September 15, 1950

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

MANY GRAND LETTERS have come in during the time since the last Bulletin was mailed. Herewith my very best thanks for those not marked “urgent” aid “no answer required,” also for unmarked letters and notes which were enjoyed even more because they were not answered and more time was allowed for work here at the study.

CIGBO SENDS HIS THANKS

Cigbo sends his thanks and most musical “MEOW!” to all of his “Aunts and Uncles” who have remembered him. Someone sent him two “perfectly wonderful dollars” but didn’t say who they were or have a return address on the envelope. The postmark could not be made out. Cigbo has credited the gift to the Po`e Aumakua and has spent it for stamps. He wishes to tell you all that he has never lost a bill, check or stamp that came folded loose in any sealed envelope. But he has lost his best Sunday temper several times because some Auntie or Uncle has stuck a stamp to a letter or has used a stapler to staple check or bill to a letter. Cigbo breaks all his claws trying to get the staples pried up. Worst of all is the bill that is stuck to the letter with Scotch tape and which gets peeled in taking off the tape. Cigbo wishes to ask, “How would YOU like to break all the claws off of your front and hind paws opening your bulletin if I borrowed boss’s stapler and clinched all the pages together right in the middle, or stuck the sheets together with some of that glue [or] did something else that was terrible inconsiderate?” Last but not least, Cigbo sadly announces that next month is time again for the quarterly sorting of his list to see who hasn’t been heard from for so long that he must be placed on the “inactive list.” As stamps and envelopes are in short supply now, “Cigbo warns that this time no letter will be sent – the Bulletin will just fail to come. (About ten Bulletins come back each month from HRAs who have lost interest or have moved away and have not had the grace to send a postal to say “Please stop Bulletin and count me out.”)

A QUESTION HAS BEEN ASKED

A question has been asked by HRA R.L.A. concerning the pronunciation of the several most used words in Huna. In Hawaiian, the vowel sounds are approximately: pronounce a as in arm, e as in obey, i as long e in machine, o as in old, u as in moon. Accent all syllables about the same. Aumakua as aum-mah-kooah. Huna as who-nah. Auhane as oo-ha-nay. Aunihipili as oo-knee-he-pea-lee. Mana as mah-nah, water, symbol of mana is wai pronounced as if the w were half v and the a and i were both short and run together something like saying “y” or “vy.” Kahuna as kah-who-nah. Aka as ah-kah. Honolulu has a long o each time and an oo for each u, as Hoe-no-loo-loo. Hawaii as Hah-vah-ee. Most usual mistakes are hue-na instead of who-nah, Ha-way-yuh for Haw-vah-ee, Hony-lulu for Hoe-no-loo-loo, Y-ki-ki for Vy-kee-kee. These pronunciations are not perfect, but will get any good HRA past unless he visits Hawaii and runs into HRAs, Charlie Kenn or Theodore Kelsey, our two Hawaiian language experts.

SPEAKING OF HRA CHARLES W. KENN reminds me of a letter received from him not long ago concerning the elements in Dianetics which were known and used by na kahuna and the Hawaiian people in general to a surprising extent. But let the letter tell the details:

Dear Max:

Just a brief note to say that I have purchased and read the Hubbard book, DIANETICS. It took me some time to get the material soaked in. It was, as you said, rather slow reading.

Then your Bulletin reporting on the book came and I read it through carefully. I soon became convinced that na old kahuna were proficient in the use of “auditing and Dianetic reverie” – also in handling the “engrams” etc.

I reviewed my notes, made when I was the secretary of a Hawaiian study group organized at the instigation of Dr. Buck in 1937, with such people as the late Prof. Beckley and other old timers as members. There were eleven members. All have passed on now but me. At that time we spent much time on the herbal medicines and lore of the ancients. One woman member, who had practiced healing with Hawaiian herbs for forty years or more and who has given me much important information, spoke at length on pregnancy, prenatal conditions etc.

She would say, in effect, that the unborn child in its mother’s womb was able to hear and absorb whatever conversation went on near the expectant mother. For that reason, in former days, everyone tried to hoo`hauoli (make happy) the mother. Only pleasant things were said in her presence and everything was done to make her condition more pleasant. She was taken to the sea beach and there her stomach was carefully worked on, so that the child inside would be hoo`huli (be turned around) from time to time. This was like a mother hen turning the eggs around or as is done in a modern incubator for chicks.

Lullabies were chanted to the expectant mother as her body was slowly rubbed, to quiet the child inside. Before delivery the child was spoken to and told to make its entrance into this world quietly and safely for the mother’s sake.

There is a na kahuna term for Dianetics, dianetic reverie, engrams and every comparative step. The na kahuna tried to do all that was possible to bring the child into the world without engrams, or with the minimum number of them. He also did “dianetic auditing.”

The woman above mentioned always talked to the unborn children of her own children, telling them such things as to be kindly and obedient, to have sweet tempers, and always to have respect for their elders. She (being versed in herb lore) was careful what food should be taken by the expectant mothers – nothing that would develop what the Hawaiians called ea (white thrush or Aphtha, a vesicular disease which affects the mouth, genitals, brain, spinal cord, and other parts and organs of the child).

In this art our present kahuna friend in Kona is a master. It prevents bodily debility because all possible parental weaknesses are gotten rid of through feeding the child herb juices as soon as it is safe to do so. I might add here that the kahuna in Kona is of the laoaau (herbal) class, also of haha paacao (diagnostician) and of the kahea (instantaneous healing) order. In addition, he is a kaula (prophet), his special kind of prophet being of the order of Papa Kaula Kuialua (the class skilled in foretelling the success or failure of battle, also versed in the lua or Hawaiian counterpart of jiujutsu. It is the highest manifestation and its success is based on gerontology, which is the maintenance of physical and mental well-being and which, in its esoteric sense, depends upon the development of psychic ability to foresee disaster and ward it off.)

As I told you in a previous letter, our kahuna friend demonstrated on Mr. Kekahuna for me the method of diagnosis, using the index and middle fingers of the right hand like a stethoscope.

The lomi`lomi art is also a part of the skill of the kahuna haha`paaoao, as here the diagnosis and lomi`lomi arts are combined. He could also be termed a kahuna lapaau because he is able to prescribe the proper remedy after his diagnosis. He’ll tell what is wrong with you, then what remedy to apply or to take. He is known from Hawaii to Kauai and highly respected for his knowledge, being referred to as he na kanaka kaulana – a famous man.

Best wishes, Charlie

I anticipate letters from a number of HRAs asking where to find this kahuna and whether he will give healing treatments from a distance, so will try to answer the questions in advance. This very old Hawaiian remembers all of the old lore as he learned it in his youth, but seems no longer to be practicing. In his letters to me, Charlie has said nothing of any healing work being undertaken at this late date. As to the additions to our knowledge of Huna which are being supplied, nothing has come through from Mr. Kenn or from Mr. Kelsey to help us as yet. It is one thing to have learned to use fine natural psychic powers and to have been able to get results with the various simple rituals, but another to teach others what took many years to master, even when naturally psychic. If Cigbo had $10,000 for use in his box, it might be possible to bring this kahuna to California for a time, together with Charlie to translate. It is not against the law to be a kahuna and to use the old methods of healing over here, so something might be accomplished. However, as things are, Mr. Kenn will eventually put all he has been able to learn into book form.

TWO TYPES OF HEALING

For the past year we have been trying out, as HRAs, two types of healing, (1) treatment of those who can work with us and in that way co-operate in the healing effort, and (2) those who can do little or nothing to help themselves.

Both methods have been successful beyond question when the prayers “hit the mark” as na kahuna would say. In the past few weeks I have had much reason to rejoice and give thanks to na Aumakua for the improvement in our insane young man, Gregg, whom a number of us have continued to treat regularly despite the outward appearance of alternate gains and failures. A letter came from Gregg’s mother four days ago, and one this morning as I work on this Bulletin. She visits him frequently, taking him special foods and doing all she can to keep him physically fit. I know that you will all be greatly pleased to have this good news, so reproduce parts of both letters.

“Just a short note to tell you Gregg continues to come thru the astral fogs. Yesterday, Sunday, he was ahead of his all-time gain to date. He was on the patio when we arrived and we walked him a little. He talked logically, although he had a hard time finding sufficient words to express himself at times. I had his own camera with me and he recognized it and asked me to be careful of it and “take it home.” When we were going into his room, he saw me pick up a rather heavy grip-container in which I carry his food. He reached out and said, ‘Let me help with that.’ He took it and carried it to his room, but there the thought persisted and he still wanted to help – not to put it down. You see what I mean. THOUGHT is coming back to him, but needs regulating – that sort of thing.”

A few days later : “I know that you will be happy to know that Gregg was finer than ever yesterday again. He really was. Ate his own meal – - talked with us. We heard a patient at a distance yelling loudly and he said to me, “Don’t mind him, let him yell, his mind is on that plane. All minds have their own plane, that’s his, so let him alone.” It was a bit of a jolt to me. Frankly, I’ll never encourage depths of thought in him, ever again. He saw so clearly – TOO early. He got LOST to earth completely – couldn’t get back. Not good. He again insisted on carrying my grip in, saying, ‘It must be heavy.’ For the moment, it is enough that he is finding balance again. Wonderful. I am almost stunned. No words for it. GLAD and thankful. Beyond a step at a time now I cannot think or go.”

HRA H. J. Schnedler, of Detroit, wrote on August 15th: “At the TMHG hour I am, and have been for some time, concentrating on the case of Mr. Gregg. Quite a flow of mana is leaving my body at these times, so I will continue it in the future. I am very happy in taking my part in this work and look forward to greater things. I also want to report more success in healing since I last wrote. I have long been afflicted with hay fever. Last season I noticed a marked improvement, and this season not a trace of it. I am at last, also, completely rid of a very annoying form of itching eczema above my right knee – which spread constantly for over ten years and no doctor could cure it. It all left recently. You will recall that I asked THMG [for] treatment for it some time ago.”

HRA B. K. of Alabama writes: “I am still praying for Gregg B. and know that he will be OK in time.”

HRA R.H. writes concerning the training of her little son who is nine and has had same experiences already in psychic lines. She hopes that he may grow to be a great kahuna, but is uncertain what to teach him. Considering the above letter from Gregg’s mother in which she expresses the fear that her son was allowed to go too deeply into occultism too young, this is of interest to us all. “I am fascinated watching Johnny and I have talked a lot about our guardian angels as I always did, but I am shy about introducing him to the more abstract concepts of Huna. He would be puzzled about the guilt fixations, etc. I think the reason he is so protected is that he has none. I have worked ever since he was born to prevent that, even when I went through a fundamentalist stage, for I know how handicapped I was in that respect. If anything occurs to you that I should include in my training, would you let me know? I mean, my training of him.” (I think it very wise to go slowly with the youngsters. Give them the simpler and less confusing ideas of Huna as a matter of course, however. They can understand the idea of the Auhane and Aunihipili and the Aumakua at an early ago, also the doctrine of non-hurt as the guiding principle of life.)

A NEW HRA PROJECT

We seem to have become bogged down in our efforts to find just the right thing to do to “raise the vibrations.” I have been reading with great care the letters that have come in on the subject and also have been checking back and forth in books, but the best I can do as yet, using the Bovis biometer for testing, is 900. I will continue to work on this problem, and request that those of you who are working forward on these lines of thought and experimentation will continue to do so. I feel that it is important.

What may be of even greater urgency in the near future is to combine our efforts to use our psychic powers and get glimpses of events in the near future. Several HRAs have written to ask me what I thought was going to happen in the next few years, and how the coming events may best be met.

I have just been looking over HRA Wing Anderson’s book in which he gives a collection of prophecies taken from sources other than the Bible. I have also seen several books written to give the conclusions as to “cycles” which effect business and prices, cause booms and depressions. The four cycles which are most generally recognized have their “lows” all arriving at the same time within a matter of a few weeks in 1952.

The spirit communicators of the Mark Probert circle (known to most of you through HRA Meade Layne’s ROUND ROBIN magazine and the BSRA releases) are most pessimistic in their predictions, as are the majority of communicators whose messages come to my desk via various HRAs.

In my years of observation, I have seen that the great majority of predictions made by spirits had, as a common fault, the fact that they were colored and influenced very strongly by the thoughts held by the sitters in the circle or what the medium may have been thinking. As the subconscious and the body of the medium must be used by the communicating spirits, it seems that they cannot prevent their own ideas and those of the medium from getting tangled and worked into the body of the prediction.

I have been warned twice of small dangers which lay ahead for me and which were later passed successfully when they came. On the other hand, I have sat in circles where dire “end of the world” types of prediction were very earnestly urged upon us. In Honolulu, around the year 1923 as I recall it, there was a gentleman who used the pendulum and his psychic powers with great enthusiasm. He lectured, gathered around him a circle of interested people, and climaxed his activities by presenting what seemed to be an almost letter-perfect case for a series of vast tidal waves to strike on a certain date. I remained skeptical, having seen too many such predictions fail, and on the “Great Night” did not join the group, which took refuge with food stores and other things on the top of a high hill back of Honolulu. Nothing happened, but still it might have been a genuine event and it might have been correctly foreseen. I could have been overwhelmed by a great wave as a reward for my skepticism – but that time I was not. I am not so sure about the predictions of this present day. All I am sure of is that there is a long chance that most predictions are no better than your guess or mine.

If you have a copy of HRA Dr. Nandor Fodor’s ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, you will find, beginning with page 297, five pages of fascinating and illuminating information covering prophecy and prevision or premonition. On page 73 begins a splendid article on crystal gazing. On pages 44 and 45, clairaudience and clairvoyance are discussed. In my book on Huna, SSBM, Chapters VII through X review the subject from the Huna point of view as well as that of psychic science.

I suggest that you take time to go over this and any similar material you may have in hand to get your mind turned into this channel of thought before you begin to work on this new project by which I hope that we may collect a good amount of prediction, then see what parts of it agree. If we find certain events foreseen by several HRAs in much the same way, we will have something rather important to go on.

A thing that HRA O.F. Stone of Knoxville, pointed out some time ago for us, seems to me at this time to be a most promising key to successful prediction. I intend to keep it well in mind as I get into the experiment.

This is the key to the subconscious and its strange method of presenting in symbols the things it gets, at our request, from the Aumakua – things relating to the future.

Mr. Stone found that, in his dreams or during his relaxed moments, the symbols would be given to him – not the actual visual picture of the future event or condition. After some study of the matter, he learned that if, as soon as he awakened or otherwise became aware of the symbol, he would at once ask aloud that his “George” give him the meaning of the dream or symbol, the meaning would very quickly flash into his mind.

We do not know why the Aunihipili works so much in symbols, but we know that it does. In psychoanalysis we find constantly that past events and fixations are all bundled up to make a symbolic picture. Dr. Fodor, in his many recent books and articles on this method of probing the contents of mind, has repeatedly told of his own experiences in running into symbols of this kind when working on his patients.

It is now known that many of our dreams contain parts which cover up prevision in symbols. In using the method invented by Mr. Dunne, as described in SSBM, there was not enough stress laid on the fact that one must watch for symbols which may embody things to come. If you try that very excellent method of taking paper and pencil and writing down dreams as you awaken at night, be sure to ask your Aunihipili the first thing in the morning to give you the meaning of all the symbolic things it has presented.

One of the stumbling blocks over which I have already tripped, is that I may remember a dream in the morning or when awakening in the night – the dream being of some seemingly non-symbolic happening or condition – only to discover that there was definite symbolic prediction behind the simple and ordinary-seeming thing seen or done or found happening in the dream.

If, after you have worked a time every day for a few days to saturate your George with the needed understanding of what you are desirous of doing, you make your request that he contact the Aumakua and get prevision, and give it to you in a dream or clear foreseeing of some sort, George responds – and gives you a dream of Great Aunt Clara smoking a large black cigar … well, then you will get the idea. You will ask George at the moment of awakening what he was trying to pass on to you. You might just have it flash into your mind that you were going to have to do something that you greatly disliked doing – and then you might remember that the thing Great Aunt Clara loathed above all else was tobacco and that, if she had to smoke a cigar, it would be symbolic of something most heartily disliked.

If the symbol is not explained quickly, it may be that the dream event was just ordinary and not symbolic or concerned with the future. However, it will do no harm to tell George (or Georgette, if more appropriate) to repeat the dream or be ready to give you the flashing solution the following morning, at which time ask him again.

Prayer to the Aumakua for guidance for yourself and your HRA fellows in the project should be a regular part of the work. This will help get George into the swing. Also, speak to him directly and tell him what he is to do. If you can develop some lasting interest and enthusiasm in the effort, and can hold your expectant attitude at the proper times – before going to sleep, for instance – it should not be long before you will begin to get results.

I plan to get a calendar for 1951 if I can find one and start in January, circling a date in each week and telling my George to try to get information as to happenings and conditions for that time. I have been visualizing the front page of my daily newspaper and seeing in my mind’s eye some future date. After a pause to allow George to try to get information as to what the news will be, I try to get a reading of the headlines. If nothing is obtained, I tell George to sleep over it and show me the headlines the next day. It is most interesting to see what comes through. Phrases, single words, pictures, symbols, sounds, and even smells, colors and tunes are arriving. Old headings of former “Extras” may also come back and, as they may contain a symbolic meaning, I keep careful track of them.

For those HRAs who are accustomed to using suggestion, it may be possible to get us some prevision material through some gifted subject. Two years ago, when we were having regular group meetings in Los Angeles, one of the group told us of a series of experiments in which he had used suggestion to progress a young married woman into the future by years. I have forgotten how far ahead she was when they came to a period so filled with sorrow, trouble and terror that the young woman refused to go on farther.

I was very much interested in the method as it was described. The subject was given the suggestion that she would progress to the desired year. Time was allowed for the progression to take place. “Are you able to hear me? And can you tell me the date?” would be asked. Eventually the date would be given. Following that there would be questions such as, “Where are you? Where is your husband and what is he doing? Are you happy and well?”

The young woman was a resident of Los Angeles. As she went ahead into the future, she described her surroundings and told where she was and what she and her husband and friends were doing. In the end, she was someplace in Arizona and the bottom had dropped out of her little world. She was so stunned by events that she was hardly coherent, in a dazed way she tried to tell what had happened, but could not make the conditions clear. She had lost all track of her husband and of her friends, she no longer knew what was going on in the world – seemed to be isolated in some small settlement.

I suggest that you make a few notes each day as to your work and, when the results become certain, set them down. In a longer or shorter time you will have material enough to use in making a report.

In making your report, give the method used briefly, as “dreams” “crystal gazing,” etc. Be sure to record the dates of all the readings you get in the newspaper type of experiment. Also watch for the place, if you find you are getting an AP dispatch. If you ask for letters from loved ones as they may arrive in certain weeks in the future as, say Christmas 1951, you may bring through things of importance to relatives and friends as well as to the project.

One thing I wish to ask, and that is that you do not write me accounts of your dreams if they are filled with symbols that you cannot get your George to explain. If you cannot explain them, I will not be able to do so. (I have already run into this situation and speak from experience.)

One more thing – a very important thing – please do not expect me to write acknowledging your letter or commenting on your dreams or symbols or report unless it is of urgent importance that I do so. Also, if you will remember to tell me on your report whether or not I can put the material in a future Bulletin, I will be greatly helped. And please say whether or not I can credit it to you or not, and whether to your initials only or full name, and if your address or just your city may be given.

HRA Wing Anderson, in his collection of prophecies already mentioned (PROPHETIC YEARS 1947-1953) page 99, has a prophecy made by a Wisconsin minister. It was received from him in 1945 and seems to have been based on fore visions covering some years.

This prophecy is of particular interest to me and will be to all HRAs because of parts of it in which Huna principles seem to be described as part of the predicted “new world religion modeled upon a basic formula. People will respond to it willingly, for it will be a soul religion as well as an intellectual one.”

Here are other parts: “There shall none hurt any more his neighbor.” (Check the non-HURT basic doctrine of Huna.) “Within the next decade (by 1955) all the changes predicted will take place, such as the downfall of the greedy and wicked and the setting up of a new economic system.” (Note the mother-father Aumakua hint in the following.) “Now they will learn that breaking the laws of Mother Nature and Father Creator has made disease-ridden bodies.”

I will report progress of the project in the Bulletins as we go along. It may take us a short time to get results or a long time. In any event, I will keep you posted. MFL

August 15, 1950

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

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND UNDERSTANDING

Your many valued letters which have come in since the last Bulletin are appreciated more than you will ever know. I have been deeply touched by the warmth and support and understanding which you have all given me at this time when it is such a pull on my – shall I say, heart-strings – to put aside letters from such dear friends without sending an answer. I suppose that I have been unaware until just now, of the large part your letters and my visiting back with lines or pages have meant in the past two years and more. I have taken it too much as a matter of course, and so am just a little startled to discover the strong and clear undertone of loyalty to our work and to such leadership as I have been able to offer.

I have so often had the dismal feeling that unless our Huna work together produced some miracles rather soon, everyone would lose interest. This feeling has been fed by the rather large number of HRAs who have joined in the work in months past, stayed on for a short time, then written to say that they were dropping out to take up some other line of reading or study. Recently, however, I am discovering that the HRAs at the core of our organization have had more than enough abiding interest and understanding to offset the ones who have come and gone, and those who will continue to do so.

THREE UPLIFTING LETTERS

I was greatly impressed and uplifted last week by parts of three letters which arrived. In one of them the writer mentioned in passing the fact that she loved our HRA work so much because in it she had at last found honesty – honest admission that we do not know to a certainty and are doggedly holding ourselves open to truth of any kind and from any source which we come across. This gave me a great uplift of spirit because it showed that I am not alone in my almost fanatical determination that we shall not be lied to by anyone. In my early years I accepted the “teachings” of the self-appointed “teachers” because they sounded convincing and because I knew too little to judge what was said or written. In time, I came to know that half of the “teachers” were not intellectually honest enough to even try to verify their statements. A quarter of them mouthed the false statements of others, not knowing enough to test and judge and sort materials. The rest made up a conglomerate group tainted with outright intention to win cash for teachings they knew were false, or with fanatical lust to become leaders, or with the various grades of ignorance, willful blindness, black cunning and puerile silliness.

My determination has been, from the first, and continues to be, that we, as HRAs, shall remain a body of men and women who are able to carry on our investigations and experimental studies regardless of the end results – for the sake of honest work itself. If, in the end, we come to a point where we see that we cannot continue to progress, we will disband and hang up a shield which is still bright and unsmirched. Meantime, those who seek a “teacher” and who wish to be spoon-fed with unproved and unprovable assertions and dogmas, be they old or new dogmas, will continue to drift in and out of our open doors. I am sinfully proud of the way most of you THINK.

A second letter contained this. “I’ll miss your letters rather much, but I know that your time must be spent to get the most Light for the most HRAs. I haven’t time to hunt up books or to read them for myself, or to experiment more than just a little. So carry on, Max. I am depending on you to let me know through the Bulletins about anything new and important in our line. I’ll keep feeding Cigbo his catnip if you’ll keep feeding us all what ’strong meat’ you can find.”

From a third letter came this. ” … and I suppose I had become a little tired after years of looking for something logical and something which didn’t turn out to be a monument to someone’s egotism or bank account. Huna is like a clean mountain breeze to me. You gave your reasons for your conclusions but did not try to force them on others. In the Bulletins I find the same sincerity, even if you do get a little off the straight Huna line now and then. In the TMHG, I am finding an inner companionship and am catching little glimpses of the Light that I have always known intuitively was there, but which I could not see because of the dogmas and the intrusion of personalities in groups and churches.”

MYSTICISM AND INTUITION

To counterbalance the materialistic approach which we are forced to make to the psycho-religious field and so Huna in particular, we have the mysticism built on such intuitions as are mentioned above. The greatest sense of having found utter verity has come to me in moments of “realization” or through strange flashes or vaguely remembered dreams. This is evidence for the individual, not for the friend or neighbor. Here we tread one of the lonely paths whose markers and sign posts are graven faintly with the cryptic phrases of those who have gone that way.

We have, in our HRA circle, mystics armed with little more than fainting endurance, enduring love and miraculous patience. How often I stand abashed – almost ashamed of my own little selfishnesses – as I read some simple line from one of these whose entire life and strength is spent in a desperately continuing effort to help some other. In these lines one may catch the flashing of the ancient Light between the words.

This morning I had a letter from such a mystic. Some time ago she became interested in the strange story of the rise and fall of the Order of the Golden Dawn in England and America. After reading a book which mentioned Waite’s translation of Levi’s Transendental Magic, she asked to borrow my old copy. She poured over it and over Waite’s critical notes. In her letter she gave me her findings: “However, I believe that Levi reveals the Huna steps in healing. I came to the conclusion that it is useless to try to explain this method. One has to take certain outer steps, but the action takes place on inner planes which are never physically explainable. One deals with an INNER SUBSTANCE – which may be mana or prana but IS ‘faith.’ One simply lets IT work. Yes, as in Huna, one sets the seed, lets it mature – watering it meantime but NEVER digging it up.”

How deeply we long to find that which is true and which will stand the acid test of logic and workability – which will sound that single perfect note within us when plucked with the fingers of the hidden mystic in our beings. How unforgettable are the moments of fragmentary findings, either while waking or sleeping.

HRA Dr. Nandor Fodor is back from his flying trip to England and European cities where he met friends and hunted down several more copies of his ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, which, as you know, is our invaluable reference book on the greatly important part of Huna which deals with our psychic powers and with the conditions of life on the other side of physical death. The price remains $7.66 post paid. You may place your order with Cigbo, who has reserved five copies for us, just to be sure, or directly with Dr. Fodor, The Park Central Hotel, 7th Ave. at 56th St., New York, N.Y.

Dr. Fodor has the finest faculty imaginable for collecting the data on given topics and pulling together a sane and lucid summary of facts, historic happenings, theories, and, what is of greatest value to the student, the real significance to be found in the many reports and cases which are cited. He has had the courage to handle reports, cases and materials from which the average professor or “scientist” would flee as from a plague. Even more impressive is his moral and mental honesty. You know at once when you begin to read, that here is someone who has no ax to grind and who is giving the facts as he finds them without the sickening “slanting” or misleading propaganda coloring usually met in cult writings or “teachings.”

No field in the world of thought is so fascinating in its materials as that of the psychic, and in no book covering the field have I found such exciting and absorbingly interesting outlays of cases and reports which have been known to so few. For example, let me quote parts from the long and thought-provoking article on “Dowsing,” pages 97, 98 and 99 of the Encyclopaedia. Comments in ( ) will be mine.

“DIVINING ROD, a V-shaped twig, 6-18 inches long, of hazel wood or wire, whale-bone, uncoiled watch spring, etc., which, if the two ends are rigidly grasped by a sensitive, will in the apex forcibly move over hidden springs – not over stagnant water – lode of metal or other objects of search – subterranean caves, graves, etc. – unless the grip is relaxed it will, under the effect of the rhabdic force – the Greek equivalent of the rod – emanating from underground, snap, change shape or revolve, like the bow-shaped rod of the French dowser, Bleyton, which sometimes executed as many as 80 revolutions a minute. The force apparently acts on the muscles through the nervous system. (As in using the pendulum.) It is stopped by a silken or woolen glove, India rubber shoes, or a tight bandage on one or both arms or legs. (There follows at this point in the article a discussion of the theories, relations to other psychic activities, etc., etc.)

“Experience shows that the rod itself has little to do with the mysterious faculty. Some dowsers do not use it at all. Leicester Gataker … relied solely on the sensations experienced in his arms. ‘His hands, hung down, extended a little outwards, and on observing closely, we could see, from time to time, a vibration in the middle fingers which appeared to be drawn downwards, just as in the case of the apex of the twig.’ Abbe Bouly stated in a lecture in 1928:’I no longer require a rod. I can see the stream with my eyes; I attune my mind; I am looking for lead. I fix my eyes; I feel a wavy sensation like hot air over a radiator; I see it.’ In the case of John Timms, studied by Oxford scientists in 1924, the demonstration was further complicated by a foreknowledge of where the hidden streams would be found. The attraction of hidden metals on his rod varied in this order: that to produce as much action on the rod as one gram of gold does, one has to bury of silver 1.2 grams, of nickel 6, of aluminum 15, of zinc 40, of lead 75, and of copper 125 grams.

“According to what the dowser (or user of the pendulum) desires to find, he may hold a bottle of water, a piece of metal, an empty tube – if in search of caverns – or a personal object – for corpse in water – in his hand. Once a stream (underground) is found, it is possible, by varying the substances, or by holding tubes of bacterial cultures, to determine the alkaline content or infectious state. From the latter discovery the idea was developed in France to use the divining rod for medical diagnosis. Promising results have been recorded in noting human reactions to disease germs, to remedies and foods, and also in noting the difference between radiations given off by a sound organ as compared with whose of an unsound one. (There is given at this point a history of dowsing from ancient times, also some of the theories which have been advanced to explain radiations from the organs of the body, from water and inert objects or substances.)

“Sir William Barrett was the first modern investigator for psychical research. He experimented with a dowser who successfully found coins placed under inverted saucers on the table. He attributed the twisting of the rod to motor automatism and considered it a phenomenon allied to automatic writing. Since then, considerable progress has been made.

“Before the International Congress of Experimental Psychology in 1913 in Paris, Joseph Mathieu desired to be tested for a strange claim: to divine water from maps alone. The claim was proved later. E.M. Penrose, official water-diviner of British Columbia, is said to be successful in duplicating the feat.” (Dr. Oscar Brunler uses maps in searching with the pendulum for water, oil, etc.)

VIBRATIONS

Another odd item which is of interest to us at this time because we are examining the idea of “raising one’s vibrations,” is found under the heading of VIBRATIONS on page 401. I quote:
“VIBRATIONS of sound play a mysterious part in the production of psychic phenomena. In the form of lively conversation, singing or music they are often asked for by the invisible operators. ‘We can walk on the vibrations made by your laughing,’ said Walter, the control of Margery. He claimed to get more than half the energy used in the production of the phenomena from the gramaphone vibrations but the only explanation he gave was that as they come off the machine they are converted into another and more useful form of energy.

“Music as the means to induce the trance state is found on record as far back as Biblical times. Elisha says, ‘But now bring me a minstrel, and it came to pass when the minstrel played that the hand of the Lord came upon him.

“According to Dr. Taraknath Das, quoted by G.K. Hack in MODERN PSYCHIC MYSTERIES AT MILIESIMO CASTLE, the following curious history is handed down in India: ‘It is well known that the great Indian musician, Tan Sen, in the court of Emperor Altar the Great, used to sing a special music known as Dupak Rag, which produced lightning effect. In performing for the Emperor the musician had to sit by a lake. The singer had to jump into this artificial lake to save himself from being burned and suffering from electrical shock. The lightning effect was caused by the vibrations of the music.’”

OAHSPE

I have been looking in many places for information to give us hints on the matter of “raising the vibrations” – whatever that may be, and whatever it may mean to us in our study and experimentation with Huna. It occurred to me that we might get leads from reading of the lives of men who had made strides along the path of what we might call “spiritual development.” One of the most interesting modern psychics who falls under this classification in all probability, was the author of OAHSPE, Dr. John Ballou Newbrough. Let me quote now on the article on him.

See page 263, under that name, in the Encyclopaedia.

A New York dentist (1828-1891), clairvoyant and clairaudient from childhood, automatic writer and painter. He could paint in total darkness, with both hands at once. It is claimed that closing his eyes he could read printed pages of any book in any library, that he could bring back recollections of astral travels and that under control he could lift enormous weights, even a ton, without apparent effort. He is chiefly remembered in Spiritualism for ‘OAHSPE, A Kosmon Bible in the Words of Jehovah and His Angel Ambassadors,’ first published in 1882 in New York. It is a new Bible purporting to come from the higher heavens, and ‘to have been directed and looked over by God, the creator’s chief representative in the heavens of this earth.’ In a letter dated January 21st, 1883, Dr. Newbrough wrote to the editor of THE BANNER OF LIGHT:

“I was crying for the light of Heaven. I did not desire communication from friends or relatives or information about earthly things; I wished to learn something about the spirit world, what the angels did, how they traveled, and the general plan of the universe. I was directed to get a typewriter which writes by keys like a piano. This I did and I applied myself industriously to learn it, but only with indifferent success. For two years more the angels propounded to me questions relative to heaven and earth, which no mortal could answer very intelligently,

One morning the light struck both my hands on the back, and they went for the typewriter for some fifteen minutes very vigorously. I was told not to read what was printed, and I have worked myself into such a religious fear of losing this new power that I obeyed reverently. The next morning, also before sunrise, the same power came and wrote – or rather printed again. Again I laid the matter away very religiously, saying little about it to anybody. One morning I accidentally – seemingly accidental to me – looked out of the window and beheld the line of light that rested on my hands extending heavenward like a telegraph wire towards the sky. Over my head were three pairs of hands, fully materialized; behind me stood another angel with her hands on my shoulders. My look did not disturb the scene, my hands kept right on printing printing. For fifty weeks this continued, every morning, half an hour or so before sunrise, and then it ceased, and I was told to read and publish the book, OAHSPE. The peculiar drawings in Oahspe were made with pencil in the same way.’” (In reading of this experience one is prone to wonder if, in some way, “raising the vibration” is something that has to do with making an aka cord contact with higher or more evolved spirit entities.)

MORE VIBRATIONS

THE CHIEF PROBLEM confronting us, as I now see it, in our study of “raising the vibrations” is to find a reliable method of determining whether or not our various experimental efforts have raised the vibrations, and if so, to what degree.

I have been reading your letters giving your several ideas on what it is we must “raise” and on how it may be done. I have tried out some of the methods which do not demand a lengthy training in diet, etc., and for the best available TEST of the results, have used the Bovis Biometer which is on loan here at the study from HRA Dr. Hanoka.

Dr. Oscar Brunler told me some months ago that on his Brunler Bovis model of the biometer he could tell from the reading of the vibration whether a folded sheet of paper contained a prayer, the word “God” perhaps, or a curse or something evil. This gave me the lead in that direction.

For my personal test, as a beginning, I wrote on two separate slips of paper, “God” and “Evil.” I brushed the slips and the biometer and my pendulum with my strongest magnet to clear them of other vibrations they might be holding, and made my test, expecting to pull the metal ruler out or push it in under the instrument’s plate (above which the pendulum is swung) and perhaps getting a high number reading for one slip and a low reading for the other. It can hardly be said that my expectation caused my Aunihipili to so move the pendulum that I got the answers which I did.

The “God” slip gave me a strong clockwise circling over the plate regardless of how far in or out the metal ruler was placed.

I remembered that a clockwise swing was the indication of a good and normal man of kindly intentions.

The “Evil” slip was then placed on the instrument after it had been cleansed with the magnet. I waited. I pulled the ruler in and out, rapidly and slowly. I held the pendulum for a matter of some five minutes waiting for it to begin to react in some way, but to my surprise, it simply refused to move at all in any way or direction.

Each of you will possibly have ideas on the whys and wherefores of this strange test, just as I have. My guess is that the idea which is embodied in the “God” concept is one of good creative action. The one behind the concept of evil might be expected to be active tearing down of all that is good and creative. I would have said that this was probably correct before making the test, but after the test I am forced to recall the fact that EVIL is only the negative aspect of GOOD. Several modern schools of thought have postulated this, in contradiction to the ancient belief in an ACTIVE EVIL or Devil which was an entity in itself and which fought the Good as a “fallen angel.” In Huna there is no personalization of active evil. GOOD is the real and creative condition under which all things have life and being; evil or non-good is only a “missing of the mark,” a mistake in conforming in our lives to the perfect pattern or plan or blueprint for all living and being.

I am reminded all too often in my experiments and studies that one is distressingly apt to forget a later concept and go back to older ones learned earlier in life. One is forced to keep reviewing one’s fresh findings and careful conclusions to prevent the Aunihipili from substituting the old and accustomed ideas. It is indeed hard to teach the “old dog” new tricks of thought, as we all know to our sorrow. What the Aunihipili dislikes – because it is contrary to its accepted and set ideas – is usually “forgotten” in short order.

After making the tests with the two words on the slips of paper, I expected to find that the progressively “raised vibrations” might be indicated for me on the biometer by a progressively stronger and wider clockwise swinging of the pendulum. I placed my left hand on the testing point of the biometer and mentally asked my “George” to try for a reading with the pendulum and ruler for whatever “vibration” in the “spiritual” chain I might show at the moment.

The response was unexpected in that a regular reading was given, just as for brain radiations testing intelligence. However, the pendulum swung back and forth on a right angle line over the plate or in just the opposite direction from normal. I turned the biometer half way around and placed my left hand on the test plate, thus getting a to-and-fro or normal swing.

This swing did not give me my normal reading for my mana charge or for my brain radiation. Instead, it gave me the reading of 470, which is about a hundred points higher.

I then made a mental effort to contact my Aumakua, but without any action to accumulate a surcharge of mana. The reading was then 630. This convinced me that I was not getting a measure on either my mana – at least not the low mana – or my intelligence level.

Next I went through the usual exercise to accumulate a good surcharge of mana, breathing deeply and taking the arms-out, feet-apart position. I pictured mana collecting as water rising in a fountain and overflowing at my crown. I followed through by affirming that I was “raising my vibration higher and higher.” The test was again made with the biometer and the reading advanced to 760.

After a rest period, I again went through the exercise to collect mana and raise the vibration. Then, reciting aloud my affirmation and some old passages from other days – passages which had often inspired me to a degree – I was able to arouse a very definite emotion of love and devotion for my Aumakua and the Great Po`e Aumakua. There was no physical sensation, no tingle such as I have often felt when trying to make the complete contact. I took up the pendulum and made the test. This time the reading was 910. But something new was observed. The strength of the pendulum swing had weakened down to the point of being very feeble. In fact, I remembered that the higher the reading had gone, the weaker the pendulum swing had been.

I do not know how to account for this weakening of the swing unless it might indicate that the higher vibrations used up more of the basic mana, or that more mana had been given to na Aumakua, or that the shorter beat of the higher vibration showed in the weaker swings.

All this is very fascinating to me. I have been set to doing some rather wild speculating and I wonder if, when the full contact with the completely “raised vibrations” is made, whether the reading would be 1000, which is the limit of the biometer and its scale, and whether the weakening of the swing would be so great that the reading could not be made.

So far, so good. It becomes apparent that there does not need to be a physical sensation, even a tingling, as a part of the state attained by raising the vibration – by lifting ourselves to contact the Aumakua level. This in itself may be considered a great step ahead in discovery. If we can be sure that there is also no sensation of a mental sort to show us that we have raised our vibrations successfully, we can then go ahead with our experiments, confident that we are making the grade, EVEN IF WE FEEL NO PHYSICAL OR MENTAL REACTION. It may be that emotional upsurges – the ones we have felt at rare times in prayer – are a part of the condition, or it may be that there is a return-flow of “raised” mana which causes this emotion and the tingles. Perhaps we will be able to know enough of this matter to raise our vibrations, have faith that they are raised to the point of contact, and then to go ahead to work our part of “magic.” Keep thinking. Keep experimenting. Report your findings.

In your experimental work with any phase of Huna, as in attempts to raise the vibration to a higher level, it has been my experience that several things should be kept in mind:

1. It takes a good supply of mana to enable the Auhane to get enough to control the Aunihipili well. Ordinarily the Aunihipili takes care of its duties with one hand and uses the other to fabricate its amusing dreams behind the back of the Auhane.
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   If you try to meditate or concentrate, your mind usually wanders in a few seconds. “George” is not paying attention. The way to get George to pay full attention is not to take a stick to him literally. One takes a mana stick to him, only with the “will” that is built and made strong by being stuffed with low mana – until we have a veritable “Big Stick” – can we force George to pay full attention and to like it.
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   In the last Bulletin I told how I had found my eyes sharper after accumulating mana. In still later experiments I find that with more mana on board, I can see and think and act mere clearly all along the line. I can get the meaning of a difficult passage in a book much faster after taking on a surcharge, and taking George by the scruff of his neck while I set him to do his part in what is on the program. One of the most valuable things Huna has given us is the knowledge that we can accumulate a surplus of mana and can use it to control the Aunihipili – to say nothing of the other uses we can make of this force.
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2. A second thing to be kept everlastingly in mind is the fact that we are composed of three selves, and that the AIM and GOAL of life’s activities is NOT to try to force the Aunihipili and Auhane to become “one” permanently with the Aumakua. That idea is another of the several grave mistakes made by the men of India when they lost the true significance of that part of Huna which evidently was once their heritage.

“YOGA” MEANS “UNION”

The concept was, undoubtedly, in the beginning, that of raising the vibration and making a complete and working contact with the Aumakua, furnishing the “seed” thought of the prayer and the mana to “water” it into growth, into actuality on this physical or mental level.

The eight stages of yoga training have long since come to be worked through, in the hope of being “absorbed in the One-All.” The aim is at a state of omnipotence and omniscience with freedom from the wheel of rebirth – freedom from further sins and troubles. (See Hereward Carrington’s HIGHER PSYCHICAL DEVELOPMENT for the stages or see Dr. Fodor’s ENCYCLOPAEDIA, page 415 under YOGA.)

If Huna tells us anything of value, it tells us that Whatever Intelligent Power it is that has made us, has not made a blunder of which we little humans would not be guilty. We were made correctly, with three selves, each evolved to its own place in the scale of growth. The great SECRET of na kahuna was centered on the momentary contacting or “union” with the Aumakua for the interchange of force in the form of mana and of the contents of the consciousness involved in the working out of “prayer.” We plan to DO SOMETHING with the privilege – the God-given privilege – of making contact with the Aumakua or na Aumakua. Life is for living, not to try to throw away. MFL

August 1, 1950

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

THANKS and MORE THANKS

Thanks to you all for your splendid response to my plea in the last bulletin for your continued reports and suggestions by letters to which no reply is expected. I am beginning work on this bulletin on July 25th. This is just ten days after sending off Bulletin 36. In this ten day period, during which many of you have just received the bulletin and the announcement of the change in the correspondence set-up, I have been answering most letters in the usual way – with a “tinned letter.” But now even this is being given up, and with the expected free time so allowed, I shall get on with the serious into and experimental work with Huna. I shall also get into the careful study of your letters on these and related projects. All letters will be much appreciated, even if they give only your personal news and comments. I will try to keep in touch with you through the bulletins while you keep in touch with your letters. I think it is going to work out very well.

CIGBO ALSO WISHES TO THANK YOU for any help, large or small, which you may have sent in and for which he has been unable (without the assistance of “boss”) to send his personal note of thanks.

LETTERS

Letters with material marked for the Bulletins have accumulated to make a most valuable and interesting collection. I hope soon to begin to sort them through and try to arrange them by topics so that I can select things from them in orderly fashion to pass on. I may use my shears to cut up letters to get parts into the right files, and in doing this I may be unable to credit the right HRAs with their materials, so bear with me if there are mistakes or omissions in the matter of crediting names or initials. I plan a file for questions which may be of interest to us all. There will be one for comments, news reports on experiments with Huna which have been undertaken and whose results can be told, also one for information such as that concerning radionics and the pendulum in their relation to Huna. I have a special file for clippings and articles and will begin to sort this material to come under different headings. The items covering TMHG attempts and results will fill a goodly file compartment all by themselves, as will the items covering more generalized aspects of healing through Huna or related methods.

NEWS ON THE NEWLY FOUND KAHUNA

News … comes from HRA Charles W. Kenn, who made the remarkable investigation last year of the firewalking in Honolulu. (Some of the books giving the report and pictures are still available. $1.10 post paid.) This kahuna is eighty-seven years old and he lives in the section of Hawaii where the lava flowed into the sea recently. He has been giving freely of his knowledge to HRA Theodore Kelsey and Mr. Henry Kekahuna, as well as to Charles. The remains of many ancient Hawaiian temples have been pointed out and the history and significance of each described in so far as possible. A check of Bishop Museum materials on this part of the field is well started and will soon be completed. Pictures will be made ready for classification and reproduction and, if all goes well, Mr. Kenn will publish the material, perhaps with much additional material which he has been accumulating on Huna. Owing to the very wide scope covered by na kahuna, the volume may be an Encyclopedia of Huna in its eventual form. The kahuna does not appear to have been of the healing school so much as was hoped. However, there seems to be emerging a definite line of thought deriving its source from the old beliefs. This has been described in his letter by Mr. Kenn as giving a set of practices aimed at physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. Charles, fortunately, was able to establish a blood relationship with the kahuna through his mother’s family, thus getting past the stumbling block of the cult of secrecy which has so largely prevented the full knowledge of Huna from being given to the world. This work is being carried on at much expense by those engaged in it as a labor of love. On behalf of the HRAs I wish to extend our most sincere thanks for the efforts being made to preserve information of such value.

A CORRECTION is due for the impression I have given several of my friends in Bulletin 36 that I have given up the present civilization as lost. Will you all add these: IF, IF IF, IF, IF’S, to what I meant to say? My anxiety came particularly from the fact that I scented danger to Huna in the wind and wished to make an impressive request that all HRAs keep in mind the need of saving the little knowledge we have from being lost IF, IF, IF we got into an atom or H bomb war and IF we had some of the always-predicted quakes which have been foretold in each decade as means of sinking large sections of the lands upon which we live and have our being. HRA E. B. writes, “… human society, especially in the United States, is in a very hysterical state” [because of the war threats.] She philosophically passes on to us the following, which voices her feelings in times of seeming danger, “Underneath us are the Everlasting Arms, and we can’t get out of the Universe.” That is a long and comforting sermon in a single line. We have discovered, in the century just past, that we all survive physical death and go right on in one form or another of living and growing. No accident of living on this plane makes a permanent mark on the record. All things change. We do what we can at any given time, and that is enough.

OUR PRAYER FOR PEACE

Our Prayer for Peace comes in for comment by HRA H.M. Wagner, of Florida. He is an advanced student and is wise in psychic as well as worldly matters. He concludes, from his long study of history and his personal observations that the Powers That Be have often found it necessary to have wars and disasters in order to bring about better conditions in a step-by-step progression in human affairs. This takes us back to the prayer, “Thy will be done.” I recall that in the last war, in England one of my friends who is the spiritual leader of a small but forward-looking group, caused ritual prayers to be made for the bringing of justice in the great conflict. He and his group did not flinch from accepting any part of punishment that might be measured out as England’s share. Here we run into the idea of race karma again – a thing that, in Huna, falls into a karma for the Aunihipili, one for the associated Auhane, which is the self which “knows better”, and one for the Aumakua, which is difficult for us to postulate. On the level of the Aunihipili, the karma would, logically, be the same as for the big fish that eat the little ones, or the school of big fish that has eaten the school of little fish. Here we are in the world of “accident” of Huna – a level of life which we may find filled with cruelties and what to us is unjust. On the level of the Auhane, we begin to make our own conditions and to arrive at more of our logical form of justice. We know right from wrong, in a very blind, muddled and imperfect way and, because of our muddled understanding, often suspect some Higher Being or Ultimate God of being painfully lacking in seeing that justice is done down here below – at least justice according to our ideas of what it should be. For those who have forgotten, may I remind once more that Huna has a new and quite unusual concept which we tend to forget or whose significance we overlook? This is the concept of a set of three “justices,” one for each level of life, as represented by our Aunihipili, Auhana and Aumakua. What is just for an animal or our Aunihipili is by no means just for the purposes of living of the Auhane. And, for the justice of the Aumakua level, we can only guess that up there one does not content himself by giving just dues to others – one loves them instead. Or on that high level we may at last attain such a unity of brotherhood that to give or to take away is to give and take away as from one’s very own self. How pitifully little we know or can know on this level. But how bravely and confidently and gloriously we can lift our tired and soiled faces to the Light and make our little endeavors to Love and Serve and feel Brotherhood with even those who seem to be our deadly enemies.

THE NEWS ON DIANETICS

The news on Dianetics remains of interest to us as HRAs. I dare not let myself hope too strongly that this new version of complex-finding systems will be the one to help us get at our guilt and other fixa tions and drain them off, thus “clearing the path” as the kahunas have called it for thousands of years.

L. Ron Hubbard, originator of Dianetics, has finished his first class in the East and will shortly be in Los Angeles to give classes here, so an ad in a Los Angeles paper announces. Tuition will still be $500, it is to be supposed.

No definite word has come in from HRAs who, at this writing, are just about to finish the course in New Jersey, but fragmentary reports are drifting back.

Perhaps a half dozen HRAs have been sufficiently interested to get and study the book, then hunt up an auditing partner and try out the system. Three report that they have been able to go back to the period before their birth and recall words spoken by or near the mother at times when they, as unborn infants, had been pained by something that had happened such as a bump, fall, illness, etc. This, in the hands of amateurs, is something really remarkable to accomplish. Hats off to L. Ron on that one. Such recalling and reliving of the event seems to have been effective in draining off a connected fixation in at least part of the experiences.

One HRA had the unhappy experience of not getting such an experience completely drained off at the time it was uncovered. As a result, his fixation caused emotional reactions which he could not control, these taking place every two hours or so until he could resume the auditing and finish the draining off of that fixation.

My own experiments in self-auditing to uncover guilt complexes connected with my early life and especially with prayer, have not been finished as yet. I have found that I recall many things long forgotten, but fail to relive them vividly enough to cause a real “run with final clearing away.” One very strange thing is that I have brought back the memories of nightmares suffered through shortly after the experience which I related in a recent bulletin – that of the drowning of the kittens and the resultant oppressive sense of guilt. The nightmare which followed shortly, included nothing of the kitten incident, but seems to have been connected in some way with the fact that I was too sinful to be protected by God. In it I was being chased by a dark man in a turban. Eventually I was caught, thrown to the ground, and my throat cut – no friend being able to rescue me. Unlike most such dreams, I did not awaken after the worst had befallen. Instead, I lived on in my dream, watching the dark man race on after others, and marveling that I was still alive although certainly very, very dead.

A letter arrived July 25th from a gentleman in the East who was given Bulletin 33 to read because of his interest in Dianetics. He hastened to send a warning to me and other HRAs. I will pass on part of his letter.

“My first Dianetic auditing partner was transferred to another state, so being of a curious and exploratory nature, I disregarded Ron’s advice and tried running myself, without an auditor. I will never try it again. Compared with your little tummy-rumblings of a childhood guilt complex, a real honest-to-god engram is like comparing love’s young dream to delirium tremens.

“I have not led a sheltered life. I have been run over, blown up, electrocuted, poisoned, and have fallen off a cliff, to mention a few minor mishaps. But never in my life have I been so completely terrified as when I ran into a nice fat engram when I was all by myself.

“The experience is not only terrifying and unnecessarily uncomfortable, it is absolutely futile. I had run (relived) engrams before under the auditing of my friend. I was perfectly conscious and knew the whole thing was perfectly silly. All I had to do was repeat what I was seeing and hearing, and it would release. (Drain off.) No go. I finally had to bring myself up to present time, leaving myself in the middle of the engram. I am stubborn, and I tried to run it out by myself the next day. Still no go. All this time I had no appetite, my arms and legs jumped, my scalp crawled at the slightest noise, and I felt continually on the verge of tears. Finally I gave it up and had my oldest son run me through it. Together, we discharged it in less than two hours. I only hope that any of your fellow HRAs who try to do a solo in reverie know where they can quickly find an experienced auditor to get them out of the mess they are very apt to land in.

My sole purpose in writing is to try to save your associates from a very unpleasant and stupid experience, and save yourself the embarrassment of having suggested it.”

I have written to thank this gentleman for his letter. It is evident that when one pushes the Aunihipili back into remembering very vividly some situation which was tied in with a complex, the usual control over the Aunihipili is lost and it reacts wildly and out of control until help is obtained and the complex is rationalized. It may be that autosuggestion of the first water may fail one in such a situation. I may stop my own experiments until I can work with an auditor.

I suggest that we all wait a time and see what develops before we plunge in. Some report excellent early results with Dianetics and amateur auditors, so far as they have gone, but Mr. Hubbard is frequently announcing changes in his methods, one of the latest being to refrain from picking up engrams of later life first. Go first to the prenatal period and the very earliest engrams. These early engrams, so he explains, are tied in with most later engrams which may be turned up, and the latter may be difficult to handle because the early ones remain untouched. If the earliest engrams are first found and removed, the later ones which are related to it will drain off almost automatically or with very little effort.

I further suggest that unless you are greatly interested, you hold off buying a copy of DIANETICS. It is difficult reading and you may never care to wade through the 450 pages – which are already out of date. Because of the call, your library will eventually have the book, even if it is decidedly NOT on the “accepted list,” (neither is SSBM, for that matter. Libraries are very conservative, as we all know.) New discoveries in methods are announced frequently, and there may be a later printing to contain them although at present, one is supposed to pay $50 a year into the “Foundation” in order to be kept informed.

One of our HRAs who lives near Los Angeles, has behind him a long and very successful practice in standard ways of finding and draining off fixations. From him comes the warning that there is a grave danger in amateur auditing with Dianetics. The prime danger comes if the one being audited is even slightly paranoiac – has some large or small delusions, such as those of persecution or grandeur. To stir up the fixations for a person of this type almost always means that he transfers his blame for all his misfortunes, real or imaginary, to the auditor, as to the regular psychologist. He will tell the world that you are using the blackest of arts on him. A second serious danger lies in the fact that almost everyone has, at low spots, contemplated suicide. If the engrams covering this urge are activated and not fully drained off at once, the patient may kill himself between sittings. The professional, from whom this warning comes, also adds that the use of suggestion is a great help in getting the fixations to the surface and getting them drained off. Most of us are able to live with our fixations in comfort if we don’t stir up the Aunihipili and activate the “sleeping dogs” which should ordinarily be allowed to “lie.” Go slow while we keep an ear to the ground.

NO BOVIS BIOMETERS are to be had as yet. My letters to the old address in France weeks ago brought no reply.

MANY LETTERS OF APPROVAL have come for the new plan to save time here at the Study. L.B.S. writes a typical note: “I’ll miss your kindly notes, but the silence won’t ‘hurt.’ You long ago EARNED some leisure for serious reflection and unhurried research.”

She also corrects my mistaken idea of what she meant (see last Bulletin) about possible dangers in sleep and sleep suggestion, diametrically speaking. “A recorded voice might key-in pre-existing engrams and the silly reactive mind work out the stimulated engram instead of the constructive intent of the record. Hubbard gives examples of engrams keyed-in while the pre-clear is fully conscious but NOT conscious of WHY an idea flashed into his mind with compelling force.”

THE NEWS OF GREGG

The news of Gregg, the insane young man we have been treating in the TMHG and as a special case for some months, has been more and more encouraging for the past few weeks. A very decided change for the better has been noted in his condition. Recently he was able to understand and carry on a conversation. He looked through a window and recognized the car of his parents, indicating a desire to ride in it. We can feel greatly encouraged in our efforts. It would seem that time is a necessity in this, his treatment.

PENDULUM AND RADIONICS MACHINES

The pendulum and radionics machines have by no means been forgotten. Letters accumulate in a special file here at the Study, and to these are added clippings and articles from HRAs and from various sources.

A recent article tells how two Yale professors have made a long study of the electrical discharges from the body and brain. They found no separate rates of discharge for different organs, such as are supposedly measured by the radionics instruments, but they did find that cancer tissue sends out a negative discharge while healthy tissue sends out a positive. Tests for possible starts of cancer in internal organs have been made for some time with such success that the early diagnosis of cancer, especially those in the reachable generative tract, is far more certain.

I am becoming increasingly convinced that diagnosis with the radionics type of instrument depends in large part on the psychic ability of the doctor, just as in the case of the use of the pendulum. What I still wish to determine is the part played by the doctor when he sets his instrument at a certain dial reading and goes about treating the patient for the registered ills.

In CHALLENGE, a small Chicago magazine, there recently appeared an article telling how we were being poisoned by aluminum cooking vessels. Almost all doctors who use radionics instruments seem to place much stress on this form of poisoning. They treat it with a setting of their machines, and claim many benefits. One such doctor, here in Southern California, so I gather, has found that cancers contain this poison. He is quoted as writing, “we know what we are doing in treating out the aluminum we find in very large amounts in cancers and tumors. We do not have any trouble in correcting this condition in any place in the body. Have not had a single failure in over 27 cases to date.” It is not exactly clear to me whether the cancers and tumors were the things unfailingly corrected or just the deposits of aluminum discovered in parts of the body.

A long and thoughtful letter from F.E. on the East Coast, tells of his observations over a period of twenty years, covering the use by a doctor friend of radionics instruments of various kinds. Under test conditions, this doctor successfully picked out test tubes which contained clear water, and others which contained much or little of certain chemicals. Recently he has carried his experiments well into the pioneer fringe of things. Let me quote from the letter. “By tuning in to the higher octaves of the given rates, he believes he can tune in to the ‘finer bodies,’ and has discovered infections and diseases not present in the physical. He thinks these are caused by destructive emotions such as fear, anger, hatred, etc., which will in time manifest in the physical body. He is highly psychic, and during diagnosis is always conscious of the presence of a spirit who calls himself ‘The Healer’ and who aids him. The Healer has given him many rates not known to the radionics research laboratories, and also rates for many emotions such as love, hatred, fear, anger, and so on. I recently showed him several pages from the Bulletin, and he was much interested and wonders whether other chiropractors or other operators of similar machines have had similar experiences, and would be glad to put his findings at their disposal.” (Letters may be sent to me to forward through F. E. if desired.) “I talked over the possible rates for guilt complexes, and Dr. R., after some meditation, came up with a rate which seems to apply. There are often several rates for the same thing, and he would like to know whether any other HRA experimenter had discovered rates for fixations blocking the path to the Aumakua. I will continue work with him on this line and will report progress.”

PSYCHIC DIAGNOSIS

Psychic diagnosis without the use of pendulum or radionics instruments has long been successful to a degree, but has gained very little recognition. Dr. Brunler and others tell us that the “etheric body” may be seen by the trained observer or through the use of the Kilner Screens, and diseased conditions diagnosed by its color, shape, degree of extension, etc.

In the new issue of ROUND ROBIN, together with a number of other fine articles, is one by Dr. Frances J. McInerney of Los Angeles. She gives many very interesting details of the method of psychic diagnosis which she practices in conjunction with Dr. Stalons, the latter being hypnotized and making the diagnosis while in that condition. Dr. Stalons also gives instructions for the treatment of the ills she discovers in this way. Edgar Cayce is given as a fine example of early workers who used the method with telling effect.

Dr. Stalons also pays much attention to the “aura.” (We would call this the aka body and note that part of it might include the aka of the Auhane as well. The mana actions in the aka of the Aunihipili would account for many changes which might be observed.)

In the article it is also called “the magnetic field.” Let me quote. “The health of the individual is shown clearly in this field. It extends from one to two feet, and even more in some individuals, and the outside of it, in the case of a healthy person, shows as a definite band, but as a ragged or feathered edge in one of low vitality or poor health. Lines seem to run out from the physical body to the outer edge of the magnetic field. These are really vibrations, and when the ends of these vibrations are hooked, then the Doctor is sure to find pathological or nervous conditions in the area where she sees these hooked lines.”

Editor, HRA Meade Layne, in a footnote to the article, comments on the successful diagnosis of patients at a distance by this method and thinks that such success argues equally well for the “absent treatment” mechanism. (Which, in Huna, we work with in the Telepathic Mutual Healing Group work.)

SPIRIT DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT THROUGH MEDIUMS must not be left out of a discussion such as this. Here and there we find great help given through the circle, the medium, and the Guides. In late years, materialized former doctors have performed operations of an amazing nature on living patients. The strange – and delightful – part of such operations seems to be that materialization and dematerialization are used. Out comes the appendix to be left on a tray for inspection, but no incision has been made.)

VIBRATION is a very general term and is very loosely used in these days. We say that light and electricity, heat and sound, all are vibratory rates. We agree that something must be there to vibrate, and that there must be some force acting to cause the vibration and to keep it going.

As announced in Bulletin 36, our next Huna research project will center on the problem of whether or not we can learn to cause changes in our lives, health, circumstances, thought, etc., by making changes in such vibrations as may be connected with us as conscious entities living in bodies on the earth level – or living as spirits in aka bodies on the invisible levels.

Every departure from the normal pattern of vibrations may cause illness or trouble. This applies to bodily organs and to the thoughts and emotions alike. It may apply to other things not yet taken into consideration.

In the foregoing pages of this bulletin I have touched on several things which come under the classification of units which are not vibrating in tune with the perfect pattern which we postulate exists under the hand of the Aumakua for each of us.

The fixation may be considered a vibrating cluster of memory thought-forms which is out of tune. Radionics and the pendulum aim at discovering the vibrations and measuring them. All healing methods may be said to aim at restoring the vibratory harmony or action of mind, emotions, organs, or tissues.

All research needs to have a definite direction. We need to know, if even in a very dim way, what we are to look for in making a search. When we find something that is strange to us, we need to have some criterion by which to judge its possible value to the investigation proper.

In our project we will have the criterion of vibration. If we come upon anything that seems to vibrate in such a way that it might affect our triple man in his aka bodies, or his manas or his physical body – even his surroundings or circumstances, as the moon and stars may do – that will be grist in our mills.

All HRAs are invited to help think this through. All are urged to try some way of “raising one’s vibration.” Keep in mind the possibilities derived from Huna that there will be used:

1. some particular mental action on the part of the Auhane, and that this will
2. cause the Aunihipili to use its form of mental power or its emotions, and
3. set to work with mana to make certain changes in or around us.

This could be dangerous for some. Watch your reactions and stop if you find yourself out of your depth or frightened. Strange things may happen. One HRA has already reported, “I have had the hunch to try to raise my vibrations. I can’t tell you just how I went at it except that it had something to do with my solar plexus. The other night when I tried it, I fell asleep, but was soon awakened by someone calling my name loudly. I struggled to consciousness and answered before I realized that I was alone. I cannot be sure, but it seemed to be my mother’s voice. She passed on, however, when I was about sixteen.”

(Please report your experience.) MFL

April 1, 1950

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

THE QUARTERLY REPORT for HRAs who do not have time or perhaps the necessary interest to go through the complete Bulletins, is now due. But, as only a total of 17 HRAs have accepted my invitation to rely on a quarterly report of progress, it seems hardly worthwhile to make a separate report. Therefore, I am giving a review of the quarter in this Bulletin and will send all eight pages to the 14 HRAs.

The experimental work outlined in the report in the Bulletin of January 1st has progressed in a very satisfactory way, the pendulum and the theories concerning its use have been touched upon. Special attention was given to Dr. Brunler’s findings and the materials in his lectures. A Bovis biometer (for use with the pendulum) has been obtained on loan and has been used with some success here at the Study, although lack of time has prevented an extensive testing.

Efforts to learn the exact mechanical set-up of “electronic” instruments used for diagnosing and treating human ills are still continuing despite the confusion and secrecy surrounding the whole subject. (More will be said in following pages about this.)

The Telepathic Mutual Healing Group work has obtained excellent results for many, with no results for some. (More of this to come.)

Book reviews have, happily, covered the works of some of the HRAs. A new department given to inspirational fragments has been started and well received.

A study of the possible relation of Easter Island scripts to those of Egypt and Mayan peoples has been begun with the purpose of finding possible sources in glyphs, words or symbols of additional Huna information. Much material has been sent in by HRAs and the work will be sufficiently advanced to call for a report from time to time.

Treatment by volunteer HRAs of the insane young man, “Gregg,” continues on the part of a few. The decided gains made by the lad have alternated with periods of slipping back. Three of those who took part in the original group treatments had pronounced physical reactions, usually pains, but not of too long duration. Gregg had, at that time, a broken collar bone which was not setting properly in the cast. There seems little question but that telepathic contact was established through the use of the locks of hair which were sent out to those taking part in the effort. It is hoped that the gains can be held more and more until the healing is complete.

While not a part of HRA, the quarterly report would hardly be complete without noting the pleasure that was felt when HRA Meade Layne was enabled by financial help to continue the publication of ROUND ROBIN magazine and the BSRA reports which keep us up-to-the-minute on the flying disk situation WHICH IS EITHER VERY SERIOUS or an indication of national blindness – apparently BOTH. The new book on the subject was announced in the last Bulletin. (Still a must.)

THE PATHOCLAST of Dr. Abrams was given by one HRA as the original of the drawing I made of an “electronics” machine shown to me in the Study by a gentleman who claimed that it was an exact copy of a well known instrument long on the market. Last week a letter came from an HRA who had inquired of the information department of a big daily paper in Oakland, Calif., as to what instruments Dr. Abrams had invented. In this letter several instruments were named, but, for some strange reason, NOT the Pathoclast. I had hardly finished puzzling over that one when there came a letter from a friend who said he had once owned a Pathoclast and that what I had described must have been something quite different – perhaps an instrument which DID use no electric current and which DID come into use for treatment at a distance. The Pathoclast, I was assured, had “fin condensers” in the circuit and was hooked up to the light circuit. What was more, it was entirely against Dr. Abrams’ ideas to treat except by contact with the patient.

See I am beginning to [see], after quite a period of ineffective trying to get information, that this is a very hush-hush subject and that few, if any, of those who know about or use such instruments care to discuss it. The AMA seems to have been especially active in making war on what it considers unorthodox in this field. An article in “Readers Digest” a week or two ago told gravely how all such instruments were valueless. On the other hand, I know that in the Los Angeles region there are at least two flourishing establishments in which treatments with some form of “electronics” instruments are given. My face is red, and Cigbo has hidden out so I am unable to put the blame on him. If I remain singularly silent in the Bulletins for a time, concerning the instruments of this type, you will know that I am endeavoring to get my data at first hand before saying more. Fortunately, the pendulum is under no cloud and we can safely experiment and speculate concerning its use as we please. (If there have been patents allowed on any of these electronics or radionics instruments, it may be possible to get copies of the patents and to learn from the drawings and claims exactly what they were.)

THE SEARCH FOR AMULET MATERIALS, or methods of “tuning” the mana, has made a beginning. One HRA tried filling his pockets with various metal things, first right pocket, then left. He used small wire coils as suggested in the last Bulletin, and his pendulum showed not a whit of gain or loss in his normal mana charge. That is the kind of experimental cooperation we need. The hunt for a material that will hold a mana charge has brought to light some interesting materials which might be procured and tested, among them the new bouncing putty.

“HOIRADA HAITIAN VOODOO SEEDS,” such as are advertised and sold by mail by an enterprising gentleman in Haiti, were sent to me this week by an HRA who had recently purchased a few out of curiosity. They are supposed to be worn in a string next the skin and to have a remedial effect. They are a largish, rounded, dark red seed and I seem to recall seeing them used in Hawaii to make seed necklaces for tourists to buy. I tested one of the seeds on the Boyle biometer and found to my surprise that it registered unlike anything as yet tested. The pendulum swung in the opposite direction to that of garden seeds which I tried for comparison. I will see what else I can learn with the biometer or the pendulum and, if worth reporting, will take up the matter later on.

THE MAIL BAG

The Mail Bag brings in a gem now and again. Here is what surely must qualify as a “famous last word.” It arrived on a post card.

“Mr. Max Long:
Dear sir. I am sorry to tell you that I tried everything in that book of yours but had no success in anything so, I made up my mind it was all a humbug and a fake.
Yours truly, J. Hollyhock”

A NOTE FROM HRA C.S. READS:

“Enclosed another piece of financial shoe string to operate on. Keep up the good work. The Bulletins are excellent – and give us a lot to think about.”

HRA Dr. Hanoka writes concerning the strange power of the force which leaves the body, under direction of the mind, and does strange things by way of changing the matter in physical things.

“Did you know that Bovis (of the Bovis Biometer fame) as well as Dr. Bidwell (here in U.S.A), succeeded in mummifying fish and fresh meat? I saw such mummified fish some years ago.”

Those of you who, by now, have your copy of Dr. Nandor Fodor’s Encyclopedia can turn to page 125 and find the beginning of a fascinating article on this subject under the heading of “Emanations.” Let me quote parts of the article. In reading, keep in mind the mana and the aka of Huna, [and] the combination of the two leaving the body and obeying the orders of the one making the experiment.

“Dr. Louis Favre, experimenting with Mme. Agnes Schloemer, discovered powerful vital emanations of the human body. By the imposition of her hands, Mme. Schloemer could destroy as resistant bacteria as the bacillus subtilis and the bacillus anthracis. Nothing else but the placing of the hands of Mae. X. in concact with objects or sometimes only near them, for periods of twenty minutes. Plants dried up with the preservation of perfect color, wine refused to show signs of acid- fermentation, the process of putrefaction was prevented in oysters, or stopped if the treatment began at a later stage, fishes and birds preserved their form and color, the brightness of the eye without being emptied, the blood of a rabbit was preserved in a liquefied state for 25 days and remained as a solid red mass afterwards.

Joanny Gaillard, of Lyons, arrested the germination of lentil seeds. Oranges and lemons got as hard as wooden balls… can mummify a pigeon in fifteen days and a mutton chop in ten. Fruit, such as oranges and potatoes, take about two weeks.”

A. Blue narrates… “By magnetising every day, for about five or ten minutes, the water in the vases where the roots of hyacinths are immersed, one is able to give such vitality to the sap that stems and flowers will speedily assume extraordinary appearances.”

According to the findings (of Dr. Favre – Paris 1525), the human hands exercise an action over the germination and growth of the plants. The right hand is the most active; it strengthens feeble vitality and the influence of six minute’s action extends over the whole period of germination.

BOOK REVIEW and REPORT ON THE STUDY OF EGYPTIAN AND
RELATED CULTURES – THROUGH GLYPHS ETC.

In our HRA work we have come upon a vastly exciting new angle for further investigation. While the Polynesians in most of the South Sea islands have retained no definite form of writing, it now begins to look as if there had once been a form, but that it had been lost.

For many years, tiny Easter Island has been a puzzle to our men of science. The people there were Polynesians and spoke a dialect closely resembling that of the Hawaiians and Maoris. However, they differed in that they had an abundance of hieroglyphic writings; at least they did until the white men came and their native culture crumbled under the savage impact of our culture and especially our religions.

Anthropologists and ethnologists followed the usual pattern and insisted upon making the things found on Easter Island fit the old set of theories which has been evolved by the professors to explain races and their characteristics, origins and relationships. While the amateurs had long since pointed out the probable relation between the cultures of Egypt, the Mayans and the Easter Islanders, basing their their claims on similarities in legends and hieroglyphs, “science” is still far from admitting the claims.

However, in a book published in 1948 in New York, a Dr. Werner Wolff, himself a professor as well as a well known psychologist and writer, took up the study of Easter Island and gave us what appears to be the boldest and most comprehensive work to date on available materials and evidence. The book bears the title, ISLAND OF DEATH and subtitle of EASTER ISLAND.

Charles W. Kenn wrote to me from Hawaii to call the book to my attention and HRA M.C., whose articles in Round Robin magazine are known to most of you, has been of very great assistance in making a preliminary study of this and other books on related fields and subjects as their materials bear on Huna.

Several things hang on this study in which many other HRAs are taking a very active part. First, if we can prove that Huna was known in early Egypt and can be traced through its hieroglyphs, we will have a means of checking my findings concerning the ten basic elements in the lore of the kahunas. And second, we stand a good chance of learning new things.

Thanks to the skill, insight and industry of Dr. Wolff, we have before us very definite proof that the Easter Island writing came from the same common source as did most of the early writing in glyph form the world around – including the early Indus Valley, Early Chinese and Mayan (the last connected up by the works of Le Plongeon in his book of 1909, Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and Quiches.) (A third book of value, covering all the world, is Origin and Evolution of the Human Race, by Dr. Albert Churchward.) (Not to be confused with Col. James Churchward who wrote the books on ‘Mu,’ these belonging to that other class of books which furnish the reader [with] no way of checking and verifying statements made by their authors.)

Words which have survived with little change in meaning help tie the peoples or cultures together in various parts of the world. For instance, our Hawaiian word for “light” is la. It also means “sun” and “the sacred Light” as a symbol is La`a. In other dialects of Polynesia, the letter “l” becomes “r.” In Egypt, we have Ra for the sun or symbol of their primary deity. Le Plongeon writes that La in the Mayan language means “The eternal truth. That which has existed forever.” (Le Plongeon has been discredited by later investigators to some extent but the greater part of his work stands.)

The glyph for the sun was a dot inside a circle in Egypt and in the Mayan. In the latter, the sound of “L” as well as the sound of “a” is given in the alphabet provided by Le Plongeon by this same symbol, so that it would be doubled if we were to try to write it in their glyphs. In the Easter Island script the word remains the same, but the circle which surrounds the dot changes to irregular form as if their concept of the sky surrounding the sun was more on the order of the sun over an island.

Changes in the exact form of the glyphs have to be considered as natural to the law of change-by-time-and-place. Fortunately, while languages change so rapidly that they soon seem unrelated to the original, the glyphs have changed very little. Dr. Wolff points out the fact that “while the general form of a glyph may be changed, it can often be identified because it contains the basic lines or elements.”

‘Man’ can be drawn as a pictograph in single lines with a circle for a head or may be drawn as an outline of a body in full flesh. Or there may be intermediate drawings. Below I will give you a rough drawing of the “man” glyph from the Egyptian, the early Indus Valley glyphs (after Heveszy, as reproduced by Dr. Wolff), and the Easter Island – in that order: 1, 2, and 3.

1.	2.	3.
“Sun” in Egyptian Glyph “Sun” in Easter Island Glyph

Dr. Wolff reproduces a pair of photographs of beautifully carved stone tablets from Easter Island and, on the same page, photos of rock carvings from the Habe Region in Africa. (Plate XVII in his book). The outline form of the glyphs is strikingly similar and a thing that strikes me as very important is the drawing of a glyph for a man, with a circle in his middle, as is found in the Easter Island glyph for a “savant on a seat.”

Dr. Churchyard, in his book above mentioned, gives pages of glyphs collected around the world showing the close similarity in them, even when carried around the world and after a lapse of perhaps many centuries. So, if we conclude that the two glyphs of a man with a circle in his middle are from the same source, we have avery good tie-in with Huna and the African places of origin of Huna.

The circle in the middle of the glyph picture for the “savant” indicates the navel. This in itself would be of no great importance to our study, but when Dr. Wolff goes on in his discussion of the navel as a symbol of the navel-CORD and writes, “… the navel-cord symbols of the highest mana attainment” we know that he is speaking of the part played in Huna by the aka cord that connects man with his Aumakua. If he can make such a contact over the cord as did the kahunas in their work, he was indeed a “savant.” The circle is shown placed on several glyphs as “a sign of distinction.” (Page 26.)

A hollow tower at La Perouse Bay is mentioned, “called Te Pito Te Kura, and is considered the navel of the island.” The symbol is seen to be of the greatest importance. One of the names given the island was “The navel of the earth.” Evidently, the aka thread or cord was considered to be a most important part of the lore of the “Secret.” Dr. Wolff, apparently not aware of the Huna significance of the cord, writes, “The navel cord of a child – the cord which connected him with his mother and his ancestors, symbol of man’s tie with the past – was put in a gourd and placed on the top of the hollow tower.” He explains that this tower was for the sole purpose of providing a safe place to keep such cords because they were the symbols of the “highest mana attainment.”

A most valuable item of information for our study is found on Page 139. There, in giving a comparison of the glyphs of Easter Island and Egypt, two pairs of upraised arms – the glyph for “VITAL FORCE” in the Egyptian, and for the Milky Way and the heavens in the Easter Island script. It is explained that the latter is the symbol in Polynesia of the vital force. To us, this is the mana of the kahunas, the general symbol of the three manas, it is to be supposed. A very similar glyph with a third hand lifted in the center on a third arm has no translation given but is compared to the two-arm glyph in the Egyptian, to which has been added a low pyramid at the base and which means only “upraised arms” – or could both have a significance in which the center part of the glyph indicated the High Mana. Or might the glyph stand for the three manias? I will draw roughly the two-arm and three-arm or arms-plus-pyramid for you below

Easter Island

Egyptian

Easter Island

Egyptian

A striking item for our tracing of Huna concepts (as I have reconstructed them tentatively from Hawaiian sources) is found in the “X” shaped symbol for one form of mana. This symbol was used in the script and the carvings of Easter Island as well as in Egypt. (Also in reversed position above the glyph for “water” or mana in Mayan carvings.)

In the Egyptian glyphs, the upraised arms have also the usual meaning of the Ica, which has the element of the aka or shadowy body with its inhabiting “self” or spirit. The glyph, in Easter Island, for a sick man is a man with both arms upraised.

In the comparative Egyptian glyph for “complain” (about illness or other things needing help from the Aumakua, it is to be supposed) the figure of the man not only has both arms upraised (possibly representing the act of the ritual prayer and the use of the aka body or thread of aka substance connecting the Aunihipili with the Aumakua) but from the top of the head rises the “Y” shaped symbol of mana.

This mana symbol is not explained in any book which I have seen, but the position of it, its known relation to mana, and the fact that, at the upper end, it divides into two equal parts, checks perfectly with the accumulated evidence that [is] behind all the external concepts given to the common people. There was indeed a “Secret” (Huna) set of concepts and practices. The prayer ritual included the sending of mana to the Aumakua as a “sacrifice” to be used in creating the condition visualized in the prayer. One of the double checks at this point is the use of a word for “dividing” to name one form of prayer in Hawaii. (This was discussed in a Bulletin in connection with the kahuna concept of the altar as a dividing of mana at a “high place.”)

E. I. symbol of “rising energy or of life force.” (Dr. Wolff.)	Egyptian “To lock”; “to enclose”. “Key”.	Egyptian Glyph of “heaven” with rising mana from below, perhaps.
Easter Island. Note the odd “Y” indication on top of head. Egyptian glyph with the “Y” symbol rising from top of the head of bearded man.

The legendary “keys to heaven” may well be the mana sent to na Aumakua in the prayer rites to open the doors. Dr. Wolff says the ‘Y” sign stood for the divining stick and for magical operations in Egypt. This is understandable when we know it has the meaning of mana – the basic tool of the kahunas in all their magical work.

The book by Dr. Wolff is published by J.J. Augustin, but no address is given. Libraries should have it. The price through a book dealer is $7. The book by Dr. Albert Churchyard was published in London and is out of print, as is the book by Le Plongeon – the last two being made available to me for this study through the kindness of HRAs sending them on loan.

There is much more material in the books mentioned, much of it pointing directly to the conclusion I reached some time ago, that Huna was the original system from which most of the other psycho-religious systems were evolved, or from which many beliefs were borrowed. Because of an outward set of beliefs for the common man, and the secret set for the kahunas, there was much misunderstanding and distortion when ideas were borrowed but not sufficiently understood to allow their practical use. More will be given covering this part of the study in later Bulletins.

Because of the great interest shown in the prayer which I spoke of in the last Bulletin – for use with the TMHG prayer action ritual, I am including it in this Bulletin.

PRAYER RITUAL FOR THE TELEPATHIC MUTUAL HEALING GROUP USE

This is an outline or a suggestion for the prayer ritual. It is to be changed to fit the needs of the user. It should then be well memorized for use. When memorized, the thoughts contained in the prayer have a very great impressive force on the Aunihipili, a physical stimulus of a high order.

Shortly before the hour for the TMHG work, accumulate a surcharge of mana by your favorite method. Include several deep breaths. On the hour, reach out mentally for contact with M.F.L. at the center and through him, with the others, saying… (The “we” includes the Aunihipili and Auhane. You are acting as a team.)

“We reach out now to contact MFL at the center and to become a part of the Group now assembling for prayer. With the Group I now reach out to contact the Great Company of po Aumakua, which includes my own…….. (A tingle or other indication may be felt on completing the contact, or may not. Pause for about half a minute.)

“Beloved and Utterly Trustworthy Parental Spirits, cleanse us. Cleanse me of all sins of hurts done others. Accept my pledge to refrain from hurts and to make amends for past hurts in so far as possible. Cleanse Thou my soiled face with the abundance of Thy Grace. Cleanse this supply of living force that I offer as my living sacrifice to you….

“I (or we) now send through the aka cord of contact and through the braided cord of the Group through MFL at the center, this supply of mana. Accept it with my love and joyous giving. I now send the mental picture of conditions which I ask be used as molds or seeds and filled and grown to realities in the future. See a world at peace…… a prosperous world, a happy world…. a safe world.

“I now present this picture of all in our Group being brought into the Light and standing in perfect health with a bountiful supply of all things needed for happy living and Service. I see all of us, including myself, given the power to Serve, the means of Service, and the Joy of Service. I pledge myself to accept all opportunities for Service with faith and to the limit of my ability, that from small things I may grow into greater things of Service, and daily become more like you are – more utterly trustworthy in the use I make of the things entrusted to me. I will strive to do my part to become as I picture myself in the future, healthy, happy and prosperous – filled with the joy of life and Service – become utterly trustworthy in every thought and act and aspiration.

“I now present a special mental picture of conditions desired for myself. (Here visualize the desired personal conditions or conditions desired for others.)

The prayer now finishes. The mental images are released into your keeping to be materialized as soon as is possible. Beloved and utterly Trustworthy Parental Spirits – Great Po`e Aumakua. Now let the return flow of mana fall as blessed rain to bring all good and all cleansing. The prayer-action is finished. I withdraw from Au….ma….ma….. “

THIS HAS BEEN AN EXCITING TIME HERE AT THE STUDY

However what interested me most was the discovery that the number of swings which my pendulum has been giving over pictures and thumbs has been almost exact*- counting ten swings to one degree biometric. For instance, the picture of the old kahuna, which I asked you to test with your pendulum if you could, gives me over 500 pendulum swings and, on the biometer, the reading is 50 degrees plus. This makes it possible for all of us to duplicate the biometric reading, granted that we swing a mean pendulum. All one does is count the swings and divide the number by ten to get the biometric reading.

THIS GIVES US A TOOL with which to measure the radiation wave length of many things, and also the strength of the radiation. I am now quite sure that our pendulum measure of the mana and of a mana-aka unit as a surcharge will be accurate enough to enable us to go ahead with experimental work on these lines.

As you know, our investigation of the Abrams type of “Pathoclast” instrument suggests that the length of a wire can be used to TUNE into the wave length of various bodily organs for testing and for treatment by contact or over a distance. If this is not the correct method of tuning, we will eventually find exactly what it is, and will go on from there with tests of the mana on its aka thread, etc.

AMULETS and “medicine” articles, the “gris-gris” of the African magicians, and all the strange objects and combinations of objects often used with such effect in “native magic” suddenly begin to take on great importance for use. We begin to get a glimmering of light on the ki leaves, “marking stones” and other objects used by na kahuna. I have said in my writings that these objects were probably useful as physical stimuli to impress the Aunihipili, but now I can see that they might have been known to have a very definite wave length or to be capable of (1) acting as a tuning device to produce wave lengths of a certain desired kind, or (2) of taking and storing a surcharge of mana (together with accompanying aka substance to direct its work.) Na kahuna have given us a working idea of the manner in which the “dielectric” force of the pendulum measurements or of the Pathoclast can SEEMINGLY ACT AS IF LIVING AND CONSCIOUS.

Take the dowser who swings his pendulum over a map and thus locates oil, gold or water. Take the person who sends out a telepathic message across half the world. Take the doctor setting his Pathoclast type of instrument and treating a patient across oceans.

The aka thread offers us the perfect conductor of the mana flow. The consciousness of the Aunihipili (perhaps with the help of the Aumakua or other unidentified entities) can reach out as with a very long “finger” to find the water or oil or missing person and, on the map, the pendulum is moved to indicate the place.

What we now will try to find out is whether:

1. We can fill a wire, a piece of wood, stone, plastic, or other substance with a surcharge of vital force and some of our plentiful and self-renewing aka substance, keeping, of course, an aka thread to connect our Aunihipili consciousness with the surcharged article.

2. That done, we will see if our Aunihipili will furnish the consciousness to make the object “live” and act to discharge the stored mana in a particular way in healing, or what is now most important, to serve as a tuning fork or pitch pipe serves with sound, and TUNE the wave length of the stored surcharge of mana.

3. If the experiment is successful, and we can use this tuning ability to react on one in need of healing, and bring a sick organ back to the proper wave length, as is apparently done by the Pathoclast type of instruments in the hands of a naturally psychic operator, we will have made a GREAT FORWARD STEP for our study and for the world.

It would seem that the use of amulets and similar things, all the way from darkest Africa, to the blessed medals of the modern Church, has been based on a very real mechanism. It will seem very odd to be going back to things that proud science has tossed into the discard as “black superstition,” but we may be doing that very thing – with all the modern improvements, and with the element of the usefulness of the physical stimulus by no means overlooked.

An object, once given a surcharge of mana, seems to be able to hold it and to react as ordered for a very long time. The curses put on those who might open ancient Egyptian tombs may have been mana surcharges in aka carriers, placed in objects in the tomb. It has been conjectured that the strange fate that befell the openers of King Tut’s tomb came because of some ancient curse. Our Australian IRAs found in three cases a very amazing healing power still connected with the unglazed little pottery “prayer bowl” which had been made three thousand years ago for a Jewish family by a Babylonian priest. The power in it could still be felt – could still be drawn upon for healing and help by a simple request and expectation. Perhaps the Mana-aka charge placed in the bowl reacts automatically. Perhaps the treating unit of a Pathoclast also reacts automatically and for the same reason – the original surcharging and command. Or it may be that the prayer bowl is permanently connected by an aka thread to both the Babylonian priest who made it and the High Selves who were called upon to empower the healing.

Here is another very important point. We cannot fail to ask whether or not the force placed in the prayer bowl will become exhausted. As we use up force of any kind, it becomes exhausted and is all gone unless replenished. Then why not the healing force in the bowl?

This brings us to the point which I wish to stress. It may be that the bowl acts as does a magnet, retaining its magnetic properties because its crystalline parts have been made to face in a certain direction. AND, it may act ONLY AS A TUNING DEVICE.

If this is TRUE, the force placed in the bowl would not wear out or need to be replenished. We know that a piece of wire laid in a spiral coil on a bit of cardboard can tune in the various wave lengths of radio broadcasts. In the Bovis biometer we see the lengthening or shortening of a simple 9 inch metal rule acting to tune to the vibration of a photo, a signature or a person’s brain. In the Pathoclast, the wire seems not to need to be coiled or insulated, its length being the tuning factor, as in the biometer.

I have been reading an article by a man who has been using his pendulum to test the vital force in his body on the right and left (or positive and negative) sides. He reported a strange thing. At least it is strange unless we follow the line of thought of the “tuning.” To increase his vitality, he found that he must carry his knife and keys in his right-hand pockets. And, after some experimenting, so he relates, he found that a small coil of insulated wire, when carried in the right-hand pocket, increased his vital force by several points. The coil was made of a yard or so of wire and was simply rolled up and tied like a coil of rope, top and bottom. I take it that he tried changing the length of the wire until his pendulum test showed what was the best for the purpose.

I am greatly intrigued by that simple experiment and the results obtained. Evidently this gentleman tuned his mana in his body as it moved or flowed or did what mana is supposed to do. The fact that (I now speculate. The writer does not give what I am now presenting.) the polarity of the body was considered and the coil found to be more useful on the right side, is not sufficient to explain the rise in the vital force charge of the whole body. It is necessary, if we are to understand this at all, to decide that he actually made an amulet of the wire as he tested it. He desired to cause it to raise his vitality radiation or wave length. He worked with the wire, testing and lengthening or shortening it – coiling it. In other words, he caused to enter the wire a unit of mana-aka which then reacted as if “alive” and as if “intelligent” (as a magnet may be thought to do in a lesser way), with the result that the coil, when placed in the pocket, went dutifully to work to perform the task of tuning the wave length a bit higher. It is evident that the wire in itself produces no new or additional mana or vital force.

If you have read the article in the January-February Round Robin, by HRA Meade Layne, entitled THE NET AND THE FISH, as most of you have, you will remember the three pages as being the most inspired writing of a decade to be given by a communicator from other life levels. Let me quote the final paragraph. It bears directly on the matter under discussion. “There is a sound for health and for illness, for wealth and for poverty, for increase and diminution, for life and death, and for joy and sorrow. With the sound, as has been said, must go the creative thought, the clear-cut wish, the clear, firm visualization of the change one seeks. This is the Mantram, this is the prayer; and the Mantram is scientific prayer.”

Sound is a vibration. It also may be tuned. The string or wire of piano or violin is tuned by the adjustment of length, of wire-thickness, and of tightness of stretching. What I wish to point out here is the fact that vibrations run in octaves, not only in the tone range of a piano, but the octaves go up and down, through light and colors and heat, through the wave lengths in radiations.

For our work, however, all must go back to the basic thing, to the vibratory rate of the THINKING we must first do. Given the vibratory rate of the HEALTH THOUGHTS, for example, we can then try to go on down the octaves to pick up the dielectric or mana and tune it to match – tune it with the instrument we propose to invent, or otherwise. There will be an octave of light, which will undoubtedly be a color. Continuing downward, we will find the corresponding octave in sound. Dr. Hanoka, who has written a fine book in Spanish on color therapy, tells me that he has often identified the color and the corresponding note on the music scale.

When we strike a middle octave note on the piano, it causes a sympathetic vibration in similar notes in the octaves above and below. It may be that this extends up to octaves of color and also to the high radiations of mana and thought, perhaps to the high mana of the na Aumakua. Correct tuning in may be the key to far-reaching actions. In the future we, as HRAs, may have our personal altars and on them present the exact sound and light tone to match and empower our higher octave thought forms of prayer. We may learn to intone the right sound for each purpose as a mantram, and to adjust the color that plays as light on the amulet or sacred object used for tuning in with na Aumakua. Let me give another paragraph from the article, or rather, parts of two paragraphs.

“A word is a bell, a mantram is a bell – strike it thus and so, and – as by resonance, by harmonics – a Something in the Omniverse responds. Know how to strike it rightly, and the universal life answers in kind. Man, the weaver of threads: Man, the spider at the center of his mesh of living threads! Let man learn to sound the Calls. Out of Sound the worlds are born, and your world of objects, and your own bodies. This even your science is beginning to glimpse, as through a glass darkly.”

Yes, sound is the symbol for the “Word,” and for all the many frequencies of vibratory things which make up the world, visible and invisible. In our work we are trying to combine the old and dusty knowledge of other days with that of our explosive TODAY. I affirm that what we are doing as HRAs is vastly important. A few may say, “This bores me,” and go off to other lines of thought, but I know that to the majority of us we have found a wheel worthy of our best shoulder and of all that we have of supporting cooperation. Stand by.

BOOKS and PUBLICATIONS

ADVENTURES IN REALIZATION is the title of a new book by our own HRA Winogene Savage. (Beautifully printed and bound, 116 pages. Price $2 from the author, 11184 Carson Dr., Lynwood, Calif.)

This is such a book as most of us have planned to write one day, but which most of us have never gotten around to starting – to say nothing of finishing. It covers all the angles of the psycho-religious field in its wide sweep, presenting the wealth of gleanings found by the writer in a world-wide searching of old and new faiths. Had Mrs. Savage known of Huna at the time she was doing the writing, she would have rounded out her subject to a turn. As it is, if one will read their Huna in between the lines, it will be found to contain a surprising assortment of teachings and of instructions for the job of living. It is a surprising, as well as a delightful book in many ways. Verse is used for the inspirational passages, and allegory vies with personification of such things as “Impatience” and “Hunger,” each talking directly to the reader. A little play in two acts and five scenes sparkles with symbols and veiled hints at deeper meanings.

Mixed with the poetry and mysticism is the over-all flavor of the practical and very energetic writer. She has been in and out of all the paths and she is very busily and soberly engaged in doing her very best – and a very good best it is – to lend a guiding hand to those about to undertake the same journey. She has put up a guidepost at every turn to help in every way she can to explain the ins and outs of that particular turn. Nor does she hesitate to say what she thinks. Here is a sample of her very vital prose. “How then, can I argue Methodist or Baptist, Presbyterian or Episcopalian, when I cannot even argue Christian? Christ is in them all. When Krishna counselled with Arjuna, as recorded in the Bhagavad Gita of the Hindu scriptures, it was the word of Christ. The same One spoke in all the prophets, and will speak again to many lands and people. Let me hear Him everywhere, and love His every speaking.”

The mystic speaks clearly in the short play. Here are lines from the action just before the final curtain: “(Candle Lighter:) And to the many Holy Ones, unnamed today, who held the Light in all the ages of the dimming sacred yesterday and those who yet shall come in ages yet unborn – To every Messenger, To every Faith, To every Light that ever glowed or glows, I light this candle. (She lights it.) Father-God, accept our worship of the One in All, the All in One. (Benedictor:) All the illuminated souls of all the ages are the One Divine Messenger – of many forms and faces, but One Spirit, Guide, Protector, Teacher, Comforter and Master. In that One may all of us find guidance to the harbor of the Arms of Allah, Father-God. Amen.”

Again let me remind you that this is the time to get one of the few remaining copies of Dr. Nandor Fodor’s invaluable ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, our standard Huna reference book on all psychic matters. It digests practically everything done or thought in this line since 1848. The price is $ 7.66 post paid. If you cannot buy One now, ask me to have one reserved for you. Dr. Fodor is holding a few in reserve now against our orders, so say you are an HRA and address him at, The Park Central Hotel, 7th Ave.and 56th St., New York, N.Y. The present progress in the exploration of Huna was made possible in many ways by this unique and outstanding book. It is an education in itself.

THE ETHER SHIP MYSTERY AND ITS SOLUTION

The new “last word” on flying saucers, THE ETHER SHIP MYSTERY AND ITS SOLUTION, as was reported in the last Bulletin, is off the press in a deluxe edition at $2 the copy and a regular edition at $1 each or three for $2, plus tax in California. Postage is 8¢. Meade Layne, F.H.F., and some of his fellows of the Borderland Sciences Research Associates (to which we all belong or should, and in which I am a director), have done a splendid job of presenting the only explanation of the space ships or saucers that will hold water. The process of materialization in seances, in which real and living human bodies and things of many kinds have repeatedly appeared out of seeming nothing and then faded back into it, will be denied by no one who is less than wickedly ignorant of one of the most startling facts in modern Psychic Science. The same thing – materialization – but on a larger and different scale, is the only possible explanation of the saucers, even if they came from Venus or Mars, as they would certainly have to change their material composition to make the journey. All that we have of scientific and mathematical genius, to say nothing of profound knowledge in the field of psychism, is gathered into this book.

One of the HRAs – a very advanced student – read the book and wrote to me of her reactions. I quote: “I’ve read it through with mixed feelings of awe and foreboding. Meade Layne and the others have taken on a terrific task as latter day prophets crying, Repent Yet, in a heedless world – and having to do it single handed on a financial shoestring. Will the world always ignore its Messengers, when it does not stone them?”

We are, in a sense, all messengers. If we are not to trample each other to death in a wild and insane burst of panic on the day when the saucers really arrive in numbers and some Wells screams the news on the radio, it behooves us all to (1) inform ourselves to the limit as to the origin and nature of the saucers – in so far as present information goes, and (2) to spread the word as far and as fast as we can. (Address Meade Layne, F.H.F., 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif. And tell him you appreciate his labors of love.)

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We will soon wade into the Egyptian-Mayan-Easter Island angle of the study in the Bulletins. Work has been going forward steadily in this direction, and with excellent promise. If you can, get from your library Werner Wolf’s new book, ISLAND OF DEATH (Easter Island). Read it carefully and you will be all set for the Bulletin with the opening broadside – Many very important similarities have been found in the glyphs common to these widely separated sources. Those on Easter Island TRANSLATE INTO THE LANGUAGE OF THE KAHUNAS!!

NEWS, LETTERS and COMMENTS

During the past year two instances of dogs following the aka threads over hundreds of miles to find their masters have been noted by HRAs and clippings on them sent in. One dog crossed the whole of the USA. His family had flown away. The other walked 800 miles. His family had gone away in a car. Sense of smell is not enough to explain such amazing performances.

Not a week passes here at the Study but that at least one letter arrives from someone who has read SSBM and has been using it, not knowing of the HRA. Health, money, conditions – endless things – have been treated with Huna methods with such success that I often feel that those of the HRA who fail to get very marked results are being cheated out of their birthrights.

A letter now on my desk says, “I thought you would like to know that SECRET SCIENCE has worked for me – distinctly and definitely.” The writer goes on to tell of work with relatives in a most difficult and deadlocked position, and of how a sudden swift series of events – undoubtedly under Guidance – came to set all right. Other letters tell of things accomplished through the use of Huna, but only after months of long and steady effort involving prayer, mana and visualization. I have corresponded with these friends and the thing that stands out in their experiences to impress me most is the steadiness and fixity of purpose with which they have gone to work. Not one can remember giving in to a fit of indignation when the answers were not soon had to their prayer-actions. They did not do as an impatient child who knocks down the almost completed house of cards and turns away. Na kahuna used for “patience” the word hoo`mana`wa`nui, which means literally, “to make or supply mana, to think and hit the mark, and to do it until the action grows larger and larger.” This is a very excellent picture of “hitting the mark” or getting the mana and thought-forms of the prayer correctly to the Aumakua.

I wish to say to any of you who are discouraged, that others are winning through. Don’t give way to an outburst of wrath if the answer does not come. Let your house of cards stand. Just take your mind off of the problem and the prayer-actions you have made. Let it alone and think about something else. Give na Aumakua time to work. Later you may wish to return to the task and continue building.

The outstanding difference between Huna and Hindu beliefs lies in the fact that in Etna, one keeps trying and renews faith in the outcome, while in India, the houses of cards have been knocked down so continually that no one any longer has the strength of mind to try to build. At some early age it became the fashion to lie down and take it when kicked by circumstances. Even to weep was frowned upon. One muttered the dread word “karma” and wallowed in his misery. Later, this fashion developed into a vast and strange virtue. As a very callow student of religions I thought I discerned the highest ideal ever expressed by man in religion, in the famous lines of the Bhagavad Gita which run, “A man is said to be confirmed in spiritual knowledge when he forsaketh every desire which entereth into his heart, and of himself is happy and content in the Self through the Self. His mind is undisturbed in adversity; he is happy and contented in prosperity, and a stranger to anxiety, fear and anger. Such a man is called a wise man when in every condition he receives each event, whether favorable or unfavorable, with an equal mind which neither likes nor dislikes.”

It took me a long time to see that this was not the way to live a healthy, normal and helpful life. It was the last word in the doctrine of escape from growth and reality on the physical level where the Powers That Be have placed us. The men of India have always grasped some small idea and stretched it out to the illogical extreme, making it useless or worse. Look what they did to reincarnation and the law of cause and effect which is now “karma.” NO! One at least TRIES.

Huna, Christianity, Mohammedanism and the mystery cults of Egypt all grew up in the vicinity of the Nile, and all were realistic and made to live by, not to die by while still in the flesh. Buddhism was a revolt against the doctrine of utter renunciation and in its spread to the east, it was made more and more practical. The “lofty idealism” which sounds so wonderful as we read it, whether in the Gita or modern American imitation philosophies, is neither “lofty” nor filled with valid “idealism” when examined in the light of normal living. How very blind are the blind leaders of the blind.

Compare two verses which HRA O.M. gives in her little book as having been a great help to her. The first is from Matthew Arnold; the second is from Henry Vaughan, a seventeenth-century poet.

“With aching hearts and, bleeding hands, We toil and toil, lay stone on stone. We bear the burden and the heat

Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not until the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.”

“Lord, with what courage and delight I do each thing,

When thy least breath sustains my wing!

I shine and move like those above, and with much gladness

Quitting sadness,

Make me faire days of every night.”

George Eliot, in her writings, shared the fervor of na kahuna for the normal life in a normal world. O.M. gives us these lines from “Adam Bede.”

“And God help us with our headpieces and our hands as well as with our souls; and if a man does bits o’jobs out o’working hours – builds a oven for’s wife to save her going to the bakehouse, or scrats at his bit o’garden and makes two potatoes grow instead o’one, he’s doing more good, and he’s just as near to God, as if he was running after some preacher and a-praying and a-groaning.”

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HRA R.L.A. also finds the surcharge of mana vanishing when the prayer and the mana are sent to the Aumakua. These checks and verifications of my findings are very important for our progress. He writes in part, “I have checked with the pendulum and find that after I have given my Aunihipili the command to take our prayer along the aka thread, together with our charge of mana, to our Aumakua, the pendulum swing falls to practically zero. So evidently ….. I am efficiently ‘watering the seeds’ nightly. My normal charge of vital force checks about 375 swings. After building up the charge I get about 675.”

In one of the recent tinned letters I hinted that I delight to have a snap shot of my HRA friends if there is one to spare. Almost a dozen have been sent in response and I still say that HRAs average as fine and intelligent a lot as I have had the pleasure of knowing. If you have not sent in a snap, and have one you can spare, I would love to have it next time you write.

A special prayer ritual about a page long has been slowly taking form for use by those of us who take part in the TMHG work. It is being tested and will be ready to mimeograph in about a week. Ask for a copy if you are interested in the TMHG and wish to see whether this might give you ideas for working. I find it helpful to have a definite form to follow.

Using Instruments in Conjunction
with the Pendulum

March 1, 1950

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

THIS BULLETIN will probably be a few days later than usual in reaching you. Cigbo, who always takes the blame for everything for us, wishes to make the following statement: “To All My Aunties and Uncles: Blame the Bullington being late ON ME. In fact, you can blame anything that goes wrong at your house on me too. I won’t mind, and I betcha you’ll all be sprized no end to know how much it helps to have someone like ME to blame things on. Boss gets to feeling all hot and bothered when he gets away behind with answering your letters – like he has been getting wurser and wurser until he’s two weaks behind now. Then I give him a rub and a lick and tell him not to fuss but to remember TO BLAME IT ALL ON CIGBO, and then he cheers right up. I guess I’m about as magik a kitty as even a great kahuna’s cat. Anyway, all of you recomember and blame me. I’ll do pennances for you and all that, escept that you got to recall my ONE weak point. Maybe you didn’t know it, but I got a complex too, just like the rest of everybody. Mine’s about puddles and about being spanked with a roll of newspapers. I think something musta happened early in my kittenhood connected with them two things for I simply CAN’T STAND to be blamed for the first, or to be upset by the use of the second. But anything else goes. (Signed by paw) CIGBO”

FLYING SAUCER AND FIREWALKING articles both appear in TRUE “The man’s magazine,” now out for March. The saucer was seen and is reported on by a naval officer. Some interesting drawings are given in an effort to show how such a saucer might be powered. Of course, nothing is given to explain the origin of the flying objects, and HRA Meade Layne’s explanations in the BSRA releases and in the new booklet on the subject (announced in last Bulletin) remain the only ones that make sense. The firewalking article is the usual type of report on the externals of the “walk” but in it the author gives some good sidelights on native life and customs in Fiji, and there are a couple of rather good pictures for your collection, if you happen to be collecting such items.

A SET OF BOVIS INSTRUMENTS for use with the pendulum have just come in on loan through the great kindness of HRA Dr. Hanoka. They include six different instruments which I list:
1. Biometer
2. Radiograph
3. Tetra meter
4. Dosimeter Jumelle for testing assimilation
5. This has a matching half which I have counted as an instrument [used] to measure deficiencies.
6. Bovis Bioscope.

The instructions for use are all in French and will take a bit of work to get correctly in mind. I am much pleased to have the opportunity to study this group of instruments, all of which are designed to be used by one able to get results with the pendulum.

After a careful examination, I find nothing mechanically new except the use of sheet mica over which the pendule i

THIS PENDULUM AND ELECTRONICS MACHINE BUSINESS is proving to be more and more exciting and promising each week. In the last Bulletin, I asked for any information to be had concerning the electronics instruments such as the Abrams Pathoclast or later variations. I got scattered bits of information and will welcome more.

IF YOU ARE BORED WITH THIS SUBJECT skip this page and the next – and receive my blessing in doing so. The things going into the Bulletin cover several lines of thought and investigation. and no HRA is expected to be interested in ALL of them.

As I now see it, everyone has been trying with might and main to (1) find out at what rate the organs of the body vibrate and (2) to then invent some way to force a sick organ which is vibrating out of tune back to normal.

In the study of Dr. Brunler’s findings and conclusions, as given in other Bulletins, the vibratory rate of the organs is measured by the use of a pendulum in connection with a long rule which is marked off in terms of distance from the point over which the pendulum is swung during the test. For instance, if one is testing the condition of the patient’s heart, a contact is made between some part of the body where heart vibrations may be picked up, and the biometer slide-block which is moved along the rule until the right distance is discovered. This distance is determined by watching WHEN the pendulum swings exactly on the to-and-from line on a plate at the end of the long rule. If the “reading” on the rule is less than average, the heart vibration is said to be low and the treatment is to manipulate points on hands or feet which act as antennae to pick up earth or other vibratory radiations which normalize the organs.

The biometer type of instrument seems to be for diagnosing or measuring frequencies of dielectric activities rather than for treatment to restore the normal vibration to an organ which is ill.

The Plastoclast type of instrument, such as was introduced by Dr. Abrams and which is still the center of a war of opinions, is, at least in the instruments I have seen, nothing more nor less than a biometer in which the pendulum and the plate over which it is swung is replaced by a post card sized “rubbing plate.” We all, as children, have tried rubbing our finger tips down a window pane to make a shuddering sound. In the Pathoclast, the same sound is made by rubbing with the fingers. And here is the thing that surprised me: the shivering or creaking sound STOPS under the fingers of the operator ONLY when the correct distance on the ruler (or the wire in case of the Plastoclast) is reached, as between the rubbing plate and and the patient or a “sample” from the patient, which is usually a drop of blood on a bit of blotter.

The series of imposing electric-type dial switches on the panel of the Pathoclast have but one possible function and that is to make the total length of the wire from patient to rubbing plate longer or shorter. A turn of one point on any one dial shortens the distance about one-eighth of an inch. (There are no coils or condensers for the reason that no electricity is used in the machine.)

Now take a rough example. Say the patient’s blood “sample” is placed at one end of the Pathoclast wire (ruler would be as good) and is slid along the wire to shorten the distance, (or the many dial switches were turned little by little to shorten the total wire length in the dielectric “circuit”) until the creaking sound under the rubbing fingers of the operator comes to a place where it STOPS. Then the “reading is taken.” This reading is nothing more or less than the LENGTH of the wire between sample and rubbing plate. However, it is customary to read the setting of the dial switches, these having positions numbered from 1 to 10. If a single panel machine with the usual twelve switches is used, the reading might run into twelve or more figures – very imposing, and utterly meaningless except IN TERMS OF THE TOTAL DISTANCE BETWEEN SAMPLE OR PATIENT AND RUBBING PLATE.

When using the Pathoclast type of instrument, no special part of the body needs to be placed in contact with the far end of the wire. All that needs to be done to test the vibratory rate of the patient’s heart or liver or eyes is to THINK of his heart, liver or eyes while rubbing the plate. The subconscious of the operator would then (as in swinging the pendulum to ask questions about different organs) see to it that the proper organ, and it alone, was measured.

It was because of this necessity of possessing a skilled and entirely reliable subconscious in the operator that only a very few men or women could use the Pathoclast. This also removed it from testing by the usual laboratory methods, and made the instrument fall outside the boundaries of accepted “science.”

Treatment by the instrument is based on the assumption that, if an organ is below the normal in vibrations or some vague thing such as “electronic potency,” it could be made to rise to the normal by simply lengthening the wire on the machine to the normal length and then letting the instrument act as a means of correcting the slowed vibratory rate. I believe that at first, if not later in the history of this type, the operator kept rubbing the plate during the treatment, striving to find a time when the creaking sound stopped and he could say that the sick organ had, at least for the time being, been restored to normal vibratory frequency.

In late years, so I am told by one friend, it has been thought necessary ONLY to set the machine at the normal reading position and that it would automatically perform the healing work. Under this theory, a doctor with a dozen machines and with a patient or “sanpie” from each patient, be he near or far, in contact with each machine, could treat on a large scale, with little effort, psychically or otherwise. Treatments were given from San Francisco to London as easily as with the patient right there.

Another practice is to sell or rent a machine to the patient for self use after the preliminary examination has been made to determine how the dials should be set for the individual case.

I have a number of friends who believe that they have been much helped by treatments of these two kinds and other friends who have seen no help at all – one of the latter after spending over a thousand dollars.

The medical fraternity has condemned the Pathoclast but has tried some experiments by way of creating artificial electrical doses aimed at restoring a natural electrical or vibratory condition in sick organs. At present, aside from the X-ray type of therapy used to kill certain tissues, nothing has come of the efforts except the use of high frequency electricity in the diathermy type of instrument, whose main purpose is to heat deep tissues, as in treating joints with heat.

Medical use of electricity, including colored lights, remains entirely mechanical. The Pathoclast and biometer type of instruments fall entirely in the field of the PSYCHIC SCIENCES and, so far as I can see, will never be able to leave that field.

THE REASON FOR our interest in these matters as HRAs, is that Huna explains the psychic type of instrument down to the ground. And, on the other hand, the successes in diagnosis and treatment obtained through the uses of these instruments or related methods give a very excellent further proof that the ancient Huna theory is correct in so far as we know it. [LANI: Don't get your hopes up. Nothing ever came of these inquiries. We just looked at them, they "failed in their promise", and we went on...]

We know that a drop of blood from even the most distant person MUST have attached to it an aka thread, and we know that a good psychic can follow this thread to its source for telepathic contact, or for purposes of diagnosing with pendulum or Pathoclast the conditions in the health of the distant person.

We also know that telepathic treatment is then possible. All the “absent treatment” of modern times rests on this aka contact and the sending of mana and thought forms along the threads. Our own TMHG work is based on the same thing, contact being kept up by means of the letters here at the center.

However, unless we see clearly the great importance of the Pathoclast as a PHYSICAL STIMULUS in making the treatments, we miss half the significance.

Consider the Pathoclast operator who is making a treatment with his patient sitting with the far end of the wire of the instrument in his hands and the operator rubbing the plate at the other end while EXPECTING the instrument to show by the stopping of the creaking sound that the organ has been brought back to normal vibration. There we have the doctor holding the picture of the NORMAL condition in his mind – making thought forms of it and desiring the condition to be realized. The faith he has in his machine is there. His rubbing is also a grand physical stimulus – to impress the Aunihipili of both patient and operator and hold attention on the work being done. The wire makes a fine contact between patient and doctor to carry the mana and thought forms of the healed condition to the patient. Not a single Huna element is missing. And we may still find that a given length or distance, as indicated in the rule of the biometer or the wire in the Pathoclast, may actually have a tuning effect on the dielectric or mana current or radiation which moves ONLY as directed by the Aunihipili, and ONLY if an aka thread is also laid alongside the rule or the wire. We know that the length of a string determines the sound it can make in a musical instrument. We work with wave lengths in light and electricity. Already we have made fine progress in this end of the field and there is no telling what important things may lie ahead as we push forward.

The Bovis Biometer is mounted on a thin board. A paper covered mica plate at the right is marked with cross lines above which the operator swings the pendulum. The reading is taken on the ruler at left which carries numbers, when the pendulum swing is on the vertical line.

Contact is made with the thing to be measured by placing it in contact with the ruler and then moving it from the far end toward the pendulum plate by easy stages while the pendulum swings. Markings on ruler may be arbitrary and part of the “convention” arranged by the operator with his Aunihipili. Variations of the Bovis biometer are in use, as the Brunler-Bovis instrument which carries a longer ruler and a slide to move along same. To the slide may be fastened a silken cord running from the head of one having
a brain radiation reading. The tip of the thumb may at the same time be thrust into a hole in the slide block. Reading in this case is in A.U. units as marked on the ruler.

The metal clamp above at “A” is held by patient or is clipped to the “sample” from him. Dial switches usually are mounted in groups of 12, but several such groups may be added, thus lengthening the wire or circuit which runs from rubbing plate through each switch in turn and then out to the patient or “sample.”

Above is a rough drawing of how the dial switches look from the back of the Pathoclast panel. Follow the arrows and you will see how the movement of the arm on the dial does nothing except shorten the wire length as a whole as the switch is turned in one direction, or lengthen it if turned in the opposite direction. There is no coil or condenser action in such switches. Both dielectric force and mana flow along nonconductors as well as electric conductors so cannot be confined to coils and subjected to the action of condensers in the way common to electricity. Mica and crystals may have some effect. Comments and suggestions or information and corrections are requested.

A CORRECTION has been suggested for the statement in last Bulletin in which I said that Olga Rosmanith had learned to walk with sure steps amongst the inspirational things of this world. She writes to say in all modesty that I have rated her too high in this matter and that she still must feel her way. Perhaps, had I been more adroit, I would have said that in collecting the inspirational materials to be found in her book, FIXED STARS, she showed a great understanding of the mystical thing of which inspiration is built. Without such understanding she could not have written the inspiring lines that top and introduce each of the hundred pages.

For instance. consider the insight that allowed her to see far beyond the face meaning of this bit from Cicero:

“Friendship can exist only between good men.”

I was slightly surprised to find this line in the little book. But, upon questioning its wisdom, and after trying in vain to recall any true and lasting friendship between evil or greedy men, I came to realize that here was a line worth writing on one’s heart. Do as I have done – preach yourself a dozen sermons on this text. Then begin with endless care to make yourself GOOD enough to deserve and reciprocate the friendships which should bless your days.

O. R. wrote as a page heading, just there, these significant words. “Friendship can be bought – by its own precious coin.”

I have found that if one memorizes a passage now and then, and so preserves it in the realm of the Aunihipili, it will be a lasting source of inspiration – a plant within which will grow and provide shade for your parched spirit when the traveling is hot and tiring. I select to hand on to you for this purpose a gem which O.R. found in the writings of George Eliot.

“Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra; not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasselled flower.”

Here are other passages which offer inner food:

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts.” Confucius. (Note: This is one of the most famous mantrams. I have joined in its slow, deep and measured recital many a time in a “heathen temple” in Honolulu when I was striving for “Realization” in the Zen way. Use and grow into this mantram. It is one of the very best.)

“For true worship, only God and the human soul are necessary. It does not depend upon times, or seasons, or occasions. The sacred books, the inspired writings, all come from the same source – God. God speaking through the souls of those who open themselves that He may speak.” R. W. Trine

I would like to hear from you and to know how you react to this page of the Bulletins. Is it worthwhile to you? Should we keep on with it? Would you prefer leaving it out for more Huna materials?

NEWS AND COMMENTS

THE TELEPATHIC MUTUAL HEALING GROUP WORK continues right along, even if not mentioned in each Bulletin. Should any change be made in it or the time schedule, I will give advance notice. (Three letters recently asking if TMHG was still serving.) The answer is YES – and with a splendid average of good results. I have on my wall, so that I may look at them and try to send them as the telepathic test signal, two pictures of green and flowering valleys. The first has been there for some weeks. The second recently arrived from a HRA who sent it along to show as nearly as possible what he picked up. There are many striking points of resemblance. I also have a large map of the Pacific from Java across to Florida. You may pick up Australia or Hawaii in addition to the green landscapes and hills.

Enough letters reporting good results have come in by now to make a small book, and more arrive daily. Today one came telling me, “I’ve never seen anything heal so fast as the burns on my arms – fingers a little slower.” … Circumstances also respond often. One HRA recently received help for a heart condition that enabled her to take a trip and then get back to her work. Following that, she had an astounding run of good things come to her from unexpected sources.

Those of you who are not getting your share of good things from your work in TMHG should re-examine your ways of working. The help is there if we do our parts correctly. One works quietly, but with fervent desire. One asks to be cleansed and to have the offering of mana cleansed and made perfect … and its return flow used to cleanse us on our lower levels – also correct the sordid in our lives and surroundings. I use the old lines from the song, “Cleanse Thou my soiled face with the abundance of Thy grace.” These lines have deep roots in memory in my Aunihipili and it responds to the words and ideas behind them with an uplift.

From the letters which I get from those who fail to get results, I learn that much failure comes from dwelling on the condition that is oppressing instead of the condition desired. The kahunas taught that once the prayer for the new condition had been made, one had to keep the mind constantly on IT and give as little attention as was humanly possible to the old and bad condition. One minute of complaint and doubt can undo days of building in prayer actions toward what is desired. Do not pray negatively and say, “Heal my sore throat and take away this terrible cold.” This mention of the condition acts as a physical stimulus on your Aunihipili to cause it to keep the condition. Na Aumakua know what about us needs healing. All we need to do is to make contact and picture with all possible strength and stubborn singleness of purpose the condition which we desire to have brought about in our realms of health, wealth, happiness and SERVICE. Do not forget the last item. If you do not plan to help, how can you and ESPECIALLY your very literal Aunihipili, ever expect to be helped?

NOT ALL COMMENT IS GOOD. Here is a gem that I enjoyed very much. “To tell you the truth – the apsolute truth, sir – your book deals with the negative forces. Which is very dangerous for a person to temper with. Sooner or later he will become a pray to the powers of darkness. You are selling your soul to the devil. Your hart is indeed wicked.” (I guess that will larn me what’s what!)

NO HRA GROUP THIS YEAR is at work in Los Angeles. I mention this because of the many letters from HRAs saying they hope to visit Los Angeles soon and have the pleasure of watching group work conducted.

I have made no effort to continue group work here this year owing to pressure on my time here at the Study and to the lack of time and desire on the part of former members to get down to continued and definite experimental work. Groups seem usually to fall apart after a short time wherever started. The HRA is usually an individualist who works best alone and by contact with me through letters and the Bulletins.

WE ARE BECOMING A VERY SECRET ORDER, largely because I dare not tell you the names of each other even when urgently requested to do so.

Such a shame, but I can see no way around this difficulty. The basic trouble is that few of us are alike. One HRA may be accustomed to barging in on his or her friends at all times, day or night, whether they protest violently or not. Others may be more than considerate of others’ time. The two kinds simply do not mix.

AFTER OBSERVING THE HEALING WORK OF “TED” for several weeks, I have concluded that it takes more than a great surcharge of mana to do successful healing. He naturally registers a large surcharge and while laying on hands and repeating the Lord’s Prayer, his charge runs up to ten times his high normal, as certified by H. Crozier Leigh. M.D. (see his article-letter on page 83 of March-April number of ASTROLOGY GUIDE).

HRA Leigh measured patients after treatment by Ted and another natural healer with a similar gift, finding that they retained a surcharge of mana for up to an hour and that this had excellent healing properties, but that usually the treatments needed to be continued daily where more than a simple thing like a headache was concerned. My present opinion is that Ted is hardly skirting on the High Magic of Huna, and that his work under the low magic could be much bettered by training and practice in making the correct thought-form picture of the healed condition and projecting it on the flow to the patient. So far the part of the physical stimulus has been almost entirely ignored, and so the effectiveness of the healing greatly limited. When the healer fills the patient with mana, little happens unless the patient’s Aunihipili is made very fully and clearly aware of what it is to do with that mana by way of correcting the physical ills. All the rituals of the older churches and of the kahunas were aimed at impressing the Aunihipili. It is not enough to lay on hands and repeat the Lord’s Prayer. The patient’s “George” has usually learned to rattle off that prayer and to expect no result because of the rattling. Its very lack of success with that prayer in the past serves to set up a barrier against help that may be offered at the moment by the Aumakua. Prayer is not a “thinking.” It is a combination of thinking and a GESTURE or actual physical movement of Aunihipili in the body – a creation of mana and a giving of it. We should invent a physical ritual so definite that to perform it would take all the concentration of the Aunihipili – and thus prevent it from going aimlessly through the action with you while its mind [LANI: The Firewalk?], in its behind-the-scenes department, is really engaged with something entirely different. Preliminary fasting, with sincere efforts to make amends for hurts done others or to make general amends for lacks and faults – all these are part of the gesture we make to arrive at the beginning of the successful prayer. [LANI: This is the "Huna Conformation Course I created with the kind help of Kahuna Keonaona.] I know of no way to convince the stubbornly literal Aunihipili that it and its man deserves an answer to prayer except by the performance of physical acts – the use of the acts as a physical stimulus. Remember, “Faith without works … “

February 15, 1950

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

CIGBO TAKES A BOW

Cibgo thanks you all for your appreciation of his “brithday presink.” The many birthday cards and presents sent in return have marked the month-long celebration, and when it ends on February 28th – which is the actual date of the setting out of the first cigar box to serve as our “kitty” – Cigbo will unveil, with much pomp and ceremony, to say nothing of purrs, meows and rubs, a brand new PIGGY BANK to hold his individual savings against the next year’s birthday.

CIGBO WISHES TO EXPLAIN how he came to get to be such an “espert” kahuna and succeeded in lopping off some years on the picture he sent out of “boss.” Here is his explanation: “All you Aunties and Uncles remember how this year I asked Sandy Claws to send us a clock that would run backwards. Well, he DID, by way of Auntie M.C., who sent me a real gold watch. She explained with devystating logic how, This watch will not run. But, as time cannot stand still, IF it does not run forward, it must be running BACKWARD!!!!! That was logic just like in most of the books boss has on his shelves, so it had to be true and so I let it work. Because I only had one pitcher of boss which was a large head, I put that pitcher and the watch together on my shelf a while – and there you are! Me, Cigbo, kahuna nui! By next year [I mite] be able to send you a pitcher of him back in rompers! If any of you want to be fixed up in the same way, just send me in your pitcher and I’ll put it on my shelf with my backwards watch and let nature take its course.”

NOTICE PLEASE that this Bulletin is No. 26, and that, as was announced, Cigbo’s birthday present would replace the Bulletin which would ordinarily have come out under the date of February lst. All HRAs are asked to note that there was no February 1st Bulletin and not to write in asking for one.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, by Dr. Nandor Fodor, and which is constantly mentioned in SSBM, is still available. The price is $7.66. If you plan to get one and wish to start saving in a teapot on the top shelf against purchasing one of these expensive but invaluable books covering the field of psychic phenomena, write to me and I will arrange to have one sent to me here at the Study to be held for you – lest the supply give out too soon for you. I now have an extra copy in hand for anyone who wishes it. If you order direct from Dr. Fodor, (Park Sheraton Hotel, New York 19, N.Y.), be sure to say you are a fellow HRA as he may also have a few put aside just for us.

THE NEW MIMEO BOOK ON FLYING SAUCERS, called ETHER SHIPS, by Meade Layne and his associates of BSRA, gives all the theories covering this fascinating subject, stressing the one that they come out of the etheric planes etc., is now available. $1 each or 3 for $2 – to give you extras to lend. It seems very important to spread the word of the etheric theory of origin as given often by the Mark Probert spirit communicators and as accepted by occult students of many ages. The material enclosed in this new book promises to be most exciting. As you who get ROUND ROBIN know, it has been predicted that soon we may have new and important appearances of these strange objects, and that certain events might start a panic of the first order. It is what people do not understand that stampedes them.

SPEAKING OF ROUND ROBIN

(Address Meade Layne, H.R.A., 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif.), its first article in the January issue has resulted in a flood of comments via letters arriving at the Study. This article is by Meade Layne, and is titled, THE FISH AND THE NET. It boils down into 3 pages the wealth of a great mass of material from the there-living friends given for us, the here-living. The veil does grow thinner. The exchange of information and opinion assumes ever increasing importance. Until we began to recover the knowledge of Huna, and until this knowledge was freely discussed with the communicating spirits, there was no end of ideas which were all but impossible to get across to us – because of the almost complete inability on this side to understand such things as the aka thread and the manas when mention was made of them in the few over-used and warped words available for such discussions. Let me give a few lines from the communicators to show what I mean.

“From every person’s [body], innumerable threads go forth. The object you see or hear or touch comes into connection with you; call these threads, if you prefer, stresses, lines of force – - or the AKA threads of the Huna. Influences go forth along them; they are all lines of influence.” The title of the article comes from the following. “Man, the weaver of threads! Man, the spider at the center of the mesh of living threads! Man is the fish in the net! But he is the fisherman also, casting forth, drawing in, weaving the meshes coarse or fine. To forsake the figure for hard and literal fact, let man learn to sound the Calls (mantram). Out of Sound, the worlds were born, and your world of objects, and your own bodies. This even your science is beginning to glimpse, as through a glass darkly. There is a sound for health and for illness, for wealth and for poverty, for increase and dimunition, for life and death, for joy and sorrow. With the sound, as has been said, must go the creative thought, the clear-cut wish, the clear, firm visualization of the change one seeks. This is the Mantram, and this is prayer, and the Mantram is scientific prayer.”

A STRANGE COMMUNICATION

A strange communication in a Polynesian dialect, has been received a page or two at a time by automatic writing by one of the HRAs who has no knowledge of such a dialect. Different HRAs have been able to report a few such words, but this is the first time such material made a degree of understanding possible. The form is the familiar one of the poetic and veiled Huna prayer of na kahuna. HRA Charles W. Kenn made the translations for us. Here are a few lines with the rough translations:

Below is more from another sitting. I give only the translation as few HRAs can translate from the original.

1. Living from the time immemorial (with) the Aumaku
2. A fond recollection follows in the mind
3. The secret prayer is above. (Prayer of thought-forms? MFL.) Like a hair (aka thread? MFL) vibrating or whispering softly
4. The declaration made with the little (lesser) power. (Low mana) With Huna to guide us all (or “is well”?)

THE REASON for giving these inconclusive things coming through automatic writing in this way is that in our HRA work we are still very much in the experimental and exploratory stage. While we have had most exciting and satisfactory results in using Huna, we still have much to learn before we can duplicate the instant healing and other feats of na kahuna of yesterday.

We cannot afford to overlook even the smallest clue to what may be a larger meaning. Open your copy of SSBM and read on pages 395 and 398 what I had to say about the words ano, hoano and We know that these words symbolized the things done with thought and mana to cause (with the help of the Aumakua) a CHANGE IN FORM or CHARACTER or NATURE (as good or bad) in the part of the future which had already been CRYSTALLIZED or set in our lives.

We know that we must make the mold of the new condition in the aka substance of thought-forms, that we must send these molds to the Aumakua along the connecting aka threads or cord, and that we must keep sending along each day or hour the mana to be used in TEARING UP THE OLD AND UNWANTED CONDITION SHOWING IN OUR LIVES, and then planting, sprouting and GROWING TO MATURITY the NEW or CHANGED condition.

In leaving no stone unturned in our search, we make sure that we will not miss learning any little trick of the trade – any small but potent way of doing the job of ano or “transforming” through our prayer-actions. I say “prayer-actions” to get away from our old concept of prayer – which is a matter of wording a request to a Higher Being and doing NOTHING more.

Many HRAs, especially those newly into the work, fail to realize that UNTIL we learn to use the Huna methods expertly and with the greatest possible schooled ability to concentrate (make the sound thought-form molds) and to collect and use the mana surcharges (in a rounded and completed prayer ritual, and to drain off fixations or to repel spirit attacks), we cannot expect to make a high score in instant healing. There must be patience and more patience as we learn to use the slower “low” magic. A condition of body or purse or circumstances which has been years in building may take a long time to TEAR OUT as a growing plant in the garden of the individual’s future. We must allow for this part of the work. And when the ground is cleared, we must plant and patiently carry water (mana) so that na Aumakua can water the tender new plant and grow it for us to the fruiting stage. Doubt pulls up the tender little plant and we must then begin with a fresh seed. Faith knows that the seed has been made and is, in itself, the THING in ACTUALITY as it rests in the future. Faith leaves the little plant in the ground and watches in full trust as it grows there behind the veil of our vision.

In working with Huna, we need to know all we possibly can of the three basic things: CONSCIOUSNESS, the MANAS and the AKA substance as a “thread” or as a vehicle for consciousness, or as a conductor of mana flows. In Christianity and related religious systems, the stress was laid on consciousness in man and God. In Theosophy, the stress was divided between the concepts of karma and reincarnation, with a secondary consideration of prana, the seven bodies of man, and the several forms allotted to consciousness. In our work, we must include also the instruments of measuring the basics, as with the pendulum and biometer.

FOOD FOR THE SOUL

Food for the Soul has been recognized as a great human need down the centuries. In this case it is the Auhane that is fed on concepts, much as the Aunihipili is fed with food.

Within almost all of us there is, very evidently, a store of deeply, secretly and silently held concepts which we may call TRUTHS for want of a better word. What is truth to one may not be to another, but most of us seem to have a deep inner sense which rouses and moves within us when certain ideas are presented. The Holy Writs of the ages contain these concepts. Men and women of all the ages have voiced or written the ideas for their friends.

In a recent Bulletin I promised that I would share with you some of the things which gave me this inner food or inspiration. In doing so I must warn you that often the concept will not be very logical – often will seem to make little sense on this level of being. But, as you read, here and there you may come upon a bit of tinder that will kindle to your individual spark and burn for you with a fine clear flame – a flame that may momentarily illumine your inner shrine which stands so much of the day in shadow. The right word, or the right rhythm or rhyme, be it in prose, verse or intoned form, may cause the key to turn, the switch to close, and the tingling contact with naAumakua to be made, blessing us with some mystical communion in which stirs the seed of deep certainty – of that ecstasy that touches the senses ever so softly and is gone.

HRA Olga Rosmanith, is one who walks with sure steps in the dim realm of inspiration of which we speak. In her little book, FIXED STARS (which I shall draw upon often), she has pointed out the inspirational bits which stand as bright stars to lighten the realm which she knows so well. In her preface, she quotes William James in pointing out the lasting and real value in all such material. He wrote, “The ultimate test for us of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.” Let us keep this test in mind as we go along this path with the mystics, saints and sages.

O.R. in F.S. (Olga Rosmanith in FIXED STARS), gives us the following bit from Soeur Therese of Lisieux which keynotes the inner, hard-to-define thing that we all feel when we find the right lines in our reading:

“Sometimes when I read books in which perfection is put before us, the goal obstructed by a thousand obstacles, my poor little head is quickly fatigued. I close the learned treatise, which tires my brain and dries up my heart, and I turn to the Sacred Scriptures. Then all becomes clear and lightsome – a single word opens out infinite vistas, perfection appears easy, and I see that it is enough to acknowledge our nothingness, and like children surrender ourselves into the arms of the Good God.”

O.R. writes: “Pride of the intellect is the hood upon the lantern.”

We cannot go back far enough in time to find a literature whose priceless gems were not tinctured with the perfume of the inner quest. O.R. in F.S. gives us this from the Egyptian BOOK OF THE DEAD.

“0 blind souls Arm thyself with the torch of the Mysteries and in the earthly night, thou shalt discover thy luminous Double, thy Celestial Self. Follow this divine guide and he will be thy Genius. For he holds the key to thy existence, past and future.”

In my recent preliminary search for more Huna information in Early Egyptian writings, I came upon the following material, selected from the compilations of Dr. Brugsch. (Pg. xcii, The Book of the Dead. Budge.):

“God is one and alone, and none other existeth with Him – God is the One, the One who hath made all things – God is a spirit, a hidden spirit, the spirit of spirits, the great spirit of the Egyptians, the Divine Spirit – God is from the beginning, and He hath been from the beginning. He hath existed from old and was when nothing else had being. He existed when nothing else existed, and what existeth He created after He had come into being, He is the Father of beginnings. God is the eternal One. He is eternal and infinite and endureth for ever and aye. God is hidden and no man knoweth his form. No man has been able to seek out His likeness; He is hidden to gods and men, and He is a mystery unto His creatures. No man knoweth how to know Him – His name remaineth hidden; His name is a mystery to His children. His names are innumerable; they are manifold and none knoweth their number. God is truth and he liveth by truth and he feedeth thereon.

“He is the king of truth, and He hath established the earth thereupon. God is life and through Him only, man liveth. He giveth life to man. He breatheth the breath of life into his nostrils – God is Father and Mother, the father of fathers, and the mother of mothers. He begetteth, but was never begotten; He produceth, but was never produced; he begat Himself and produced Himself. He createth, but was never created. He is the maker of His own form, and the fashioner of His own body – God Himself is existence. He endureth without increase or diminution. He multiplieth Himself millions of times, and He is manifold in forms and in members – God hath made the universe, and He hath created all that therein is; He is the creator of what is in this world, and of what was, of what is, and what shall be. He is the creator of the heavens, and the earth, and the deep, and of the water, and of the mountains.”

From the vast and almost too-distant concept of God-the-One, man has always moved inward to that smaller and closer concept in which a fragment of God becomes his own – his Aumakua, his Guardian Angel, his Ultimate Self.

We stand on the mountain top and intone in deepest voice the glories of God and the heavens, but we come down from the thin air of such spiritual heights to serve our own small flame on the near and intimate altar of our hearts.

It matters little where or how we get our beam of Light, so long as we get it, and so long as it is sufficient to our need.

Conversely, the small flame which is our lamp, may serve to illumine the way for our next step – and perhaps that of a neighbor – as truly as all the flames of the sun – for whose rising some of us may not be able to wait. However, if your neighbor chances to be blind, he will not thank you for your light. He will thank you only for standing clear and refraining from placing stumbling blocks in the path along which he has learned to feel his slow way. MFL

PENDULUM NOTES

THE KAHUNA PICTURE in the set sent by Cigbo for your copy of SSBM, has excited much comment. In an effort to get a line on the powers of the kahuna, I tried holding my pendulum over his picture in the usual way, instructing my Aunihipili to give me, via the pendulum, a reading for his brain or spirit radiation – whatever it may be.

As a result, my pendulum swung off merrily in a strong, horizontal swing that continued steadily for a little over 500 counts. By my scale of measuring, this is considerably higher than the count for the average intelligent person. It is peculiar in that the pendulum movement was back-and-forth and not clockwise as I had expected. My small experience in such matters makes me think that this type of movement indicates a very great power of will and determination – of concentration on a single effort.

If those of you who are making such pendulum measures will try this test with the old kahuna and with the firewalking chief’s picture as well, and let me know whether they are high or low by your personal “convention” or system, I will be much pleased. A few such tests have already been made and reported, and they agree, in the main, with mine.

A very odd thing has come up about my own picture which is in the set – the large head. My test gave 126 clockwise swings over it. HRA S.P., who is good at the work, ran a check for me and got 146. Perhaps we are measuring something besides brain radiations. It might be that only my Aunihipili is measured. I ran a series of tests with a friend recently in which we first took our mutual brain radiations with the pendulum held over the right thumb tip. We then repeated, asking first for the Aunihipili and then for the Auhane reading. In both cases what we got was a reading split exactly in half for each self. We also tried in various ways to get a reading for the Aumakua of each of us, but could not get the pendulum to move. My friend asked his pendulum if it was possible to get a reading on na Aumakua, and got a “no” answer.

In making tests on pictures or ink signatures, a good strong magnet is often used to brush across the table and the thing to be tested so that it may be cleared of other radiations. This has been done in my tests with the pictures in the Cigbo set – in case you run a check on them.

ON ZONE THERAPY, authorities disagree, I find. Four different writers have been called to my attention (including Dr. Brunler), each saying that different parts of the hands, feet or other limbs have a connection with particular organs of the body and that the organs may be helped by treating the corresponding parts. Some give points in hands and feet which may be treated (usually by manipulation) to correct systemic troubles involving several organs, or as in the case of colds and disorders seemingly not focused on special parts of the organism.

The older theory divided the body into ten zones, as if slicing downward from front to back the full length of the frame. Thus the little finger of the hand and the little toe of the foot, both being far out from the body center, were supposed to correspond with the outside organs, as the ears, for example. The next layers might correspond with the eyes. The organs would fall into the five zones on each side of the body in line with the toe divisions, and organs lying on the middle line of the body would be represented by spots on the bottoms of the feet – as a central spot on the sole of the foot might indicate the organs of sex.

When authorities fail to agree, I think it wise to take their several findings with a grain of salt and make what checks are possible to an amateur. Dr. Brunler says that the best check he can recommend is to use the pendulum and keep asking about correspondent parts and organs until the needed information is obtained.

On my part, I suggest that we keep strongly in mind the fact that the Aunihipili is very prone to accept suggestion and, IF A PHYSICAL STIMULUS IS USED as a part of any treatment, the suggestion may be very powerful. For instance, if I believe that by rubbing the inner front angle of my left great toe, I am opening a closed absorption point so that needed earth radiations can be picked up and carried to my sick right eye, there will be brought into action both of the all-important elements known and used in Huna for so many centuries.

I may be all wrong or partly wrong about my guess in this matter, but from my impersonal survey of the books and my talks with three HRAs who have tried out the various systems, I have come to the tentative conclusion that the field is still very much open for exploration in the light of the Aunihipili, the mana, the aka and the effects of mentation – be the latter suggestion, belief or something else again.

CONFLICTING OPINIONS have been met in my efforts to find out for us just how the various instruments are constructed, such as the biometer which uses a pendulum for indicating radiations, and the “electronic” instruments, such as the Abrams “Pathoclast” in which the operator substitutes a rubbing plate for a pendulum and tells from the feel or sound of the fingers, when rubbed on the plate, what the reading may be. The pendulum swings back and forth from the body of the operator of the biometer in getting a correct reading of certain things. The sound of the fingers vibrating when rubbed on end on the glassy surface of the rubbing plate, may cease to indicate a similar point for reading on the electronic machine.

Where the major conflict of information comes is concerning the mechanisms INSIDE the box of the instruments. An HRA who owns a Bovis biometer (as well as many other of the Bovis instruments), tells me that inside the box there is nothing. Another HRA tells me that under the lid the biometer is “wired for dielectric radiations and there is a dielectric condenser under the lozenge” – under the square plate over which the pendulum is swung. I saw the inside of a “Patholast” instrument and checked with one who knows them well. There was nothing inside the case but the back of twelve simple ten-point switches, all connected in a regular circuit with metal wire, and the wiring attached to the rubbing plate at one end, while being extended, a clip and handle at the other [end] to contact the patient or a “specimen” from a patient, to be tested or used to send out the radiations of the “treatment.” I should very much like to have anyone who can, furnish me with information as to the wiring, condensers, coils etc., of which they may have knowledge. MFL.

December 15, 1949

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

THE NEWS FROM THE STUDY, covering the fortnight since the last Bulletin issued,
covers things of more than ordinary interest.

LETTERS FROM THE HRA LETTER BOX

From E. Dudley Haskell, who is head of the American Society of Radiesthesia (791 Park Avenue. New York 21, N.Y.) comes the following, which will be of interest to all of us, so I pass it on here.

“When Dr. Brunler spoke before our Society in New York, we mimeographed his talks and offered them to the members. We have copies of his ‘Radiations of the Brain’ and his ‘Radiations of the Earth and of the Human Body.’ We charge one dollar each for these.

(Make the check to E. Dudley Haskell and send it in yourself. If you send it to me, I have to write out a new letter, a new check, and all that – which takes my time and delays delivery. The same is to be said for all of the Meade Layne publications, such as Round Robin subscriptions, orders for Seance Reports and so on. DO NOT send them to me. M.F.L.)

“In Bulletin 22 (the letter continues), page 1, you recommended a crystal pendulum. I am sorry that I cannot back you up on that. Dr. Brunler, being so high on the Biometer (meaning his reading of brain waves etc.) and having one of the highest sensitivities, can use anything and get results. He does not even have to use a pendulum normally. HE KNOWS THE ANSWERS. A crystal pendulum acts as a prism and breaks up light into the spectrum, but giving off certain colors – whether visible or not – at certain angles. These light rays might neutralize certain radiations you are seeking, or they might alter others. We recommend a neutral pendulum.

“If you look up our Elementary Instructions (Note: To be had for $1.00 from Mr. Haskell – NOT from me) you will see that the fingers holding the pendulum must be of opposite polarity. For years I thought I could not use my left hand until I discovered that my thumb and first finger were both negative. Now I use my thumb and positive middle finger of my left hand.”

Comment: HRA Haskell has been performing a true labor of love in the work he has done in America where there is no other society covering this field and helping interested persons to obtain needed instructions and information concerning the use of the pendulum for such things as finding water, oil, metal deposits, or treasure, making contact with other people or things from a distance, diagnosing physical ills, and so on and so forth. He has also tried to put out a Bulletin to give the latest findings in England and France where the “dowsers” are numerous and are doing excellent work in exploring the field.

I received recently Bulletin No. 2. of Vol. 11 (13 pages, mimeographed, price $1 to non-members) in order to give an idea of the value and variety of topics covered. I list the headings:

(1) DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PRY INTO THE LIVES OF OTHERS (by use of the pendulum)

(2) Various TYPES OF RADIESTHETIC SENSITIVITY (Giving a digest of the older theories and of latest findings offering explanations of the many things made possible through the pendulum.)

(3) YOUR SENSITIVITY WILL INCREASE

(4) RADIATIONS DO EXIST

(5) THE HUNA PHILOSOPHY (in its relation to the pendulum work)

(6) A WAY TO AVOID AUTO-SUGGESTION (when using the pendulum)

(7) THE CURIOUS MENTAL LIMITATIONS AMONG RADIESTHESISTS (showing the power of suggestion on the pendulum actions)

(8) TRAINING FOR DISTANCE WORK – TELERADIESTHESIA (as in chess games played in which the pendulum is used to learn what the distant move has been)

(9) A LESSON IN WATER-DIVINING (Part 1 – Leading article, four pages)

(l0) A CHILD OF SEVEN SUCCEEDS WITH RADIESTHESIA (locating objects on a map with her pendulum after being shown a picture of the object or thing)

Mr. Haskell is in the same boat with most others who strive to help along knowledge which is not found in the welter of colleges where so much is to be studied and so little of value learned. What he has to offer us could not be dug out of books without the expenditure of much money and time. But he is forced to write:

“The reason for no bulletins (only two this year): In 1949 we had about 160 members of this Society. We had hoped that by the end of that year we would have 500. The dues were not sufficient to cover the cost of the 8 bulletins issued and the normal office expenses. At the beginning of 1949, we were but 40 members left – the other 120 members had evidently joined out of curiosity… we could not continue issuing monthly bulletins, since each issue cost between $50 and $60 and there were the office expenses to be considered. Thanks to some of the members and to Max Freedom Long, we are now nearly 60 strong and plan to issue three or four more bulletins before the end of the fiscal year.”

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While on the painful subject of the ROOT OF ALL EVIL, which is so needed if GOOD IS TO BE DONE, I must mention the recent letter which most of the HRAs have received to tell them the plight of HRA Meade Layne who has given us invaluable digests of news in the general field of ILLUMINISM and has published the BSRA Releases, Seance Reports, and other things of great value and interest, in addition to his splendid mimeo magazine, ROUND ROBIN. Never once in the five years of this particular labor of love has there been enough income to meet actual expenses – not counting, of course, the priceless amount of time and thought and physical effort which has been so generously given.

Nothing like ROUND ROBIN has ever been produced. It is unique in having no ax to grind and in being open to everything from Flying Saucers and Huna to Spirit Communication and all the newest and most hard-to-understand in the realm of psycho-religious exploration.

Meade Layne has given us the only honest and brilliantly written and conceived appraisals of the constantly shifting theories and findings in our small and highly specialized field. Only from him have we been able to get highly important information stripped clean of the misleading and blinding slants of dogmatic Science and Religion, not to mention propaganda. His vision has remained clear; his conclusions blessedly fluid for change and his pen, a flame.

It is unthinkable that we should fail to send in or to pledge for sending soon, what each of us can to keep open the channel of BSRA and Round Robin. I know how few of us have escaped learning and using constantly the fine art of getting blood out of a turnip, but I urge all HRAs who are able, to help. Meade Layne has humbled a great pride to bring himself to ask for financial aid. Black shame on those of us who have basked in his Light if we fail now to come forward with our measure of oil for his lamp.

MY LETTERS IN ANSWER TO YOURS will be delayed a little more than usual this month. Please excuse me or place the blame on Cigbo’s willing shoulders. (He still does not know better than to accept the blame for everything.) You will recall that I recently said that I would eventually get around to sending some kind of an answer to all letters, especially if aided by the sending of a self-addressed envelope (a stamp is most welcome but the saving in addressing time is the important thing). I also said that my mimeo “tinned letters” used for my replies would be made, in so far as possible, to contain something interesting and of possible value to the work.

Well, the first of the new monthly “tinned letters” inadvertently opened up a corner of our field that was dear to the hearts of almost every one of us. I asked what who knew about what in respect to the hieroglyphic symbols and their original meanings as of the earliest dynasties of ancient Egypt.

I didn’t get just replies; I got a landslide of letters, and so many of them so long that my time has been filled trying to get them all read – leaving no time to make an answer except in sending at once copies of SSBM that might have been ordered.

We should change our name from Huna Research Associates to something with the words “Egypt” and “symbols” in it. It appears that 992 of us must have cut our teeth on a toy sphinx and learned to read from inscriptions taken from some ancient temple. I am amazed and utterly delighted at the amount of information and misinformation which we possess as an organization and as individual HRAs. Yes, our misinformation is also of value. It has been gathered by the gob from the magnificent collection of “teachings” put out in the past century by the blind leaders of the blind who have found in Egypt a handy hook upon which to hang endless guesses – guesses which they solemnly have presented as “great discoveries.” In noting how these guesses fail to match other and similar efforts, we have a way of enabling us to sort and discard the worthless, retaining in some cases the basic material for our own uses.

If you wish, I will establish a swap center where we can trade a pharaoh for a sphinx. All joking aside, I am beginning to see that I have, personally, overlooked a very important corner of the field in which to dig for lost Huna information. I am not yet able to say that we have more than scratched the surface, but already I am convinced that this is pay dirt of the finest.

Those of you who may be missing the fun – and WHAT fun! – had better send me an envelope and a line saying, “Send me tinned letter No, 2.” I’ll mimeograph as many extras as are needed.

Meantime, if any of you can beg, borrow or steal a book that gives the origin of the earliest hieroglyphics, get it to me by insured or registered mail. I will pay the expense (or perhaps Cigbo can) and I will get it back on time if from a library – or absolve you of the theft if you have stolen it, and later return it with the greatest air of virtue. I already have the loan of a fine old copy of Wallace Budge’s BOOK OF THE DEAD, with the lines given in hieroglyphics, then in the Egyptian as nearly as possible, and then in the English translation.

HRA M.C. whose learned articles appear in Round Robin, has already been of great help and journeyed down to spend hours with me over the big book. She may be able to find something on the symbolic meanings of the glyphs, as the one for “woman” which is composed of the sign for a loaf of bread and an egg.

Because we know the word symbols of na kahuna and the things for which they stood in the lore of the SECRET, we can now go about a re-evaluation of the symbol meanings of the ancient glyphs of the land from which na kahuna came on the first lap of their long trip to the Pacific. (Some of them by way of the Americas, we begin to suspect ,since new information has been uncovered in New Zealand – upon which a full report will be made in due time.)

Take the Egyptian glyph for water. It is one wave-line. But when we find it used with a slightly different meaning in the form of THREE such lines, we immediately recall the manas, of which na kahuna knew three kinds, and for which the word wai (”water”) was the secret symbol.

I must stop before I get off on this subject and forget the other things that are to go into this Bulletin. More – very much more – in due time on the subject.

THE REPORT ON “GREGG,” for whom a special healing effort was made by volunteer HRAs last month, has come in with the desired details. It will be remembered that this young man was treated for insanity, the symptoms pointing to obsession. The parents wish to express their heartfelt thanks and to ask that those HRAs who can continue to work on the case when time allows.

While the healing was not complete, the patient shows a marked improvement in several ways. The “attacks” during which time the obsessing entity seems to take over and use the body violently until its strength is gone, have come much less frequently and the violence has been much reduced. Periods of lucidity have increased and the former savagely hateful attitude seemingly caused by the obsessing entity has changed radically for the better.

In treating this case as part of the TMHG work, bless the obsessing entity and ask that it be cared for and helped as it is removed. This is work for na Aumakua and our appeal is to them. Also, treat the patient for a broken collar bone which was not well set and which has been a strongly irritating influence that may have hindered the healing effort. Cases like this in which the afflicted one is unable to help himself stand as a challenge of all the kindness, sympathy and will-to-serve that we possess. M.F.L.

MORE ABOUT DR. BRUNLER’S FINDINGS

This is a continuation of the article in Bulletin 22 covering Dr. Oscar Brunler’s work on radiations of the brain, the earth and the atom. With his kind permission, parts of his lectures are being given. To show the values in terms of Huna and our HRA experimental approach, comments are made.

Several HRAs have asked for more information concerning the dielectric waves, saying that they had found little in dictionaries or encyclopedias about these waves.

Because we have been unable to measure the dielectric waves with instruments such as are used in the study of the electro-magnetic waves, modern Science has been very slow to admit that there can be such waves. However, almost no explanation of the movement of divining rods or pendulums is possible without the dielectric.

The scientists simply MUST have a machine to register things. They are like [what] the simple African natives thought a local missionary must be. He showed them a thermometer and explained that it was a “machine” to tell him how hot or how cold it was. The natives rocked with laughter, saying, “Missionary plenty dumb. He can’t tell whether it is hot or cold without a machine!”

The main trouble seems to be that the electro-magnetic waves radiated from such things as an underground flow of water are too small to be measured well with instruments and so are said not to exist, despite the fact that almost everything that can be examined at close quarters shows a radiation of this kind, even the tiny cells of the brain.

As noted in the first article, Dr. Brunler explains that every electromagnetic radiation, wave or ray, is accompanied with a negative or dielectric radiation, wave or ray of the same strength and frequency. He writes:

“After many years of thought and searching I found that there is nothing in existence in the Universe which has not its counterpart. The counterpart of birth is death; the counterpart of faith is fear; the counterpart of light is darkness, and when we enter the sphere of physics we find that every magnetic wave or electromagnetic wave has coupled with it a second wave which is of a dielectric nature. A copper wire is a conductor of electro-magnetic waves, whilst mica or cotton or silk act as non-conductors or insulators. Mica, cotton or silk, however, are conductors of dielectric waves, and water diviners use mostly materials for divining purposes which are non-conductors of electro-magnetic waves. It is the dielectric radiation which is carried along the divining rod and which reacts to the dielectric radiation from the subterranean water current or mineral to be divined.

“The whole radiation phenomena has to be viewed from this point, namely, that we are dealing with two waves – electro-magnetic and dielectric ones – and these two kinds of waves are inseparable. The water diviner, the diagnostician using a pendulum, the hypnotist, the magnetic healer, and many others make use of the dielectric currents which flow in and out of the body.

“The Biometer (see the former article) does not measure electro-magnetic waves, but it gives us the wave length of dielectric waves, although this fact seems to have eluded so far every user of the Biometer, even Monsieur Bovis, the inventor of the instrument.

“Let me tell you the strange way in which I discovered the brain radiation. You may know that after many years of research, Monsieur Bovis found that each finger of our hands and different parts of the palm of our hand connects with one of the organs of our body. For instance, the ring fingers connect with the kidneys, the middle finger with the stomach and the liver, and so forth. We can measure the radiations of our organs by placing the different fingers on the Biometer and measuring the wave-length. If the wave-length is 6,500 Angstrom units, which equals 100 degrees Biometric, we know that the particular organ is in perfect health.

“The most important finger, at least it has been the most important one for me, is the thumb. No investigations have been carried out with this finger. It had been found that the rays emitted from the thumb vary with every person and no explanation could be found for the extraordinary difference.

“For a number of months, I had measured the radiations of the thumbs of my patients. Hundreds of figures and names covered pages, but what did these figures mean? Had they any meaning; had they any relation to the brain, or did they give any measurement relating to the human body? The figures ranged from 220 to nearly 500 degrees Biometric, whilst the greater part of the measurements was between 225 and 260 degrees.

“One day a mentally deficient girl was brought to me for consultation and once more, as so often in the past, I learned from her, or I learned through her, more than from any outstanding man. The radiations from this patient’s thumb gave a reading of 118 degrees Biometric – the lowest I had ever recorded. This patient’s extraordinary, slow-working mind interested me and I timed her with a stop-watch to see how much time elapsed between my simple questions – such as, Which is your right hand? Which is your left foot? And so forth. After exactly two minutes and eighteen seconds she answered the questions, and not once did it take her more or less time to give the right answer.

“This extraordinary lapse of time between question and answer intrigued me, and it came to me that the following takes place in our mind. We learn as children which is our right hand, our right foot, and so forth. This knowledge passes from our conscious mind into our subconscious and ,with the speed of lightning, we recall this knowledge into our conscious mind when we are being asked to indicate which is our right hand or foot. In the case of this mentally deficient patient, there seemed to be a gap between the conscious and subconscious mind, and to over-bridge the gap, two minutes and eighteen seconds were required. It occurred to me then that the Biometer reading of the thumb’s radiation might give us the inter-relationship between conscious and subconscious mind. The lower the Biometric reading, the less are conscious and subconscious mind linked up with one another. The higher the reading, the greater is the knowledge which we can draw from our subconscious into our conscious mind.

“I studied that night the hundreds of readings which I had taken and, to my surprise, I discovered that all my very materialistically minded patients measured below 240 degrees Biometric, whilst those whose measurements were above 400 degrees were men of an intelligence far above the average.”

(In a following lecture on RADIATIONS OF THE EARTH AND OF THE MIND, more mention was made of the brain waves and their significance. Again I quote.)

“You remember I reduced intelligence to a question of wave-length. I maintained that we do not think with the grey matter in our head [and] I explained how we can measure the radiation of a dead person’s intelligence even after many centuries (from written or painted signatures).”

(Dr. Brunler tells us that the outer surface of the brain acts as a transmitter in sending out the electromagnetic and dielectric waves, also in receiving them from some outer source which he does not describe. This brings us back to the interesting question of HOW some brain substance may be deposited in the written or painted signature of one long dead, and HOW it could continue to send out the same dielectric wave-lengths all those years.

(On page 6 of Bulletin 22 I discussed the Huna concept of the aka or shadowy body and the explanation that it is the real vehicle of consciousness and so the center of all thinking and remembering. Also, it was noted that the aka substance is thought to adhere to things touched, as the signature touched by the vision of the eyes, and to remain there to send out the wave-length for a very long time, even keeping a connection through invisible aka threads with the signature all the time so that the ghostly writer or painter might be found by following the thread from signature to the surviving aka body still used by the conscious “dead” man.

(A new and very vital point is now introduced for our consideration as Huna Research Associates. So far we have found in Huna lore only indications of the force of the three manas being generated and used to keep the body and the three-self man living. But Dr. Brunler tells us that he has found that the earth radiates a form of force that is necessary to life, and that this is picked up by the feet and legs as needed by the body in its living processes. In a similar way, there is a force radiated from the “soul” or “mind” which is OUTSIDE of the body. This radiation is also picked up, but by the upper parts of the body and perhaps the brain. These TWO SETS OF RADIATION ARE NEEDED TO KEEP THE BODY NORMAL. The radiations from the earth and from the “mind” MEET at the sacrum, where they interlock and blend. Dr. Brunler explains it this way:)

“In our feet, we can discover strange points. There are points which connect with our eyes. There are points which connect and supply the radiations from the earth to our heart, to our lungs, to our liver, to our ears, our throat – in fact, to every organ of our body. All organs of our body have at least two antennae in our feet, which supply them with radiations from the earth. The solar plexus is the great central point where spirit and matter meet. The Sacrum – the Kundalini as the Indian philosophers call it – is the great meeting point where the radiations from the earth and the radiations from the spirit intersect or interlock… If the mind, through a certain attitude, prevents the free and full flow of radiating forces to an organ, an unbalanced state of radiation in that organ takes place. Tensions which are a state of disequilibrium occur in the organ and an unbalanced state of earth and mind radiations throw the organ out of balance, and a physical disorder is registered. The centers in our feet are affected, the antennae shrink, tighten up, and they reduce the inflow of the radiations from the earth. When this occurs, then the antennae (certain spots corresponding to the ailing organs) become tender to pressure and painful.

“For example, every emotional state reacts on the liver. Anger, temper, repressed emotions, all reduce or disturb the free and constant flow of radiating forces from the mind to the liver. The natural flow being disturbed or reduced or arrested, reacts instantly on the balance of currents in the liver. The radiations from the earth flow freely and unhindered into our body, and when they reach the liver and meet with a sudden reduced quantity of currents from the mind ,a state of disequilibrium of the two radiating forces takes place. Every discord in our mind is a sin against our body, for it disturbs immediately the balance of the radiations.”

According to this material, we have counterparts of the low and middle mana of na kahuna, but lack the High Mana of the Aumakua in the picture. While we cannot, at least as yet, correlate the several points, we have before us a fascinating number of conclusions to mull over. Undoubtedly Dr. Brunler will be able to help us greatly in arriving at a better understanding. The key we seek to instant healing may lie hidden here. More of this later.

Max Freedom Long

December 1, 1949

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

NEWS FROM THE STUDY

In the last Bulletin I told of the remarkable findings of Dr. Oscar Brunler and promised to give more information about them in the Bulletins.

Since then I have visited him, together with his charming and able associate, Dr. Calver. We talked steadily until half-after midnight, and it became more and more apparent that the discoveries in the modern field of which Dr. Brunler is a leader all agree in an amazing way with the ancient Huna and each item from the old and new, as it was brought up for discussion, showed how one adds to or helps explain the other.

I took along the pendulum and plastic stand generously given to me by HRA Ernest Bateman which was described and illustrated with a rough sketch in Bulletin No, 18 on page 4. (And, by the way, the pendulum is not supposed to be left hanging from the top arm, but is to be removed from it and the thread held in the fingers in the usual way. I sawed a slot in mine so that the top button on the pendulum could be slipped over the slot with the thread in the slot, and thus be made handy to put away when not in use.) The pendulum was thought too light in weight by Dr. Brunler, but he was interested in the plastic frame and kept it for some experiments he wishes to make. He uses quite heavy pendulums, mainly of glass. He had me try out one which evidently was a glass from an old chandelier – the kind with cut glass ornaments dangling to catch the light. This worked well for me and I was presented with it on the spot. It is about twice the size of my sealing wax pendulum that I made myself and weighs considerably more – about three-fourths of an ounce on my postage scales. As a means of suspending it, a small brass ring was inserted originally in a drilled hole at the top and to this is now fastened a strong black thread, apparently of silk. I will trace an outline of it here.

The thread has knots tied in it, the one about 5 inches from the lower end of the pendulum being used to indicate the place to be grasped by the fingers. The thread itself is long enough so that its end can be held in the curled-up third and fourth fingers against the palm thus getting it out of the way.

The theory has been evolved that the tips of the fingers are connected with various organs of the body and give off radiations that can be measured with the pendulum when the latter is held over the up-pointing tips. Dr. Brunler discovered that the tip of the thumb was the indicator of the brain and its actions.

I experimented by counting the number of swings over the tip of each finger (doubling up the others to keep them out of the way) and found that each finger tip as well as the tip of the thumb gave a different kind of motion to the pendulum and a different count. Being right-handed, I held the pendulum in my right hand and tested left fingers. I tried to reverse a procedure and got no swing at all.

Max’s Drawing of ideal pendulum (1949)	Picture of ideal Huna Pendulum (2008)

[Editor: This Crystal Pendulum on right (clear, taking up color from the very air) was made from Austrian hand cut glass, the same size and weight as Oscar Burnler's and MFL's pendulum. It has a Mother of Pearl fob of various designs and sterling silver chain and findings.]

Dr. Brunler gave a series of lectures covering his work and his discoveries here in Hollywood recently and, in December ,will begin a series of instructional lectures for those interested in his subjects. The fee will be about $40 and this will include a personal test with the Bovis-Brunler biometer to determine the length of the dielectric brain wave of each student. HRAs living in the Los Angeles district may telephone Dr. Brunler for details.

NEWS OF THE SPECIAL CASE in which “Gregg” was treated for insanity by about twenty volunteer HRAs in the week before Thanksgiving is not yet in. After a few days of the intensive telepathic treatment, Gregg answered a question clearly and sanely and made a response sanely to a remark addressed to him.

Several of the volunteers reported very marked reactions on themselves at times when sending the treatment. A few used up so much mana that they were tired in degrees from exhaustion to sleepiness. Much tingling was felt. Here at the center, I felt the tingles and also found it necessary to recharge at times after making the treating effort. Several deep breaths help recharge and I feel that it is probable that the extra oxygen speeds up the work of converting blood sugar into fresh mana.

The suggestion was made (and acted upon) that ,as this case seems definitely one of obsession, na Aumakua should be asked to remove obsessing entities and in treating, they should be blessed and pictured as being removed and guided into better understanding by Higher Forces. This idea matches well the Huna idea that we must not hurt others if we can avoid doing so. It might be that na Aumakua may feel that to cast out the obsessing entities without, at the same time, helping them to some better form of expression is a “hurt.” Because we are so limited in ability to understand the things of the next level of consciousness above our own (as na Auhane) we can only guess at the real state of matters and try our best to act correctly in making our efforts to call down healing. We have seen how much harder it is to get prayer-action answers when the answer involves other people than when it involves ourselves alone,

ANY CHRISTMAS ORDERS FOR autographed copies of SSBM for your friends will have the book in the next mail (with the gift book, $3 plus sales tax in California. A number of books with tax paid are on hand here at the Study.)

YOUR LETTERS are always very much enjoyed and I am constantly taking up my red pencil to mark special things in them that I would like to put into the Bulletins so that all HRAs could share them. These are comments of many kinds and reports on personal experiments and experiences. As our numbers include most of the really advanced students in the psycho-religious field, there is a constant flow of helpful information and counsel. On the other hand, there are the letters asking questions that would be of general interest. Then when I get ready to begin work on a new Bulletin, I find to my dismay that I have marked letters and parts of letters in such quantity that it would take several Bulletins to fill the need. Please bear with me if material you have sent in for the Bulletin does not appear. And, do not stop reporting and giving the results of your thinking and studies for this reason. I am digesting and ordering a great amount of such material, day by day and from it comes much of value to the shining effort we are making to win back a workable method of instant healing.

LETTERS FROM THE MAIL BOX

MONEY HELP AND MANA MEASURING is reported by an HRA who is a chiropractor and who has a diagnostic machine that measures his mana charge. He writes, “I no longer have to go through the exercises to build up a surcharge of vital force. I just call my ‘George’ and tell him to get ready. I then go to my radionic instrument and start testing… if not already at a peak load, it comes up very fast.

Then, after prayer, (TMHG) I test to see that the reserve was ’spent,’ then call for a second charge. I needed money last month and none was due in until later, so I wrote checks for what was needed and called them to the attention of George, telling him that they had to be met. They were – from very unexpected sources. Business is now so good I have about all the practice I can handle.”

“MY LANDLORD PROBLEM has been completely smoothed out,” writes HRA G.B. “To tell the truth, I have been almost afraid to report this because the situation had been so bitter and unreasonable. I thought I would have to move to get out of it, but could not find a place…. I credit this entirely to the Huna work.”

“I AM SURPRISED” writes HRA M.J.C. “that the cream of this so-called civilized society of ours has not developed a single kahuna, while on the other hand, the simple Polynesians apparently did not find it hard to do so. Perhaps our objective now should be to try to be simple instead of civilized.”

Comment of MFL: Yes, the utter simplicity of ritual and prayer, as Charles W. Kenn shows it to be in his study of fire-walking (FIRE-WALKING FROM THE INSIDE), startles us into thinking that no particular understanding is needed – into thinking that all that is necessary is to pray and then get that for which we ask. I would be everlastingly happy if I could say that this is all it took to make a kahuna then or to make one now, but it is painfully evident that there is still a missing ingredient. It is the old story of everything “being simple if you know how.” It is the learning HOW that is so slow and difficult. Just now we are investigating the most complicated ideas to try to find what we have overlooked. Once we have found it, the return to simplicity will be easy. One must find a log before one can fall off of it with simple ease. Also consider the strange fact that na kahuna evolved what was, in part, a special language to use in describing the simple things they did in prayer. We are told that a language takes a very long time to develop and we may guess that the knowledge of Huna was equally long coming to full flower – and before Egypt was more than well started.

“IMMEDIATELY AFTER AWAKENING FROM A DREAM” reports a Knoxville HRA, “I ask, ‘What is the meaning of this dream?’ Twice an answer has come at once.” (Comment: This is important as well as interesting, as many dreams are symbolic. For some unknown reason, the Aunihipili loves to mask things in symbols and leave it to us to figure out the meaning. This holds in dreams and in the “free association” of ideas used to get behind the symbolic scenes in psychoanalysis. Let’s all try this method of asking for the meaning of our dreams – and report the results.)

QUESTIONS ABOUT DONATIONS, HRA A.F., after reading in the back Bulletins that there was a lack of time here at the Study to see all visitors and to answer all letters and phone calls – also a need for contributions to Cigbo’s box to buy stamps, paper. stencils. envelopes etc. wrote:

“I did not call on you much as I would have liked to do so. Apropos - why not TREAT yourself for plenty of time? I am not too well posted, but believe that it is taught that each time any of us says ‘I am too busy; I have no spare time!’ we give the lack more power. Why not try saying and thinking, ‘I have all the time there is in Eternity!?’

About your financial needs and those of … who… is appealing for funds… They claim that (here are mentioned two well known modern institutions, both of which are supported entirely by contributions from members or by the sale of lessons and other material or lectured teachings) DEMONSTRATED enough money for their needs and enough to expand with as you must know.”

Comment: This sixty-four [thousand] dollar question has been put to me by letter a number of times. I am reminded of the words of the town atheist of my youth. This gentleman loved to attend various churches so that he could later criticize the sermons. His favorite remark was to the effect that if the churches and ministers were doing God’s work, it seemed very odd that God made them pray so hard for the things they needed and forced the continual passing of the plate to get others to pay for His work. Looking back, I can recall no instance of money being furnished for church needs except from the purses of members. The sad fact stands out that when one “treats” for anything that cannot come (without a very amazing miracle of permanent materialization) except from the purse or by the services of others, one is forced inevitably to treat those others in the hope that they will be moved to help in what ways they can. One can, of course, treat to try for the finding of a gold mine right on the surface and rich enough to furnish a supply of nuggets without the need of time and much mining to clean up. I must confess that I have not treated for such a mine or a similar windfall. I have let my friends know our combined needs to carry on our mutual work and they have matched my time and dollars with theirs. It has hardly seemed necessary to make prayer-actions when, among us, we could handle matters for ourselves and even carry a good number who have been without present means. The matter of demonstrating time for all purposes boils down to much the same thing. To get more time I would have to have others help me answer letters at the Study and write, stencil, run, fold and otherwise get out the Bulletins… again. I would have to treat my friends to get them to offer this help. On the other hand, I get letters from HRAs who are convinced that in order to get, we must give. They have tried tithing and have found that it works well enough for them to cause them to continue it in aiding the Huna work. They tell me that what one gets without returning in like degree is never of any permanent value to them. Perhaps I shall, eventually get around to treating for the time and money needed here at the Study. If I do, I think it will be only fair to begin by treating those who write in to make the suggestion. Seriously, it seems to stand to reason that it is best to do for ourselves the things we have been enabled to do. At least that is how most of us get on. When it comes to something which we cannot, by the very nature of things, do for ourselves, then it is reasonable to ask for the help of na Aumakua. However, for those HRAs who may not agree with me, I extend an invitation to treat for TIME for me and for a gold mine or its equivalent for Cigbo. I may be overlooking a good bet.

STORIES SUDDENLY SELLING – one long one being syndicated, finances being rescued, “pay checks good enough to choke a starved horse,” and an instant and miraculous answer to a wild prayer for help when a blowout caused a 17-ton cement mixer truck to get out of control, are all reported by HRA F.P. Also some excellent healing results over a period of several months. “…Na Aumakua bring the harvest.”

THE RADIATION OF THE BRAIN

The above title was given to the first of a series of four lectures delivered not long ago in England by Dr. Oscar Brunler. The other three lectures dealt with the radiations of (1) the earth, (2) the mind, and (3) the atom. The four were privately printed and are no longer available.

Dr. Brunler has very generously given permission to make use of the lectures and of his many findings. His help in advancing the understanding of the Huna lore promises to be of greatest value.

As our study is centered around Huna, his lectures, [which] will be given here in condensed form, will be accompanied by a running comment in ( ) to point up the significance of various statements in terms of our own studies and experimental efforts to recover Huna in workable form.

The lecture begins with the statement that many unorthodox ideas set forth by the lecturer over twenty years earlier, have now been generally accepted. In another hundred years he is certain that all of these ideas will be accepted.

“Psychology has thrown a great deal of light upon the mind of man and on human nature. Psychology, however, can give us only glimpses into a person’s mind. The radiation of the human brain enables us to penetrate deeper into the mystery of mysteries – the mind of man.”

(At this point it may be well to explain that Dr. Brunler is not speaking of the tiny electrical discharges from the active brain. These are well known now to orthodox scientists and are measured with the encephalograph. Accompanying all electromagnetic activity – as Dr. Brunler explains – is a corresponding dielectric activity, the latter being conducted over bridging materials which are non-conductors of electricity. Mana, Dr. Brunler says, is dielectric. Later we will see that it acts as do units of dielectric energy rather than as electricity.)

“We can analyze the seed of a plant and discover all the chemicals contained in it, but we cannot discover the latent potentiality in the seed. The radiation of the brain, however, reveals a man’s potentialities which can be brought to full power. How vast a difference is in the dormant power of an acorn seed compared with that of a carrot seed?

“Before I speak of the discoveries made in the course of many years, let me first deal with some of the aspects of radiation phenomena. We know that subterranean water currents send out rays which can be detected with the divining rod. We know that we are surrounded by fields of radiations emanating from our bodies and made visible to the naked eye by the help of the Kilner Screen. Where do these radiations come from? What is the cause of these radiations?

[The brain and] “… every organ of our body sends out rays and the frequency of vibration of these rays can be measured.” Dr. Brunler goes on to tell of his discoveries which explain how and why in regard to things under discussion. Burning sodium from salt sodium chloride, which is necessary to all life, produces in the blood electromagnetic waves or yellow light. The electromagnetic waves are accompanied by dielectric waves. Together they cause one form of radiation of our bodies. He explains, “A copper wire is a conductor of electromagnetic waves, whilst mica or cotton or silk act as non-conductors or insulators. Mica, cotton or silk, however, are conductors of dielectric waves, and water diviners use mostly materials for divining purposes which are non-conductors of electromagnetic waves. It is the dielectric radiation from the subterranean water current which is carried along the divining rod.” The ulnar nerve in the arms of the one holding the rod registers the dielectric current and causes the movement of the rod.

In the same way, a pendulum is caused to swing when held in the fingers. (The ulnar and other nerves, as well as the brain tissues, seem very sensitive to dielectric radiations but not to the electromagnetic. The reaction to dielectric radiations seems to be under the control of consciousness because one may dictate mentally whether the pendulum shall react for water, oil or other substances, or to the waves and their length, as in measuring radiations from organs of the body or from the brain.)

“The radiation of a person’s brain is retained on paper and canvas (in the signatures of letters and on paintings, even when very old) and is easily absorbed in salt…” (The salt seems to strengthen the radiations and give[s] a swing of more power when a sprinkling of it is placed over a signature to be tested.)

In the Huna system, as far back as the time when the language of na kahuna – later known in Polynesian dialects, and leaving traces in Egypt – was being developed to fit their findings in this field, it is apparent that there was a very definite knowledge of radiations of the dielectric kind. The root word ka as used in ka`a and aka, means “to radiate out,” as rays from the sun, and “to touch.” The root word a means “to burn,” as fire. Fire or a flame has been the symbol of light in many lands and ages. Light seems to have been recognized as a most important form of radiation. Water was the symbol of mana or vital force of at least three wave lengths. Water -wai – flows, and so does mana, as an electric current. But the mystery of man’s radiating power when working through the aka substance seems only to be explained in terms of the dielectric which accompanies all electromagnetic currents or discharges. Oddly enough, the root word ma, in mana, means “to accompany,” while the second root word na means “to quiet.”) Dr. Brunler writes, “Every electromagnetic wave, such as a ray of red or blue or yellow light, has a second wave coupled to it, and this second wave is of a dielectric nature.”

It is supposed that the two forms of waves always go together, one accompanying the other, one being ma and the other na.

(Very sensitive machines pick up faint electromagnetic radiations) as in measuring the electric discharge waves in the brain when it is active. The pendulum, however, seems to be vastly more sensitive when the dielectric is registered. The shadowy body or aka, in Huna, has the peculiarity of sticking to things touched by any part of it, as when a signature is put down, an object is touched, or a telepathic contact along an aka thread is established. Thoughts seem to be impressed on the aka substance and to be stored in the aka body as memories, also to be sent in clusters as telepathic messages – or to have the radiations from such clusters follow the aka thread and set up corresponding radiations in the person receiving the message. From the fact that distances make very little difference in sending telepathic messages, we may guess that the aka thread is almost a perfect conductor of both the dielectric and electromagnetic radiations. Or there may be a mechanism still to be identified.)

(The Huna theory of the aka body, which indicates that it is the substance from which thought-forms are created by an action of consciousness which uses mana in the work) is given excellent confirmation by Dr. Brunler’s findings, as is the peculiar theory that part of the aka, once it touches a thing, sticks to it. This part retains something in its mass which may be thought-forms or something else which will continue to radiate dielectrically for a long time. In this way, Huna offers its own explanation of the fact that a signature on an old letter or painting may be tested with the pendulum to get the brain radiation which once came from the writer or painter. Psychometry in all forms is also thus explained. Nothing is found that does not send out constantly a characteristic wave pattern in radiations. It is thus concluded that artificial things, such as a signature, are given their character by their makers. Huna seems to show that all memory is stored in the aka body, not in the brain. The dead remember. They live in an aka body which they had in life on this side, and in which all memories were stored so that they could be taken along. They continue to think without the physical brain. One concludes that thinking is a thing done in the aka body which duplicates in invisible form the brain. This makes the following from the lecture even more significant to our Huna studies.)

“We do not think with the grey matter in our head, but it is the Pia Mater (outer layer of the brain) which receives or sends our thought waves, and the grey matter reacts to the vibrations which are transmitted to it from the Pia Mater.” (Note that he says “receives” and not that we think with the outer layer.)

“The grey matter may be compared with the Solar Plexus, which receives and transmits the messages from our conscious mind to the different parts of our body. In a similar way, the grey matter is receiver and transmitter of thought waves from the Pia Mater, and translates these waves into our conscious mind, giving them a meaning within the range of our understanding.

“Our understanding is translated into symbols, and to these symbols we give words. We do not think in words, but we think in symbols, and with the speed of light we give a certain symbol (In Huna the symbol is thought to be a cluster of impressions on aka substance), a word and a meaning which can be understood by others who speak the same language.

“Now let me deal further with the radiation of the brain. Apart from being able to measure the wave-length of the rays radiating from our brain, we get certain reactions on the Biometer. (The Biometer is an instrument used to measure radiations with the pendulum as the central part of the mechanism.)

“In the case of all creative, i.e., constructively thinking, persons, we find that the reaction of the pendulum over the instrument is clockwise. In other words, the pendulum rotates clockwise. In the case of criminals or destructively thinking people we get an anti-clockwise reaction or rotation over the Biometer plate.(The pendulum is held suspended over a square metal plate which is connected to the signature or part of the body or head being tested. The connection is made by a silk cord.)

“In case of individuals who are entirely governed by will we find that the pendulum moves in a straight line up and down (to and from the body of the operator who stands before the plate to swing the pendulum). The majority of the world, I venture to say in 90 per cent human beings, the reaction which we obtain is of an oscillating type. The pendulum moves at an angle of approximately 45 degrees to the left (of a vertical line on the plate) and then swings over to 45 degrees on the right, forming a V shape. Those who give such a reaction lack Will.” They are the masses which can be influenced by a stronger will than their own, and any form of propaganda will sway them one way or another.

“After having measured well over ten thousand brain radiations, one discovers that mankind can be compared with a pyramid. The broad base of the pyramid represents the average man with a brain radiation of about 225 to 230 degrees Biometric. As we ascend towards the apex of the pyramid, the cross-sectional area becomes smaller and smaller and, in a similar way, fewer and fewer individuals with high and higher radiations can be found until, in the end, only one personality surpasses the understanding of all the others below him.

“I should like to point out that the measurement of the radiation of the brain gives us a man’s mental potentialities, whether [or not] he makes full use of them. Whether he neglects to develop, use and exploit his full mental powers, is a matter which depends on his will, his perseverance and his determination and faculty to observe and to co-ordinate observations and knowledge.

We can classify mankind into groups according to the reactions which we register – the clockwise type of mind with constructive and creative ideas, the anti-clockwise type, and so forth. (In addition to this form of classification) …the actual wave-length of the radiation of the brain gives us a very clear classification of a man’s mind. (In Huna, the mind of the Aunihipili or subconscious is considered to be individual and not a part of the mind of the Auhane or conscious mind self) although the two work so smoothly together that they give the impression of being a single unit. Perhaps the two reactions of the pendulum point to two entities and their separate characteristics. Dr. Brunler’s opinion has still to be learned as to this.) By a study of the mentality of many people whose brain readings have been taken, Dr. Brunler has been able to learn that there are common potentialities in men with similar readings. The wave-length of light is the standard of measurement and the readings on the biometric scale run from 1 to 1000. (The rough reproduction below of the chart drawn up by Dr. Brunler will indicate some of the levels of mind, also the fact that the higher the reading, the fewer there are to be found.)

OSCAR BRUNLER’S CHART SHOWING EVOLUTIONARY SCALE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

See enlarged chart

[Editor: This drawing provides much knowledge of the Created World and how it exists and works in its function of producing na Aumakua. Think of all the levels of Graduation beings go through. Think of humans as being in a high school. Every class is approximately the same size and for the most part, everyone grows at approximately the same speed of evolution. So how can there be a variance in all the levels of Biometric Degrees? There can't be ... unless. Unless some people are graduating sooner than others of the same level of intelligence (Biometric Degree Levels). What could it mean? Graduation is not only dependent on Biometric Degree level, but on the development of "character" or heart. And so the Hemolele practices came about, and were tested. The swiftest advancement is made by "Warriors," people who have had "interesting" lives and never given up. People who go forward into their challenges, not running away from them, from the pain, confusion, and fear, [who] make the most mistakes, pay for them, regret them, then go on to even greater mistakes.]

[The Hemolele is the practice of the development of the Six Sacred Virtues need to Graduate. It all starts with Koa (Courage), then the four pillars of Malama (Nurturance), Lokahi (Harmony, Unity), Pono (Righteousness) and Aloha (Compassion), and the final virtue to cap them all off, Ho`okipa (Hospitality). The daily practice of the Hemolele earned Ki`i Kukui --- made into a lei. The Hemolele is done once each day until death, then if all goes right, the person "Graduates" into a new Aumakua, once in Lokahi with his/her Beloved.)]

Dr. Brunler explains that while the persons having the highest readings have the greatest mental power and scope of understanding, all who have a clockwise swing are useful and good on their own level of mental ability. He tested many signatures on paintings and found that Leonardo da Vinci had the highest reading yet come across, 725 degrees. Dr. Brunler’s own reading is over 700, so we may expect him to show genius in inventions, discoveries and philosophical conclusions. Other readings given were: Titian 660, Rembrandt 638. Chopin 550 Liszt 538, Hayden 535, Emerson 500, Charles Dickens 540, Kipling 527, Napoleon 598, Edison 470, and Mme. Curie 492.

“It seems that in the great creative plan, mankind ascends from the plane of life by slow winding, upward paths to greater knowledge, greater understanding. And so we can compare the world of men with the great pyramid whose wide and immense base represents the ordinary man, the millions of unknown. As we ascend toward the apex of the pyramid, fewer and fewer men can be found there. Only those whose brain radiation is far above the average are able to guide mankind wisely.” (In the next Bulletin more will be given concerning Dr. Brunler’s findings.) M.F.L.

November 15, 1949

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

Covering the fortnight since the last Bulletin issued, covers things of more than ordinary interest.

THE NEWS FROM THE STUDY

The long-awaited booklet, THE THEORY OF THE METATRON, by our own HRA John A. Hilliard, is now ready. It is a 34 page mimeo and has been readied and made available by N. Meade Layne, editor of ROUND ROBIN and head of the BORDERLAND SCIENCES RESEARCH ASSOCIATES. (Address: 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 4, Calif., for your copies. The price is $1.00. Add $.06 for postage and $.03 more for sales tax if you live in California.)

The author, John A. Hilliard, has a remarkable background of study and experience in our particular end of the psycho-religious field. He has a rare grasp of mathematics and physics. Early in the days of HRA, he began to test Huna theories in terms of his special studies, sending in letter after letter opening up such an exciting and new set of concepts that he was urged to get the findings and speculative conclusions into form for publication.

A few articles were written for ROUND ROBIN, but now we have the book – and for the student of Huna, it is a splendid contribution. HRA Hilliard has done a remarkable job of making a highly technical matter simple enough for the average reader to understand. Granted, many of us may not be able to follow with ease the mathematical equations from which he draws many facts and conclusions, but there is little difficulty in understanding what is uncovered in this way. A review of the work will be given on a separate page.

The last HRA BULLETIN, No. 10-A-9, from the hand of N. Meade Layne, arrived at the Study, and everything stopped until all ten pages were devoured. All the news of the flying saucers and of other mysterious things is being covered by the editor of R.R. (who scooped the world with detailed news of the first flying saucers). His brilliant quips and penetrating analysis of the many strange reports are a joy to the reader, a shot-in-the-arm to jaded curiosity, and a means of keeping up with the most significant developments of a time when things are happening at racing speed – happening especially behind the scenes on this world and, apparently, on the invisible levels all around.

The SPECIAL CASE to be worked on intensively through telepathic contact with the patient, will be handled. Twenty HRAs volunteered for the test and letters with instructions have been sent, each with a few hairs from the head of the patient to help make the aka thread contact. Treatment will be given on the half hour from early to late, each volunteer observing as many of these periods as possible. In this way it is fairly certain that a few will be at work every hour and so a steady mana flow and pressure of prayer-action will be kept up. This is a very interesting mental case – and very sad. All who can are invited to send healing through me, as center to “Gregg,” at half after the hour day or night. A report will be made later.

THE SEARCH FOR THE BELOVED

More happy news comes from Dr. Nandor Fodor, our learned HRA who recently wrote THE SEARCH FOR THE BELOVED, in which he gave the world, and us, so much information on the strange things that appear in people’s lives due to fixations formed at the time of birth, or even before. The news is that a few more copies have been found of his ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, the great work that was printed in England a few years before the War II, and the plates of which were bombed and burned. This is the reference book mentioned all the way through my book, SSBM, and in it may be found a digest of everything of importance in Spiritualism and related fields up to 1936. Originally the price was $15, but with the new exchange rates, the few copies which Dr. Fodor has managed to get over from London may be had from him for $7.68 post paid. These are the last of the books, so rush your order if you wish one. The address is, Dr. Nandor Fodor, Park Central Hotel, 7th Ave. at 56th Street, New York, N.Y.

Letters have been arriving commenting on the great significance of the experiment reported in the last Bulletin – covering the use of a surcharge of mana to make an adjustment of a sacroiliac slippage. With this matter being brought before us, first by the new school of G-P-C SERVERS, through their practice of “beaming vital force” to adjust the uppermost neck joint, we are finding more and more information bearing on the subject. Attention has been called to the JUDO practice in Japan known as “Striking at a distance,” and to experiments elsewhere in which definite physical force seemed to be projected to act on people and things beyond the reach of hands.

One is reminded of the many stories formerly told in Hawaii of the “flying akuas” which were observed to come flying out of the hut of a kahuna at night like a small ball of light or flame, and which were reported to sail at great speed to the place where they had been sent by the kahuna – to enter another and work good or evil. I had first-hand accounts of these from a man who had seen them and knew the old lore, but I made no mention of them in writing my report on my Huna explorations, feeling that the “flying gods” might well be superstitions or explainable on other grounds. Now I begin to see fire where only smoke rose before. We know that the phenomena produced by psychism often include the production of light, fire balls and such things, often with swift movement. It may well be that na kahuna gathered a heavy surcharge of mana, injected into it the element of consciousness by giving it commands to act in a certain way, and embodied the unit in aka substance, a thread of which would keep the connection between the “flying god” and the kahuna until the work was accomplished.

There is also the growing evidence that such “balls” of aka-mana move at the direction of the Aunihipili. A letter this week told of an HRA who was accumulating a large surcharge when it suddenly seemed to leave him and strike like a weak lightning bolt, his dog – who lay in the room and who reacted with leap and wild yelp, but received no injury.

And lastly, there comes great news from Dr. Oscar Brunler, now living in Hollywood and lecturing and practicing here. In the pages to follow, a complete report on his recent experiments will be given, together with more information concerning his great work on the far fringes of the field which we are exploring with swift strides. MFL.

BOOK REVIEW – THE THEORY OF THE METATRON

“Suggestions Toward a Mathematical Interpretation of the Concepts of Huna and Related Psycho-Physical Problems” by John A. Hilliard

[Editor's note: a quick search shows this book was lost and there appear to be no other citations to this work. Take this into consideration when reading the review below since Huna at this time was experimental.]

34 pages. Mimeographed. $1.06 (plus sales tax in Calif) from The Meade Layne Publications, 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif.

The author, HRA John A. Hilliard, saw in the ancient Huna lore several possible missing links which would fit in with present theories and give a new and better explanation of the things used in psycho-religious discussions to explain such things as thoughts, memories, thought forms, vital forces, aka substances, aka cords, also states of matter as the etheric, astral, material and so on.

For his starting point, he took the strange fact that in telepathy, the distance between two people seems to make no difference. This is contrary to the law of weakening of broadcast or wire-conducted electrical energy, as distance grows greater.

In searching for an explanation which would fit the things we already know in the science of physics, he at once applied Ohms Law to the mana and aka of Huna, using the resulting equations to boil the problem down swiftly to the fact that the substance of the aka thread or cord, and of the thought form transmitted along its length from sender to receiver, was valid material for evaluation.

Soon he concludes, tentatively, that “… the thought form is able to act on the compliant aka cord in a way to produce resonance in it. We visualize this by assuming the stuff of the aka cord to vibrate in a twofold wave completely antiphase. The na (used by the author as the symbol of the basic mana-aka thought form substance in movement) of the thought form is thus seen to resist one wave and assist the other so that they are drawn into phase, thus augmenting one another. The degree to which these waves are drawn into phase determines the amount of energy that will be delivered … The degree is determined by the qualities of resistance and reactance in the na or vital impedance.” He has already explained “impedance” in these words: There was no flow of actual force or thought forms along the aka thread “but rather a flow of energy. This could be explained only by the ideas found in wave mechanics. If a current, moving in a circuit, has a frequency of alternation such that its wave length is infinitely shorter than the circuit, then there will be no flow of electrical matter – electrons – through the circuit. Yet the circuit transmits energy. We conceive this to be the condition existing in a flow of vital force (mana) through the aka cord. Thus the basic idea of a flow of voltage of vital forces is not far amiss.

“Having conceived the vital current as a high frequency alternating current whose wave length is less than any possible circuit, we were confronted with the need to explain the aka-resistance (called) in some kind of terms other than simple fluid resistance. To do this we gave na two kinds of resistance, one which is purely frictional resistance, and the other reactance resistance. In alternating electrical currents these two kinds of resistance are related as the square root of the sum of their squares, and is a value called impedence. Na is the impedence of the aka cord.”

The concept, thus made to fall into the forms of modern scientific discoveries and speculations, is used to build on in taking up the problem of just what forces and substances are combined by mental action to create the complex units needed to make a complete thought form of a complex object. The word “ideo-form” is substituted for “thought form” and from this is developed the “ideotron” and the “metatron” using the ending of the word “electron” because, as the author points out, we begin to deal with substances and forces not so much like the atoms as like the electrons.

There remains the fact that mana seems to be sent along the aka thread to a patient and to stimulate him, and that the thought forms sent along the aka thread show every indication of being accompanied with a force.

We see the initial mana and thought forms changed into energies of a wave kind and then transformed back into originals when they arrive at the far end of the aka thread. This sounds simple to one accustomed to having sound turned to electrical impulses at one end of a telephone and appear again as sound at the other. But to a physicist and mathematician, this is something that demands a more exact and definite answer.

Beginning therefore, on page 5, HRA Hilliard gets down to brass tacks and spreads the problem out before the reader to show what simply HAS to be found in the general scheme if it is to be made to hold water. He starts confidently with his “THE POSTULATE OF A FUNDAMENTAL,” and in a few clear, swift paragraphs shows us how to reach the conclusion that there are several forms of matter in the universe, including astral and etheric as well as the physical matter we can sense.

Taking the periodicity of the elements, he points out twelve octaves and shows that there is no good reason for not extending these octaves right up into the astral and etheric and even perhaps a mental.

Having laid out the elements that are MUSTS in explaining the facts observed, he goes to work to prove that each new element is a justified guess. All is grist in his mill, and he is as much at home when defining and expanding our concepts of PERCEPTION as when patiently pausing to present diagrams and explanations to clear up the idea of waves as found in the “brain waves” of these days.

By page 31 he has arrived at the conclusion that is of the greatest importance. He writes, “All matter is considered (by the writer, after his brilliant study) to be relatively subject to the will of the spiritual entities who work in and with it.” It is a splendid piece of work – one we can be proud of as HRAs, It marks a long forward step in a new direction in the Huna exploration. MFL

CORRESPONDENCE AND COMMENTS

As a GROUP, we Huna Research Associates represent a fair cross-section of minds and people. This is very good because it forces us to spread our interests and our experimental work with Huna to make them fit the needs and desires of all types of members.

Some of us are interested in healing for [our]selves, some in learning to heal others. Many focus their attention on the healing of purse and social tangles. And almost all of us love the speculative angles and the comparison of Huna theories and beliefs with those found in out-stretched religions from the time of Adam right up to the very latest “revelation.”

In our work we are constantly failing to satisfy many who take part in the work – and who drop out for various reasons. Here is a typical letter from an HRA – a very wise and valuable man – who has not found what he hoped for in our work. (I quote a part.)

“…I feel that I must ask you to drop my name… I do not think the ‘Secret’ has been lost. Neither do I think it will be gotten by anyone who has not been accepted as a pupil by one of the Magi. The kahunas, no doubt, were of the order toe the Magi… Nor will they (the Magi) permit it to come to light again until the world is peopled by a more enlightened race.”

Another HRA wrote a few months ago to ask to be released from HRA membership because she and her husband had found a real Master, and were being accepted as students by him. This Master is so much a mysterious personage that even his name may not be mentioned to others. A similar thing happened in the case of an HRA who had received a letter telling him that a Master and Teacher had observed him and was now inviting him to become a student under him. He wrote me triumphantly to say that he no longer had to work in an experimental group with Huna because he now was promised the opportunity to learn immediately to do all and more than any kahuna ever could do.

I smile when these letters come in. I have been through the search for a Master who could teach something that could be USED. I, too, have been discouraged with my inability to get desired information and results swiftly. I am not saying that some HRAs may not find the Magi or Masters – I say only that after many years, I have decided that, if they exist as anything less than na Aumakua, they are not to be found by such as I. In fact, I have decided that there is about one chance in a thousand of there being any such supermen. I see no evidence – and I have looked long and earnestly in all directions – of the WORKS of such. “By your works shall you be known,” seems to apply in the case of “Masters” and their mysterious and greatly hush-hush “lodges.”

I believe that Huna is for the very few, not for the many. It takes a special type of mind to understand the significance of Huna and of the experimental work we are doing to test what we think we know of the ancient lore. It is the fault of no one if he or she cannot see this significance, but it makes those who do see it and who do stick with the work through thick and thin, all the more valued.

As we travel along together in our search for the promised land of Knowledge and Workable Magic, I notice several things that evaded my glance before. I see that it is indeed true that if one makes a better mouse trap a trail will be beaten to one’s door. But, and this is painfully true, if one discovers that the world is round, one must break trails to all the thrones of the known world before finding a single person to back a voyage to the New World.

The trouble with making a discovery, such as is embodied in a mathematical formula or statements bordering on the abstract, is that the world fairly crawls with crack-pots and with the cunning who hope by lies and posing to bilk the trusting. Every five minutes around the clock someone who had found nothing – nothing at all – leaps screaming into the limelight to tell the world that he has made the discovery to end all discoveries. In modern times we have seen the rise and fall of several movements started by the men who rose to shout loudest and to tell such lies that they were believed because – as we have said – “no one would ever dare tell that big a lie.”

Because of the crack-pots and because of our justified suspicion and partly justified conservatism, the genuine discoverers are, in almost every case, set upon by their fellows and rewarded by blows and curses.

As HRAs, we must do our best to try to spot the crack-pot and the cunning liars. At the same time we must remain eternally watchful lest some great discovery be mentioned in a whisper and not [be] heard. The great men seldom go in for publicity. Unless what they say is a mouse trap – not a mathematical equation that will eventuate in an atom bomb – the world at large may never know of the really great discovery until some city explodes under the impact of a few pounds of mysterious substance.

One thing stands out clearly, and that is that our progress into a full knowledge of Huna is NOT to be made by going BACK and by going back alone. Most of those who give up Huna do so to make a return to some earlier belief or way of prayer, or to go back to the latest of the long parade of brilliant promises in the hope that one has at last been found that will live up to its verbal or printed claims.

We of the HRA go back only to pick up the sources and the origins – the basics upon which to build into the future. We see that the old is not enough, so we also GO FORWARD. We seek no more Masters. Instead, we listen to the quiet voices of our physicists, mathematicians and advanced students of the materials of the psycho- religious field.

PENDULUM AND OSCAR BRUNLER

Only a few of us are well enough trained in special things to follow our John Hilliard or Dr. Oscar Brunler, of whom I will soon speak at length. But all of us can understand very well indeed whether or not men like these are asking money to divulge their secrets of learning, invention or discovery. We all know that the worker is worthy of his hire, but we have also learned, by painful experience, to be highly suspicious of the man who advertises much, charges for pig-in-a-poke “teachings” ALWAYS before opening the poke.

I feel that in our work with Huna we have come in the past few days to a distinct turning place. The first step in the Huna exploration was to dig into the past and learn all we could of the old beliefs and practices of na kahuna. Our second step has been to try our hands at the use of the old methods as we now understand them to be. We have had over a year and a half of experimental healing practice, and – in passing – I may say that the results have been above all expectation, all things considered. Now we are getting set to take the third step, which is that of looking into the very latest discoveries and theories to be found in other fields.

A few months ago I told of Dr. Brunler and his arrival in our country, of his work with the pendulum and of his incredible conclusions, also of his efforts to find oil, water and gold through the use of the pendulum.

Having no way to evaluate his findings, I reserved judgment and contented myself by watching to see what might come of it all. This last week there came the thing that convinced me that, in Dr. Brunler and his astonishing (perhaps astonishing because so new to us) findings, we had the opportunity to begin the work of taking the third step. The next day there arrived John Hilliard’s new booklet with its treasure of materials.

Before telling you what convinced me that Dr. Brunler was a safe and sound thinker, let me speak of the fourth step – one that may be taken in the future, or which we may never take. It is the step in which some of us will blaze the way ahead through inner illumination – I do not know just how, but in a way similar to the “realization” of Zen. It will have to go further than any of the almost inspired teachings from the spirit side. It will have to be the inspiration that will provide the flashes which will enable the loose ends to be gathered to make a working and complete strand.

On November 9th, Dr. Brunler wrote what was to me the most important letter to be received since I first heard from W.R. Stewart who had known na kahuna in North Africa who spoke a Polynesian dialect. Here is the letter:

Dear Max Freedom Long:

With kindest regards, (Signed,) Oscar Brunler.

Many thanks for your kind letter of October 25th. I am very sorry that I did not let you know that I was to lecture on Sunday last to the American Hypnotists’ Association.

After the lecture three people were hypnotized. I took their brain radiation before and during hypnosis. During their hypnotic state they were asked to expand their consciousness to a higher plane, to rise toward the divine light, etc., etc. One of the subjects rose to 520 degrees and then I brought him up to 575.

Dr. Calver said, “Let us do an experiment with him as he has reached the psychometric range,” We obtained two letters from the audience and gave them in turn to the hypnotized person. He was able to psychometrize the first letter in the most surprising manner. The second letter, sealed, was handed to him. He said that this letter was written by a lady and went on to describe the contents of the letter. As soon as he was out of his hypnotic state his brain radiation had dropped to the original one and the man was unable to psychometrize.

It was a most interesting experiment and I learned a few other things which would take too long to describe by letter

This letter will have striking meaning to those of you who are familiar with its terms, just as it has had for me. In brief, Dr. Brunler has demonstrated the fact that a man can raise the “vibration” of his brain by an act of his consciousness.

In this case it was done by suggestion given under hypnotic influence. However, we can safely assume that it can also be done without hypnosis, and by the individual. This is of tremendous importance. Eventually it may lead us to the fourth step in the Huna exploration, that in which the rate of the brain radiation (waves) are high enough to allow us to enter the state of “realization” or “illumination.”

In our Bulletins I will, for as long as is needed, give over a good part of the space to telling in detail of Dr. Brunler’s many discoveries and of his theories.

With a pendulum and an instrument called a “biometer” he has measured the brain radiations of over 20,000 people. He has been able to study the people whose radiations fall in certain degrees and has found that those in one degree band have mental capacities and characteristics very different from those of other bands.

In this way he offers the world a mechanism by which we may determine our mental levels. Once an individual knows where he stands, he can go ahead confidently in such work and activities as have been found best performed by people of that degree band. The possibilities are very great.

There are many things besides the brain waves to be presented. Dr. Brunler has covered much ground in his experimenting and I can promise much fascinating material from his hands. Unfortunately there are no books available covering these things. His lectures have been printed in the official journal of the British Dowsers, but are not available except at considerable expense. A similar series of lectures are being given in Los Angeles now – if you live out here. (Dr. Brunler kindly sent me a carbon of one of his recent lectures and I am fortunate in having a copy of an out-of-print booklet giving the lectures delivered in England.) Stand by. MFL