First Steps in Huna –
Using the Low Mana in the Low Magic

May 1, 1948

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

Reference texts:
THE SECRET SCIENCE BEHIND MIRACLES and/or the 32-page pamphlet
HUNA — THE WORKABLE PSYCHIC RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF THE POLYNESIANS

IN BULLETIN 1, you were given directions for the use of the high hagic to bring about desired changes in your life by rebuilding your FUTURE before it becomes your PRESENT. You will be working on that unit of the experimental project until you get the desired results, which may take a month or a year. However, the training covered in this bulletin, and in bulletins to follow, may greatly shorten the time needed to complete work already begun.

As you know, my reason for starting you on the use of the high hagic without preliminary training, was that so many Associates are in urgent need of help, and that experimentation has already shown that the high magic of Bulletin 1 can frequently be worked, despite lack of long training, through patient perseverance.

BEGINNING NOW, at a leisurely pace, we will get the horse back before the cart and start with basic training. The BASICS of Huna LOW MAGIC do not directly involve the Aumakua, but a working knowledge of these BASICS is very important in the proficient use of the high magic.

The basic tools of low magic are the LOW MANA, the substance of the aka or “shadowy body” of the Aunihipili (especially the aka threads), and the consciousness of the Aunihipili, which directs the action of the vital force as it operates through the invisible aka body or aka threads.

The Aunihipili (subliminal) is the only part of us which is able to use the these tools. Therefore, we must train the Aunihipili to the use of the tools as we give the commands.

As a part of your daily practice under Bulletin 1, now include practice under this bulletin. (They may be practiced separately, of course.) Remember that regular daily practice is of great importance. Here is a new pin-up schedule:

THE FOUR BASIC STEPS IN TRAINING

1. Decide what you will try to do with the low mana when you have accumulated an extra charge of it. There are several tests to help one determine whether or not the Aunihipili has learned to accumulate the surcharge of mana on command. These tests will be detailed later. Remember that you always have plenty of aka substance and consciousness or “mind” (in the Aunihipili) to go with the extra supply of mana. The Aunihipili knows how to handle both mana and aka substance already, but must be taught so that it will know what you want it to do, and then do it at once when ordered.
2. Cause your Aunihipili to accumulate the surcharge of low mana (vital force), using one of the several methods which will be described.
3. Use the surcharge of mana in any of the several tests.
4. Use the excess mana in your work under Bulletin 1. (Later bulletins will tell you how to do this when you have had time for practice and are ready to make the experimental use of the more direct mechanisms of high magic.) (Direct methods are used in instant healing, fire-walking, rebuilding the future for an individual quickly, etc., etc.)

Before beginning work on this Bulletin 2 project, review in the large text, Chapters III, IV and VI to get a very clear idea of the mana and aka elements in Huna. Check over Cases 13 and 14 in Chapter VIII. Read Chapter XV on the work of implanting healing thought-forms and breaking the complex. Check Chapter XIX for more information concerning the work of changing your future to rebuild your life.

In the Huna pamphlet, read Part II and Part IV where this information is given in condensed form. Also read pages 26 and 27. If still uncertain on any point, send in your question (not forgetting the stamped and self-addressed envelope which helps so much in answering many letters in limited spare time).

DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR STEP 1

Know ahead of time how you are going to test yourself after you have tried to accumulate a surcharge of low mana. You can seldom feel the surcharge, so tests must be made. Decide whether you must work alone in testing, or whether you can find others to work with. (For this purpose, a weekly group meeting is excellent.) Skip ahead now and read about step 3.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR STEP 2

To cause the Aunihipili to accumulate, produce or collect from outside sources, an extra charge of mana:

1. “will” your Aunihipili to do it, and
2. use a physical stimulus. (The voice, a physical act or a position of the body).
3. After ordering your Aunihipili to do the collecting of mana, relax mentally and to some extent physically, in order to allow the Aunihipili to have time and freedom to carry out the order (2 to 5 minutes usually).

Several bodily positions may be used:

1. Stand or sit erect, clench your fists a little. This automatically puts you in a mental attitude of command as an Auhane, or
2. use Baron Eugene Fersen’s “star posture”: stand erect, spread feet as far apart as you comfortably can, extend arms at sides level with the shoulders, palms up or down, or
3. use the Dr. Frizzle method: rub your palms rapidly together to produce frictional heat while giving your order to the Aunihipili to accumulate the surcharge.

After assuming the position selected for use, say aloud, “I am now filling myself with a very large extra charge of mana. It is flowing through me and into me like a flood of water. I can now feel the flow.” (Make up your own affirmation, but say “I.” The Aunihipili is accustomed to that. We say, “I” am hungry.” This includes both selves, but the Aunihipili seems to think that it is the real “I.” For the Fersen method, the affirmation is, “The Universal Life Force is flowing through me now; I feel it.” (What is felt is the tingle in the hands caused by poor circulation in hands held unusually high for a few minutes.) After this affirmation, continue to hold the position until you think you are fully charged. If you use the Dr. Frizell method, make a silent mental affirmation or, better, say aloud (so the waiting patient may also hear), “I am creating healing heat and filling myself with extra vital force as I do this.”

(Rub hands together for ten seconds.) Your affirmation is your “willed” order to your Aunihipili and must be positive and confident. After giving it, RELAX and let “George” (Aunihipili) do it while you take it easy. It is really very simple.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR STEP 3

The kahunas, when accumulating an extra charge of mana, pictured it as water (the symbol of mana) rising up within them and over-flowing, as water in a fountain. They breathed harder, this acting as a stimulus because it gave the Aunihipili the idea of working hard. More breath may burn more blood sugar and create more heat and energy.

The surcharge of mana is stored in the aka kino or shadowy body which surrounds and impregnates our physical bodies (low aka). The mana and the aka substance mix together. To this mixture is added the “mind” or element of consciousness from the Aunihipili. This gives us the “living water.” It gives us something that seems to be alive and to have its own intelligence.

All we have to do is tell it what we want it to do by commanding the Aunihipili. This living-intelligent-force is a thing with which the Aunihipili is accustomed to working in taking care of the physical body. Tell the Aunihipili what you want and expect the living water, which you have ordered it to make ready, to do, and it will try to do it. If the Aunihipili has a clear idea of what is wanted (which means that YOU must first have a clear idea – read and reread your Huna text), it will soon learn to use the mana as instructed. However, it must be given time and practice. It must be trained patiently, day after day, as you might train a dog.

If you order and expect the Aunihipili to make the surcharge of mana show a magnetic pulling effect of one body for another, it will do that with the mana`aka`ike surcharge. (iki comes from the roots “to think” and “to create.” It is the “mind” ingredient in our “living water.”)

If you order it to heal, or to reach out to touch a friend and give a telepathic message (thought-forms carried on mana flowing through the aka thread of connection) it will do so. If you order it to enter seeds or plants and stimulate their growth, it will do so. That is, of course, after you have practiced daily for a few weeks and taught the Aunihipili its part of the work. It may also partly overcome gravity, produce bodily heat or cold, implant the thought-forms of suggestion in the Aunihipili of one being healed — and reach up to touch the Aumakua and furnish it the supply of force and substance to use in making the answers for your prayers.

If you can find a few others to form a group to meet weekly, you can all test the growing ability to accumulate a surcharge of mana.

Do this: Stand erect and a yard behind the person on whom you will try the magnetic pull of any surcharge which you may be able to accumulate. Use the Fersen or any other accumulation position and affirmation (the one you have been practicing with each day, of course). After about two minutes, relax your “will” and become EXPECTANT that your Aunihipili will use the surcharge in its magnetic form. Reach out and place your hands lightly on the shoulders of the person behind whom you stand. This person must stand relaxed and waiting. After about five seconds, lift your hands and draw them slowly away.

If you have a large enough surcharge, they will be pulled off balance as a magnet pulls a bar. Be ready to steady or catch them as they sway toward you.

Some people are more sensitive to this pull than others. Try all in the group. Have the others do likewise. Note the gradual increase in ability.

Or try accumulating a surcharge, then “willing” to send a telepathic message to the others (silently). They may get the things you have looked at or heard as well as your thought.

If you must work alone, accumulate a surcharge daily, place your hands over any part of your body you wish healed or changed, as eyes, blemishes etc. Order the mana to flow into the part and make the change. Say something like, “I am now making the accumulated mana flew into my___________ to heal, strengthen and make it perfect, as it was in my childhood.” Relax and wait.

Repeat several times. Or place your hands on seeds or plants and cause the mana to flow into them to stimulate them. Grow treated and untreated plants side by side and see if the treated ones grow better. They will when you have learned the work.

If you can find a sick person to practice on, accumulate the surcharge as you stand beside them. Relax and place your hands on the part to be healed or on their hands, if for general healing. Become positive and say the command to your Aunihipili, aloud if the patient understands what you are doing, “I am now sending the surcharge of life force through my hands into you to heal you and make you as strong and as perfect as you were as a healthy, happy, active child. I feel the healing power at work.” (Try to feel it working. Picture it as a flow of living water, cleansing, healing, changing and perfecting, but relax as you make the pictures which will guide your Aunihipili.) Repeat several times daily.

As you progress with your practice, watch for evidence of healing or for changes of a corrective nature in your patient. You can treat children or animals as well. As this use of the surcharge is very potent when you order and expect it to act as a healing suggestion, keep that possibility in mind. The Aunihipili will implant healing thoughts along with the flow of mana. Be careful to picture in your mind the healed condition as you treat, not the condition which you wish to remove or change. Do NOT say, “I am healing your deafness.” Do not mention the illness if you can avoid it. Say, “I am pouring into you through my hands this healing power to make your ears and hearing perfect, keen and normal, as it was when you were young.” Make your words carry a picture of a former perfect condition in the life of the patient if possible.

If you treat for overweight, accumulate your surcharge, lay on your hands and say with a will, “I am making my excess life force flow into you and cause your weight to be normal – as it was when you were eighteen.”

Never forget that we are Research Associates and experimenters bent on winning back the greatest power and blessing ever known to mankind. Invent experiments for yourself. Try different ways of accumulating the vital force and of using it.

I have not stressed increased breathing as a part of the work of accumulating an extra charge of mana because my own experience has been that your Aunihipili will take care of that, and do a better job of it than you can by trying from the first, to breathe faster or more deeply. It is like taking exercise. The Aunihipili will cause you to breathe faster when more oxygen is needed in the body. While quickened breathing can be used as a stimulus to signal the Aunihipili to begin the work of accumulating a mana surcharge, as do some of the Yogis of India in their exercises, it is a good thing to use other forms of the posture or affirmation or action to trigger the Aunihipili. In this way, the breathing rate will be left alone and will serve as a measure of sorts to show you whether your Aunihipili is doing a good and a swift job of accumulating mana. Usually the breath comes heavier as the accumulation progresses.

SYMBOL WORDS OF THE KAHUNAS

In Hawaiian, the language of Huna, the word for breathe is ha. It also means strong breathing. As a symbol used to hide the SECRET or Huna in the roots of words, it stands for the work of accumulating a surcharge of low mana. It is the effort that provides a trough or pipe through which the symbolic water (mana) can flow. It also symbolizes the lower end of the spinal column in its meaning of “bottom or lower end.” The work of accumulating mana was usually done by making a mental picture of a great up-welling flow of force like a flow of water. It was pictured to rise up in the body and overflow at the top of the head when the body was full.

This was the fountaining of the living waters. In the Polynesian versions of the creation of Adam, the Triune God breathed on a lump of red clay and on a lump of white clay, each receiving life from the divine HA or symbol of force used in a creative way, and then a body for man was molded and became a man with an Aunihipili and an Auhane (red and white clay [are] the symbols of the two selves). In healing, the word took the form of a doubled ha, giving haha which means to breathe hard (to accumulate mana), and also means “to place the hands on a thing (the patient) and touch or feel here and there.” Its third meaning is “to make something” (make the excess charge of mana).

Ha`ha`o (the “o” means “of” or “belonging to”) was the kahuna word translating “to put into one’s head; to suggest to the mind; to put or thrust something (a thought-form) into something (a patient).” Here we see the kahuna’s idea of suggestion well embodied and hidden in a common word. It shows that a surcharge of mana was accumulated, and by means of it, a healing thought-form was “thrust into” the patient. Another meaning is “to cram down something with force, as food into an animal.” This symbolizes the fact that the extra large charge of mana can force a thought or suggestion into the center of consciousness of the Aunihipili of the patient.

This will be important to remember when you later run into a patient with hidden complexes which make a barrier against your best flow of healing mana or your suggestions of healing. When our work has progressed so that we have many Huna healers at work, the complexes and fixations will be handled in this way, in all probability, by force.

On the other hand, the same process or action may be used to resist the implanting of a suggestion. The word for this is ha`ke, the root “ha” meaning “to push away food” or “to resist” (as to resist having food crammed down one). We see that to resist obsessing spirits or any suggestive force sent in our direction, we have only to accumulate an excess charge of mana and say, “I am using my surcharge of mana to resist all influences and drive them away so that they cannot return.”

Auto-suggestion, as practiced by the kahunas, is described in their word, ha`lalo. Lalo means “downward,” so we see that the kahuna accumulated mana, then used it to place something downward (into himself, for lalo also means “to look internally, to think carefully”).

The whole word, ha`lalo translates, “to put something into one, as by an injection.” Now that we know the meaning of the secret symbols of Huna, we can easily understand that auto-suggestion is performed by first accumulating an excess of mana, and then ordering it to take, or “inject” into our Aunihipili consciousness a thought-aka or suggestion. We can give this order by saying, “I am now placing this thought carefully in my mind so that it will remain there and replace any contrary thoughts. I am in perfect health at all times and in all ways. I am cheerful and active and strong.” (Then relax.)

(Make up your own suggestions for your own special needs.)

As soon as you have gained some skill in accumulating a surcharge of mana, you can work with renewed power on your Bulletin 1 project of rebuilding your future. The way you will work is described in one of the many significant words for “prayer” used by the kahunas. This word has the ha root in it. It is ha`la`pa.

Some of you may already be getting some very real answers to this action in High Magic. Others may need to use this Huna prayer method. The ha in the word tells us to begin picturing our future (as we have planned it in our “maps”) and to say, “I now am using my surcharge of mana to reach out to touch my Aumakua and to give it this picture to use as a seed in growing for me the future I have planned.” Relax and imagine seeing yourself as you are in the future which is being made real on the invisible plane, and which will arrive as a physical reality as the action succeeds.

Now examine your word for prayer and see if you have performed the action correctly, the root ha is to accumulate the mana. The root la has the meaning of the “path” and indicates symbolically the aka threads which connect you with your Aumakua. The root pa means “to reach out to the far end of something (the aka thread), to touch or strike something (the Aumakua).” The idea of STRIKE symbolizes more than the light and impotent “touch” we make without the surcharge. With the surcharge we strike, or touch, by giving a powerful supply of mana and a powerfully made set of prayer thought-forms to the Aumakua – which is effective indeed. The root pa has another significant meaning; it is “to divide,” and this is the symbol of dividing your mana with the Aumakua. The Aumakua makes only fragile and invisible counterparts of the things for which we pray (so to speak) when using only its own mana (loa), but when we send up a large amount of good strong earthy mana, the counterparts can be made strong and ready to materialize as physical conditions in short order.

Max Freedom Long