Was Jesus an Initiate to Huna?

April 1, 1952

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

LATE NEWS ON HOO`LA AND REV. JESSIE CURL

She will be in Los Angeles on the 27th of April, demonstrating at the church of Rev. B. England, 1600 W. 6th St. At 7:30 P.M.

I will try to be there to introduce her and to explain that, while healing by spirits who worked through a medium was only a very small part of Huna and the work of kahunas, it is a real part of the ancient system. I am, of course, anxious that no one lose sight of the fact that Huna covered many other things besides healing of the spirit-medium kind. Huna is a complete system of psychology. It is a basic religion. It aims to give the living individual power to do in complete form, what the spirit can do only in part. No spirit can, for instance, hunt down and cause to be drained off, the fixations that prevent healing in so many cases. However, even with this lack, Jessie Curl offers a healing service which is effective in part, if not 100%, and this is very important for those who cannot wait for the time when/if we HRAs are able to develop full fledged kahunas able to use the entire system of the Secret. She is making efforts to furnish a house at 8952 National Blvd., in Los Angeles, with the help of friends … or rather, friends are making the effort for her. (Phone Vermont 8-4162 and talk to Llewellyn George or Mrs. Emma Kropp if you can spare articles of furniture to be picked up by them here in L.A. The main backers are those who have had much relief for their chronic illnesses and who are anxious to enable Rev. Curl to locate near them so that they can continue getting help. It is hoped that the house will be ready April 1st for their arrival and occupancy.)

“THE WAR IS ENDED” came in a quiet voice speaking to me just as I was dropping off to sleep. The impact of the news brought me back to the waking state. I set this down as a part of the records belonging tour project of trying to get dreams of the future. The date was March 25th.

PRAYER POSTURES may be good physical stimuli or have a physical significance in terms of mana flow, etc., but HRAs have been giving instances of prayers answered with no posture at all. HRA A.C. prayed at the moment of being drowned in a lake. She writes, “Believe me, posture never entered my head. Immediately I was surrounded by light, and then lost consciousness. When I came to, I found myself on shore, being given first aid. I am wondering if the motive for wanting help, coupled with earnestness, was not the factor in my receiving this help.” (The motive had been to remain alive in order to help her daughter and family.)

APPARENTLY IN A REVOLT AGAINST DOGMAS

An HRA writes, “Mr. Long, please, please, do not infect Huna with Christianity!” I do not know the religious background of this seasoned HRA, but I imagine that, like so many of us, she found the dogmas added to early Christian teaching more than she could tolerate. Perhaps I had better explain where I stand on the matter as of the present stage of the Huna delving.

For a number of years I have been pointing out in the HRA Bulletins the various similarities between Huna beliefs and practices and those of the New Testament (and to a far lesser extent to those of the Old Testament). However, it was not until recently that I discovered that the basic words of the New Testament, even when translated from Hebrew, Greek or Latin into English, had so well retained their meanings that many of them could be translated directly into Hawaiian – the language of a great school of kahunas, and, that the Hawaiian words could then be read in two or more ways, directly or through the root meanings, to give the Huna or secret teachings which lie behind the external meanings.

WAS JESUS AN INITIATE INTO HUNA?

IF SO, HE MUST HAVE SPOKEN THE “LANGUAGE OF THE SECRET” which could have been no other than the language from which was derived the dialects found later in Polynesia. It will be remembered that my friend, W.R. Stewart, was told by the North Africa Berber woman kahuna that Huna could only be described and taught by means of this secret language – which he later identified as very similar to the dialect now used in Tahiti. His Berber teacher told him that, according to the oral history of her branch of kahunas, her tribe had lived in Egypt at the time of the building of the Great Pyramid and had later moved north while the other eleven tribes of kahuna people went south.

From the oral history of the Polynesians, and from a study of the genealogies of the chiefs, modern investigators conclude that the Polynesians began their migration from seven hundred to a thousand years ago. The homeland has been pointed out as being located at any place from the Nile or Tigris valley regions to Persia, India or Java. Words from their language are to be found even today scattered along the routes they took.

In the light of these facts, it is not difficult to accept the evidence which indicates that the very secret order of Huna was much alive in certain sections of the Near East at the time of Jesus. In one part of the New Testament it is said that he went into Arabia and was taught religious secrets (in a different language, NOT Aramaic?). Be that as it may, and whether or not we are ever to get the actual history of Jesus straightened out, the thing of greatest importance is to get all the light possible on the secret lore behind what he taught. This we seem about to do.

It is very evident that the cult of secrecy was absolutely binding at the time of Jesus’ ministry – at the time in which he selected his disciples and taught them the inner “strong meat” meanings while speaking to the masses in terms of outer meanings, the latter often being obscure and apparently contradictory.

The obscure and contradictory external teachings were what was permitted to be written down eventually. Then, when the inner meanings became lost, the copyists and theologians began to write in explanations. Much of this later material has been identified through changes in style and in the languages in which they were written, but there was no definite criterion of doctrine and so no definite restorations were possible. Now, we have in Huna such a criterion and can begin sorting to get back to originals.

INCREDIBLIE? UNBELIEVABLE?

Yes, all of that. At first approach the idea seemed to me to be fantastic. But, after just the start of what must be a long and intensive study, and after allowing for the mistakes made in translating back into the language of the Hawaiian kahunas, the evidence seems incontrovertible, at least to me. I have made ample allowance for mistakes in taking the secondary meanings and root meanings of the Hawaiian words to get at the secret or Huna meanings. I have allowed a wide margin for errors in the understanding of the symbols common to Huna, and have realized that grammatical structure and changes may have often been mistaken for root parts. Even after all such allowances were made, there could be no mistaking the basic teachings of Huna – repeated over and over from one angle or another, but always amounting to the same set of beliefs and practices.

THE NEXT STEP is to reverse the manner of approach used up to now, and begin to search in the verified parts of the New Testament teachings for keys to help understand obscure parts of Huna. The doctrines and beliefs of Huna have been rather well worked out, but the methods of application are still uncertain, even after much study, speculation and experimentation.

THE FIGURE OF JESUS begins to stand out clearly. He is the master kahuna who takes his disciples to one side and explains to them the secret meaning hidden in the things openly said. He reveals to them the secret meanings behind all the symbolic acts – the many acts later recorded in the records.

The disciples must frequently have complained that “these are hard sayings, indeed,” for the inner meanings were well and deeply hidden. Unless the disciples understood the secret language, they would have been hard put to grasp the secret meanings of the unfamiliar words.

WE MAY NEVER KNOW TO A CERTAINTY whether Jesus was a real man, or whether, if he did live, he was actually crucified on a cross between two thieves, died, and rose on the third day. But, once we know the secrets hidden behind such things, it makes no vital difference to our use of them, whether the drama was played out in the actual flesh or not. It has been much the same in Christianity, for what has been important in the doctrines and lives of those following the doctrines has been the meaning or significance attached to dying on a cross – or to the act of “calling on His name” in making a prayer to God.

THE METHOD FOLLOWED IN THIS WORK OF TRANSLATING from the English back into the Hawaiian, involves the following steps:

1. A word or phrase is selected and translated into Hawaiian.
2. The words may have several meanings, whereas the English words may have only one. These several meanings may be very different, even contrary. All meanings are compared to what is known of the Huna system to see if a part of some common phrase or symbol is being pointed to, directly or indirectly.
3. The roots making up each word are examined and their meanings compared as in 2, above.

The combined, primary or external meanings are compared with the secondary or alternate meanings, then with the meanings derived from the roots, and then with any symbolic meaning. The findings are put in sequence and order and the secret meanings become evident if the original word or phrase in English is of the Secret and not just an interpolation. (Usually this is enough.)

If the meaning appears to be of the “Secret,” but is not clear, it may be compared to points in modern psychology of psychic science to try to discover its significance.

FOR EXAMPLE: From this study it appears that Jesus stood as the embodiment of the three “selves” of Huna. He often spoke of himself in the condition of being UNITED, as Aunihipilis with the Aumakua. This union took place when the aka cord was activated by sending mana and the thought-forms or pictures across it, as in prayer. The symbol of the activating of the aka cord was that of stretching a rope tightly. The symbol of the Aumakua was “the Father,” also. His place of residence indicated as any high place, as the sky, the top of a mountain etc. The Aumakua was also the “Light.”

The aka cord was symbolized as “the path” and “the way.” The mental picture of the condition which was desired was sent as a “cluster of seeds or fruit” on a flow of water – symbol of mana – to the Aumakua. This mental picture was the “seed” or lesser “truth” or “reality.” As the “seed” was watered by the daily offering of mana, and grew into a crystallized and set thing which would come with the future as it eventually became the present, it became the “greater Truth” or something entirely real even if invisible. The Aumakua was also called the “Truth,” as it was part and parcel of all the “Greater Realities.” The sending of the mana by the Aunihipili along the aka cord to the Aumakua is covered by the symbol of:

1. To divide something, as between two or more individuals, or to divide as water for irrigation purposes into different ditches.
2. To branch out and divide as branches of a vine or tree.
3. To rise up and overflow, as water in a fountain.
4. The return flow of mana made into a higher potential, comes under the down-flow of pure water or rain, and the down-shining of Light – the “glory” and “power” of the Aumakua. Note: The Aumakua depended on the Aunihipili for its supply of the basic or low mana to enable it to work with denser materials as well as those which belonged to the aka class. The flow of mana to the Aumakua “glorified the Father” also “magnified Him or His Name.”

Take the words “Son of man” met so frequently in the New Testament. These are simple basic words and their meaning cannot be lost in translating from Greek into English and back into Hawaiian.

Son: ke`iki: (“the little” or “child”) kane: (“male or man”) (No root or secondary meanings in this example.) (of) man: kane. Kane was the name of the “God of Living Water,” famous in Polynesian legendary lore as one of the three primary gods. The title given him shows that he is the Aumakua, the one who changes the wadi or water or mana of the Aunihipili to the “living water” or wai ola (“water of life”) that flows back to the Aunihipili.

The phrase, “Son of man” indicates in itself that the “man” was the “Father.” In Hawaiian the words meaning “father” are makua`kane, or “parent male or man.”

The variation of the phrase, “son of man” was “son of God” and, because we know that the god Kane is the one indicated as the “Father,” this brings us back to the same identical meaning and set of hidden significances.

A SECOND EXAMPLE: Take the phrase, “I and the Father are one.” This word “one” has the basic meaning of “united,” and this translates: UNITE: Hono`wai: “to unite or join together by sewing” (with cords, symbol of aka cord or thread).

Wai means “water,” so the literal, meaning is “to unite with cord sand water” This gives us the meaning only because we know that in a union of the Aunihipili and Aumakua, the union is made by sending the mana over the aka cord to the Aumakua, and, by the return of the glorified water or Aumakua mana to the Aunihipili.

(Root) Ho: for hoo, “to cause something to be done.” To transfer, bring, carry away, present, produce, call out (or call upon), and to breath hard (this last is the symbol of accumulating the surcharge of mana and is constantly met with in this study.) No: “to leak water slowly, to seep as water into a hole and fill it.” (Symbol of the filling up with mana by the Aunihipili.)

From the several meanings given above, we find a number which belong to the secret meaning and also a number pointing out the symbols of the actions and elements involved in the “UNITED” state.

A THIRD EXAMPLE: Jesus was “The anointed.”

ANOINT: Pe`ua. The secondary meaning of this word is to Unite, meet together (at the symbolic “door” on which one is told to “knock” standing on the aka cord “path” between Aunihipili and Aumakua), joining, adhering, kissing. (Roots) Pe: “to anoint.”  ua: “rain (symbol of the return flow of mana), or may have the verbal meaning of “to have.”

So, we see that, as the “Anointed,” Jesus stood in the secret lore as one able to make contact with the Aumakua via the Aunihipili along the aka cord. Note that the sending of the flow of low mana to the Aumakua is not included in either root or secondary meanings in this word, but is indicated because the “rain” or return flow of “light” or mana loa (strongest mana is included). It is seen that the stress is placed on the “rain,” so one who is in complete union and who has received the blessing of “light” from the Aumakua Father is properly one who has been “anointed.”

A FOURTH EXAMPLE: Jesus was called “Lord,” and was “King of the Jews” symbolically at the time of the crucifixion. He had much to say about the “kingdom,” which was something that belonged to the “Father,” but was also said to be “within.”

The “Lord” or “King” was the master of the “kingdom.” He was called the “Haku” in the language of the Secret. And, as in the case of the title, “Son of man (or the god Kane),” he represented here the character or characteristics of a second god of the old Trinity of kahunas, this time Lono.

Lono’s title was “The Lord of Extensive Power,” Haku`a`kea. The Lord of the land or kingdom had for his supreme prerogative, the right to say how the irrigation waters of the kingdom were to be divided. The first form of law covered the water rights, and it was the Haku who issued the commands (commandments or laws).

As “Lord,” Jesus symbolized again the Aumakua who had the control of the “waters” or mana. The “dividing of the water” was the Huna symbol covering the sending of the flow of mana to the Aumakua and its return after being transformed. The accumulation and sending “up” of the mana is described in the hidden or root meanings of Ha`ku, in this way:

(Root) Ha: “to breath heavily,” (constantly used symbol of gathering a surcharge of mana and sending it along the aka cord to the Aumakua, provided this “path” or “way” was not blocked by the “cross” or kea, which blocking caused the state of darkness and suffering of the “cut off from the Lord” state.) Ku: “To rise up” and to “extend” to reach a place. (The mana was made to “rise up” and to flow along the “extended” aka cord to the Aumakua. But, the root ku also has a completely contrary meaning of “to resist or oppose,” pointing at the state in which the Aunihipili refuses to send the mana or to contact the Aumakua.

The word kea in the title of the god, Lono, when taken out of the context of the word forming the title, does not mean “Power.” It means “a cross.” It is not the cross with the bar set horizontally, but is the variation of the spokes of the wheel, the “X” cross on which the man who is crucified or “broken on the wheel” has arms and legs spread to be bound (with cords, symbol of the aka cords being blocked, tangled and cut off) to the cross. This is also the very old taboo sign or “King’s X.” It was placed before the temple to block the approach of the uninitiated and sinful. It blocked, in symbol, the approach of the Aunihipili to the Aumakua. One of its word meanings is “to hinder or object to.” There is an alternate form of the word in the form of `pea, which furnishes the additional translations: “to be bound to a post or tree, to wash away dirt, to be dirty water (mana contaminated symbolically by sin), and to be punished for little or no actual crime after being accused by the envious.” This last meaning fits exactly the situation in which Jesus was crucified for little or no crime (pointing to the inner or hidden reasons for the punishment and suffering on the cross – the guilt or sin fixations or perhaps the fixations caused by shock or the accidents of the early or prenatal life).

Another Huna word for “cross” is a`ma`na. This is also the “Y” form of cross and means a tree whose branches make a “Y,” this symbolizing the “dividing” of the up-flow of mana or the giving to the Aumakua of its share, to empower it to create the answer to our needs and prayers. The normal condition is one in which the “path” of the flow and the contact is free and open. When it is blocked, Aunihipilis are “crucified” on the “tree of life.”

(The roots:) A: “to burn fiercely,” “to burn with anger.” Ama: “to be satiated, as with food” (symbol of having the mana to send if the path were not blocked), “to sacrifice to the gods” (give the mana), “to reveal secrets, especially secrets of evil deeds. Mana: “energy, power, strength,” “to divide, to branchout.” With the causative root hoo, in hoo`mana: “to worship.”

To be cut off from contact with the Aumakua via the aka cord, was to be left in darkness such as fell over the scene of the crucifixion according to the accounts. In contrast, the “Father” with whom Jesus was “one” or “united”‘ was the “Light” and the source of all Light.

Jesus said, “The Light of the World (am) I; he who goes with me (hele: to stretch the cord) shall never walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life.” In the Hawaiian, the word ao is both “light” and “world.” It also means “to instruct,” “to point out the right road.” The secret meaning in this matter is thus revealed. Jesus identified himself with the Aumakua, and also identified himself as the one who taught in order to enlighten mankind – the “world.”

In Mark, 8:23 we can read that Jesus said, “let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”

If “taking up the cross” is a daily task, it cannot be meant that one is to be crucified upon it daily. Rather, the Huna meaning is to be seen. It is a daily effort to contact the Aumakua, offer the gift of mana, and receive in return the life-giving down-flow of “Light.” This is the normal condition in which the “Father” and the “son” work together so that all may be well. In the abnormal condition of separation, suffering results because the contact and mana sacrifice symbolized by the amana cross is not made.

If Jesus actually died on the cross, it was not to gain forgiveness for all the sins of the world, or to remove all the guilt and shock fixations for all men. Such a death could only be symbolic – a “showing of the way of life” to others. But, there is the possibility that by a careful study of the entire account of the sayings, teachings and doings of Jesus, we may be able to throw light back on the Huna that survived 2000 years longer in Polynesia. We need to know how the fixation or complex was located and removed by Jesus. There may have been a better way than can be learned at this late date from kahunas of Polynesia. For instance, why did Jesus wash the feet of the disciples?

At the moment I am still considering some rather strange meanings in direct translations of words such as “wash,” feet,” “gird” (as of loins before the washing) and so on. I already incline to the opinion that this washing was remarkably similar to “auditing” to remove fixations before the feast of the Passover was eaten and the rite changed into the mysterious and symbolic act of communion. The communion seems to have been with the Aumakua AFTER the Aunihipili (symbolized by the feet as the roots of the Tree of Life or man) had been cleansed. The important part of the “washing” seems to be that it could not be done by oneself, but had to be done by another, just as in auditing. I note also that Jesus commanded the disciples to do this “foot washing” for each other. We may soon find by this angle of study, a clue to what may be missing in the new therapy which strives to include the Aumakua and its aid. (Letters awaiting answers are stacked up a foot high just now, and if you happen to wonder why you get no answer, blame it on long-suffering Cigbo, and realize that I have my nose deep in Hawaiian dictionaries and volumes of Polynesian mythology, legends and what not. I only wish you could all have a duplicate of my set of books and indulge in this form of fascinating search. More fun!)

And …

THE HUNA LABORATORY seems to have the approval of almost everyone.

Three different HRAs have irons in the fire which they hope may get hot in a large way, and if they do, the promise is given of financial help for the Lab. Two of these depend on finding oil or gas, and as our many HRA astrologers well know, the planet Neptune is the one ruling the “occult” and as it is slowly approaching a good position for our line of research, we may suddenly have the Huna wheels well oiled and ready to turn over fast. One offer of $25, when and if the Lab gets ready to start, has arrived and a real dollar in cash money was sent in! Cigbo has placed this in his box in a special place to act as the nest egg. Meantime, various ones of the HRAs who have well in mind what we need to find out concerning the method of using the aid of the Aumakua in one form or another of “Dianetics processing,” are at work breaking ground for us. It is very possible that by the time the Lab is to be opened, we will have a rather complete and well tested set of healing methods to put at once to work.

CORRECTIONS PLEASE

HRA W.P. of Spokane, asks in a letter, “WHO reads proof on the Bulletins?” (And IS my face red!) I have already run off the earlier pages of this very Bulletin and now discover to my dismay and Cigbo’s complete shame, that I overlooked in two places the correction needed to make from “breath” the wanted word, “breathe.” If you notice such things, will you use your pencil on them when the Bulletins arrive? The Bulletins are written directly on the stencils and always under the pressure of chronic lack of time. Anyway, as HRA W.P. says, “Down Webster, down!” (Which sentiment Cigbo cheers delightedly from his box on top of the desk. He wishes to give you this message. “Stamps are more importink for us HRAs any time than spellings.)

A HORSE OF THE  SAME COLOR?

Good friend, Howard Clark, HRA, sent in a picture he had taken five years ago of a Southern California horse named “Serrano,” who does the same surprising things as “Lady” – mentioned in a recent Bulletin. He read the speedometer on a car selected from a number of parked cars a block away. Five figures, and all correct when a check was made.
M.F.L.