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.

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“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….. “