SSBM and Freedom

December 15, 1952

GOOD NEWS

It was recently arranged to bring out a reprint of SSBM, which I announced was on the verge of being out of print and which is out at this writing. The reprint will probably be ready at some time in January. New friend and HRA, Gordon Collier, son of the late Robert Collier, of book-selling fame, has leased the plates of SSBM and will have the new edition done, I am told, under his own imprint. He will soon begin a mail-selling campaign, offering SSBM with a gift book on the Great Pyramid by Worth Smith, the two packed together and sold at the price of $3.89 post paid. The address for those wishing to order this combination is, Robert Collier Publications, 72 Orchard St., Tarrytown, N. Y.  So far as I know,  it will be impossible to get SSBM separately. Under the plate lease contract, Mr. Collier is not allowed to sell at a discount to the book dealers. No word has been received as to whether or not the original publisher, Kosmon Press, 2208 West 11th St., Los Angeles 6, Calif., plans to continue selling SSBM at the old $3 postpaid price with the give-away book on Sleep Suggestion, or whether the book will be sold alone at the regular retail price of $4 – best to inquire as to the new price before ordering or to send $4 with the order. Books selling mainly through mail-ads are not handled as are the books published to be sold through dealers or book clubs it must be remembered. Please do not send to me for SSBM until I find out more about the situation and whether I can again arrange to supply autographed copies with the addition of Cigbo’s “Birthday present” set of eight full page photo illustrations to “tack” in as one finds time and glue for the purpose. This GOOD NEWS is most pleasing to me as it keeps SSBM in print and even spreads the word of the existence of Huna to more and more people.

WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR MIDDLE NAME?

This question has come to me so often that it may be of interest to others to know. When I was an infant, I was to be named after a grandfather, always known to his friends as “Mac” for MacCoy Long, but as a nickname was not very elegant. Also as I might be confused with my grandfather, I was called “Max.” The middle name, “Freedom,” was given to me as a heritage from an uncle of that name – on the Diffendarfer, my mother’s, side of the family. Uncle Freedom had been born in Civil War times and had been given his name in honor of the freeing of the slaves which was done by proclamation by President Lincoln at about the time of my uncle’s birth. Many years later, when I tried my hand at writing murder mysteries, I signed them “Max Long,” and, when I came to write about kahunas, not wanting to get the two lines of writing mixed up, I signed the Huna books Max Freedom Long.

Perhaps, now that we have found Huna hidden in the teachings of Jesus, the middle name can assume a bit of significance in so far as a new freedom from the present churchly mass of dogmatic beliefs may be offered. Personally, the freedom from the old dogmas was long since attained simply by refusing to accept them. However, there are many still held and hampered by the ideas that were injected into Christianity, and who would be much more clear-seeing if they could be freed and given back the teachings as they were originally presented. Slogan: “Freedom through Huna” what?

THE TEST FOR DOGMA has been lacking for centuries. Men have been unable to decide what belonged in Christianity and what did not. Now that we have Huna for our criterion of truth, we have but to look at the translation of the New Testament into the language of kahunas to see whether or not certain passages are in keeping with Huna or have been added at a later date by those who knew nothing of Huna.

FOR INSTANCE, take the dogma of the virgin birth of Jesus. We know that virgin birth was assigned to many of the sacred teachers in ancient times, and for this reason conclude that it was, even if true to fact, no proof that Jesus was the only teacher to be born of a virgin and a paternal divine being. The Huna test is simple. The basic word for virgin, in the language of the Secret, is puupaa (from the Hawaiian translation of the book of Matthew, 2:23). The meaning is simple and direct, it being that of a woman whose generative organs are still “closed.” There are no secondary meanings in the roots of the word to indicate that this matter of virginity has anything to do with the truths of Huna.

THE HOLY GHOST, said to have fathered Jesus, was unknown in the Old Testament, and it is highly improbable that it would have come into the picture before the birth of Jesus. In any event, it was the Holy Spirit which was mentioned later in the New Testament, and the word “ghost” is borrowed from the Germanic languages and is not to be found in the Huna vocabularies where even Holy Spirit is a term that must be made up instead of taken from the language of kahunas. The only holy Spirit or “self” in Huna is the Aumakua, and it is certainly not a male angel such as appears in the account given by Luke of the events which took place before the birth of John and Jesus.

WE CONCLUDE that, regardless of the truth of the virgin birth, there is no Huna or SECRET meaning hidden there for us to understand and to use in our efforts to free ourselves from sins, complexes and obsessional influences so that we can make better contact with the Aumakua. The word for “holy” is hemo`lele, however, and this will tell us what the Aumakua, as the Holy Spirit or Self, does as its significant part in our lives. It loosens (hemo) and it lets something rise upward, (lele). The thing to be loosened is the blocking in the path, in other words, the complex, fixation or obsessional influence, or the sense of guilt – anything that prevents the Aunihipili from making contact along the aka cord of connection – the “path” – with the Aumakua or Holy Spirit. From the word for “holy” we see that the Aumakua has something very definite to do about unblocking the path, and in the foot-washing rite established by Jesus (already discussed in detail in earlier Bulletins), we have the explanation of HOW the path is opened by the Aumakua after being supplied with mana by the one doing the foot-washing and presenting the request for the opening.

I am working steadily on these many meanings and will, in time, be able to give you a more full report on the changes which are to be made by checking Christian dogmas with Huna originals. The whole picture of the teachings and ministry of Jesus changes when one knows the meanings hidden behind the externals. I can state confidently that Jesus did not die for the sins of mankind – the sins originating with Adam. A belief in Jesus as a personal savior is not mandatory to attain salvation. The kahunas taught the same way of salvation many centuries earlier. Salvation depends on individual understanding, on growth into a hurtless way of life, and on the clearing of the path and the restoration of normal relationship with the Aumakua.

ANOTHER FREEDOM offered by the application of the test of Huna to Christianity, is freedom from slavish worship of a man or a personality. Once given the basic outline of Huna beliefs, (be they right or wrong) the TEACHING becomes a thing apart from the MAN. What I am trying to say is that it makes no difference whether one believes that Jesus never existed or not. It makes no difference WHO taught Huna, or when or where or how. All that matters is that we come in some way to understand Huna and, if we find it worth our consideration and testing, that we try it out. The same thing must be said of any psychological or religious system. In fact, the morals of all religions, once separated from the dogmatic beliefs which cannot be proven or disproves, are much alike. All systems agree that man should cease to hurt man. Some add the command that man should also be kind to all living things, taking no life under any circumstances. Huna offers a sane point of view on this last matter, showing that as animals, the man has to live in the animal world and be subject to the law of survival of the fittest. On the levels of the Auhane and Aumakua, he must live in accord with the rules which he may conclude apply on those levels. Fortunately, most men are sufficiently sane and practical not to be misled by the “teaching” presented from various sources, such as those that make a certain cult in India allow vermin to live in the hair for fear of sinning if sanitary measures are taken. (Blessed be sanity, also sanitation!)

A PECULIAR THING has been noticed in the study of Dr. Brunler’s work with the Brunler-Bovis Biometer readings. While the level of evolution or soul intelligence or whatever it may be, may vary largely from person to person and may range from the average reading of 250 degrees to the great height of 725 occupied by top-level individuals, they have one thing in which all seem equally endowed. This thing is the ability and tendency to hold to a given belief – once it has been accepted – with a death grip, and not to allow anyone to change it without a last ditch struggle. This strange characteristic seems to account for the apparent lack of ability to use ordinary reasoning powers to examine the dogmatic beliefs of religion. It makes not the slightest difference whether such a person lives up to his set beliefs or not. He may believe utterly in certain dogmas, practice not a fraction of the things commanded by those dogmas, and still make war furiously on anyone who questions them. As human beings we are, indeed, “terribly and wonderfully made” – especially when it comes to the head and heart, especially the latter, it being the Aunihipili which loves its complexed beliefs to the bitter end.

THE HRA IS SPLIT TO SOME EXTENT on dogmas. Here at the center I may get several letters in the same mail, each one bringing me comments on the late discovery of Huna-in-Bible, and each from one holding more or less to a different set of dogmas or angles of belief or disbelief. A number of HRAs have been lost from the fold because they objected in no uncertain terms to having the Bible meanings (as they understood and accepted them) tampered with. To some it was “the word of God” and woe betide any M.F.L. who dared question a word of it. On the other end of the line might be a good HRA who had long discarded the Bible for something else, and who would not tolerate any approach that seemed to suggest that there might be an iota of truth in the Bible – not even if it were Huna. Others have written with much heart-burning to object that I should have found Huna in the religious teachings and writings which they accepted as utterly and exclusively valid. I have striven to be reasonable in all cases, and have examined several religious systems with care trying to find Huna hidden in them, but up to this time, I have failed. Over and over I have explained that my pet interest is Huna, and that I am engaged in the task of trying to run down its sources and hidden meanings in as orderly a research and experimental process as I can manage. I am very happy to say that only a very few HRAs have failed so far to be able to approach the Huna research with an open mind and to reserve judgment as to its validity or usefulness until such a time as our studies and tests have been completed or at least have been carried to the point at which we can decide whether or not the search is worth continuing.

It must be admitted that open minds and ability to make the cool and careful approach of a student and researcher is rare in the extreme. The vast majority of men and women accept some teaching offered by some “teacher” or other, very seldom demanding valid proofs of source materials, and closing their minds thereafter to any contrary belief. It is because of the rarity of open minds that I value so highly the members of the HRA. To me they represent the hope of humanity. They prove that there actually are men and women in the world who are still able to make such an approach as we are making to tangled and often contradictory materials. My hat is very much off to 992 of you. To the remaining Ω% I can only say that perhaps some day we can discover something that will give us instant healing and swift answers to prayer, and that, when and if we do, we can forget differences in theories and share the benefits of working methods. I might add: While we are searching for something workable, how about trying to be kind, if nothing more? There are so many other painful things to be faced in life that it seems hardly reasonable to go out of the way to find discomfort in the resentments we foster against those who do not happen to agree with our views or beliefs.

HUNA DIRECTORY ADDITIONS

• No. 59. Mrs. Hazel Marsh, Box 81, Airway Heights, Wash. Interested in psychology and new approaches such as those of E Therapy
• No. 60. Mr. Bond Collier, Box 303, Pickney 2, Mich. Seasoned HRA who wants in on the list and writes, “I may be missing something.”

GHOST OF SCIENTOLOGY is the new name given his letter releases by HRA Clem Johnson, Boca Grande, Fla. No, this is not a letter to conduct psychical research into any ghostly remains of L.Ron Hubbard’s “Scientology” (which replaced his “Dianetics”). Clem used to publish a journal named “Ghost,” full title, “Boca Grande Journal Ghost,” survivor of the Journal itself. The new “Ghost” will soon be printed on a spirit duplicator (which seems quite in keeping) and is sent to those interested in this special line of investigation without cost. This, by the way, is very generous of Clem. Issue No. 2, he tells me, cost 60¢ per copy to send out, not counting time, stamps or envelopes. Clem is much engaged studying Scientology, using a big E-meter, and doing his best to sort out and test the materials in that field and pass on his finding to the rest of us. He deserves the heartiest thanks we can give him and the warmest encouragement.

The “GHOST” gives a fine digest of Huna in the issue of December 3rd, also a chart of the tone scale of Scientology as Clem sees it. Here is a quote from page one in which Clem answers a letter from one of the “Ghost’s” correspondents: “Yes of course we are still interested in Dianetics, but we feel that one should, by all means, take up Scientology, as the processing is so much faster and easier than the processing used during the Dianetics period. It is estimated that it is over twenty times faster, but the main thing is that Dianetics processing is said not to last, but will charge up again. I have definitely found this to be true in my own case. Whole track auditing gets at the basic incidents which may be hundreds of BILLIONS of years ago. Dr. Hubbard now says that Dianetics produces only meager results when addressed to this life only, while Scientology, with the use of ‘Black & White’ and ‘Constant Running’ addressed to the WHOLE TRACK brings amazing results within a very short period of time.”

THE EIDETIC FOUNDATION (P.O. Box 345, Fairhope, Ala.) with two valued HRAs in the organization, has recently sent me a mimeo unit by Ronald B. Howes, Ph. D., famous Dianetics “clear,” who seems to have joined those who have elected not to follow Mr. Hubbard into Scientology but to invent their own “techniques” and theories. The unit just mentioned is titled “SELF-AWARENESS TECHNIQUES.” I would say that it proposes some excellent methods by which one may become more acquainted with the Aunihipili and its ways of reacting.

The Eidetics Foundation calls its teaching “NEXOLOGY” and is busy organizing groups here and there in which the system may be studied and applied. I have received Part One of the “BASIC COURSE IN NEXOLOGY,” (Lessons 1 through 5), and find it very well mimeographed and nicely bound in a stiff cover with edges all well. trimmed. For a system that does not recognize either the subconscious or such things as the complex, this is a very interesting approach to the problem of working over our mental attitudes and bringing them up to the best possible level or condition.

MARKHAM HOUSE PRESS, LTD., (31 Kings Road, London S.W.3., England), will be happy to send a list of their publications on request. They deal with many subjects including pendulum matters, metaphysics and little known theories and healing methods. I have just received for review a 2 shilling booklet, THE EVOLUTION OF MATTER, which will interest those with a scientific turn of mind. It deals with modern concepts of the place of the atom in the scheme of things. A one shilling booklet called, QUICK AID FREE HEALING, deals with the use of the pendulum to find out trouble spots in the body – these then to be treated with the natural current of force found (with the pendulum) to flow around a loop of insulated wire. Drawings illustrate the simple techniques, and instances of successful healing are given. A thin booklet at six pence is GASTONBURY, by Egerton Sykes, telling of the lost parts of the Abbey which has been the subject of much interest in the psychic world of late. For those interested in an effort to reconcile the views of Blavatsky and the scientist, Hoerbiger, there is a larger booklet for two shillings sixpence, BLAVATSKY & HOERBIGER. In this one, the Secret Doctrine is discussed first, and the end of the discussion is based on the Book of Revelations. Owing to the difference in exchange rates, this complete set may be had, post paid for a dollar bill. Much interesting reading and food for speculative thought as well as a good description of a unique healing method to be studied and tried out. (If you find time to try it, please let me know the outcome.)

HRAs George and Helen Sandwich who have left Samoa and Fiji to go on to Australia after much very fine investigational work with fire-walking and the mana-charged stones and ikon-like objects, may presently be addressed care of The Bank of New South Wales, George St., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia. They recently obtained for our collection a set of pictures of a ceremony known as the “Ratib.” It is performed by East Indian residents of Fiji who belong to the Mohammedan faith. Mr. Abdul Rahiman Manu, J.P. and prominent resident of those parts, was kind enough to give information on the rite, it being in a way similar to the fire-walking ceremonies performed for centuries by people of the same race but who embrace a different religion and direct their prayers to a different version of Higher Being. Instead of protection from burning, protection from cutting is prayed for and obtained. The rite, in this case, was performed by a man from India who was helped by the local congregation. Here are the captions furnished to go with the seven pictures: [These pictures are not available with this bulletin.]

(1) The photo shows the people sitting down after finishing a prayer from the Holy Quran. (Koran.) They are about to read the history concerning the birth of the Prophet, Mohammed, and the start of Islam.

(2) This was taken after the prayer had been made and the reading finished. The man seated on the floor before the knives, swords and dagger-like instruments, is an authorized person from India who is about to undertake the Ratib ceremony.

(3) This shows the first part of the actual Ratib. More prayers are being recited and small hand drums are beaten.

(4) In this picture the performer has come to the priest, and he wants to play with the knives while the drumming is going on. The drumming will not cease until the Maulvi (or priest) stops it.

(5) This shows the performer lying (folded limply, with body bare and the blade of the long sword pressing into his middle) on a sharp steel knife (held by a man at either end of the long blade, at about four feet from the floor) while a man is jumping on the top of him. (The weight of both men is made to press the bare flesh against the sharp edge of the blade. The feet and dangling arms of the performer do not touch the floor.)

(6) The performer is standing with bare feet on a very sharp knife.

(7) The performer leans forward and presses his throat against the point of the very sharp dagger. (He is in no way injured at any time during the performance, and this is taken to indicate that the prayers have been heard.)

COMMENT: From the letters which I have received from the Sandwiths concerning the unmistakable protection obtained for the persons participating in the fire-walking and Ratib rites, I begin to share their feeling that we of the West are rank amateurs when it comes to making our religious or psychological beliefs work in a real and impressive way. One is reminded of the old saying, “Seeing is believing.” Again, our warm thanks to these HRA investigators.

BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN there appears no censorship on research of the kind we do in Huna in the field of the psychologies and religions. Letters come out freely and the HRA Bulletins arrive, even if the mails are slow for them. Some of you have enjoyed correspondence in the past with HRA Mila Liscova-Novakova, who has just sent her Christmas greetings and a letter of excellent opinions concerning the Huna work. She has a new address, please note. It is: 48 Engelsove Nabrezi 48, Prague II – 388, Czechoslovakia, Europe. I am sure she would appreciate hearing from any of you. The enclosure of a dollar in your letter would be most appreciated, I am sure. Stamps cost considerable for letters of reply, and resources are limited. She translated some of the Huna materials into her own language from the English a few years ago, so do not hesitate to write her in English. She also appreciates books as gifts.

LANDSLIDE VOTE FOR EISENHOWER seems to have been predicted in my dream reported in Bulletin 90, page 3, as interpreted by HRA O. Bond Collier, who writes: “The slides obviously meant a landslide, as you interpreted it, but your George also told you even more plainly who it was, by means of the ice or eis, as – Eis in Eisenhower.” That is perfectly clear, once one sees it. The trouble is in the seeing, not the dreaming. I nominate O. Bond C. for the position of official dream reader for the HRA.

HOO`LA AND REV, JESSIE CURL (HRA) recently visited San Diego and were happy to find that a patient so far along with cancer of the breast that she contemplated doing away with herself, had been completely healed in the one treatment given her. Another patient (who wrote me a short letter telling of his experience) had been completely and permanently healed in one treatment. He had suffered for a year and a half with skin poisoning which medical treatment had failed to help. I am very anxious for us of the HRA to get on the point at which we can test out the foot-washing rite offered by Jesus to see if we can help those in need of healing to get their fixations and spirit obsessional influences cleared away. It seems very reasonable to believe that it is only the blocking of this kind in the aka “path” of contact with the Aumakua which prevents successful healing in all cases. Or, we may find that if the complexes are removed, by the utilization of the E Therapy or similar methods, healing can follow.

It is evident that the ability of the spirit guide, Hoo`la and his friends to heal is genuine. If this is so, there must be something in the patient which prevents the healing from taking place when healing fails. As all kinds of ills have been cured, the block must be mental or spiritual rather than physical in nature. This brings us right back to the complex, the sense of guilt, the influence of “eating companion” spirits or lack of either faith or of a sufficient supply of available mana for use in making the changes to bring the normal condition. On the other hand, healing should, theoretically at least, be available as a direct answer to the Huna-type prayer, once the contact with the Aumakua is reestablished by unblocking the path. I believe the time is fast approaching when we will have completed our efforts to finish our research in this direction. I also feel very certain that we are on the right track and that the anticipated results will be obtained. It is probable, however, that there will always be the need of healers to help those who have little idea of what lies behind the scenes in Huna healing.

WE SHALL SERVE, EACH ACCORDING TO HIS GIFT

So predicts HRA A.J.L of Everett, Wash. He quotes from Paul’s letters to the Corinthians, and while there seems to have been a distinct lack of Huna knowledge on the part of Paul, this passage seems to fit the situation. I quote: (Cor. 12:8.) “For this man, perhaps, is given through the Spirit philosophical reasoning; but to another, by means of the same Spirit, comprehension of thought; and to a different person faith by the same Spirit; while to another gifts of healing by means of the same Spirit; and to another a genius for government; while to another eloquence; to another discernment of character; and to another a genius for languages, and to another talent for translating languages.” (Fenton translation.)

PHYSICAL AIDS TO THE REMOVAL OF THE COMPLEX have been found most useful by Dr. A.J.P. who writes: “To my own satisfaction I have proved that most complexes and obsessions have a physical as well as a mental origin and that they can be corrected by proper physical means. When there is an interference to the flow of mental impulses between the brain and the periphery, an abnormal expression will result. This abnormal result or expression may be called anything in the book, the name matters little, the big thing is to find the interference and to correct it. When this is accomplished, a higher rate of vibration will result and normalcy will again be attained; all functions working in harmony to express health.

“Even if the complexes are cleared, the body must then be refined and spiritualized so that it can be used by the Aumakua for its expression. The Aumakua is limited by the vibratory rate of the body through which it has to express. If I am wrong in this, I shall be glad to know it. Methinks that Dianetics, Eidetics, E Therapy practitioners are going to be disappointed when their enthusiasm has been exhausted. I do not care to find fault or to criticize, but over thirty years of experience has given me a different perspective on this subject.”

Comment: HRA Dr. A.T. Westlake, in England, wrote some time ago to say that he believed we were on the verge of finding physical aids to the removal of the complex. I take it that he had in mind the radiation methods of stimulating glands to bring them up to normal functioning. Gradually the gap is closing between the strictly physical methods of healing and the mental-spiritual. It seems inevitable that a combined or composite therapy will one day be worked out and perfected.

ROUND ROBIN magazine is out again with a most interesting issue. The choice morsel is news of the landing of a flying saucer in California at a spot near Desert Center. A mixed party of people first saw a cigar-shaped object, then one of the party, Prof.  Adamski, left the party and went apart about 12 miles. A saucer landed near him and out stepped a man resembling a Chinese and speaking English as well as some other language. He left footprints, these having strange designs imprinted by the soles of his shoes. The designs are illustrated in the release for all to try to figure out. Interesting – if true.

SPECIAL VACATION (MAYBE) NOTICE

If you do not get your next HRA Bulletin at the usual time, you may safely conclude that it is being skipped and that Cigbo and I are taking a bit of vacation – first for months.
(TMHG daily at regular hours.)  MFL