October-November, 1965

Huna in The Kabala & Tarot Cards

 

DOORS ARE OPENING FAST IN HUNA these days. First came the surprising rush of new insight into the history and hidden meaning of Huna which furnished research material and then information to justify doing our new book, THE HUNA CODE IN RELIGIONS. Now, on the heels of that cycle of revelations, come exciting new intimations pointing to the probability that Huna was the secret lore behind the Kabala and the Tarot Cards.

Not long ago I gave it as my opinion that the Kabala was only distantly related to Huna. I based my conclusion on the fact that I could find no use of the Code in it. The Gospels are filled with the word and symbol code of Huna, but not a word was found in a close inspection of the famous “Tree of Life” of the Kabala.

On June 26th, 1965, a rather new HRA, H.L. Han, of The Netherlands, wrote:

Dear Kahuna Max:

In relation to the Huna theories, I have some interesting information to add: You will find corroboration of the 10 elements of Huna in the 10 Sephiroth or “emanations” of the Kabala!!!

How could MFL be so blind as to state in H.V. 39, Pg. 9: “This (the Kabala) is but distantly related to Huna”, when he mentions in a preceding sentence “the three levels of ‘self’ – the Emotional, Mental and Spiritual”? Are these levels of ‘self’ not the same as the Aunihipili, Auhane and Aumakua respectively? Does MFL know that two Sephiroth of the Spiritual levels are given the names of the Father and the Mother, thus corresponding to the Aumakua parental pair?

In Huna, the term ‘Self’ is used as the equivalent of consciousness. I prefer to use ‘Self’ to denote the trinity: consciousness – vital force  – shadowy body, as this will disclose the identity between the Kabala and Huna. (Charts of the Kabalistic “Tree”, indicating the correspondences mentioned follow, but we are not ready for them on this page. mfl) The signature is that of HRA Han.

AS THE KABALA WILL BE NEW GROUND FOR MANY OF US, it will be well to start by making a little survey of the material. While this is being done, please bear in mind that this is now research material and that we will, in all probability, not be able to assemble the whole picture and accompanying information for some time, especially as the Tarot Cards are also to be considered in the light of the Huna-Kabala.

FROM WHERE I NOW STAND, at the beginning of a survey of this unfamiliar part of the field, it appears that kahunas were in possession of the Huna System and were living in Egypt as early as the First Dynasty between the years 3,500 and 3,000 BC. The picture writing that had developed gives evidence of Huna beliefs, and as the Book of the Dead began to evolve, the 10 elements of Huna were named in the Egyptian tongue. During this early period, the kahuna initiates seem to have visited India and to have shared their Secret with the learned men of that land – perhaps also with priests in Persia, and Babylonia.

In the period around 1,200 BC, Moses comes into the picture and adopts the Kenite “Jahweh” of the Egyptians as the God of Israel while he formulates the Ten Commandments. The Bible begins to take form, and in it we see the fine hand of the kahunas of the day at work placing coded Huna passages in places where they could be preserved as part of writings which would become Holy Writ.

There is a time lapse of about five centuries, and then the heavily coded writings of Isaiah appear. After another lapse, this time of about 700 years, we come to the writing of the Gospels, and find in them the Code in full flower. Once more the kahunas vanish behind the veil, some going to Polynesia, but some remaining in the person of a Jewish initiate here and there. We may guess that these Jewish initiates kept handing down the Secret lore century after century, but not until the passage of about 800 more years did they attempt to put Huna into written form. The result was Kabala or mystical literature, with the Sefir Yesira ahead and the Zohar commenting in the rear. (A New Zealand HRA writes that she believes the Kabala, at least as a secret system, dates back to Ezra and then was continued by Solomon, with some of it entering the Masonic Ritual beliefs. I am too new at the study to have an opinion on this, but the idea would be right in line in looking at the Huna system as something that was handed down century after century.)

A.E. Waite, in his The Holy Kabbalah, (recently reprinted by University Books) speaks of the strong impression made on the learned Jews by the absorption of Arabian thought and culture, especially in the matter of mathematics. He states that while Christianity was entering the Dark Age about then, and the Koran had been written about 650 AD, the Jews in Spain were making great intellectual strides in mathematics and in the mystical or theosophical side of their heavily ritualized religion. The date of around 1,000 AD seems to be generally accepted as the one in which the system of Kabalism came to be put into veiled writing. I cannot find out whether there was a book called the Kabala, or whether it was a subject spread through several books of the time as speculations, comments and what have you. Waite says “. . . . the Zohar … is pre-eminently the chief text of Kabbalism. Dion Fortune in her book, The Mystical Qabalah, (Williams & Norgate, Ltd, publishers) [says] that one should see “The Sepher Yetzirah”, translated by Westcott, for information concerning the “Unwritten Qaballah”.

There are several charts used to illustrate the Fortune book and show the “Tree of Life”, which seems to be a way of symbolizing the whole of the Kabalistic system, but, oddly enough, Waite, in his much longer book, gives no chart at all to illustrate the “Tree”, although he discusses at great length the TEN “SEPHIROTH”, or centers of the tree. The ten centers are usually shown by circles rising in three columns or “Pillars”, and between the ten circles connecting lines are drawn and spoken of as “paths”. The circles are also given individual names and are made to correspond with letters from the Hebrew alphabet, with planets and items from Astrology, with numbers, and with the cards of the Tarot pack. The Tarot was much longer [in] appearing openly on the stage, but may have been developing slowly for some years before taking final form. In making the items in the Tree fit those of the Major Trumps of the Tarot, Fortune suggests that where there is a discrepancy, it may be “a blind” used for the purpose of further veiling the secret lore from the eyes of the outsiders. Or, it is said, the present form of the Tarot may not be the correct one in which the Kabalist worked originally.

ASSORTED PASSAGES FROM WAITE’S BOOK may be well here to give the flavor of the popular thought concerning the Kabala in these late days when we, as amateurs, and like Paul, dabbling blindly with the misunderstood dramas of Christianity, undertake to break the code of the initiates into the Huna of the Kabala.

In telling of the appearance of Kabalistic recognition in Europe, Preface XXIX, he writes: “the work began to be known in Europe, and there passed something like a century before William Postel translated the Sepher Yetzirah – or Book of Formations – for the first time into Latin, and thus introduced to the curious and learned of Europe the root of all Kabbalism concerning the doctrine of the Sephiroth, the powers and virtues of the twenty-two Hebrew letters and the mystery which resides in numbers. The Book of the Formations is like that legendary grain of mustard seed which grows into a vast tree, because the Zohar is in no sense its development, except in so far as letters and numerations are concerned.

(Page 5:) “The Kabbalah, in any case, claims to be the light of a Secret Traditional Knowledge preserved among the ‘chosen people’, and the subjects with which it is concerned, as might be expected, are Sacred and Divine Subjects: they include the most profound Mysteries of God and the Emanations of Deity, the celestial economy, the process of creation, the scheme of Providence in regard to man, the communications of God in revelation and to the just in his Church, the offices and ministries of good and evil angels, the nature and preexistence of the soul, its union with matter and its metempsychosis, the mystery of sin and its penalties, the Messiah, His kingdom and His glory to be revealed, the state of the soul after death and the resurrection of the dead, with the occasional, too rare but pregnant intimations of the union of the soul with God. Hereof is the aspect and this the part which was conceived and unfolded sub specie aeternitatis. Here also, if anywhere, is the abiding part, rooted in everlasting values, and the one voice among many voices of the old tradition ‘which bears a message from the past to the modern world.’

(Page 19:) “It was on account of this (the mystery of sex and of circumcision) that Rabbi Simeon consecrated to the study of the Secret Doctrine the entire night in which the Heavenly Bride is united to her heavenly Spouse, being the night of that day when the Law was revealed to the Israelites and the Covenant contracted between God and His people. The reason was that the Mystic Knowledge constitutes the jewels of the Heavenly Bride. We can understand this only on the hypothesis that the science in question is concerned at some stage or under some aspect with a most holy Mystery of Sex, as if some unknown path of splendor and path to the height can and may open therefrom. It is said that ‘the King’s Daughter is all glorious within,’ and the Zohar explains that there is glory and glory, a glory of the male and a glory of the female principle,” It is said that if in connection with the pursuit of this path, that whosoever follows in the train of the Heavenly Bride on the night of union shall be preserved from all evil forever, in heaven and on earth as if death and the second death had no power. He will enjoy celestial peace to the end of time…”

LET US PAUSE HERE TO NOTE that in the above passage we cannot escape making the observation that the writer felt that he was touching on something of prime importance in the Kabala, but could not see just where the significance lay. To those of us who have so recently traced the many revelations of the Huna Code through the Gospels, the lines which are quoted seem a repetition, after a thousand years, of the glorious secret of “Graduation” that rising from the level of the Auhane consciousness into that of the Aumakua, and the wonderful union of the male and female mates to make the new Self, which is the Father-Mother, a unity in duality. The promise mentioned in the passage rings true if we say that the Huna belief was that, after “graduation”, the new Aumakua escaped the reincarnations and recurring deaths which occur on the levels of the Aunihipili and Auhane. But, the idea that this “celestial peace” lasts until the end of time, does not fit perfectly when we recall that eventually the Aumakua graduates to become an Akua Aumakua, or God Aumakua on a next higher level. In a system built on the idea of an upward evolution, there is no stopping place at which one may rest static for all the rest of time.

In the books on the Kabala we find many such intriguing parts although it does not seem that the initiated into Huna retained the knowledge of the Code language during the lapse of a thousand years. This same loss of the sacred and secret language (which was preserved only in Polynesia) seems to have taken place in India not long after Yoga took form and started on its long descent into a state of contamination through guessing – guessing at what inner secret might once have been contained. Here is another significant passage from Waite: (Page 559, in a discussion of The Kabbalah and Mysticism)

“The end of Mysticism is the recovery or attainment of consciousness in God, and there are two exotic Kabbalistic doctrines which not only connect therewith but belong thereto. The first is found but once only in the Zohar: it is the doctrine of Tsure of the supernal part of the soul, which does not leave the Supernals, but from the beginning without beginning to endless end is rooted in God forever. The second is in later Kabbalism and is expressed tersely by Rosenroth in one pregnant Latin sentence: Linea autem media ascendit usque ad Ayin Soph. The ascent of the soul to God is by the Middle Path of the Tree of Life, and the soul is led thereby not only to the World of the Supernals but to the deep beyond the deep and the height beyond the height, which is the abyss and height of Deity. So does the Holy Kabbalah join hands with the Mysticism of all the ages, and so is part of our inheritance. It should be added that Tsure – which signifies Prototype and corresponds to Atziluth (the Aumakua of Huna, probably) is said to be connected with Neshamah by ‘an invisible thread,’ constituting a bond of union (our aka cord) which is also a path of ecstasy. Neshamah ascends thereby and attains therein – namely, union with the supernal part.” (Neshamah seems to be the name applied to the Auhane because it is able to reason – “a reasoning self”.)

The above may well be considered in the light of a possible hidden presentation of the part played by the aka cord of Huna, it connecting the Aunihipili with the Aumakua, and making it possible for the Auhane to enjoy the same contact indirectly. The “Tsure” would be the Aumakua which has its contact with the very high levels of consciousness, but would still be part of the three soul man. The symbol of the PATH appears to have remained in use even after the language of the Code was lost.

THE EMANATIONS discussed by the writers at great length suggest that, in the Kabala, there was the idea of the Creative or God force starting at the highest level and the original unit emanating one lower level or entity after another. This is the old theory with which all occultists are familiar, and is the REVERSE OF THE EVOLUTIONARY theory in which we accept Creation as already in full swing (not pausing to try to find a finite beginning for it, or to predict a dead stop end) and see the lower forms of life bunching together to make larger and more compact and complicated units until evolved to man – and from the Aunihipili evolving to the Auhane, then the Aumakua, and then on step by step to a postulated Highest which is beyond the ability of the mind to grasp.

THE UP AND DOWN MOVEMENT OF THE MANA ALONG THE AKA CORD from the Aunihipili to the Auhane or to the Aumakua, may have been the basic thing that caused the belief in the downward “emanation”, NOT just of the mana life force, but of the soul elements – the soul being mistaken for a single self and through this mistake the secret meanings garbled and re-garbled.

AN APPROACH TO THE PUZZLE OF THE KABALA that has suggested itself to me is a BACKWARD one. I am reminded of the story of the lost cow for whom the villagers had hunted long in the brush and meadow patches where the local cows pastured. No one could find the missing beast. Finally someone asked the village half wit if he had any idea where to find the cow. Silently he departed, and in a short time came back driving her cowish majesty before him. “Where did you find her? And how did you know she was there?” they asked. “Easy,” he replied. “I thought where would I go if I was a cow, and I went there, and there she was.”

By the same token, if you will bear with another whose wits may not be too keen, let me ask, “If we were to try to draw a symbolic Tree of Life and make it stand for all the elements in Huna which are connected with man as a three self being, HOW would YOU go about it?” (Keeping in mind that what little you could use of the Huna Code must be confined to such things as the path, for the aka cord or thread, and the Light as the symbol of the Aumakua.) Yeah Brethern and Sistern, and HOW might you go about the design of a set of TAROT CARDS to assist in the work of preserving the ancient Huna lore and passing it on to those whom you might wish to try to initiate?

The first part of the problem is simple. All we have to do is to remember that in Huna, man is composed of nine elements – and during physical life, of a 10th, the physical body. Our Tree would have to have three selves represented by marks of some kind, be they circles or “pillars” as in the Kabalistic Tree, then three aka or shadowy bodies, and three grades of mana. If we make a set of three pillars in our chart to begin with, we can then make three circles on the three pillars, adding a circle for the body at the base of the middle pillar, making it at the root of the Tree. The SECOND PART is less simple, for, using the same chart which we have constructed, we must find a way to show that the mana is sent to the Aumakua from the Aunihipili (at the command of the Auhane), AND, how the same mana is changed and returned to the Aunihipili along the same path of the aka cord to help the lesser man. We might try a zigzag line running upward from the body to the nine circles which represent the nine elements. When the line reaches the top it must zigzag down again – a rather complicated representation. Lightening has been the Huna symbol of this mana travel, and so we may be on the right track. It may be easier to make such a drawing if we stagger the nine circles so that they form triangles and better adapt themselves to the zigzags.

For the third step and complication, we will need to symbolize the fact that the selves are tied together by their aka bodies and mental controls and mental sharings, such as the command of the Auhane over the Aunihipili, and the sharing of its memories and emotions by the Aunihipili –  to say nothing of the giving of Help and of Guidance by the Aumakua after the offering of mana has been accepted. This is very complicated, and we may have to add names to the ten circle elements, also letters with given values and secret meaning, even Astrological signs. (This seems to be what was done in making the currently favored charts of the Tree.)

The fourth necessity, and perhaps the most complicated step will be that of setting forth in symbols on our Tree the fact that in time we “graduate” and two Auhanes become one Aumakua. It would seem easier to use two Trees, one for each of the mates, but if we did that, we would have too much clutter below the point of “graduation” and the place of the final “UNION”. Perhaps this would be best charted by assigning hidden meanings to the upper circles and working out a veiled set of relations in which one circle “emanates” something or otherwise causes changes in some of the others. Before the Tarot Cards were at hand, the kahuna Kabala initiates would have had a big job when explaining all these items in terms of even a most complete Tree. Dion Fortune gives one chart of the Tree in which the ten circles are connected at every possible point with the other circles, the connecting lines, when all in place as “paths”, counting up to 21, and so being short one in the count to be made to match the 22 Major Trump cards of the Tarot. D.F. suggested that as the Zero Trump of the FOOL was not a real number, it may have been placed in the pack as a blind, and that it might safely be let out of the consideration or made to fit something such as the level of the God Aumakuas, if we may use our familiar Huna terms for the Kabalistic Ain, Ain Soph and Ain Soph Aur. If we take the Tarot Card Majors as they now stand, named, numbered and assigned often to Hebrew letters and Astrological signs and elements, the task of making a combination set of symbols or a “Tree of Cards” to use in explaining Huna Kabala beliefs will be greatly simplified, even if still a puzzle which the uninitiated could hardly work out.

The ground will have to be cleared of modern misconceptions before we can begin our own constructions, and the question immediately arises as to what is to go and what is to be saved as having something which we may need later. Our main text for Kabalistic meanings assigned to the Tarot Cards will probably be Paul Foster Case’s book, The TAROT – A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, published by Macoy Publishing Co. at $3.50 and used as a text by the late Mr. Case’s school in which one is instructed in all these mysteries. I believe Miss Ann Davies is at this time head of the organization and represents the “Builders of the Adytum” which we see steadily advertised in FATE magazine.

To set up a “Tree” of sorts with the Major Trumps of the Tarot may be done in not too bad a fashion. In our first issues of the HUNA VISTAS I showed the way to lay out the Majors to fit the added or contrasted secret number values of the cards and we found that in the central square we had three rows of three cards each, this making a total of NINE, which matches the TEN elements of Huna if we add the FOOL which is a Zero and can represent the physical body. That leaves 12 trump cards,. and we found that the adding sidewise of the Roman numbers changed to Arabic, gave us six pairs of cards in which one showed the good and the other the bad side of the things for which the pair might stand. This square of 9 (or call it 10) cards, together with the 12 of the six contrasting pairs, total 22 cards and by taking away one, we equal the “paths” in the Fortune type of chart – a form which seems often used by those who study and write in this field of Kabalism.

To return to the backward approach and the charts we could construct from that angle, the standard chart gives us the top three circles of the Tree with the outside ones labeled Father and Mother. I would suggest that the center circle be made a dual or doubled one and the combined Father-Mother label given to it as a SELF. That would leave the outside circles to represent mana and the aka or shadowy body of the Aumakua. At this stage in my brash approach to the relationship of the Tarot Card symbology to the Tree, I must confess that I can find nothing in the nine card set to give us the Father-Mother for the top of the Tree without stretching several points to the breaking verge. But no difference, there may be a different deal to be discovered eventually. (In my zeal to debunk the vast amount of foolishness – that is foolishness to my jaundiced eyes – I wrote in H.V. 1 or soon thereafter, that I saw no proof that the claims that “this meant that” was anything but supposition or the quoting of someone who had made an earlier guess and so had become an authority. An accumulation of unproven guesses became a “tradition”, and in this form, a sacred cow not to be questioned when it ate the stock of the green grocer or was butchered and its steaks sold by the “course” by those who prey on the too trusting. I may, belatedly, have to eat a few words if actual proofs begin to be uncovered.)

One of the California HRAs recently made the surprising discovery that by accepting the unproven and traditional meanings of the Tarot Cards, and the assignment of Hebrew letters and Astrological symbols here and there, the meanings given to each card could be made to fit neatly into the meaning of the corresponding letters in English when, for instance, the word Aumakua is delightfully described by the combined meanings given in the modern meanings which have been piled on the several Hebrew letters and their circles, cards or Sephiroths (22 in number on the Tree). Later, when I have a bit more information on this angle, I will try to present it in an issue of the Huna Vistas. This might be the key, for all I know, even if it does seem a far cry from Polynesian word sounds reduced to English, on to the Kabala and the things added to the elements set on the Tree.

Let me now try my hand at drawing as outlined some forms of the Tree. I will not try to be neat and to make a fine Tree. The thumbnail sketches which I can give you will perhaps do well enough for you to go over with a red pencil to try your own hand at putting in experimental items.

(If you are a member of BSRA, as many of you are, you may find in one of the recent issues of the BSRA journal a beautifully drawn Tree produced by Riley Crabb to illustrate an article by Mrs. Crabb, who is making a deep study of the Kabala, and who favors the Fortune books as a text. I believe there has been more than one article, although at the moment I cannot seem to lay hands on my files to make sure. Riley is also deep in this study, and together they have come to the point at which they try to use the invocational and other work to get helpful results.)

THE DION FORTUNE book, already mentioned, gives as one of its three charts one in which lines or “paths” have been drawn to connect all the circles, top, bottom and edgewise, the total of them coming to 32, whereas I had been under the impression that she had made them 22. One could make the Major Tarots fit the 22 with ease, but I am now distressed because stretching them to make 32 is very difficult. In any event, there are only three manas, and they are interchanged between the body and three selves, up and back, giving a single path or aka cord, so the Code idea of the “path” and that of Fortune and/or contained in the Tarots, may point to something else. Here is what I read pages 94-95.

“In the following pages I have done my best to elucidate the principles governing the use of magical symbolism. In order to use the magical symbols effectively one has to make the contact of each individual symbol. (By meditating on them and coming to have a form of realization concerning the hidden or inner meanings. mfl) ….. we must know how to construct and contact the magical images before we can work with them. (She considers the Kabala a workable system of putting magic to use, evidently. mfl)

“The sets of symbols associated with each of the Thirty-two Paths are used by the initiate to build up the magical images. One set of symbols is assigned to the Ten Holy Sephiroth themselves, (circles on the Tree chart) and another set to the Twenty-two Paths that connect them. Some of the symbols, however, occur in both sets, and all of them interconnect through their astrological and numerical correlations. This sounds most perplexingly complex, but in actual practice it is far simpler than it sounds, because the work is not done with the conscious mind, but with the subconscious mind, and it matters very little in what manner the symbols are pitchforked into it, a coherent pattern reappears in consciousness …. yielding its significance after the same manner as a dream.”

My natural impulse is to assign the Major Tarot cards to the ten elements as we lay them out on the tree, but D.F. assigns the cards of the lesser pack to the several units, for example, giving Kether, the First Sephirah, the Aces of the four suits. At the bottom of the Tree she ends up with the expenditure of the last cards in the lesser pack, giving MaIkuth the four TENS – those of Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles. On page 305, she closes her book with these observations:

“The Twenty-two Paths form a system of mystical psychology, being concerned with the relationship between the soul of man and the universe. As the Ten Sephiroth, being concerned with the Macrocosm, are the key to illumination, so are the Twenty-two Paths, being concerned with the relationship between the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, the key to divination, and divination, taken in its true sense, is spiritual diagnosis, a very different matter to fortune telling.”

SO MUCH FOR THE APPROACH TO THE KABALA this issue. I have no idea how many of you are students of the materials of this part of the field, or whether or not general interest in it will be kindled. I may get letters which set me right and give me the correct insight into the Huna in the Kabala, or I may find everyone bored. Let me know if you feel it is worthwhile expressing an opinion. We just might be able to run down through our study a workable method of producing instant healing, or getting more direct Help, who knows. In any event, it is always good to expand one’s intellectual grasp and take in new subjects or angles of the old ones. If some of you seasoned students of the Kabala know where I can get an English Sepher Yetzirah, do let me know.

TIME CHANGES AGAIN FOR THE TMHG SITTINGS on October 31st when we in California go off daylight savings time. Reports continue to come in of Help and Guidance given so that the work remains well worthwhile. 3 and 7 P.M. and the telepathic picture sent on the hour may be the Kingsley Tarpey painting of the sunset through the pines, or of a quiet cove of the sea or of the trunks of a clump of old eucalyptus trees.

HUNA WORKS WELL FOR SOME OF US. An Indiana HRA wrote last week. “I hope you will forgive my not reporting sooner about my wife, Patricia, whom I requested prayer for, but I have been terribly busy in the last two years and time for long letters has never presented itself, nor will this short one do justice either – but suffice it to say my wife was born with cerebral palsy, and this is what we asked help for. The palsy is gone. I followed all the SSBM and SSAW instructions, plus using your book on Huna Self Suggestion for my cigarette smoking and a facial tic that Pat had. The work was marvelous. Last year I used to get the distinct impression of a sunset sea and pine trees. I was not aware at the time that you were using such pictures for the meditation periods.

A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU well ahead of the time because this issue of the H.V. will be the last to reach you before the festive season – the next issue to be for December-January, to be mailed after Christmas. Please do not bother to send me a Christmas card. I will know that you all are wishing me well, and you can put the cost of the sending to some good use.

MY PERSONAL NEWS revolves around a quiet and extremely busy life here at Vista.

I will enclose the October “tinned letter”, even if some of you have already had it, because it gives a little more intimate picture of my “spot in the sun”. The new book has been selling steadily and well, but it has reached so many who were new to our Huna work that I have been snowed under with letters and questions and have many letters stacked up against time to fully read and slightly answer them may never catch up. As I cut this stencil, it is my birthday, and I have been giving thanks that I was Helped [to] reach the happy point of my 75th year. I received five birthday cards and a telegram of greeting from Canada. I now will glow all the warmer as I can count off one more year of progress toward my possible “Graduation”. I could only wish that all of you might share my delighted and excited anticipation of that greatly desired event – an event for which I ask daily the Help through Grace from the Aumakuas with the aim of being “perfected” in the best secret way and meaning. For those of us who can accept Huna as we have now restored it (and there are more of us of the HRA doing this than you might suspect), the way ahead is along a path brilliantly lighted by the ancient knowledge which tells, above all else, of the verity of the Aumakuas and their endless love and wonderful wisdom and understanding. It is such a comfort to know that we do not have to perfect ourselves sufficiently to make the grade. I once thought one must lift oneself by the bootstraps as described in Yoga and the Bhagavad Gita. NOW I know the secret of the SALVATION offered to the inner circle of the elect in the splendid drama of initiation in which the Gospel Jesus and his Disciples once moved across the ancient stages, speaking their veiled truths, and marking the trail for the ones of us who followed and who might inherit the key to the Secret. I give thanks so many times each day, and even when my load is heaviest, my heart sings. How I wish I could share my certainty with each and every one of you. My aloha. M.F.L.

“CHIMES” magazine will send a gift copy to all in U.S.A. soon. Cheers!

Dear HRA and Friend:

Your appreciated communication is here, and I thank you very much for sending the envelope made ready to carry this tinned letter and my note of reply in the margin. (If, happily, you did send one.)

These are busy days for me here at Vista, and my news revolves around filling orders for the new book, which is moving out nicely, although not at a rate to set the world on fire. We bought a full page of advertising for the book in FATE magazine and CHIMES Magazine, which sells books and has a fine list of books in its 150 catalog, gave our books the entire back page in the last issue, and in addition, did us the great favor of sending a copy of the magazine to all HRAs on the U.S.A. mailing list. (I supplied the address stickers, which you may have recognized as familiar.) It is an excellent magazine and the editorial policy is one of running the best and most advanced articles to be had on such subjects as we of the HRA investigate. Such an editorial policy is something much needed and will undoubtedly invite articles by the most advanced workers in this tangled field of the “Metaphysical”.

This summer, just past, I have been using high school boys to help in the grove with the pipes and irrigation, also with the rather neglected garden plots. Some of these modern teenagers get panned all the time in the papers, but those I meet are fine, serious and ambitious youngsters. Now that school has started, I have a college freshman named Rod, who helped off and on in the summer, and who now knows where all the tools live and how to handle the three mowers and one digger (which also hooks up to saw wood from the dead trees which are taken out in the grove). The wood pile for the winter use in the stove out in the screened porch where we dine, grows apace and will be a comfort when the nights begin to be cold again.

This summer the roses have been the most beautiful ever. The dahlias no good. The glads fine. The tomato crop from volunteer plants sufficient for our table use and to feed the big green worms with their useless horn on the wrong end. The iris beds, which have been all too badly neglected, have come to be overgrown with devil grass, and we will try to take up the plants for the winter and use the power digger to fight with the grass. Figs were poor this year and the avocado crop will be very light again this year, but not so very poor as last year, barring a killing frost, which is always a danger here.

For the few spare moments which can be found, I have a fascinating new research project. It is to go exhaustively into the Kabala to see where, if at any point, it made contact with Huna. One of the HRAs in Holland is sure that Huna was very prominent in the original writings, penned about the year 1,000 AD, and a San Diego student of much insight into the puzzles of this corner of the field has made some startlingly provocative discoveries when comparing the terms, Aumakua, Auhane and Aunihipili to the similar sounds and letters of the Hebrew as represented in the Kabala and Tarot card “occult” meanings. She is acting as my guide and mentor in my belated approach to the subject. MFL