First Step in the Experimental Use of HUNA

February 2, 1948

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

Aloha!

We are about to begin putting the ancient Huna System to the test on a large scale. Enough experimental work has already been done to prove that Huna will work for us as it did for the kahunas, but only a beginning has been made. We must work and experiment to attain proficiency.

Because most of us have problems to solve in our own lives, the first step which I am going to recommend deals with the high magic. I want each one of your lives bettered. I want you to build into your future the correct health, finance and general conditions as a necessary first step in Huna experimentation. From this work you will gain experience, and from our combined experiences we will forward the whole Huna recovery project.

Your future is, for the most part, still only an incomplete map. You have not decided where you are going and, as the Aumakua makes bits of your future daily from your thoughts of what you want or what you fear, your map is filled with vague lines indicating the direction of each day’s aimless paths. There are also blots here and there to indicate sickness, accidents and the realization of all feared events.

Take our text on Huna, The Secret Science Behind Miracles, and read again Case 29, starting on page 336. Then ask yourself questions such as the kahuna asked me. Find out what you want to have happen in your future. Ask yourself how you would feel if this or that or the other thing came in response to your work in the high magic. Sleep over it. However you reach your decision, get it right. Get it final. You are mapping your future and you must stop changing your mind about what you wish to have happen. You are going to steady down and drive with all your strength at a definite set of aims. You may later add things to your map, but you must not make basic changes and so cause confusion. Say to yourself, “I want to be ________ . I want to do ________ .” And then stick to it! Give your Aumakua time enough to build THAT FUTURE for you, and for that future to be actualized in your daily life. Give the Aumakua a free hand. Do not specify HOW the desired results are to be obtained.

This is not child’s play. It is probably the most serious work you have ever undertaken because you are now setting out to set the course for your whole life. It is serious work for all the world because you are now a pioneer breaking tracks in the wilderness for those less clear-seeing and less able to travel tomorrow en route to a new and greatly better day.

When you have decided exactly what you want on your map and in the mold into which your life will be cast, write it down. Then make a copy of its important parts and send it to me to place in the Huna (secret) Research Associates files. I will give your sheet a code number, and I will want a report from you as often as any item on your list begins to take visible shape – or if there is a mysterious upset. I will also want a final report on the outcome when you finish, with notes on what you have learned to better our understanding of Huna.

Do what you can for the present to handle your guilt complexes or other hindering fixations. Read and reread the book and you will gradually get a working knowledge of this part of the problem. In due time we will have various Associates able to help with the fixations, but there are none yet. Allow yourself to dwell daily on the Huna teaching that no act is a sin unless it hurts someone.

Here is information not to be found in my book. It is part of the knowledge gained by W.R. Stewart who discovered and studied with the kahunas in North Africa. He spent years testing this part of the instructions given by his kahuna teacher and found that they were very important.

1. Your Aumakua and those of your husband, wife, child, relatives, neighbors, etc., work together. This is because we live in groups and our lives are lived in relation to others. These Aumakuas however, are far more closely associated than are we who live in dense physical bodies. They have evolved to the point of forming a perfect brotherhood. They exist as individuals but are also one with all Aumakuas in a general unity of being. They represent the Universal Mind or Christ Spirit which we moderns have come to know in a vague way. This great body of united separated “Aumakuas” was called by the kahunas the Po`e Aumakua, or “Company of Utterly Trustworthy Parental Spirits.” All prayer-actions must be addressed to the Aumakua, and if still Higher Beings are to be involved in the action, the Aumakua will attend to that.
2. Because each Aumakua in your Aumakua group loves its own man, woman or child over which it stands as Guardian Angel (no matter how bad that person may be), the entire Aumakua Group corresponding to your group below must be considered when we ask our own Aumakua to make changes in the future for us that will have an effect on others in our group. Picture yourself standing before the assembled Aumakuas of your group, making your requests. What would you see on the shining faces if you asked for something that would injure one of the earthlings in their charge? These Aumakuas love their earthly children with a vast and yearning parental love and, do not forget this, they have to sit helplessly by and watch their earthlings do things that will get them into all kinds of trouble. This is the LAW. The Aumakua must keep hands off and let the Aunihipili and Auhane (the man) learn by experience. This is our God-given FREE WILL. Only the long range events in our lives may be set for us. All other events and conditions must be made of the materials we send to the Aumakuas in the way of thought-forms, and of the cumulative acts we perform. If you wish to cause the greatest possible joy in “heaven,” you can do so in two ways: first by recognizing your own Aumakua and asking it to take a hand in your life (a figurative opening of the door to the aid of the Aumakua) or second, by recognizing the existence of the other Aumakuas of the group and asking them to help you to help their earthly charges.

   In church, much stress is laid on saving souls. In Huna, stress is laid on helping others to know about the Aumakua, and to give up the animal greed and savagery of the Aunihipili so that their lives may be ordered and their doors opened to the help and guidance and healing of the Aumakuas. This is the true salvation – the only one known in the Ancient Secret Lore. To be worthy of the help of the Aumakuas, we must become a little like they are. We must be kind and tolerant and willing to help our fellows unselfishly. The higher we evolve, the less we grab, and the more we give.

3. W.R. Stewart found that a prayer-action taken for his own personal good, and that alone, got slow results in comparison to actions taken for the good of others as well as himself. (Recall the fact that at the shrine at Lourdes, those who come to pray for others are most often healed.) When you pray for the good of others you call to your aid their Aumakuas. Pray for ten and you have incredible Power and Wisdom behind you. Pray for help in helping mankind, and you have the entire Po`e Aumakua listening. Even the smallest act done to help another in the name of the Aumakua who watches over that other is blessed out of all proportion to the deed itself. “Even as ye do unto the least of these, ye do it unto me,” said Jesus, and he spoke as an Aumakua. [This] tells us why Service is magnified so greatly in all the teachings. This is the one way in which one can serve the Higher Beings. Grow yourself. Help others to grow. W.R. Stewart lived to serve. After his death, I received a stained little note from his old charwoman. The note ended with, “He was such a kind man.” What an epitaph to be graven on the memories which are his only monument! He served – SERVED!

Step 1 is to decide what you wish to be and to do.

Step 2 is to make a clear and enduring picture in your mind (thought-forms) of what you wish to come to pass. Each day, for a few minutes, toss aside the present conditions and imagine yourself living as you picture yourself in the future. Enter your pictured future more completely each day until you can forget the unwanted things in the present – forget them for long minutes. Picture the new house, the new Service and the new life. For health, picture yourself as in some early day when you were brimming with health. Forget present illness which is on the way out and which has no reality in the very real future which is being built for you in answer to your prayers.

Pray to have your picture materialized. Pray as often as you think of it, and always present your picture as the heart of your prayer. Do not wait for a full answer to the prayer, but start with little acts of service at once. Do all you can below and depend on the Aumakuas to do their work above. Do not dictate HOW things are to be brought about. Leave that to the Aumakuas. If you have faith and persevere, the Aunihipili will share it in due time and will deliver (telepathically) your prayers as you formulate them. Give up your hates or you will hate an Aumakua and make no progress. A very great kahuna said, “Do good to those who despitefully use you.” If you can get over this hurdle, your path ahead should be straight, wide and easy.

Max Freedom Long