performed by HRA Meade Layne of Round Robin and BSRA fame is outstanding, and the mechanical production by “Talk of the Times” is most satisfactory. The illustrations, done by a special process, make it easy to understand the descriptions of the Aurameter, the mechanics of the instrument, its general structure and appearance, the auras, the cones and other things mentioned. 81 pages in all.

Not only is the aura discussed, but the the whole field of dowsing for water and minerals is taken up. HRA Cameron tells his story simply and swiftly, explaining how he came to take up dowsing and how he developed the Aurameter. He tells of the mysterious force he has found gathered and projected by his cones, and of experiment after experiment. A whole section is given over to the Aurameter in its relation to “Vitic” force. The materials reported from time to time in the HRA Bulletin concerning the Aurameter and tests made with it have been collected, edited and given a place in the book, I am proud to be able to say.

Not only is this book and its materials of great interest to those of us in the HRA who have eagerly watched the work being done by HRA Cameron, it is work that is basically pioneer fringe stuff in the study of the aura of the human being. Nothing like this study has ever been made before, and the discovery of the auric figures and formations over the head of his young son, his daughter (age 24), and over the heads of myself and other HRAs, is entirely new. Psychic sight has been reported now and again, and different mediums have reported figures and auras and conformations over the heads of people, but in no case, so far as I can recall, have any two of them seen the same thing. This lack of agreement on the part of the psychics has thrown doubt on all their “seeing,” and for this reason, a purely mechanical method of tracing aura outlines and the outlines of thought-forms, is of such importance that it marks a new milestone in the progress of Psychic Science and of that part of Physics which should deal with the new forces and the new aka-etheric or auric substances.

The strange “wing” formations from the shoulders of people has been discussed and illustrations show the odd forms taken by juts and projections at different parts of the human body. Beams of force are discussed and illustrated also, with the history of the use of the Aurameter to locate trouble in various parts of the body, whether the trouble be a bad tooth root, a point in the spine needing some adjustment, or a gall bladder which is not normal.

Many things which are provocative in the extreme are discussed, even though research is still going on to learn their full significance, such as the strange “fan” auras around signatures, no two of which are alike. (The edition is limited. $3 postpaid. Add sales tax. Order from B.S.R.A., 3524 Adams Ave, San Diego 16, Calif.)

KUDA BUX TELLS OF HIS TRAINING

Kuda Bux tells of his training in an article in the July number of Argosy magazine. It will be recalled that he was mentioned in SSBM as one of our great modern fire-walkers and that he also has for years demonstrated his ability to see with his eyes completely covered and sealed by wads of dough and many bandages.

HIS SKIN MUST BE EXPOSED at some point, however, and in what would be a direct line of vision with the object in order to make “eyeless sight” possible for him. For example, if something is held between him and the headlines of a newspaper, he cannot “see” around or through the obstacle to do the reading. He does not explain why this is, but it seems to be the theory that he is able to make his exposed skin sensitive at any point so that he can “see” with it.

THIS SUGGESTS TO US the possibility that he sees through his aka body eyes, as a ghost might do, and that the aka eyes may be moved here and there by moving the aka body in its relation to the skin of the physical body. The other obvious explanation would be that he was able to project a “finger” or ectoblastic rod of aka substance with an aka “eye” at the end to be used to see and read. This projection, however, should, according to our Huna theories, be able to bend around intervening objects, or even penetrate things such as cards or sheets of paper. In our “box tests,” we identify objects hidden inside pill boxes. Blind persons often develop the power to see sufficiently without eyes to identify objects and to enable them to thread their way through the aisles of stores.

AT THE AGE OF THIRTEEN, Kuda Bux relates, he saw a professional magician perform and decided that he would learn the profession. He joined the show and was taught to do the simpler mechanical tricks with rings and other props. But this was not what the lad wanted. He desired to learn to perform genuine magic. At the age of sixteen, and after spending three years as an actor with a traveling theater group, he had saved two thousand rupees and was able to start on a search for a teacher.

HE FOUND A YOGI and began to study posture and the control of breathing and muscles, being assured that if he developed his body and his control over it in this way, he would at the same time develop his mind and his mental power to concentrate – this being of prime necessity for one aspiring to perform genuine magic.

CONCENTRATION was needed to prevent the subconscious mind from dividing its attention and skipping about from one idea to another. He does not say what terms the yogi used, but tells his story in terms of the conscious and subconscious. His major point is that by practice one learns to concentrate both parts of the mind on a single idea or mental picture to the exclusion of all else. This, his teacher explained, was hard, slow work. He said that with some fifteen years of daily practice, one might be able to hold the mind concentrated on a single item for as long as three and one half minutes.

THE FACE OF HIS LOVED BROTHER was visualized by Kuda Bux every evening while he sat with closed eyes. When his mind began to be unable to hold on and to wander, he stopped until the next evening. He found that the conscious mind (not mentioning the subconscious as possibly also involved in the matter) had tired, he let it rest for twenty-four hours.

TWO AND A HALF YEARS of this steady practice resulted in his development to the place where he could hold the visual picture of his brother’s face for two and a quarter minutes. At that time a peculiar thing happened. He lost his sense of smell. It never returned. He has no idea why. With money gone, he traveled again in the show business, but kept up his daily exercises. One day he chanced to see  a demonstration of fire-walking. After the walk, the members of the audience were mockingly asked if they wished to try the art. Three different ones decided to try their ability, among them, Kuda Bux. The first two were severely burned. Then came his turn.

HE CONCENTRATED HIS MIND on the idea that the fire was COLD. He told himself that it was cold and would not burn him. His concentration was so perfect that he was aware of the fire and nothing else. He walked across it, and was not burned. Much excited and highly pleased, he told himself that the power of magic was at last coming to him. He suddenly remembered that his yogi teacher had told him of certain holy men who were able to use the power to see with closed eyes, and decided that he would try for that goal.

A CANDLE WAS PUT TO USE  and each night he sat with the flame about sixteen inches from his face, level with his eyes, staring at the black part of the flame rather than at the yellow or mauve parts. Concentrating on the black part was simply to aid the entry into complete concentration. Soon the flame was no longer seen. He then closed his eyes and concentrated on his brother’s face. By the time his twenty-fourth year had arrived, Kuda Bux could hold the visualized face a full three minutes.

USING A PACK OF CARDS, after performing his usual exercise each evening and pausing for a cup of coffee, he concentrated on actually seeing the cards with eyes covered. (Kuda Bux eats meat and smokes, but finds that this has no bad effect on his special abilities.) Much as we do in our box experiment training, he would wait for a visual impression of what was printed on the card, then write down his impression, in this way taking up a number of cards before checking to see what his score had been. Almost at once he could make correct reading of about sixty cards out of seventy taken up.

Two years later HE WAS ABLE TO READ A BOOK “right through,” and at that time such reading or “eyeless sight” was added to his regular conjuring performance. Soon he was traveling in Europe and America. Although fire-walking is not part of his regular act, he has demonstrated it successfully at least three times, and under test conditions. It is to be supposed that he used his former method of visualization and concentration in which he pictured the fire as cold and harmless. In the London test (described in SSBM), he paused at the end of the trench of coals, lifted a hand, closed his eyes and, it was said, made a silent prayer. On one crossing he leaped suddenly from the coals to the ground at one side, saying later that his feet had started to burn. He explained later that he could not repeat a crossing at the request of his investigators because, as he put it, “the power has gone out of me.” It is to be supposed, that if he had been using his concentration method, he had exhausted the power to concentrate for the time being, at least.

SO WE ASK, IS TRAINING FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, with the yoga exercises and with concentration of the two parts of mind an absolute necessity for fire-walking or eyeless sight? We might also ask, is it a training that might result in the ability to heal slowly, instantly or otherwise? Or would it make a man free from the “sins” of hurting others when such hurts have taken the form of complexed guilts in the Aunuhipili? Or would it remove the shock complex or the influence of “eating companion” spirits which influence our actions, emotions, thoughts or, going beyond simple influence, obsess one to the point of taking over the body and keeping it?

THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIANS whose fire handling and healing rites were described some time ago in one of the Bulletins, and who taught their methods to a Palm Springs artist, knew nothing of yoga or concentration exercises over a long period of years. They danced, chanted, brushed the coals with owl feathers, prayed to spirits of some kind and of some level of evolution, then – as they explained to their friend, imagined their hands getting hotter and hotter until they were as hot as the coals after which they picked up the coals and handled them with no resultant burns. The artist tried this method of making his hands hot, and was also able to handle live coals with impunity. He made no mention, in telling of his experience, of having to take a long training of any kind to be able to imagine his hands growing hotter and hotter and hotter.

IN HONOLULU, as Charlie Kenn wrote in his book, Fire-Walking from the Inside, the ability to fire-walk was thought to be gained by reciting certain set prayers, observing certain rituals in making ready the materials for the fire, lighting it, etc. The night before the performance, the Polynesian chief in charge of the work watched the piled logs which had been set ready to be burned next day, and when he was convinced that he had seen spirits of some kind dancing on the pile, decided that all was well with the magic end of things, and went home to bed. The next day, after the fire had been burned down and the bed of rocks was ready, he made a final set prayer, did a ritual beating of the rocks with his branches of green tea leaves, and marched unharmed across. Moreover, he invited the audience to cross, and in four tests, over 500 did so, with only about a dozen being, for some unknown reason, burned to a greater or lesser degree.

NOT FOR TWENTY YEARS had this fire-walking chief done fire-walking. There was nothing said of any period of practice except to memorize the prayers and the rites to go with them. Mr. Kenn was able to get himself initiated into the work and was assured that, should he wish to stage a performance at any time, he could do so. No healing was involved and no religious rite other than the prayer appeal to the “gods” who furnish protection if asked in the right way. The four performances were given to raise money to return a group of stranded young Polynesians to their homes on southern islands.

THE “GODS” WERE NOT EVEN NAMED in the ritual prayers. In one prayer one goddess is addressed as, “Oh-great-woman-who set-fire-to-the-skies.” In another place the phrase is used, “O host of gods! Awake! Arise!” If there was any concentration done on a mental or visual picture of the fire pit and rocks being made cool, it was done in connection with the fourth and last invocation, just before the first crossing, and when repeated exactly twice more for the second and third crossing. (Only then did others cross.) To refresh our memories, let us again consider these final words of invocation in their English translation.

0 ye attendants of the fire-pit!
Extinguish the flames!
0 dark cool heat! 0 light cool heat!
The fresh water! The sea water!
The heat of the fire-pit!
The low flickering of the fire-pit!
Hold up the footsteps of the common people advancing,
Fan away the heat of the atmosphere!
0 cold beings
Let us lie down together in this fire-pit.
Hold fast the fan, 0 Great-Woman-who-lights-the-skies.
And let us go to the center of the fire-pit.

Mr. Kenn wrote in trying to explain it all, “The Hawaiians say ‘Prayer is the most essential thing.’ The meaning is that prayer conditions a person to receive the blessing he seeks, and faith and understanding are the essential qualifications.

“Thus, from the native’s point of view, the materials used, and the invocations uttered, impress his mind that every precaution has been taken care of and everything is in his favor.

“He knows that his deities will come to his aid because he has taken care of them, for the life of the kahuna is the Aumakua, and the life of the Aumakua is the kahuna. Each needs the other to survive.”

THE SANDWITHS, GEORGE AND HELEN

The Sandwiths have, recently been making careful studies of fire-walking in Fiji, as performed by Hindus who have settled there, bringing their religions and rites with them, building small temples, and carrying on as they did in India. Last week a fine set of photographs arrived showing the latest set of ceremonies, also the ritual of cleansing, the procession and the small temple. With the pictures came excellent notes on what had been observed and what could be learned from the Hindus, the latter having come to be their good friends. In the light of the fact that we have not, after all these months, been able to say to a certainty just what fire immunity is or just what causes it, the fresh material is of great value. I will give parts of it here.

“During the ten days of purification before the fire-walk, the fire-walkers eat only fruit and rice, drink only milk or water, and remain entirely continent. They ‘tune into the Power’ at the temple, where the effigy of the goddess, Marriammam, seated on her tiger, is the ‘earth’ or focal point of the Power. They continually test the strength of the Power and their receptivity to it. When individual members are possessed by it, they are publicly lashed with a great whip by the High Priest or Sadu – holy man. If good progress is being made, the stripes will not draw blood or leave even a mark. One who is temporarily possessed by the Power will usually talk a lot and at a great pace. There is always someone at his (or her) side who takes note of what is said, and at the same time exerts a calming influence on the one possessed. Sometimes the person will throw himself about on the ground, foaming, while his temporary guardian talks to him gently until he is himself again.

“It appears that while individuals are possessed they give instructions to the others from the Power, these being duly carried out. The Power itself appears to give telepathic or intuitional instructions to those who are tuned into it. Our Hindu friends evidently do not want us to become clouded by religious dogma, for they use the word ‘Power’ when speaking to us of the goddess.

“Not only do the fire-walkers constantly tune into the Power, but they also appear to offer up Power (or the low mana?) to the effigy of the goddess at the focal point. After all, this is Huna in so far as offering mana to a Higher Being and tuning in with it. Mana is created by dancing and invocations. The High Priest and the fire-walkers dance in front of the effigy of the goddess – a doll about four feet high all decked out in finery. They form a circle before the shrine and point their left arms toward the center. Usually during the dance, one of the dancers will become possessed – giving a cry and falling to the ground.

“During these preliminary rites and while the preparations are being made, the Power inside the temple becomes as much as one can bear. When we were taken inside for a ceremony of initiation, it had the effect of making both of us want to dance for joy! The Auhane becomes numbed, and there is a strong urge to behave in a purely intuitional manner. The Power appears to the inner vision of those in the inner temple as goddess Kali or Merriammam.

“This very personal approach to the Power was demonstrated for us at another fire-walk at Navua, when we saw a lovely Hindu girl of about sixteen approach the fire with both arms outstretched, and a smile on her lips as if she were just about to walk into the arms of her lover. She danced across the fire, with her cotton robe around her legs un-scorched. Last year at Suva, the High Priest walked across the fire with his cotton robe dangling just a few inches above the coals although the heat was so great that it scorched ones face twelve feet away from the edge!

“Materials do not scorch during the fire-walk. The Power seems to be very constructive. The night before the Suva fire-walk, this year, we saw a girl who was perhaps in her late twenties carried up and laid before the outer courtyard of the temple in front of a bowl of fire. We were informed by one of the onlookers, a Muslim policeman, that the girl had been paralyzed from birth. The High Priest came out of the inner temple and spoke to her; within a short time she was wagging her head from side to side, and before long she got up and staggered toward the temple door with a shambling walk like that of some strange animal. This she was able to do unaided, although her mother walked by her side. She cast herself down before the Power and remained some time in deep prayer, then arose, and walked off, apparently cured.

“Many of the women came to the temple to be cured of barrenness. We were informed that the treatment was very effective. A sacred phallic stone inside the temple is probably the focal point used by the Power in this type of healing ceremony.

“The High Priest also casts out devils. We heard a man screaming in front of the temple, but there was such a crush of people that we could not see what was happening in this instance. However, one of the Committee of Fire-Walkers told us later that the High Priest will advance on the one possessed by a devil and seize him by the hair, holding him in that way while someone else pinions his arms. The High Priest will then talk to the devil inside the man or woman, and ask it why it has come to live with and prey on its host. After hearing the explanation – which the devil evidently is forced to give because of the superior Power radiating from the goddess through the High Priest – the High Priest orders the devil to leave the victim and never return. It is warned that if it is so foolish as to return, the Power will destroy it.

“This technique reminds one of the methods used by Dr. Carl Wickland, as described in his book, Thirty Years Among the Dead. He conversed with the spirits after they were dislodged by electric shock from the patient and had entered the body of his wife, who was a medium. Arguments and explanations and the help of spirit guides caused the devils to go.

“Before the fire-walk this year in Fiji, we went to see our friend, Mr. Lawes, the Commissioner of Police, who had recently arrived in Fiji from Kenya Colony. We asked his opinion of the fire-walk, and he immediately summoned one of his senior officers and put the question to him. This officer told us that all of the Hindu fire-walking there was considered genuine, and explained that it was nonsense to say that anything was used to put on the fire-walker’s feet. They walk barefoot about ten miles along a hot and dusty road during the last two days of preparation, from the creek where they are ceremonially bathed, to the temple. Also, the sharp wires and skewers thrust through the cheeks and skin cause no flow of blood when withdrawn. The fire-walk itself is so hot that if a handkerchief is throw upon it, it is consumed at once.

Here are the descriptions of the accompanying photographs: [Not included]

1. Old effigy of goddess Marriammam – sitting on a tiger – being carried in the procession before the fire-walk.
2. The new effigy of the goddess, carved out of a log of wood by an old man of Nandi. The effigy may be seen as it stood in place in the temple before the fire-walk.
3. Lighting the fire. About 40 tons of wood were burned, taking some 14 hours. The fire is lit in a small square trench inside the fire-pit on top of some fresh limes. A fire-bowl is brought from the temple, no matches ever being used. Thousands of prayers, written on paper, are burned, together with dry mango sticks and blocks of camphor. Warm butter is added to the conflagration, and more camphor until the blaze is sufficient, then the logs of wood are stacked on end in cone fashion over the flames. The little boy standing to the right of the fire in the picture walked over the red hot coals on the following day with complete confidence. On the left is shown an attendant holding a long whip lash used for keeping away Fijians, with their ‘unclean black magic.’
4. The burned down wood leaving a heap of ashes and live coals, ready to be raked out level before the temple for the fire-walk.
5. The fire-walkers at the creek immediately after the purification rights and before walking in the procession to the temple.
6. Fire-walkers, after the purification rite and still at the creek, having the wires and skewers thrust through cheeks and folds of skin. These will not be withdrawn until after the fire-walk. Upon withdrawing them, no blood falls. No pain is felt.
7. Fire-walkers with all the wires and skewers in their bodies ready to begin the walk in the procession to the temple for the fire-walk.
8. Fire-walkers holding rods and leaves of the Neam tree as they walk in the procession.
9. A fire-walker saunters across the fire followed by a small boy and two men carrying on their heads Khalasams – like large cones of mixed greenery – (one for each effigy of the goddess).The Kalasams represent the Super conscious state of mind, and are somewhat similar to the auras which Verne Cameron has located just above the head with his Aurameter.
10. Fire-walkers crossing the long bed of coals and ashes.
11. Fire-walkers crossing the long bed of coals and ashes.
12. The procession on the way from the creek to the temple, showing the two Kalasams being carried on the heads of fire-walkers, and the goddess, mounted on her tiger and shaded by umbrella and ornaments.

“One fire-walker remarked to us after the ceremony, ‘This is something that really works. It is not just talk and promises.’ He also said that Europeans can also perform miracles of healing and fire-walking by tuning into the Power, if they will undertake the rigorous preparations of purification beforehand.

“One of the men, who carried a Kalasam on his head – ordinarily an attendant at the Suva hospital – told us that it was a terrific honor to be allowed to carry a Kalasam. He also said that one can never tell how one is going to cross the fire until it is reached. One might dance ankle deep in the ash and coals, or one might find that despite all the preparations, the best that could be done would be to run across – quickness and slowness depending on the state of inner purification and upon the tuning to the Power.

“During the fire-walk, one man who was carrying a Kalasam crossed successfully the first time, but upon starting the second time, began to dance on the red hot ashes, and to our horror suddenly started to stagger. Somehow or other he got to the side of the pit, still with the Kalasam on his head, but some of the flowers had fallen off of it on the bank. The High Priest, who had been standing near the spot, and who quite possibly expected something to happen, was furious with him. Later we were told that the cause of the trouble had been the touch of a European man with a camera – a touch on the arm which had defiled the fire-walker. Next year greater precautions will be taken to prevent such a happening.

“Another man, who had gone through all the preparations and purification to get ready to fire-walk, told us that he had been bitterly disappointed and could not take part in the fire-walk because his wife had come into her period just before the ceremony and therefore he was defiled.”

Our warm thanks as HRAs are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Sandwith for their good work. It is to be seen that what one believes has much to do with the ability to fire-walk, and probably just as much with the ability to heal. In the Hindu ceremony and beliefs, it is evident that some degree of spirit or spirits – high or medium or low – contact and influence the living. The familiar mediumship of the West is at once recalled. The famous medium, D.D. Home, even when not in a trance state, picked coals from a fire and handled them with ease. He shared this immunity with others, once taking m blazing log from the fireplace and laying it in the arms of a lady. Neither she nor her garments were scorched. All the explanation ever given by Home for his ability to control temperature, in so far as find recorded, was, “Isn’t God wonderful?”

WHAT SHALL WE CONCLUDE, IF ANYTHING? We can hardly deny the fact of fire-immunity or supernormal healing, be it fast or slow. We see that Kuda Bux simply concentrated on a mental picture of the fire-walk- being cool, and, so far as practical results were concerned, it became cool for him. The Indians and the artist reversed the process and visualized their hands growing as hot as the coals, so that they could be made no hotter, and, therefore, could not be injured. On page 39 of SSBM I told of a stage magician who used this form of genuine magic to enable him to handle fire in several ways. He made no preparation at all before his performances, having trained himself to recognize a form of consciousness lying behind fire, and to call on it for aid automatically, simply by beginning to perform his act.

IS PURIFICATION NECESSARY? And, if so, what is it that we must cause to go from us, bodily or mentally to make us pure? Is the sin of hurt defilement? Are the things which the Hindu fire walkers consider defilement really such? Is it because of a lack of power to concentrate that we fail? Are we unable to make and hold the desired visual picture long enough, and to the exclusion of all extraneous mental images from the Aunuhipili? Or, is there a Aumakua or a goddess or similar Higher Entity who can be asked to give the fire-immunity, or to heal or to cast out devils? If so, must we be sure to observe exact rites and to repeat exact chants? Is the Higher Entity so exacting – such a stickler for points that seem to us on our lower level nothing less than silly? And how about the obsession or mediumistic angle, and the force or “Power?”

WHERE DOES THE COMPLEX COME INTO THE PICTURE? Was there a clearing out of fixations accomplished in any of the cases we have been considering? Was it consciously done by any of the performers? Not so far as the records show. Well, what then? Dare we decide that once we contact the Aumakua or an entity of that level of evolution, and make ready to work with it in close cooperation, it will attend to the job of removing for us the fixations which may stand in the way? In our recent discovery of the strong indications in the foot-washing rite of Jesus, of some such mechanism of fixation removal by the Aumakua, we seem to have this decision given backing.

WHAT DO YOU THINK? I am like one of my old friends used to say, “Just a young feller trying to get along,” and I am frank to admit puzzlement at this stage of the research work. How do you figure it out – if you do?

MFL

HUNA DIRECTORY:

• No. 11. Mrs. Ola May Womack. Asks to have her name removed until later as she wishes to drop the Bulletins and take a course.
• No. 54. Franklin Llewis, F.H.F., 1621 So. Grand Ave., Los Angeles 15, Calif. One of the most seasoned HRAs. With us from beginning. psychologist, editor, writer.
• No. 55. Mrs. Jessie Mead Rose, 616 So. Mills St., Madison, Wis., who recently joined with HRA T.A.L. in the successful telepathic healing experiment in which contact was made via letters and signatures, has been asked to try to help others of the HRA. She wishes to announce that she will be happy to comply with such requests, but that it will be necessary, when taken away from her regular work for that purpose, to be helped by love offerings commensurate with the time expended.

NOTE: Former HRA Charles Pitts, has resigned to study another religion. He may or may not be willing to continue healing efforts.

The Long-Bovis Biometer

(Biometer directions)

If no board is at hand, place your Biometer tape and plate on a table or other flat surface with the plate before you and the tape extending to your left. Take a signature written in ink on paper and fold it so that it will stand upright by itself and can be moved back and forth along the tape. Place it at about 240 degrees, then hold your pendulum over the plate. It will swing along the diagonal lines to give first the “will” pattern, as shown on the sheets enclosed herewith and taken from an earlier Bulletin. The perfect will is a swing on the center line to and from your body. If the swing is to the right of the line it shows a constructive person, if to the left, a destructive person. If the pendulum pauses and then swings to make a “V” the person is easily influenced and neither good nor bad.(Bulletin 22 gives the Brunler scale of meanings for the degree readings. Bulletins 88 and 101 give the pattern meanings.)

When the “will” pattern finishes, the pendulum will begin to swing in a circle if the person has a well developed “personality” or Aunuhipili drive. A clockwise circle is good, a counter clockwise bad, as relates to the natural drives of the Aunuhipili: A large and perfectly round, clockwise circle is the best indication. Small circles or one flattened and whose axis keeps changing, show a condition needing correction – perhaps complexes, much indecision or even spirit influences of a large or small obsession strength. If the circles are also counter clockwise as well as flattened and weak, the Aunuhipili is badly in need of help. If the “will” and “personality” patterns are both destructive, the person may be too destructive by nature to be helped.

When finished with the reading of “will” and “personality,” the pendulum will then, if you look at the signature and ask what the degree reading may be, begin to swing to and from you over the plate, to one side or the other of the middle vertical line. Move the signature with your left hand, slowly, pausing every few degrees and moving it away from the plate. (Start at 240 degrees, as this is below the average reading, which is 250 unless you are reading for a subnormal individual.) When the pendulum swings back and forth exactly on the vertical line, write down the degree on which the signature paper stands. Continue moving the signature away and testing with the pendulum. You may find several points at which the pendulum swings on the vertical line. Note them all, and then go back to test the points to see at which the pendulum gives the strongest swing on the vertical. This is the proper degree reading for the combined Aunuhipili and Auhane or “soul.”

A signature written during or just after prayer will read higher, sometimes as much as 100 degrees. The ‘circle’ reading for a person who is ill may be weak. Many people have so small a circle that it gives hardly any reading at all. This indicates a poorly balanced nature in which either the Aunuhipili or Auhane is weak or undeveloped.
To test a person directly, have him place the tip of his right hand on the tape instead of the signature, and make the reading as of from the signature, having him move his thumb tip back and forth along the tape instead of the signature. For children, a thumb print of the tip of the right thumb may be used. Physical conditions may make readings vary considerably. Take on a surcharge of mana and see how your circle increases when someone is reading you from your thumb tip. (Left handed people use the left thumb tip.) If your reading is over 340, you should be able to learn to use the Biometer. This is a matter of practice. Keep trying.

Direction: Cut into trips on the double lines. Lay the 7 strips in a line, fastening together with Scotch tape an overlapping so that you Got a tape measure re reading P the scald from 5 to 700. Those are Bovis degrees biometric Lay the lead plate so that the let edge touches the 0 point on the tape. Unite with Scotch tape on back of plate and paper. If possible, mount all on a board. 1×5x6ft, if ordered frog a lumber yard will to right as it will come dressed about 3/14-.41 inches by 6    full feet. Fasten tape measure of Bevis biometric do roes to board with Scotch tape, also the plate or tack the latter. It should look like this:

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September 1, 1952

THE GREATEST SINGLE DISCOVERY OF ALL TIME

[This] would be a workable way by which men could be saved from all the things which afflict them in the course of life. Illness, helplessness caused by illness, accident or age or even that caused by being born defective mentally or physically, the burden of unhappiness caused by broken hopes, failures in accomplishing aims or ambitions, lack of love, understanding, sympathy or an outlet for natural creative urges, troubles caused by the deeds or the failures of loved ones, of others, of one’s nation or of the races of the earth, failure to be able to live normally on the level of the body, mind or Aumakua – salvation from all these things – a salvation that would allow a man to live normally and happily, safely and sanely, and to progress in evolutionary growth toward whatever is intended that he eventually become.

Science offers the idea that man evolves as a mass, not as an individual. You and I cannot be saved from the ills of life, but, through evolution, mankind may at last learn to live in an ideal way and in complete control of environment and social conditions. At present, there is no reward for efforts to better the conditions of living in any future existence. This is the doctrine of “now or never.”

The KARMA-REINCARNATION offer of salvation from worldly ills is one in which, if the individual does not do certain things, he must suffer blindly through almost countless incarnations, wearing out or paying off the karmic debts of past lives even while creating more unpleasant karma in the process. This endless living and suffering, however, can be avoided. The plan of salvation is to live so that no bad deed is done, and also that one eventually becomes entirely without desire for anything of any nature, even the desire to attain the escape from having to live. All that was promised was extinction as an individual having awareness of oneself. One passed back to formlessness and gave up individuality as a drop of water returns to the sea. The philosophy offered no satisfactory reason for passing the drop of water through the endless cycle before returning to the sea from which it came except that in some vague way the sea itself profited by the adventure and life cycle and sufferings of the drops of water separated from it. The way of salvation under this system did not lead to normal, happy and progressive living for the individual, the family or the tribe. It is self-evident that something is lacking.

The HEAVEN OR HELL offer made by the less developed religionists of various races, was not an escape from the ills of life here, but hereafter in some heaven or happy hunting ground or realm of spirit life. One gained what help one could for present ills by praying, but one earned the salvation of the afterlife by proper conduct. Failure to live properly, according to the ideals of the time and place, resulted in failure to attain the happy condition after physical death. This plan offered normal and kindly living as a means of salvation at the end of one life.

The ANCIENT HUNA offer and innovation, the origin of which is lost in the dim past, may be considered as something inclusive of all the other offers or systems through which salvation here and hereafter may be obtained by the individual. Huna taught evolution of each of the three human selves individually and progressively and in association with other selves to make the man. The Aunihipili came up from the animal level and evolved to be a Auhane and then a Aumakua. After that it was thought possible that it kept on evolving, but by a process of uniting to produce ever larger, wiser and more powerful group unit. Life was not looked upon as a torture and a thing to be escaped from at all costs and with all possible speed, even at the expense of giving up all normal life activities and pleasures and aims.

The carry-over of karma from the past life, by any or all of the three selves of the man, was not dependent on records kept by Lords of Karma and Laws of Karma enforced by them. The na kahuna had no word for “karma” as used in the Indian sense. The idea was replaced by the belief that the sin-fixation-tangles, which included our attachment to “eating companions” or semi-obsessing spirits or aka shells of our past selves in past lives, cause us to think incorrectly and therefore, to act incorrectly – prevent us from living normally and happily.

THE AKA SHELL idea has been retained and described better in India than in Polynesia. In Theosophy we find it as the “astral shell” of this or that dead thing, be it a thought or a person. It is considered to be something, however, which can be re-animated by contact with the living, and which can then influence them to good or bad deeds or thoughts. The Huna concept is that all things are first created as aka forms or structures by a creative act of consciousness on an appropriate level, be it that of the Aunihipili, Auhane or Aumakua. The exact mechanism involved at this point is still not fully understood. We do not know whether the na kahuna believed that the aka bodies of the three selves are brought along to encase the baby body by degrees from birth to adolescence, or whether new aka bodies are formed and the old ones left as more or less permanent molds floating about, but connected by aka threads to the new body. Two things might be possible. We might be reborn into the same aka body or, as seems more probable, there might be an attraction to the new body of the old aka shells.

In either case we must look for some way in which the na kahuna accounted for the fact that memories – which must also reside in aka bodies awaiting the addition of mana to revive them – are often carried over from past lives and often play a part in our lives under the disguise of fixation-complex-obsession-sins. Old emotions, fears, hopes and talents seem to be carried along. (See the book, Perceptive Healing by Dr. R. Connell and Geraldine Cummins in which they found many fixations due to events in past lives of patients and were able to heal them by removing or rationalizing the fixation-emotion carry-overs.)

We attract aka shells with their memories and revitalize them with mana so that they again function in some way. We attract them only because like attracts like and we respond to the suggestions and emotions in the old memories for no other reason than that we have not yet evolved past that kind of action and reaction. Failure to respond draws the mana out of the shell and renders it dead again. (Thanks to new HRA Dave Dobbs of the Fairhope, Ala., group which has developed its own brand of Dianetics. Mr. Dobbs writes that in the work he has been doing and watching others do, there is a very real danger of attracting entities to the one being treated if the entities and the preclear are in “agreement” or have leanings in the same direction in the matter of actions and reactions.) The “split personalities” and obsessing spirits may be our own aka from the past, it would seem, or we may attract others to us through “agreement” or likeness of traits. If our old shells should contain a preponderance of good impulses and memories which stir our emotions, we might reap good “karma” in a manner of speaking, from them. If, on the other hand, the shells contained memories of evil, they might well be the “tempters” and “devils” who belong in the “sin-fixation-obsession” classification of Huna as we find it in Polynesia and in both parts of the Bible.

THE WAY OF SALVATION OF HUNA, as we unearth it from the words used by the na kahuna and in what we can learn of their practices and beliefs, is now being made much clearer and more definite by a study of the Huna hidden in codes and symbols in both the Old and New Testaments. Here seems to lie the GREAT DISCOVERY – a practical way and a fairly easy way to obtain all the salvation that is possible. The method can be traced through the maze of words and meanings which still cover the ancient “Secret,” only if we keep constantly in mind the fact that anything which seems to suggest a departure from the good or the normal in living can be nothing other than a blind lead and false clue.

At this point in our HRA research I feel sure that there has been no mistake as to the basic points. These are, (1) make amends for past hurts done others, (2) change the attitude held toward life and live the hurtless and helpful life.

But, in order to bring ourselves to live the good, normal and helpful life, it is necessary that we become masters of ourselves, our moods, emotions, urges and impulses – all those things which come from the fixation-obsession-sin sources and causes. The heart of the great secret of salvation lies right here. The reason we fail dismally – and have so failed for so many centuries – is that the secret of the necessity of removing the fixations has been lost under an increasing accumulation of dogmas. The method of removing the fixations has been lost in the same way.

After making amends in kind or in general and impersonal good deeds, contact must be made with the Aumakua along the aka cord, and mana must be given to it with the request that the fixation obsession-sin units be removed from us. If the fixations block the aka cord “path” and contact cannot be made with the Aumakua, the help of someone who has an open contact is necessary in order that contact can be established for one, mana sent and the prayer-picture presented to ask to have the “stumbling blocks” moved and the crooked path made straight or opened. As the fixations are removed, the task of living the good and helpful and normal life becomes increasingly easy – not before.

The cleansing may take some time. It will need repeating on a smaller scale at frequent intervals to retain the cleansed condition of normalcy and to allow the Aumukua to have its proper part in living the life day by day. There is no demand for asceticism, seclusion, celibacy, or the giving up of all desire and ambition. (If there is fasting and “giving until it hurts” in coin or service, this should be for the purpose of impressing the Aunihipili that complete amends have been made for past hurts done others.)

THE HUNA CULT OF SECRECY

[This] was one of those amazing and inexplicable contradictions which gives us the picture of initiates who knew and used and greatly valued a system of knowledge, and which they desired above all else to see known and put to use by all men, but which they were impelled for some strange and all pervading reason to keep secret and hide under a mass of misleading information, outer forms, rituals and entirely useless dogmas. The initiate prophets constantly stormed and threatened in their efforts to force the early Jews to conform to the outer beliefs and rites, but undoubtedly reserved the inner Secret for the small number of initiates. The same must be said of Jesus, even though he instructed his initiate disciples to go out and preach his teachings to all the world. For the present we can only leave this strange anomaly to wait while we work to bring to light the “pearls of great price” which were so valued and so hidden lest they be cast at random before whatever grade of human being the term “swine” may have indicated at that early day.

Note: “swine” was puaa in the language of na kahuna – a language that they must all have known to some extent. This word, as with so many used to reveal and at the same time to conceal by na kahuna, has alternate meanings that unmistakably point to the fixation-obsessions which must be removed. The meanings of “fine and thin like a spider’s web” give the symbol of the tangle of aka threads which bind together the un-rationalized memories which are fixations. “To flee, as a child from its parents, to avoid punishment” is so direct a pointer toward the conduct of the Aunihipili when harboring a guilt complex, that the next meaning, “an unclean bird,” (check unclean animal or swine), can be accepted in its Huna symbol meaning of an evil spirit. All spirits were “birds,” good or bad according to their nature. Next we recall that the evil spirits which were cast out of the madman by Jesus were allowed to enter a herd of swine, which herd then rushed into the sea – large mana supply – and all were destroyed. We may ask if this indicates that all fixations or evil spirits in the madman were destroyed utterly or simply transferred to some more suitable hosts? Could it be that the pearls of Huna were considered too sacred to reveal to those badly laden with evil spirit fixations? This could hardly be. The madman was healed. Perhaps it is the man who has had his fixations and evil spirits removed who is to be allowed to see the pearls when cleansed and made ready – not before.

Further note: One can hardly escape the startling conclusion that the parable of the pearls and the story of the evil spirits and the swine may, in combination as given above, contain the actual reason for the long-preserved secrecy in which Huna truths were held. It is evident that the person most bedeviled by his fixation-obsessions is the most incapable of receiving the pearls. He wants very much to be let alone – allowed to continue as he now is. It may well be that only the individuals who have evolved sufficiently to glimpse the better life and reach out, willing and ready to try to grasp it, can be given the pearls. And still, it would seem from the accounts in question that some could be healed of at least the obsessions, whether they tried to resist or not, and then they may have become worthy candidates for further teaching, cleansing and ministrations.

Then, as Dr. Brunler demonstrated by the Biometric pattern tests of many criminals, there may be “devils” or men who are naturally or predominantly wicked and bad – with or without benefit of fixations or obsessions – for whom little or nothing can be done even should they, by some long chance, come to desire to reform and swing over completely from destructiveness to constructiveness.

PROVING THE FACTS OF THE LIFE AND CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS

[Proving these facts] by constant references to the prophecies of the Old Testament has appeared to many students as a possible effort on the part of the writers of the New Testament to convince the Jews of the verity of the claims made by and for Jesus. When we see that this was, primarily, a hooking up of the Old Testament Huna passages with the Huna that was being lived out by Jesus years later, the matter is seen in a very different light.

Knowing Huna, and the things the symbols and codes stood for, it now becomes possible to begin the work of sorting the genuine teachings out from the spurious ones which not only changed the outer meanings but added false dogmas. Paul, who never knew Jesus, was largely responsible for the modern version of the dogmas surrounding the point upon which most of the reactionary churches rest their teachings concerning the blood atonement of Jesus, by his death on the cross, for the sins of all who would accept the belief in the atonement.

We have seen Paul’s position in this matter described in the conclusions of one missionary Bible student, as given serially in the HRA Bulletins Nos. 82, 83 and 84, and are now ready to look into the central dogma or truth of Christianity from the point of view of Huna. The question can now be put rather simply and directly.

WERE THE EXTERNAL FACTS OF THE DEATH OF JESUS THE WHOLE OF THE TRUTH? Or were these facts the outer dogmas which covered the real truth which lay in hidden Huna elements? Could it be literally possible that the shedding of the blood of Jesus could pay the debt owed to God by humanity because of their sins? If this shedding of blood was symbolic and not a literal and factual thing, then what was the nature of the hidden fact which was symbolized?

First let us see what Paul taught. Later we will examine in the light of Huna what Jesus was reported to have said by the writers of the Four Gospels – supposedly all having been initiated or given the “strong meat” truths reserved for certain ones by Jesus.

Paul elaborated his doctrines in Romans (See Chapters 5 and 6), teaching that because Adam sinned, his sin was shared by all mankind. But the death of Jesus brought about justification “by his blood” for all who would accept that atonement or redemption.

In Hebrews 9:12-28 (said in the account to have been written by Paul, but the authenticity of authorship questioned by many modern students) the doctrine is advanced that the covenant of the Old Testament had “decayed” and was no longer in force. This covenant was supposedly an agreement between God and the followers of Moses, to the effect that if men did certain things in a certain way, God would do certain things for them, especially would sins be forgiven if blood sacrifices were made and rituals observed. Paul argued that the blood shed by Jesus served the same purpose as the blood of the sacrificed animals. In verse 22 we read: “And almost all things are by law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” Jesus is then described as a high priest, not entering the holy place once a year with the blood of others but, “now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” A new note was stressed in that the word “covenant” was replaced by “testament.”

Going back to verse 16, we read: “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.” This argument is followed by telling how Moses had sprinkled the blood of calves and goats “with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop” over the book and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.” In the Old Testament, Exodus 24:7-8, Moses is made to say, “Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.”

This presents accurately enough the modern churchly dogma of the old and of the conservative churches. That it is the outer covering of a deeper truth hidden in symbols is to be seen when we examine the idea of the blood sacrifice in terms of Huna and consider the words attributed to Jesus in the Four Gospels which give accounts of the rite of the Last Supper or Communion – which later, survived as the Mass, in which the dogma is that the bread and wine are changed to the actual flesh and blood of Jesus and are offered as a fresh sacrificial act of atonement, or as a reenactment of the original rite which, it must be remembered, was not an actual shedding of blood but a symbolic act.

THE NEW COVENANT, TO BE GIVEN BY A COMING “ANOINTED ONE” was foretold by Jeremiah, who says (31:9 & 31): ” … I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel.” (Note the Huna symbols of mana in the waters, of the aka cord leading to the Aumukua in the “Straight way,” and of the sin-fixation-obsession in the “stumbling blocks” which the “father” or Aumukua is promising that he will remove.) “And their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.” (31:) “Behold, the days come sayeth the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah (33:) I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their hearts for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them for I will forgive their iniquity and will remember their sin no more. (40:) And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes…. ….shall be holy unto the Lord; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.” (Note that the new covenant is one in which the prophet does not mention blood sacrifice, just as no mention of it was made by Isaiah. The “dead bodies and ashes” are the Huna symbols of the fixation-obsessions which the “Lord” Aumukua has removed, and which he promises here shall not be revived to necessitate another removal.)

Isaiah (53:3 on) gives us this: “He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid, as it were our faces from him; Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed (11) …by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he will bear their iniquities.” (And 59:20:) “And the Redeemer shall come to Zion and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. As for me, this is my covenant with them… My spirit which is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed…”

The “word” and the “word of thy mouth” which is met with in Bible passages, is very significant in that it is a Huna symbol of the working of the Aumukua with the na Aunihipili. In Hawaii I studied some phases of Huna under a man who had been taught parts of the “Secret” by the grandmother of his Hawaiian wife. This old lady was a kahuna whose work was healing, and she explained that she belonged to the highest grade of na kahuna, those who were able to “speak for the god” – to become one with the Aumukua and act in conscious unison with it, voicing the words to match the thought-forms of the healed condition as they were made, and as they were used to serve as molds as the healed condition replaced the injured condition. My friend has seen broken bones healed in a matter of a minute or so as the old kahuna touched the injured part and spoke “for the god” the words affirming the healed condition as being there and as being complete.

To understand the Huna in the Bible, we must keep in mind the ancient “speaking for the god” custom of the highest grades of na kahuna. The prophets and the healers belonged to this class, and as Jesus was both prophet and healer, he “spoke as one having authority, sometimes speaking as the Aumukua in his teaching. Once we understand this typical Huna characteristic of all the Biblical na kahuna, we can watch for things said as from the point of view of (1) the na Aunihipili or man, and (2) the Aumukua working in and through na Aunihipili.

The problem of understanding then becomes one of deciding  what is said or done by the lower man alone or in the “speaking for the god” or Aumakua. (Aum`akua, or “god” in which the  akua root is “a god” or higher being.) Jesus explained, “I and the Father are one,” and “Not I, but the Father within, doeth the works.”

The events of the Last Supper period review the teachings and present them in the rite of the washing of the feet, one for another, as a means of removing fixations, then in the rite of the communion in which there was no blood shed, but in which such a sacrifice was the external meaning. By translating the accounts of what was said and done into the language of na kahuna, and looking for the alternate meanings of the words and their roots, we can see clearly what Jesus was teaching – was restating as an ancient and enduring Huna truth – what PLAN OF SALVATION HE WAS REALLY OFFERING.

1. Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it and divided it with or amongst the disciples. He said, “This is my body. Take it and eat it. Na kahuna had no word for bread, but the outer symbol of Biblical sacrifice was flesh and blood of animals. Jesus offered his own body or flesh, symbolically in the bread. “Flesh” is io, or i`o to signify the guttural break of a “k” sound left out, the ko root being used as koko, meaning “blood.” The connection between flesh and blood is close in the two words. We read in the Old Testament (Lev. 17:11), “For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” The blood was not to be “eaten” but was reserved as a sacrificial offering to God. The secret meaning of io lies in its alternate use to indicate “truth or the REAL.” In some Polynesian dialects it was “God.” From this we see that Jesus spoke as and for the Aumakua, and that it was not his physical body that was symbolized, but the very body of the Aumakua – its invisible body of real substance – itself.
2. Jesus took the cup of wine, blessed it and gave it to the disciples to drink, saying that, “This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” Fenton says in his translation, “the new Settlement,” and to make the rite conform to the prophesies, it must be a new covenant and, as a covenant obligates each party to it to do certain things in return for certain things done by the other, it must be a reciprocal action. Na Aunihipili must do something. The Aumakua must do something.

The outer form of the symbol shows that blood, “the life of the flesh” or physical body, was to be offered by na Aunihipili to supply the Aumakua. The cup or basin held the blood in all sacrificial rites. “Cup” in Huna is ki`aha, the first part of the word meaning to squirt water with force, symbol of sending the mana to the Aumakua. The second part of the word is “cord,” symbol of the aka cord along which the mana or “blood” sacrificial gift is sent. The words for “to drink” and to “pour out or shed” as blood: symbol of the “fruit of the vine,” vine being the symbol of the aka cord carrying mana and thought-forms are formed from the same roots as used in “cup.” They are ki`aha`aha, the doubled aha still having the meaning of “cord.”

The Aumakua, after graduating to its high level of consciousness, stays on as the guide, savior and mentor of na two Aunihipili. It makes the supreme sacrifice after having won through to mastership, and stands by to suffer (as the prophets describe the suffering symbolically and as they fit the death on the cross) until na Aunihipili of the man are helped to “see the Light” – are at last SAVED by coming to desire to live the good life, making amends, and then being freed from the sin-fixation-obsession tangles that hold them back.

Blood is the red wine or mana. Low mana is offered to the Aumakua, and is returned as High Mana of greater power – the “cleansing blood of the spotless Lamb of God.” Koko is the Huna word for blood, and in its alternate meanings we are brought back to the “cup” symbol so that neither can be lost to our understanding. Koko also means the network of cords used by the kahuna people to carry their calabash containers, which were their cups and bowls. A net is made by knotting cords, and the knot in the aka cord is the fixation symbol, as found in all mention of nets and snares.

The entire rite, therefore, is one revolving around the Huna plan of SALVATION in which na Aunihipili supply low mana to the Aumakua and it, in turn, sends the High Mana to do away with the fixations, after which the man becomes able to work consciously with his Aumakua and so is able to receive help in coming to live the normal, happy, healthy and helpful life which is the goal of living no matter at which level of evolution the man may stand. It may possibly be that this goal represents the last step to be taken before graduation of each of the three selves to one grade higher. At any rate, it represents the greatest possible step which can be taken no matter what the standing of the individual. Atonement leads to the conscious, working union with the Aumakua. It involves the work of both parties to the covenant. The fixations must be removed.

That is what Huna tells us, over and over and over. MFL

Aug. 15, 1952

Dr. Oscar Brunler

HRA Dr. OSCAR BRUNLER passed on, August 1st, at Santa Barbara, Calif. As was stated in the Bulletin some time ago, he suffered from radiation poisoning during two hours of work potentizing chemical fertilizers in solution for a friend – poisoning from which he was unable to recover. His body was cremated. On the Sunday following, a “Bon Voyage” party was held in the garden of the home in which he had spent his last weeks, there in Santa Barbara.

Dr. Brunler’s discoveries and inventions were many, making up an impressive list. His personal experiences and adventures covered a very large field. Of especial interest and benefit to the HRA has been his work in the measurement of the radiations of what he came to prefer to call the “soul,” and the classification of the radiation readings according to their levels and significations. With the great generosity which was one of his outstanding characteristics, he passed on to us and to his friends and lecture audiences, his findings, at the same time doing his best to present those findings against a background of psycho-religious philosophy which would aid in one’s understanding and ability to accept the very new and often surprising things which were offered.

Perhaps his greatest talent was his capacity for friendship. Those of us who knew him during his short time of residence in California will miss him very much. He was one of the best friends of HRA, and we can best honor his memory by closing ranks and pressing on with even greater determination to do what we can to make the best of the heritage of knowledge which he left to us and to the world.

OUR NEW BULLETIN PAPER, which comes into use with this issue and which will continue for several issues, is not intended as a permanent thing. Cigbo had the chance to tie up some discontinued paper stock which had been punched with two holes but which can be cut to our size. The holes come in the margin and will do no harm. They might even serve to bind the Bulletins’ run on this special paper. The savings on this paper will be used to buy some much desired books to go with the Tregear Dictionary which is still on the way from New Zealand, but which should arrive soon.

ROUND ROBIN MAGAZINE, issue of July-August, done in the inimitable manner of HRA Meade Layne in the interests of the BSRA, is off the mimeograph and makes unusually good reading. The six-page lead article by the editor on the Aurameter, etheric objects, thought-forms, teleportation and its possible use in projecting flying saucers – all most provocative of thought. A number of other excellent articles and departments include a fine report on a very odd experiment carried out by HRA Verne Cameron with the aid of his Aurameter and a strange skull from the collection of the famous lecturer, collector and student, Manley P. Hall. (“Kilner’s ‘Human Atmosphere’ – and an Unusual Experiment”) Single copies of ROUND ROBIN 50 cents, but nice to add a dime for postage. Subscription for a year, including BSRA releases, $5. 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif.

Concluding: “JESUS AND PAUL TALK THINGS OVER IN PARADISE”

(III) (Reprint from Psychic News and Harbinger of Light)

Paul: My Lord, I saw you in my system as the “High Priest Forever,” and gave you that place of honor. I placed you “sitting at the right hand of God.” I gave you every honor.
Jesus: Well I know where you have placed me, Paul, but where did you get these highly aristocratic and priestly ideas about me? Not from me, not from my words or works, and I am sure none who ever knew me in the flesh and in my simple garments, would ever associate me with all the flummery gathered round the old priestcraft. The official dress alone would disgust anyone who lived as simply as I did.
Paul: I know you lived a simple life, but -
Jesus: Very simple both in life and belief. It was my protest against the elaborate pretence of temple and synagogue. How I hated the weary procession of beasts trailing along to the slaughter-house and, still more so, the resplendent solemnity of the priests in attendance who stage-managed the ancient pantomime.
Paul: But it was the ancient religion of our fathers.
Jesus: It certainly was. I hated it so I could not speak of its beastly ritual and just ignored it. That was why the priests were so angry at my teaching. They did not understand a religion for  the market place and the home. They had always to be “performing” in  their temples and in the slaughter-house.
Paul: How strange! I saw the OLD fit into the NEW, just like a dove-tail. The one seemed to fulfil the other. You, my Lord, were the final fulfilment of all our religion.
Jesus: The religion I began to do and teach, Paul, was not reformed Judaism. It was a new way of life. Paul, between ourselves, your theorizing with your old scriptures about sacrifice, and your conclusion, “We are justified by His blood” – meaning mine – (Rom. 5:9), was most ingenious. Then you turn around to simple men, Gentiles, and men who never knew or heard of our ancient and peculiar rites, and you say that only those who can bring themselves to believe – all that – are saved. I never taught that.
Paul: I thought –
Jesus: Don’t you see, Paul, that before any man can understand YOUR gospel, which you call Christianity, he must first study and then accept ancient Judaism with all its ritual of bloody sacrifices? Is that the proper approach to ME?
Paul: It seemed very logical at the time when I wrote to the Saints at Rome. They accepted it.
Jesus: I was never in Rome. But, Paul, what will happen to my simple gospel if future generations should prefer yours and build churches around it to perpetuate that – forgive me, Paul – that logical lunacy?
Paul: I did my best.
Jesus: Paul, a man’s best, if his vision is wrong, is sometimes his worst. But I shall always be grateful to you for that other writing of yours, much of it so different from your polemics, but especially your poem in praise of Love. (1 Cor. 13.) For one brief hour you were inspired by all I ever believed or felt. My dear Paul, I have that poem in my memory, every word.
Paul: My master, I wrote that far removed from the scene of the Jewish temples and the priests. It was done in my beloved Ephesus. I am glad you like it.
Jesus: Paul, that will live when all your other works are forgotten. It is the whole of the LAW and the GOSPEL.
Paul: Lord, did you never write? Had you no craving for authorship?
Jesus: No craving for authorship in that sense. Had I lived longer – and how I wished for that – I might possibly have collected my sayings and my simple stories, like the one about the Good Samaritan, and the Prodigal Son, and others. Oh, I remember, I did write once, but only on sand. (John 8:6.)
Paul: On sand? – what? – why?
Jesus: It was a secret. For a brief moment it was seen and read by only one poor, simple girl. Paul, it is the FATE OF ALL WRITING TO BE WRITTEN ON SAND. There is NO FINALITY WITH TRUTH. Truth marches on.
Paul: My master, one day you must tell me what you taught and I may, if you will, ask of you questions, as once I did of my master Gamaliel.
Jesus: Yes, we shall do that. But I warn you, Paul, my gospel was not a theology except in its simplest form, and it never was a system, and it never was a body of doctrine. It was just about people. Always about people.
Paul: My master, might we not talk today of your views rather than of mine?
Jesus: As you will, Paul; then you must question me and I shall answer as best I can.
Paul: Well, then, what about your miraculous birth by the Virgin Mary and the Holy Ghost?
Jesus: I know nothing of that. None of us can know anything of our birth, Paul, except what we are told.
Paul: And what were you told?
Jesus: No child is ever given details. I was told nothing.
Paul: Not even when you grew up and became “a son of the Law?”
Jesus: It would have been too late then, Paul; these miracle stories are for the very young. Mothers in all lands tell fairy stories about birth to their children to satisfy a too early curiosity.
Paul: But, my master, you must believe your mother Mary was a Virgin. 
Jesus: Surely. My mother Mary would be a virgin when she met her man Joseph, but of the Holy Ghost – well, Paul – I am like your friends in Ephesus (at a much later date) who had not heard of it. (Acts 19:2.)
Paul: Do you suggest – ?
Jesus: I suggest nothing. I do not know. I never once spoke of my birth – few people do – and in my lifetime those who knew me well – even those who are NOW writing about me – never spoke of it as anything worthy of special comment. Not once.
Paul: But – your miracles?
Jesus: You mean my powers of healing? No one ever associated any power of mine with my birth. They did not say: “Nothing amazing in that, considering his miracle-birth.” Not once. They just said: “Is this not the carpenter’s son whose brothers and sisters are here?” There was no mystery in the minds of my generation in regard to my birth.
Paul: But your own biographers, my master –
Jesus: I know biographers. When their subject – always famous or notorious – died, the biographer always found something astonishing in his immediate ancestry, especially in the mother – a pretty sentiment, my Paul, and a natural one. All the world loves a mother! And -
Paul: But, my master, the story has caught the world’s imagination. They now have a day in honor of the “Babe of Bethlehem.” It is the Holy Mystery.
Jesus: And all the world loves a new-born! The Gentiles will rejoice; they always liked mysteries. They loved to make their great ones greater still – both in life and in death. At birth they were wonderful; after death they became dieties. My answer to your question, Paul, is – I DO NOT KNOW!
Paul: You refer to after death. What, then, of the Future Life? How did you deal with that? I had much to say to the Saints about the Kingdom-to-come.
Jesus: So I have heard. Now that is a question I can answer and did answer in my lifetime. One day when my disciples were showing me over the Temple buildings, they asked that very question, and I replied: “Day and date no man knows. You don’t know; I don’t know; even the angels in heaven don’t know. God alone knows.” (Matt. 24:36.) And to take them out of their dream I added, “Wake up! Keep the day’s work going, and because you don’t know – Watch!” (Matt. 25:13.)
Paul: You didn’t know? I thought you knew all things.
Jesus: No, there were  some things I did know that I did not tell – to the people who asked me.
Paul: Were you not the Great Teacher?
Jesus: It was because I was a teacher, and knew my pupils, that I often reserved my opinions.
Paul: You didn’t know! That would be on account of your “Kenosis,” my master?
Jesus: My what? Oh, yes, you mean that theory you gave to the Philippians? (Phil. 2:7.)
Paul: Yes. How, though you were equal with God from the beginning, you “emptied yourself” of your Glory and became a man of no reputation?
Jesus: My glory, Paul, such as it was, was to be a Man, and I fear I did not have a considerable “reputation.” I have studied that part of your letter to the Philippians with care. I quite approve of verse 5, but the glorification that follows – to verse 11 – I confess made me think of that remark of Festus to you, my Paul. (Acts 21:24.)
Paul: I was never done placing you on a high pinnacle, my master 
Jesus: So it would seem. Luke tells of another who did that. (Luke 4:9.) No, Paul, I must tell you frankly I do not understand your theory of the – the Kenosis, nor your argument. I first “empty myself” and yet I retain “the fullness of the God-head,” (Col. 2:9) and am credited with omnipotence. I make another prophesy, Paul. This “mystery” of yours – and it is also a mystery to me – will keep the priests and pundits busy for the next twenty centuries to come. Many ecclesiastical honors will be won in the contest. (The end.)

* Note: “Kenosis” comes from the Greek word used by Paul. It means “emptying.” In the “Word Book” at the back of the King James version “International Series” Bible on my desk, “Kenosis” is given and a special article is cited under the discussion heading of THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE. A careful reading of this section of the explanations of how the modern Bible and modern dogmas came to have their present form, is most enlightening and will aid greatly in the task of deciding what was taught by Jesus and what was added later in the way of dogmatic beliefs and rites. The lack of a full knowledge of Huna at the later times may be responsible for the tangle.

WITH OUR HRA INVENTORS AND INVESTIGATORS

HRA GEORGE WALLACE, Box 158, Beaumont, Calif., who invented the “ZNO” form of horizontal spring-wire pendulum, described in earlier Bulletins, tells me he is hard at work on a “bug chaser” for the “bugs” in humans, getting most of the plans for the new instrument from s spirit. This spirit materialized in a seance and George says he was struck dumb for days by the magnificence of the “teacher” and his costume.

George also has been trying a form of telepathic control over friends with whom he has experimented. It goes like this: The friend stands holding a ZNO in front of himself, point toward a chart. On his head he wears a metal band with a loop or point sticking up, or two points, or just a wire coil. This is to pick up the telepathic radiations, and/or magnetic radiations directed by George to him. George stands behind him, holding up behind his head a horse shoe magnet & “sends” directions to the effect that [the] friend will cause the point of the ZNO to trace clockwise or counter-clockwise or up and down or sidewise lines on the chart. If the south pole of the magnet is held in the hand of George, the friend’s ZNO will move in one direction, while if the north pole is the one held in the hand of George, the ZNO will reverse its motion. George says, “I have also found that changing the poles of the magnet (relative to the position of the receiver) effects receptive ability of the receiver. It is also possible to affect the sender. Results seem to be obtained quicker if the receiver wears an iron wire antenna, and if he is not insulated from the ground by rubber shoes.” It is also said to be a help if the receiver is grounded with a wire to a water or gas pipe in the room, the end of the wire being held in the free hand. George warns that these experiments should not be carried out for longer than a few minutes at a time as they may cause headache etc. if overdone. Here are some of the drawings sent to show what is meant.

While this seems a rather simple experiment, it bears on a very old question concerning the nature of magnetism and its relation to the human aura, to human nervous reactions and to the left and right hand polarity. One is made to wonder what part the magnet plays in the experiment, why the antenna betters the results, and what thought has to do with picking up and directing magnetism as a part of the silent telepathic command to cause the ZNO to move this way or that. (ZNOs are available from George. Former price was $3.)

KILNER SCREEN TYPE SPECTACLES are being made up on order for his friends and for any HRA, by HRA Joseph H. Lukovich, 334 Phoenix St., McKees Rocks, Penn. He has for some time been experimenting to get the right tint of glass to duplicate the effect obtained some years ago by Dr. Kilner in England, in which the tint seemed to cause the eyes to become sensitive to the radiations thrown off by the human aura.

Dr. Kilner tested many colors and settled on that produced by a solution of dicyanin dye. One first looked through the screen in ordinary daylight, then turned the eyes on a naked man standing in dim light against a dark background. Not all people could learn in this way to see the aura, but many succeeded. There were three distinct radiations, all supposed to lie in the ultraviolet end of the spectrum – none of them ordinarily to be seen by the eye and none picked up by cameras. The first layer was dark and colorless, extending from the body about an inch at most, but often shrinking to a quarter of an inch. The second layer extended another three inches, while the third reached almost a foot in depth.

Negative charges from a Wilmhurst machine caused the aura to vanish. It was also sensitive to the influence of magnets, chemicals and vapors. Under hypnosis, the brilliance of the aura dulled. In a similar manner its size and colors were changed by illness. In mental illness, the size of the aura grew progressively less and the outline of it was irregular and dim. At the approach of death, the aura shrinks, and at death becomes lacking entirely. He confirmed to a degree the findings of still earlier investigators who depended largely on the psychic vision of mediums to enable them to study the aura under various conditions. Much work remains to be done in this field even today.

Like all pendulum measurements, there is a certain psychic element involved and the operator must have some psychic ability in order to see the aura through the Kilner type screen. This limitation also applies to the use of the Aurameter and the Biometer, to say nothing of all the “radionics” and “electronics” instruments which depend upon the “rubbing plate” or other method of putting the psychic ability of the operator into action as the vital part of a reading. Science, of course, refuses to sanction all such methods of measurement, and even for those of us who are convinced of the verity of psychic measurement, there will be few who do not admit that readings tend to vary from one reader to the next according to his ability and training in the matter of the agreed-upon unit of measurement – the “convention” set up with the Aunihipili.

I have not seen or tested the “Auraspecs,” as HRA Lukovich has named them, but HRAs George and Helen Sandwith, who were presented with a pair (as well as with two Cameron Aurameters) for use in their testing in the South Seas, and later on Easter Island, report that both of them have been able to train themselves to see auras fairly well around things and people. They were especially interested in finding that the Aurameter would give an accurate check on the size and shape of aura  coming from people or from the ikons they have with them or from the small potentized oil painting made for healing purposes by HRA Mrs. Kingsley Tarpey of London. They are looking forward with much enthusiasm to tests of images and other objects which they may encounter on their travels and in Easter Island. (The Auraspecs can be had for about $16.50, I am told.)

IS LOVE OF BEING SCARED NORMAL OR GOOD FOR US?

So asks a thoughtful HRA, H.L. Zipf, of 1311 S.W. 4th Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., who would like to hear from any HRA who has ideas on this subject. He has a fine background of Dianetics and has had many hours of “running.” He writes: “Raised as an only child, and looking back now after the experience gained in being audited, I realize that the thrills of fears hit the solar plexus, giving that clutching sensation and producing morbid feelings. Gradually, during the years, the subconscious learns to enjoy these feelings and does not wish to release them. Young children who grow up without advanced guidance will develop these fright and fear complexes which later appear and reach the point at which they produce morbid states which may make them neurotic.

“To try to ‘run’ these out in Dianetics might require several thousand hours, and then in six months or so would float to the top.

“No single fear or fright seems to produce these complex units, but they build up by combination through the years. (They cause a reaction something like that caused by a habit forming narcotic.) That is why the soap operas and thrillers on radio and TV have such tremendous followings. Thousands of women love the clutch of fear that arrives several times during the course of each program. It would appear that the subconscious finds it much easier to produce these morbid sensations than it does thoughts of love (or of quiet service – constructive thoughts), and so the morbid reactions become more habitual.

“That is why a Hitler develops an entire nation, starting with cheap thrills and sinking lower and lower to the slave camps and brutal thinking and killing as the subconscious demands more and larger thrills. To minds having no definite programs, any sensation is better than the dullness of normal life without the thrills.”

COMMENT: As HRA Zipf pointed out in his letter to me, there seems little or nothing written in the books about this strange quirk of humans that makes them enjoy the thrill of danger, especially if it can be enjoyed in complete safety. One first thinks of the possibility of some atavistic instinct inherited from those distant ancestors who faced danger bravely and lived to enjoy the thrill and plaudits of their tribal fellows. There is a savage joy in knowing that one has faced up to danger, and a savage triumph in having avoided being overcome by either the threat of natural forces or of an enemy. The actual memory of a very narrow escape, on the other hand, is not at all a happy thing to recall and one shudders away from it. The thing called “escape mechanism” in psychology, may well be what is behind the thrill of vicariously experienced dangers, and such escapes from reality belong in the day dream classification as well. Mr. Zipf, in making the discovery that the thrills and their escapes add up to harmful complexes which cause stumbling blocks in the way of the Dianetic “pre-clear,” is perhaps far more important than any of us realize at the moment. The point well deserves thought, experiments and correspondence to add to the scant information which we have and which bears on the subject. The ghost or goblin stories and scares of early childhood may have marked many of us. Also, we may have been equally marked by nightmares long since forgotten.

THOSE WHO LOVE TO SCARE OTHERS should also have their classification and day in court. To scare the living daylights out of the other fellow is great fun for those who are very young and who can shout “BOO!” from behind the door, or for those thoughtless elders who have never grown into the full estate of Overstreet’s MATURE MIND. The really mature pause with thoughtful care to weigh for their scarees the source of the scare material, the past success or failure scores of the predicting spirits, individuals or Biblical prophets, and to produce at least passable reasons for their own conclusions that the scare predictions are .01%, 2%, 10% or 99% valid. It is hardly a sign of the thoughtful, experienced, mature and entirely honest man just to jump out from behind the door and shout “BOO!” Moreover, it will be observed that the child who does this is often so overcome by his own scare that he may come scrambling in terror from his hiding place under the bed in the dark room after he has sent little sister running and screaming for light and safety. One who is himself in a fine state of funk over the predictions he has accepted and is passing on to others, may escape the suspicion of dishonesty, but may still be adding ammunition to the pile used by those who take potshots at us all as “crackpots” and entirely beyond the protection of sacred Science.

Ever since the Prophet Daniel sounded off, and since John gave out with his “vision” on the Isle of Patmos, the preachers have been able to scare dozens of sheep into their congregations under the threats of the “sacred writs,” and under the promise that the ones who attended church faithfully and gave proper support would be “caught up into the air” when the rest of those – all lacking the proper credentials of the specified cult – were blasted into eternal darkness forever (plus a day for good measure). “Scare Heads” are the constant, legitimate, and accepted means of selling us our daily paper or our favorite radio commentator. We are treated to the fine privilege of sharing vicariously the dangers, thrills and deaths of those unfortunate enough to make headlines, all because that is what we will most readily pay money for.

THE INEVITABLE CONCLUSION is that we like to be scared. And that stresses the question of whether or not that is good for us, psychically, spiritually or morally – or whether the continuous diet of scares makes for a more progressive world of men and women, for deeper and clearer thinking and more constructive planning for the world good. One thing seems to stand out clearly, and that is the fact that it adds nothing to human dignity either to scare or be scared.

IN OUR TMHG PRAYER PERIODS we picture the world at peace; we picture it as a safe world, a prosperous world and a happy place in which men can dwell. This is constructive. It is adult. It is an action of maturity and sanity and of progressive planning and thinking. We all agree that prayer without faith is of no possible use, no matter after what fashion we pray. We are told by one of the great teachers that a little faith can move a mountain, and that a little faith is like a little yeast which can leaven a whole lump of dough. Perhaps a few of us will be enough to overbalance the mass of fearful ones who expect and picture world disaster. The predictions made by spirits and self-appointed prophets have come true about once in a blue moon. They are NOT worthy of general acceptance if for no other reason. Or am I wrong?
MFL

Aug. 1, 1952

A LETTER TO CIGBO

Dear Cigbo (Profit, if any): Well, Kat, what have you to say now? Do you still think the ’spiriks’ were talking through their hats when they predicted severe quakes for California?” (Signed, Uncle A.)

CIGBO REPLIES: “Dear Uncle A, Since you call my attention to it, I got to admit there seemed some little bit of a comeup-pants here recently. But, I claim the same ‘out’ as the spirits do when THEY predict. They always say when nothing comes off (or maybe I better say comes on) that it is because over there the time elemink is not so good as ours, aka clocks not being so hot. Then they say, ‘But just you wait! It may not have come to pass three or two or even one year ago, like I said, cross my heart, it would, but the time business is to blame.’

“Well, I got a right (and a mighty good left, and even a leftand-wright in my hind paws) to use the same sequels. That Ecake I predicted would NOT come and would NOT shake California so it would slide into the see, STILL HASN’T COME. Remember, I wasn’t predicting about things in the FAST, and if there was any Ecake on or about the date of July 21st (4:52 A.M.) when I woke up and dived twenty feet (both front and hind, plus nose and tail) for the door, that is ALL IN THE PAST, and as us per dickers deal ONLY with the future, it doesn’t count. King’s X. Anyway, praises be, boss can’t blame anything that might have happened on me. The professors who have the last words on earth cakes, said the San Andreas Fault and the Garlock Fault took all the blame there was, and that lets ME out so I’m as pure and innocent of misdeeds as a Republican and Democracy all rolled into one. Anyway, WHY should I want to make an earth cake? I’m not a candied date for anything. I got more job now than I can handle about half of the time. Anyway, scuse please, and: Love from your very own bold, courageous and skairt, CIGBO hra.”

CORRECTION: On page 5 of Bulletin 80, the name of HRA Thela New comer was not spelled correctly (Not Thelia). On the same page, opposite the illustration of the triangle, I stated in a note that the reactive mind of L. Ron Hubbard could be considered a substitute for the Huna AUNIHIPILI. Mrs. Newcomer writes: “I don’t know how much Dianetics you have had time to read…  know in later works on Dianetics other aspects of mind are mentioned, maybe  not standing out as ideas as clearly as the reactive part – what you know as the Aunihipili, others speak of as the subconscious – but he brings in the analyzer and one thing or another claiming, as do other Dianetics writers, that the mind has different qualities, one now acting now, another again, – and when ‘fire’ is had the Aumakua comes out into the open with a bang, figuratively and literally quite often.” (Note: My apologies for comparing the reactive part of mind with anything in Huna.)

HRA MRS. KINGSLEY TARPEY, writing from London, reports a growing interest on the part of the younger medical doctors, in the possibilities of diagnosis with the Biometer and of direct healing, such as she uses so very well. Good!

CONTINUING: “JESUS AND PAUL TALK THINGS OVER IN PARADISE” (II)

Note: Many HRAs were impressed, just as I have been, with this excellent work which helps show what Paul added to the teachings of Jesus. It is undoubtedly important that we be able to separate the two teachings in our search for better understanding of the nature of the complex and the possible methods proposed for removing the “blockings” from the “path.” Part 2 of this reprint from PSYCHIC NEWS, via HARBINGER OF LIGHT, follows.

Jesus: Now Paul, I think we should discuss what you called your own gospel and how you came by your beliefs as recorded in your writings. You say you acquired them “not from men, nor after men, neither were you taught; it all came by revelation of Jesus Christ.” (Galatians 1:11,12.) I have no recollection of that.
Paul: So also I told King Agrippa when I …
Jesus: Yes, I saw your account of that. It was lengthy and contained many details. It is now recorded in Luke’s story. (Acts 26: 12-18.)
Paul: Well I remember that great occasion. I was on trial – and how the King himself was impressed -
Jesus: Quite so, but your account of events to King Agrippa is much more elaborate and, if you will pardon me, more rhetorical than the earlier account of the same experience; in fact, the two accounts do not agree. They look like accounts of two different events.
Paul: I have not seen Luke’s earlier account of it.
Jesus: Well, Luke says that all that happened at your conversion was that you were instructed to “go into the city and it shall be told thee what thou must do.” (Acts 9:3-6.) Not a word about any direct revelation from Jesus Christ and not a whisper of any doctrinal scheme from me to you. The “vision” you saw was “a man, Ananias, coming to you.”(Verse 12.)
Paul: Doctrine? I was a great student of the Scriptures.
Jesus: What Scriptures? There were none except the Old Testament writings. Not a word had been written by me, or about me, at  that time.
Paul: Our Scriptures were the only Word from God we knew, and were sacred to us.
Jesus: Paul, I am eager to know one thing. Where did you get those amazing ideas of yours recorded in your letter to the Romans? I shall summarize them: (1) the fall of the whole human race by one single Sin of one single man, Adam; (2) the condemnation of the whole race by that one Sin; (3) my death as a sacrificial blood-offering
to restore the race to God’s favor; and (4) most amazing of all, your idea that man’s salvation depends on God’s election, and neither on man’s deeds, nor on man’s will – what you call Predestination.
Paul: I proved it from the Old Testament writings. I cited the case of Abraham and Hagar (Rom. 9:6), and I made certain deductions from the story about Rebecca (Rom. 9:10-13), also from the case of Esau. My deduction was: “God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and He makes anyone stubborn just as He pleases.” (Rom. 9:18.)
Jesus: That had not occurred to me; it is most ingenious. But Paul, did you ever hear anyone say or suggest that I in my lifetime had taught these things or given these astonishing interpretations?
Paul: No, my master, I had to rely on myself, with the books of Moses and the prophets, and while in Arabia I built up my systematic theology for the saints.
Jesus: And launched it on the world as your gospel And these are Your published ideas which have got a start of some years of mine which are only being read now. I fear it is your gospel, Paul, rather than mine that is believed now.
Paul: I would be sorry to think, Lord that the disciple should be before his master.
Jesus: Sorry? Did not you deliberately tell the Galatians that your gospel was final and that if any man or even an angel from heaven, teach differently they were obviously wrong? (Gal. 1:8-9; Luke 9:54-55.)
Paul: No. I saw little of your friends and heard little of your teachings. The stories of your life had not been written in my lifetime.
Jesus: In your gospel, Paul, you make a great deal of the sacrificial value of my death for the sins of men.
Paul: It was the central point of my gospel, and fundamental.
Jesus: Did you not know that I never once referred to any such an idea? Sacrifice was an antiquated idea which I completely ignored. I desired Mercy and not sacrifice.
Paul: You died the death of the Cross – the ignominious death.
Jesus: But Paul, thousands of people died on crosses in my time under the Roman dictatorship of our people, and all for political causes.
Paul: Yes, Lord, but your death was different. I saw it in the light of my study of the old sacrifice as something different and as a culmination of the entire sacrificial system.
Jesus: So I have heard, but was there any single suggestion in all my plain speech, or in my simple parables to the simple, that only through the shedding of my blood could there be remission of sins?
Paul: I saw certain analogies and built up my system of Christian theology on that foundation. Believers must have something to believe and it must be logical, and it must be a system. The Old Testament writings showed that there was no remission of sins except  by shedding blood and I deduced –
Jesus: I know you did all that. But as the gospels, now coming out, will show, I came to teach a new way of life.
Paul: What, then, did you say?
Jesus: I simply said to the truly repentant: “Your sins are forgiven you; go, and sin no more.” “Thy faith hath made thee whole.” “Forgive and ye shall be forgiven.”
Paul: And no word of a mediator between God and Man? And no sacrifice according to our Law?
Jesus: No. No mediator and no sacrifice. I was tired of the pretensions of the priests and the high priests and chief priests,  that only they could approach God. “I desired Mercy and not sacrifice,” as the gentle Hosea did.
(To be continued.)

ORIGINAL SIN, or at least the sin for which Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden, was that of eating the fruit if the sacred breadfruit tree, according to the Polynesian version of the story. This tree is lulu, and the secondary meanings are (1) “to be possessed by a spirit,” and (2) “to be excessive in strength, as in violent anger.” There is also the meaning of “something stuck fast, as between the teeth in the case of food.” From these meanings, it is to be seen that the thing hardest to deal with in the list of fixation-sins or “missing of the mark” is obsession in some degree. This can be unsuspected by the individual who harbors these “eating companions,” sharing life force with them, and having them inject into the Aunihipili ideas which are foreign to those normally held.

THE SERPENT who tempted Eve was the symbol of such a spirit or devil, also the symbol of a fixation. A fixation, like the Serpent in the Garden, makes one think that wrong ideas are right, and that bad deeds are good. If a Aunihipili spirit lives in one’s aka or aura, it may force its emotions and moods on the victim. If it died as part of a man, from some disease or accident, it may cause illness by foisting all the symptoms onto the body of the living host.

THE GARDEN gives the Huna meanings which show that it was the place in which the contact with the Aumakua was to be made along the aka cord by the sending of the mana. The word for TREE is also one giving the root meanings of aka cord.

ONE CONCLUDES that Adam’s “missing of the mark” was caused by spirit obsession that prevented him from staying in the Garden – prevented him from making contact along the aka cord with the Aumakua. The failure or inability to make this contact is the basic disaster brought on by any form of sin-fixation-obsession.

TO SACRIFICE: This was not to shed blood – not to na kahuna who knew the Secret. The word is mohai, and it has the symbolic meaning of “breaking off or stopping acts” (sinful or acts caused by the presence of obsessing spirits or by fixations, we may guess), of “confessing to others or to another,” (which points to some form of recalling the fixations so that they can be confessed or described to another in the process of removing the fixations); of “breaking something” (to break open the store of hidden memories which form the fixations, or “to break open the secret of the obsession”) and “to put something in a special place” (the symbol of the opened aka path and the restoration of the ability to pray and place the thought-forms of the prayer in the aka of the Aumakua).

SACRIFICES WERE MADE ON AN ALTAR, not on the cross. Altar is ku`aha in the Polynesian. Ku is the back or spine and aha the aka cord to the Aumakua. The cord runs along the back bone or through its center and up through the top of the head, then on up to the Aumakua. The Hindus called this the “serpent fire” and it left the head at the “door of Brahm.” The thing offered as a sacrifice was mana – the gift given with love, not because of compulsion. The prayer that went with the gift of mana might ask for help in the finding and removal of the complex-sin-mistake-obsession.

ADAM AND EVE WERE DRIVEN FROM THE GARDEN, or, in Huna secret terms, were cut off from contact with God or the Aumakua as the representative of God, by having the aka cord blocked by the bad things suggested to them by the evil spirits they allowed to live with them. Outside the Garden “God cursed the ground” on which Adam had to grow his food. Curse is the first root the symbol of much mana and the second meaning (1) skin, and (2) a spirit or ghost. The curse was not so much from God as one due to the problem of having spirits taking mana from one to live on and to use to curse one with thoughts and emotions forced on one – evil thoughts, urges, moods, angers and illogical actions so closely resembling fixations that spirit interference and “cursing” might be taken one for the other in many cases. But spirit influence cannot, according to Huna, account for all the “missing of the mark.” Note this:

GOD CURSED THE GROUND SO THAT IT WOULD BRING FORTH THISTLES AND THORNS

“Curse” symbolizes the spirit trouble. Thistles and thorns do not. Pua, root in pua`kala (thistle), means “a mentally deranged person,” but there is nothing in the root to indicate that a spirit causes this type of derangement. On the contrary, the root gives the symbol (in “to tie in bundles”) of the memory made up of clusters of thought-forms – the memory which has escaped the process of rationalization by the conscious Auhane mind when being made, and so becoming a “tangle” or complex. Powerful complexes cause mental derangements which may be too slight to bother or too great to cope with. This “thistle complex” is something to be “cleansed” away (root kala: to wash, baptize, restore to the light). The root puaa in the form of puaa has been given the additional meanings of – (1) “to flee, as a child from parent to avoid punishemnt,” (Which is an exact indication of what the Aunihipili does when it has a sense of guilt or feels that it is “bad” and fears to face the Aumakua across the aka cord), (2) “thin, like a spider’s web.” (This is the old symbol of the aka thread or cord – thin and small and invisible.) (3) “To regurgitate food, as a pigeon feeding its young.” (pua) (Which symbolizes the “forced remembrance of “forgotten” irrational memories which form the fixations, and which must be forced up from hiding into the focus of consciousness so that they can be examined, “re-thought” or rationalized, and changed from a harmful memory cluster to a harmless one? The root pu reinforces this important meaning. It means “to bring forth,” also “a gourd,” and the gourd is the symbol of a thought-form-cluster-fixation as it is full of “seeds” or thought-forms.

THORN translates: “to be angry,” to be filled with fear, to tremble, to shudder,” “to be cold, to shiver.” This set of Huna secondary meanings tells us, again, of the Aunihipili fearing and fleeing from the Aumakua contact.

It gives us the symbol of cold (ice, hail and snow) and of shivering, shaking and being filled with fear, as a result of the harboring of fixations. The full word for “thorn” is kaka`laio. Ka: “to curse” (a repeat on the open meaning when God cursed the ground), to “strike,” and to “bail water from a canoe,” the last two meanings symbolizing the making of contact with the Aumakua which is “cursed” or stopped, and the sending of mana, also stopped because of the “thorn” or complex – the “thorn in the side.” The root kala in the full word is the familiar one: “to cleanse.” Tie end root lai: “for lani, or heavens, a calm place, still water,” gives symbol meanings of three sorts for the Aumakua: its place, its condition and its mana. The root io: “true, real, not imaginary”; gives the condition of the corrected or kala-ed fixation, but in other meanings for this little root we have: “to be loaded down with bundles, (symbol of the burden of fixation thought-form-bundles) and “to flee away in fear” (a repeat on the puaa meaning discussed under the heading of the “thistles”).

THE BAPTISM OF FIRE is explained by Huna. The word for baptise and for “cleanse,” kala, but the root in “thorn,” kaka, which also means “to wash” as well as “to contact the Aumakua and give the flow of mana to it,” means “to cause or strike fire, as with flint and steel.”

FIRE COMES, THEREFORE, AS A RESULT OF THE CLEANSING which clears the blocked path of fixations and spirit interference. To light a fire or a torch or lamp, (hoo`a) is to light darkness, which is the basic or literal meaning of kala, “wash with water, cleanse, restore the light.” The symbol of “the baptism with water” stresses the use of mana and the work of getting rid of the sin-fixations after the making of amends and after giving up doing hurts to others. The symbol of “the baptism of fire” stresses the resulting restoration of contact along the aka cord with the Aumakua so that the “light” may again shine, as from fire.

“IN THE SWEAT OF YOUR FACE shall you eat your bread,” said God in the story of Genesis. “Sweat” is the Huna key word which gives the secret meaning in this place. It is hou to na kahuna, and it contains the open and symbol meanings which tell what must be done  as part of the work of removing the fixations. Let me list them:

1. “To thrust the hand into a hole or dark sack, to draw out” (the hidden fixation memories), “to search for something, as in the mind” (to try to remember the fixation memory).
2. “To repeat or do over and over again” (perhaps to recall the hidden fixation memory and live it over several times in order to rationalize it), “to be or to make something new” (this points to the changing of the old fixation memories to NEW and normal memories). (Note that repent comes from the root meaning of “to re-think.”)
3. “To pant, breathe hard.” Symbol of accumulating a mana surcharge, and using it. In this case the mana tied up in the fixation clusters may be released. Or, the mana might be used to cause the Aunihipili to give up the hidden memories or to cause spirits to let go of a victim – the middle mana of hypnotic or mesmeric suggestion, which na kahuna used at times very effectively on spirits. This suggestion is symbolized by the last set of meanings for hou: “to pierce, stab, run through the body,” symbolic of forcibly causing the Aunihipili to give up its hidden fixation memories so that they can be examined by the Auhane and rationalized.

“UNTIL YOU RETURN TO THE DUST from which you came,” said God to Adam. “Dust” is huna, also lepo. It is the symbol of the many tiny thought-forms which make up the memories of man – the normal and the fixation memories alike. To return (hoi) means a “vine” and so tells us that the return is to the Aumakua via the “vine”- aka-cord. To be able to make this return, one has to recall, remember, “return to” the fixation memories and drain them off. The good “dust” or memories are those of Huna, while the bad are those of le`po, in which the root po has the greatly significant meaning of “darkness.” One goes back to the “dark” fixations and kala-s them – brings them into the “light” or reason and normalcy. The dust of “darkness” was the dust of fixations and this was symbolized when God said to the Serpent (moo - symbol of fixation), “Dust shall you eat all the days of your life.” – A surprising meaning was included in the word for the serpent-fixation by na kahuna. It is “to dry out,” and it symbolizes the fact that the fixation is a memory, and that when the mana tied up by it is released, it then is robbed of its power and can be “re-thought” and corrected. Once the fixations are removed, the return to the Garden is automatic. “Garden” is ki`ha`pai. The roots mean: “to squirt or send water-mana to the Aumakua (ki), to accumulate mana surcharges ready to send the thought-form “seed-clusters” of the prayer itself. (ha), and clusters of fruit (or seeds), tied in bundles, pan.”) The way back to the garden seems to be through the reopened and unblocked path – and only through it.

“WERE NOT THE OLD TIME NA KAHUNA able to ‘cleanse’ themselves without the help of a second person?” asks HRA L.K. of Colorado in a recent letter. This raises a most important question. Undoubtedly, the young Polynesians, when beginning their training, were helped by the older na kahuna to get clear of any blockings of their paths.

Unfortunately, too little is known of this part of the training. The initiate na kahuna, however, were known to kala or cleanse themselves when needed, but all that I have gleaned of this process is that they brushed themselves over with ti leaves dipped in water in a ritual of self baptism, but whether they prayed or chanted or not, is not certain. The only kind of kahuna to use this self cleansing rite, so far as I know, was the kind able to use trained Aunihipili spirits to enforce the primitive justice of the Polynesians with the “death prayer.” The kahuna who did this police work transferred the blame to the individual who had lodged the complaint so that, if the one attacked by the spirits was not guilty and was safe from attack (because there was no guilt sense held by the Aunihipili) and the spirits returned to attack the sender – as they were trained to do – the kahuna would be safe and the false accuser attacked. (This danger to one accusing another prevented false accusations being made lightly.) As we HRAs can all be classed as beginners, it would seem probable that most of those of us who are heavily complexes will need the aid of another.

THE HUNA DIRECTORY

Corrections:

• 16. Change spelling of Lucieus to Lucien Beck. (he reports meeting several New York HRAs through the directory – all “fine people” to have in his group.)
• 30. Change Mr. to read Mrs. Dun H. Nelson.

New Names:

• 38. Mrs. A Cerminara, 2757 N. Oakland Ave., Milwaukee 11, Wis. Student of long experience.
• 39. Mr. Leon A. Higby, P.O. Box 157, Nevada City, Calif. He and Mrs. Higby are both good HRAs.
• 40. Thela Newcomer, R.D. 1, Williamsport, Pa. Much interested in Dianetics and variations of same.
• 41. Mrs. Claire N. Miller, 3835 Turner Ave., Fresno 2, Calif. Always calling attention to new ideas.
• 42. Arthur Crawford, 1000 West 40th St., Austin, Texas. HRA of long standing. Knows many angles.

Report: No trouble of any kind, but many new friends made and many ideas exchanged. I am delighted with the outcome, as are all who have written in to report. A last minute addition: Mich. Good HRA and “Bathometric.”

Special Request

• 44. Jno. A. Morrill, Box 194, Gonzales, Calif. Good student, who asks if there is any HRA in the San Francisco district who would lecture on “Psychic Healing” at the Gonzales Community Church on Sunday, August 31st. Please communicate. Expenses and a fee to the right person.

L.E. EEMAN, HRA of London, and one who’s many discoveries and writings on the materials of the psycho-religious field, has offered his very valuable help in our efforts and has sent as a gift two complete files of his books, with permission to quote from them. These books will be reviewed and studies made based on his findings and methods of getting at fixations and producing healings. His work long antedates Dianetics and his findings will be of the greatest value to us.

HUNA AT WORK. Dr. T.V.C., of Houston, Texas, writes that she read SSBM and began to try out the Huna methods described therein. Here are parts from three letters which have come in at different times reporting on results.

“I am working daily with Huna. The patients remark how much stronger the power comes through. They feel the heat and tingling all through them now. It is not uncommon for bone, ligament or muscle to pull into alignment as the power permeates the body. This I have seen in the short time I have been using Huna. What will a full year of use bring forth?

” … One outstanding thing is that now almost every patient speaks of a ‘peace of mind’ condition after the treatment. The relaxation seems much more complete .Only two cases have failed to respond and in both of these, the patient has seemed to put up a barrier and has warded off the treatment. Perhaps it was my fault as I seemed to draw back at the tone in their voices. I did not try to use Huna in treating them again.

“One case, a woman 35 years of age had been in and out of hospitals for the past 10 years. She had been sent home from the hospital to rest after having endured the pain of having two tubes in her right kidney and one tube in her bladder. The kidney continually bled. Upon reaching home she gained 9 pounds of fluid in the tissues in 24 hours. She was in worse condition than when she entered the hospital. She was brought to me two days after being sent home. I adjusted her very little and used Huna. The kidneys and bladder began to act after the first treatment and she lost the 9 pounds as quickly as she had gained it. After the second treatment all soreness left. She has not spent one day in bed since the first treatment. Three weeks later she developed eruptions on her face like she had had a number of years earlier, at which time she had been treated with X-rays, the treatment failing but leaving sores that penetrated to the bone and which left scars she still carries.

“She said to me, ‘Will you put on the heat? These sores are very painful.’ I did, and before she reached home the soreness had left, and next day the scales fell off and the skin underneath was healthy skin.

“On June 9th, 1952, a man, age 42, came to me for treatment after his medical doctor had advised immediate surgery. On the right side of his throat, between the clavicle and the lower part of the throat, was a tumor approximately three inches long and two inches in diameter, also two smaller tumors the size of birds’ eggs higher up on the throat. I treated with Huna. From the first treatment, one smaller tumor disappeared and the large one showed signs of shrinking. The tumors were hard to dent. On the fifth day the large tumor was soft and only one-third of its former size. Treatment continues daily.”

MANA LOSS AVOIDED. HRA F.P. of Los Angeles writes, “I am not having the same trouble of being ‘bled’ of mana after giving treatments. I now end every prayer action neatly. (I find that) ANYBODY’S prayers for anybody else are better and more effective than ones for oneself. In our group we arrange to trade prayers. I can feel it when someone is praying for me.”    
MFL

July 15, 1952

THE TREGEAR MAORI-POLYNESIAN COMPARATIVE DICTIONARY HAS BEEN FOUND!!!

Thanks to the guidance given HRA Mrs. Lovisa Y. Ayres and to her energy and kindness. She wrote to a good friend in New Zealand, explaining our great need, and her friend immediately began a search in the city of Auckland – which had been combed repeatedly in the past with no luck – and in a small used book store, she discovered a Tregear. It is battered, but she described it in her air mail letter as all there, and that is the main thing.

An hour from the time her air letter arrived saying the dealer would hold the treasure for us until we could write, my air letter and a draft were on the way. It will take several weeks to get the dictionary as there is very slow service by ship mail, but that can be endured just so long as the book has been found.

THE GREAT VALUE TO US OF THE TREGEAR has already been demonstrated. In visiting the Los Angeles Library to check on their copy (in the one trip down which I have so far been able to make because of the lack of time) for the word mana I found, in addition to the Hawaiian meanings of “supernatural power, powerful, strong, to branch out, to be divided, to be many, to worship, and to reverence,” a number of meanings from other Polynesian dialects. These were and are of great importance for our studies because they give (1) new meanings, and (2) proof that the meanings found in the Hawaiian are right. Here are some of the items from my notes:

MANA:
Mangarevan: “power, being, existence, provocation, divination, and miraculous. (And for mana`mana: to search for anything without the permission of the owner”)
Paumotan: “may, can, to be able, a miracle, effective, as a remedy”
Malagasy: “to predict, to prophesy”
Samoan:(as in ma`mana): “to do wonders, to love, to desire, to bear constantly in mind, to show extraordinary power or energy, as in healing.”
In Fiji, where they have some Polynesian words, mana means “an omen.”

In the Maori dialect, mana`wa (wa meaning “to think”) we have, “heart, belly (seat of the naau or Aunihipili mind), the womb, life power, and breath – the latter meaning being very important as it suggests the increased breathing depth and rate needed in accumulating a large surcharge of mana, the latter meaning not being given in the Hawaiian dictionary except in the related word, mana`wa`ea, which means difficult or obstructed breathing in sickness. Another Maori word, mano, means “the heart or the interior part.” But in this case, the Hawaiian meaning is the best by far for our studies, as it gives the meaning of “to throw at a thing, fountain head or source of a stream of water (symbol for mana), both meanings combining to show unmistakably in the symbols that (l) the mana source was the Aunihipili or “heart,” and that it was to be projected as in “throwing something” to “hit” or make the contact with the Aumakua.

BAPTISM, as a sacred rite in Christianity, is taken right back to Huna by the information gleaned from Tregear that in the Maori the root uhi or uwhi, in uni`hi`piliwhich is also given as uhi`ni`pili (the Aunihipili) has the meaning, as in Hawaiian, of “to cover up,” (this referring to the body, which is in the care of the Aunihipili, and which furnishes the covering for the Aunihipili aka body). In the form of uhi`uhi we get the meaning “part of a sacred ceremony, to lave or pour water on any person as part of the ceremony.” The Tahitian is, “to dip the hand in water or liquid, to rinse or wash.” The word ta`uhi from the Maori is “to sprinkle.” This is of the utmost importance to us as it makes it possible to understand that:

BAPTISM BY WASHING IN WATER is the symbol of cleansing (kala: “to cleanse or restore light or forgive sins”) with water as in a basin or river – the baptism of complete immersion, as in some modern Christian churches. The rite of the washing of feet, as with Jesus and the Disciples, which has been discussed in an earlier Bulletin, is one of helping another to get his complexes drained off by the “drying out of mana” in them. In Huna, as we know, the mana is symbolized by plain water. But, now that we know that the rain is the symbol of the high mana being used by the Aumakua, we see in the symbol of sprinkling, a higher form of cleansing at the hands of the Aumakua. In the story of the baptism of Jesus, he was first washed or cleansed by the baptism administered by John the Baptist, then, when that was done, it is to be understood that he had a form of baptism from something higher. It appears that the “baptism of the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost which was also spoken of as the “baptism with fire” had to do with the part the Aumakua must do to complete the cleansing away of the fixation-complex-sins. This SPRINKLING is done, I am inclined to believe, with the very fine rain that is almost a mist, while the RAIN  falling heavily to form a flow of water at once after hitting the earth, is the symbol of the answers to prayers, these coming as actual physical conditions for one. The end of the prayer used by na kahuna, “Let the rain of blessings fall,” would refer to the things made or brought about by the Aumakua for us, rather than to the “fine mist” form of mana-water symbolizing the mana used by the Aumakua to work directly on us, as in doing its part in draining off fixations, giving guidance, etc.

THE UTTER USELESSNESS OF MODERN BAPTISMAL RITES as now performed for infants or adults is to be seen in so far as the complex is concerned unless, in some dim way, there is an element in the form or rite used which might cause the Aumakua to “descend as a dove” or use the “fine mist rain” to drain off the fixations. In the case of the infant, we would have to say that the fixations were those brought over from another incarnation, or those impressed in the prenatal or a very short postnatal period of life.

In the Christian churches, the rites of baptism are still held to be of vast importance. One’s escape from hell into salvation is thought to hinge on whether or not one is baptized. In many churches it goes further than that. Unless one “goes down into the water” very literally, he is not cleansed. The cleansing is of “original sin” and whatever sin may be in the dogmas of a particular sect.

HOLY COMMUNION, which is reserved generally for those who have been baptized or otherwise accepted into the churches, now suddenly stands out in the clear and slightly dazzling light of the Huna lore, as a full, free and easy CONTACT along the aka cord with one’s Aumakua. This contact comes after the symbolic and actual cleansing of baptism in which, if the rite is to be in the least effective, fixation, complex and the secondary “sins” of unrationalized memory tangles, must be cleared away to unblock the “path.” In the light of these simple but startlingly new facts, we can see how far Christianity has lost its central and practical inner teachings. In writing of this in the Bulletins I feel more or less like we were, as HRAs, appearing out of the wilderness of modern life to cry like John the Baptist, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand!” We are adding, “Straighten out the path of the aka cord! Get rid of the fixations! Be cleansed and restored to full communion with the Aumakua!”

THE CONFESSIONAL, in the light of these Huna findings, is the most nearly correct of the rites except that the idea of the ordinary sin has replaced the fixation entirely. In a reconstruction of the rites to fit original forms better, the confessional would have to become a periodic working over of fixations in addition to the confession of hurts done others and the adjudication of friend, priest or kahuna in the matter of what amends were to be made. The Extreme Unction and burial rites hardly fall into the category of mechanisms aimed at clearing out fixations unless there is more to these rites than has yet been seen. In Tibet there is a rite of recital of directions to one dying to guide him on into the next life. The Egyptian Book of the Dead served the purpose of helping the transition, furnishing guidance and promptings and charms. In all probability these rites were, in the original form, something very different, and they might have been rites covering more practical ministrations than we suppose.

HRA John the Baptist, 1952 model, unfortunately, is what we still lack. We have no HRA who has been freed of all his fixations, who has made amends for all his hurts to others, who has been baptized with the low mana in the process and by the Aumakua with the high mana as a final blessing as complete contact has been restored. However, by the time we have extended our search to the place where we have found just how to go about getting after the fixations, some “John” may appear, and he might get the ball rolling. If the ball does get rolling, it will probably NOT be because any minister or priest of any organized church or school of religious thought and belief will come to help us. As of this date, not even one of the few professional religionists on our HRA list has even seen fit to send in a single word of comment on the finding of Huna behind the Bible. Don’t ask me why, for I have no idea why. It seemed to me that if religion was my profession, I would be instant in my reaction to anything that seemed to offer new light on my Faith – or to counter anything that seemed to me to be so groundless as to need countering. Or does this new trend in the findings threaten established standing and income? Is the wait and see attitude of understandable caution? Or is something derived from a professional knowledge of the Bible sighted that they are too kind to call to my attention lest it discourage me in my efforts to uncover more of the ancient Huna?

WE ARE NOT GOING BACK TO CHRISTIANITY. We are bent on pulling the truth in Christianity up to us as we stand facing the New Age. There is no turning back, only progress that brings the knowledge kept too long secret and hidden in darkness, out into the light to guide and help all who can understand and make use of it. Do we not recall something being said about the placing of the light out in the open to light all men, not putting it under a bushel?

WHO CAN UNDERSTAND?

Thanks to Dr. Oscar Brunler and his study of the meaning of the evolutionary levels of individuals as indicated by their readings in degrees Biometric, we have a fairly good knowledge of who can understand Huna. Almost no HRA who stays on with the work for any length of time has a reading of under 330 degrees. However, the great mass of humanity averages 250 in America and 225 in Africa, India and Asia. At 330 one can grasp abstract ideas, can make use of a college education, and do many things in the realm of HRA research, experimentation and teaching.

Below this degree level the individual has to be given something already worked out. He has to be told, “This is it.” If he accepts the authority of man, book or dictum, he then can go on from there nicely, may even argue roundly to defend his accepted beliefs. For the average person (and there are a thousand of him to one above the 330 level), Huna will have to be worked out, tested, restored and put into simple dogmatic form so that it can be taught as a “This is it” body of knowledge. All religions have had to be taught to the masses in this way.

Unfortunately, those who have become set in their accepted beliefs are very slow to change. One belief looks very much like another to the 250, and what is familiar and already embraced, is considered best. However, history teaches us that at times in the past there have arisen peculiarly ripe periods for teaching new religious ideas. Almost always the need for reform becomes so great that the masses are pressed into response. The stories of the rise of Mohammedanism and Christianity tally in this respect. Ditto, Buddhism. All three were reform movements. All three were fought bitterly by the priests of older religions.

Given a leader, a time when the older dogmas and organized priest crafts are sufficiently decadent, and a new creed that comes closer to basic ideas of honesty, kindness and true worship – given these with enough rationality and workableness – and a great new religion is born. In the civilized world for the past century, we have seen revolt after revolt on the part of people of certain levels of Biometric readings. The general revolt of the masses, comparable with the revolt of Protestantism, is yet to come. The new Mental and Spiritual Science movements are too abstract for the masses. They must have something very simple, very direct, built around a person, not an idea, and given to them authoritatively. The time is ripe for Huna. It is simple and logical. In Jesus we have our master kahuna. In the Bible we have the authority. More than that, we have for those of high level readings, all of logic and proof and practicality that is needed, or will have, it is to be sincerely hoped, when we get the fixation conquered. Of equal value in Huna is the moral teaching, with the Golden Rule just as perfect a way of life as ever.

WITH HUNA AS A CRITERION OF VALIDITY we can now go about the long delayed task of getting rid of hindering dogmas in various religions, especially Christianity. This has been a major problem for some years, and little progress has been made by the students who have traced the growth of dogmas in the early days of Christianity and who have shown the many foreign elements borrowed and foisted onto it. Now, the boiling down process begins to have a hard core. We have definite and even profound reasons for going back to the things said by Jesus and done by him in so far as we can rely on the accounts.

I was recently delighted to find in The Harbinger of Light, an excellent Spiritualistic magazine edited and published in Adelaide, Australia, by HRA Rev. J. T. Huston, N. D. (P.O. Box 64A, G.P.0.), the beginning of a serial reprint from the “Psychic News” of London. This material bears directly on our effort to simplify the Huna in Christianity, and I venture to pass on to you the early part of the series. I quote:

JESUS AND PAUL TALK THINGS OVER IN PARADISE

Reprint from Psychic News, via Harbinger of Light. (Issues of May and June 1952)

This is not a flippant commentary on a great subject. The author is Dr. Alexander Paterson who was for thirty years medical missionary in Hebron, Palestine, and his life and work have been related in his biography – Paterson of Hebron – by his friend, the late Rev. William Ewing, D.D., of Edinburgh. It was in the Scottish capital that Dr. Paterson spent many years of his retirement. He died in September, 1940 and has been described as “one of the outstanding missionaries of the Church.” The manuscript of the booklet entitled, “Jesus Meets Paul, a dialogue in Paradise,” of which this is the first installment, lays no claim to be a psychic revelation. It was published by Robert Gibson & Sons, (Glasgow) Ltd., to whom the Psychic News is indebted for reproduction.

Jesus: Ah, Paul, I am glad to see you here; welcome. Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” (Note that the time is immediately after the death of Paul. MFL)
Paul: Lord, you are very generous and gracious in your estimates of my poor efforts.
Jesus: Not at all, my apostle, just a quotation from the new writings!
Paul: But I was the chief of sinners and the least of the apostles. (l Cor. 15:9)
Jesus: So you said, Paul. However, you did well. I began, and you took over: not so much from me as from the earlier apostles – though I notice that you denied that you were indebted to them. Though they had known me in person, which you never did, you even refused to consult with them (Gal. l:16,17.) Be that as it may, you left a great legacy to mankind, just as I did myself: you in your own published writings, and mine at the mercy of others’ recording.
Paul: Yes, I preferred the written record of my own thought, instead of leaving it to less able men, first to remember accurately and then to relate correctly. Accuracy is a great matter in vital problems. I was running no risks.
Jesus: Quite so. And now that we are both here and free from our labors, I would like to discuss with you some of your recorded teachings.
Paul: With all deference -
Jesus: No, Paul, this is not the “Judgment Seat of Christ” that you spoke of – there need be no deference on either side. Your statements are on record and I know equally what I taught – you in your longer life of service and I in my very brief one.
Paul: Yes, Lord, I came through much persecution, but I kept the faith. I finished the course, and now there is laid up for me -
Jesus: Yes, yes; you certainly were persecuted and you finished the course. For that, all due honor. It is rather on questions of the faith, and on “interpretations” that we might talk.
Paul: I followed your own method, my master, and spoke not as the scribes but as one that had authority. It was the only way with the simple.
Jesus: Paul, many here, who were here long before either of us, were rather grieved that you referred to their times (for they were faithful men according to their light) as “the times of ignorance which God winked at” (Acts 17:30) – that was your phrase to the Athenians.
Paul: I was speaking to Greek philosophers who loved debate.
Jesus: A privilege, Paul, denied to me in my more limited sphere, but was it true to say that God winked at sincerity in striving after truth in any form?
Paul: I was debating my case, your case
Jesus: I, too, had many a battle of wits in my time and tried always to answer serious questions with strict regard to truth, and with strict respect for belief – when it was sincere. And my pleasure was never in success in debate as such but always in making the “wise” simple and the “simple” wise.
Paul: Yes, so I have been told.
Jesus: You were a Jew, Paul, were you not?
Paul: I was indeed. I -
Jesus: When you were a Jew, you spake as a Jew, you thought as a Jew, you reasoned as a Jew, you understood as a Jew, but when you became a “Christian” (a new name to me) you put away Jewish things. But not quite!
Paul: I was a Pharisee of the Pharisees.
Jesus: Well, do not you think you must have given grave offense to your own people when you renounced the Jews as anathema because they did not at once accept your “new” Gospel? (Acts 18:16).
Paul: Maybe, my master, I spoke in haste, but
Jesus: Maybe, but what about the Gentiles who refused to accept it? Were not they also anathema? And if so, what about my universal religion and my own method of leavening the whole lump of Society to whatever religion the sections of it might belong?
Paul: I did not think of it like that.
Jesus: So be it. We all make mistakes of judgment. I remember after I had scourged the Price-Changers from the Temple, thinking – just for one moment – that there was no hope for some types of men
Paul: I was always thinking that, Lord, and once, you may remember, I prayed that I myself might be anathema in order that others might be saved.
Jesus: I do remember, and that was certainly the true spirit of my Gospel. But tell me, Paul, how are things with the Movement since I left it? I have heard so much about the rapid development of the organization and so little about the general quality of the New Life which I taught.
Paul: The Gospel which you left in Palestine, my Lord, has, through my labors, reached from the center to the boundaries of the old Greek empire; it has pierced Rome itself, and is known now in many of the colonies. I established churches in Ephesus, in Thessalonica, in Corinth and in Rome, and I
Jesus: Churches? What are they?
Paul: Assemblies of the saints.
Jesus: Saints?
Paul: Yes, what you would have called disciples, or followers, in your day, are now called saints – my name for your disciples, and groups of them are called “Ecciesia” – churches. We had to organise and -
Jesus: Things are certainly moving.
Paul: They certainly are. And I wrote letters or Epistles to them fixing the Faith in a written record for all time, so there need be no further disputations about its meaning and validity. These, my Lord, are now read in all the churches, for the edification of the saints.
Jesus: It is good news that my disciples are no longer disputing among themselves. How times must have changed – and men.
Paul: Yes, Lord, I spoke with authority. It is now known as “The Faith once for all delivered to the Saints.” (Jude 1:3.)
Jesus: “Once for all.” Dear me! – a kind of final edition? By the way, Paul, my apostle, are you aware that another series of writings is now appearing purporting to be my Gospel as told by the men who were my actual disciples in the flesh, which, of course, you never were?
Paul: “My gospel.” Why, that is what I called my writings to the churches.
Jesus: Yes, I remember that strange description for what was supposed to be an interpretation of my message to the world. Why, Paul, did you call your letters, or Epistles, your own Gospel? (Romans. 2:16.)
Paul: It seemed to carry weight – as one having authority and not as the scribes. To speak with authority impresses the simple.
Jesus: Well, be that as it may, these later writings called the Gospels according to Mark, Luke and Matthew are most interesting documents – “Human documents” as we would say. They are not at all like yours, Paul, for the writers were simple men who knew little of the mystery religions, or of philosophy, and nothing at all about rhetoric.
Paul: I sat at the feet of Gamaliel!
Jesus: Yes, these men used to sit at my feet. I talked with them and they asked questions, an old method which my friend Socrates, who is now here, tells me he adopted in his time.
Paul: Socrates? Surely, Lord, you do not suggest
Jesus: And there was one, James, my own brother, who wrote an Epistle after my own heart and indeed in our own family tradition. He maintained, as our family in Nazareth all believed, that “faith without works is dead.” (James 2:14-16.)
Paul: But, Lord, is not that contrary to my great exposition to the Romans? And your family? Were not you “the only begotten of the Father”?
Jesus: “Our family”? My dear Paul were you not aware? “The only begotten”? Bless you, no. There were seven “only begottens” in our family. I was the eldest of seven – five brothers and two sisters – all begotten of our father, the honest man Joseph, and that dear one, Mary, The Mother. (Mark 6:3.) However, I was telling you of these other writings, following yours. Strangest of all, Paul, our friend Luke has also written about you and other apostles in a book called, “The Acts of the Apostles.” It would surprise you if you could read it; and if you could now read these three Gospels you would be amazed.
Paul: My own record, no. But yours, my master, how I would rejoice and again rejoice, to read the earthly story of the Crucified, Risen and Glorified Christ – the master I loved so well.
Jesus: Yes, Paul, you were certainly a great propagandist of that idea.
You wrote to the Corinthians, “I am determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” (1 Cor. 2:2.) And again you wrote, “Even though we have known Jesus Christ after the flesh, yet now know we him so no more.” (2 Cor. 5-16).
Paul: Yes, praise God, I
Jesus: Not so quick, my dear Paul. Why only a Christ (i.e. really a Jewish Messiah) who had died, and not a Jesus who had lived? In your language, Paul, my life-story would be epitomized thus: Born, crucified, descended into Hell (by the way, what Hell or even Hades; almost my last word on earth was that I was going to Paradise “the old garden of delights”) the resurrection of the body, judge of the quick and the dead…. But what of my Life? Nothing between my birth and my death? What a Life!
Paul: “It was expedient that one man should die for the people.”
Jesus: That is a foolish quotation, Paul, and a foolish deduction. That quotation is from old Caiaphas, the high priest, who used it only for political purposes to get the Jews out of trouble with the Roman authorities, (John 18:14). All he was asking for was a “political” death to keep Rome quiet.
Paul: What is that? It seemed to show the necessity for your death.
Jesus: Necessity? Caiaphas said “expedient,” a term very common in political intrigue, of which Caiaphas was a master. Paul, did you ever sit at my feet as once you sat at the feet of Gamaliel? (Acts 22:3). And why did you refuse to confer with those who had known me simply as Jesus of Nazareth? But why, of all things, did you boast that your knowledge of me came to you in some supernatural way (Gal. 1:12) “as one born out of due time” (an unfortunate phrase, Paul, which has only one meaning among the common folk).
Paul: I believed, and therefore have I spoken.
Jesus: A good thing to do, my Paul, but you do seem to have been in some doubt, because you swore by an oath (a practice I so strongly condemned) (Matt. 5:34), “Behold, before God, I lie not.” (Acts 1:20). An oath, Paul, does not make a true statement more true, or a false statement less false; it does not even strengthen a doubtful one.
Paul: I conferred with Peter. I stayed with Peter for a fortnight once in Jerusalem, and I met your brother James there.
Jesus: Now tell me, Paul, quite candidly, why you spent only two weeks with one of my disciples who knew all about me, and yet you went away to Arabia for three years in solitude and isolation.
Paul: I needed solitude to develop my theology.
Jesus: Solitude and isolation rather than the friendly company of men who were then actually engaged in collecting the materials for my biography?
Paul: I see, Master, what you mean.
Jesus: Paul, as I said, this is no “Judgment Seat of Christ” (which, by the way, I never heard of till you invented the phrase), but tell me, was it because these men were just fishermen and carpenters and excisemen, men of no “standing,” that you ignored them?
Paul: I felt that I must speak with authority, not as the scribes.
Jesus: And to speak with what you called authority you ignored, even repudiated, the only real authorities on my life and teaching. And why could you ever imagine that I should choose you specially to the exclusion of those who suffered with me in my temptation? (Luke 22:28.)
Paul: It seems strange now. I was a Pharisee. I always felt I was specially chosen – “as one born out of – “
Jesus: Do you know this curious fact, Paul, that when I chose the Twelve I did not include a Pharisee among them?
Paul: I have often wondered at those twelve men.
Jesus: So also did I. It was not easy choosing men, Paul. One of them was a traitor to the cause, a bad character as we say, but, bad though he was, he could repent, and that was a great quality.
Paul: I always taught repentance and remission of sins through the precious blood -
Jesus: And another of them was a near-communist, who later wrote a small pamphlet (the Epistle of James.) I wonder if that will be read much in the churches. Nothing there about a “crucified savior” or a “Glorified Christ,” or about “Blood sacrifice for the remission of sins.”
Paul: I met him only once before I left for Arabia. He seemed rather outspoken and crude and more concerned about Justice in time than about eternal things.
Jesus: Paul, all things are eternal, especially Justice. What were you afraid of then, in these simple men of mine?
Paul: They were impetuous – (you would know Peter) – and when in trouble, incapable of intellectual defense of their position.
Jesus: Well, Paul, you could never be accused of incapacity in that sense, but you must remember that when these same simple apostles were in trouble, your own former master Gamaliel shielded and defended them. (Acts 5:34-35.)
Paul: I did not know. That must have been before my conversion.
Jesus: Speaking about conversion, my dear Paul, conversion, however sincere, has its dangers, especially when it is from one form of fanaticism to another. Before you met me on the Damascus Road, (as you say) you were a fanatic. The danger is that fanaticism is so easily transferred to a new belief.
Paul: I toiled and suffered; I was scourged and beaten. I bore in my body the marks of my Lord – all for the Gospel’s sake.
Jesus: Yes, my apostle, we both discovered that the greatest of all adventures is to get one new idea accepted by mankind. And we both discovered that martyrdom lies in the path of the pioneer. On that at least, we are agreed. But now we must rest awhile.
(To be continued)

COMMENT: The dogmas invented by Paul and crystallized to become set and firm in the very beginnings of Christianity need to be seen for what they are – clearly seen. This applies to worship at altars, a priesthood and church rites in general. If any of the dogmas and rites originated in the secret “strong meat” teaching of Jesus, they should turn up in the Huna code and symbols in which the secret teachings were recorded. If they do not, they can safely be discarded as garbled remains of still earlier religions – religions in which the Secret was lost and in which rites were used to try to take the place of some workable system not fully understood. MFL