Letters and Comments

October 1, 1955

 

THE NEW BOOK, GROWING INTO LIGHT, is out and the response to it has been warm and gratifying. Let me know how you come along with the exercises aimed at training the Aunihipili, if you have a copy and take seriously the work of arriving at a fuller working contact with the Aumakua. There may be things which I have set forth as part of my own beliefs and slants on things, but which you may not find matching your own. Take what is yours, and let the rest go. For instance, one good HRA objects to working to overcome fear for the children when polio is going the rounds. He believes firmly that we should follow a special diet and in this way prevent the taking of polio rather than to try to do anything about it or the fear of it later. On the whole the objections are minor and the praise and agreement is large.

THE VISTA HOME PLACE AND ITS PROJECTS makes for happy news here in the early Fall, with the nights growing colder, leaves falling and a tang in the air between the shortening days of warm sunshine. The battle to clear the grove of wild berry bushes continues. Some dead avocado trees are in the process of being turned into firewood for the new stove which has been placed on the long screened porch where windows are being hung on loose-pin hinges for winter use. The summer gardens are about gone after a very happy time with them all summer. The melons were a joy and my long dream of having a melon patch was well realized. Aumakuas have been more than kind on all scores. With winter, the irrigation of the grove will stop and more time can be found to get on with the booklets and things which are planned. We still need badly to have a “time stretcher,” and beg our visiting friends to limit their calls to ten minutes if possible. Best to make a date for a call rather than to drop in and find certain things in work which cannot be dropped, or other callers having their ten minutes.

OBJECTIONS HAVE BEEN MADE to my idea that we may pray for the release from the physical for one unable to get well and who suffers pain. One good HRA reminded me that she had been carrying on a useful life for some years although badly crippled and almost constantly in pain. Her thought is that we have no right to decide for another whether the passing should be requested or not. In my prayer for release, I do not have in mind those who wish to stay on and have a love of life, even if painful. I pray, “If they cannot be healed, and if they so desire, please make their passing swift and easy.” I hope that you will so pray for me should I come to the place where I have need of such help. In passing, I might remind you all that in Huna, the Aumakua, who alone can answer such a prayer, will do no evil even if we should make the mistake of praying for something out of line. Huna is far removed from “black magic.”

THIS IS A LETTER AND COMMENT BULLETIN

Your many fine letters have accumulated in my file and I only wish I could reproduce them all and comment on each. They contain news of experiments, individual tests of Huna, and are interesting in no end of ways. They also show me how easy it is to forget Huna and to ask questions which have been answered at length in my books or Bulletins – but which need to be answered again as a review. Huna is so comprehensive that it is difficult to remember all its details.

A SUCCESS STORY was recently reported by HRA L. DeV., now living in Nevada. Forgetting that I have hammered away for some years on the Huna demand that one make a picture of what one wants and plans to pray for, and that, once the picture is made, it must be protected against thoughts of doubt or fear or change until it is materialized – forgetting my hammering on that point, HRA DeV. wrote to tell me he had discovered something new.

He had made his picture, and then taken great pains not to think of old failures or the chances of not having his picture materialized into fact. He had been so intent on this effort that he had neglected to pray for higher help in the matter and had never once accumulated and sent a charge of mana to the Aumakua.

BUT HE GOT WHAT HE HAD WANTED. Delightedly he wrote to me to ask that I pass on his new method to the HRA in general. Then he asked, “IS IT NECESSARY TO PRAY OR SEND THE MANA TO THE Aumakua? HOW ABOUT THIS?”

MY COMMENT: As I explained in my books and Bulletins several times, Aumakuas automatically make contact with the lower pair of selves, taking mana from them to use, and also taking the thought-form pictures of their plans, desires, hopes and fears, these forming the mixed picture of the individual’s aspirations, and being used in building the future. It seemed to kahunas to be an automatic process because the “free will” of the lower pair of selves could not be encroached upon – they must be allowed to learn by experience.

This automatic process allowed “the thing that I have feared to come upon me,” as we read in the Bible. It also allowed all the good things planned and hoped for to come as the future was made by the Aumakua or under its guidance in the realms of Mother Nature, who has her own laws governing all material things. To keep out of the picture any doubt or fear was, in ancient times, and in Huna, TO HOLD THE FAITH properly. HRA L. De V. learned that, in making plans, one invariably measures the chances of failure, and that care must be taken, once the plan has been decided upon, not to think long on the possibility of failure. He instantly changes his thought if he finds it is one of failure, and finds that he is getting excellent results. That is as it should be.

However, for those for whom the simple “holding of the right thought picture” does not get results, the simple formula is not enough. The Aunihipili must be searched for complexes or for evil “eating companion” spirits who exert a bad influence. If the slowness of getting the prayer answered is great, the Aumakua must be furnished with more than the small amount of mana it draws from the lower man automatically, This is what Huna tells us.

In modern times the swing back to the cult of what I call SIMPLIFICATION is seen in the many books which promise a way to get any desired thing just by picturing it and by “believing that it will come to pass.” Writers of these very popular books have simplified the process by dropping out prayer to a higher being of any kind. They have dropped the idea that there is a subconscious self which holds complexes and feelings of guilt which will prevent it from feeling that it deserves the good things. It has dropped the old idea that one had to be good to deserve an answer to prayer, and so one could stop praying and go on hurting others, and still have all good things just by BELIEVING that they would come as desired. The simplification has been accepted by thousands who would have refused to try to understand a more complicated system.

Needless to say, the problem of why prayers were not answered has been the subject of speculation and writing for many centuries. The SIMPLIFICATION cult formula works very badly except for success here and there. New Thought and the “Science of…” religions of modern time, where “holding the right thought” is all that is preached, have not lived up to their promise. The reaction comes when failure comes instead of success, and the search is renewed for the reasons for failure. This takes us right back to what may be called the “Cults of COMPLICATION,” of which Huna is the most complete and the most complicated. Christianity, coming from the Huna sources originally, retained the complications to a certain degree, but lost the valuable mechanisms of handling the Aunihipili. This loss was a bad hole in the dyke. It has been stuffed with more and more dogmas, but still leaks.

THE NEED OF PROVIDING MANA FOR THE AUMAKUA

[This] is a continuation of the answer being given above, but it deserves a separate heading and will in part supply an answer to another HRA who recently asked for more Bulletin material to explain the hidden Huna items in the Bible.

OBLATIONS were based on the ancient Huna belief that mana must be accumulated and sent consciously to the Aumakua if one wished to progress beyond the uncertain or “automatic” method of letting Aumakuas build the future, slowly and in a hit-and-miss manner from changing thoughts, plans and fears.

The SYMBOL for MANA was water. An oblation was at first an act of pouring water on the ground before taking one’s drink. This symbolized to the person initiated into Huna, the great secret fact that the answers to prayers could be hastened to the point of becoming the instantly materialized miracle by providing enough mana or water to grow the seeds of the thought-form picture of the thing desired – to grow it fast. The giving of mana was the one and only gift or sacrifice known to Huna. It was the key secret of Huna magic. But this secret was gradually lost in circles where it was once known. Wine or other fluids were used for oblations. The mistaken idea was developed that the gods actually drank or were nourished by the wine, and so they were also offered food each time a meal was taken. Today we give thanks at the beginning of the meal, but offer neither food nor drink.

THE MANA OBLATION was offered through the Aunihipili and at the command of the Auhane. In the Hermetic “SECRET SERMON ON THE MOUNTAIN” (Page 232-233, 2nd vol. G.R.S. Mead’s book, THRICE GREATEST HERMES) we find a passage giving a veiled reference to the Huna secret. The character, Hermes, is instructing Tat in the matter of the most secret knowledge. He has touched on the need to praise the Aumakua as “Mind,” and he has spoken of the necessity of OFFERING AN OBLATION. He adds, “Send thou oblations … through the Word.”

In the veiled writings we find a confusing number of meanings apparently attached to the word “logos” or “Word,” but a close study indicates that the lesser trinity or “man” (in contrast with God as the higher Trinity), is made up of Mind, Reason and the Word, or, as we say in Huna today, the Aumakua, the Auhane or reasoner, and the Aunihipili or one who voices the physical words which embody the rationalized thought picture or prayer as sent to the Aumakua. The Auhane makes the prayer picture and gives it as a memory to the Aunihipili. It is recalled frequently and repeated, at the same time an “oblation” of mana is sent BY or THROUGH the Aunihipili, which speaks the words and whose name is, “The Word.”

As Christianity grew from its simple beginnings, and as its writings absorbed the materials of the Gnosis and Hermetic writings of the period, we find Jesus described as “The Word.” As such, he represented the Aunihipili before men of the initiate group. And in the veiled command to offer all prayers to god THROUGH Jesus or “in my name,” we see plainly the command to offer the prayer or worded picture of things desired, and the oblation or gift of mana through the Word or Aunihipili.

THE EXPERIENCE OF INITIATES of the centuries may well be said to focus on one great discovery, fact or truth, this being that faster and more certain answers might be had to the prayer of faith (made by a good and uncomplexed person) when the gift of mana was accumulated and offered. It may be objected, of course, that Huna and all related systems were wrong, and that prayers made without the sending of mana are good enough. It follows that prayers need not be made to a Higher Being. One just holds the proper mental picture to the exclusion of all other thoughts, and waits for the automatic reaction which will come from some vague and perhaps unconscious source which knows neither good nor evil. PROGRESS in the field of workable “BELIEF,” metaphysics or the psycho-religions is NOT to be made by going back. It is made by moving away from Cultish SIMPLICITY toward the greatest possible COMPLICATIONS, and the best and most reasonable set of these is to be found in Huna.

A LETTER FROM HRA HOWARD CLARK, of Yucca Valley, California, commented on the series of articles in LIFE covering several great religions. (Mentioned in Bulletin 113) My attention was called to a small book of the Signet series, written by Joseph Gaer, titled HOW THE GREAT RELIGIONS BEGAN. It may be found on the news stands for 25cents or may be had post paid by mail for 301d by sending that amount with your order to THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY OF WORLD LITERATURE, INC., 501 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y. HRA Clark kindly sent me a copy and I found it most delightful and very instructive reading. It deals with the history of the great religions and their founders in a completely unbiased and sympathetic way. The Huna elements are, naturally, not recognized, but all else is most satisfying. Don’t miss this great treat – a mental feast.

FINGERPRINTS SHOW WHETHER WE ARE GOOD OR BAD, declares Dr. Anthony Canepa, of Rome, Italy, in a clipping sent in by HRA Ada Ferguson of California. He claims that his system reveals the fact that we are born with good and bad tendencies and that these show even in the fingerprints of babies. From the fingerprints he can sort the criminal goats from the good sheep. He suggests the use of his methods in hiring people and in dealing with strangers. 100% accuracy is also claimed in sorting unidentified fingerprints set before him by U.S. police departments to select the honest people and indicate the criminals. He also sorts according to the degree of goodness or badness… This duplicates the performance given by the late Dr. Oscar Brunler, using signatures instead of fingerprints, and taking the measurements or “readings” with the Brunler Bovis Biometer – a method which we of the HRA tested exhaustively and found fairly accurate and most valuable. Accuracy depends on the skill of the reader. One wonders whether or not Dr. Canepa swings a pendulum over the prints to get the reading, as is done with the Biometer (or without it). Little by little we may see these measuring instruments which depend on our psychic faculties come into their own. (Perhaps I am quite wrong in jumping to the conclusion that the actual markings on the fingerprints do not indicate of themselves what the Biometer indicates by purely psychic means. However, Dr. Canepa could so easily have said that the marks did the indicating, if such had been the case.) (See original report in FATE magazine of August, Pg. 65.)

CAN YOU “SENSE AN ATMOSPHERE” IN OR AROUND A PLACE? If you can and have, then Mr. and Mrs. George Sandwith (both HRAs) invite you to write to them of your experiences, at c/o Burns Philip Trust Company, Ltd., 7, Bridge Street, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia. They will wish your permission to give your experiences, if they are of the sort wanted, in a new book they are writing about the peculiar matter of a strange “atmosphere” hanging around places, large and small, even around people and objects. Their present project is to try to learn the nature of such “atmospheres,” how they come to be, and how they can be cleared out, if bad. I quote from their letter: “What do people mean when they refer to an unpleasant atmosphere in Board Room, office or factory? Or a happy home with a “wonderful” atmosphere? Can a bad atmosphere be changed to a good one? Are there atmospheres for success or failure? Are these psychic aethers which center on or around places and things? …….They have just finished a long study of the Avebury ruins in England. HRA Dr. Westlake was in on part of this study and is also much interested in the matter of psychic atmosphere such as seemed to cling to the old ruins.

COMMENT: There is the common explanation that spirits fasten themselves to ruins, places, things and people. These are sensed by people with good psychic ability, and the good can be told from the evil by the “feel” of their invisible presence or atmosphere. But there may be far more to it than this. HRA George Sandwith, as readers of the Bulletins will remember, has done much valuable work testing sacred stones and other things in the Islands of the South Pacific. He is psychic and is equipped with a spirit guide who is resident by some connection, (aka cord) in or around a carved wooden crucifixion scene 400 years old – an “ikon.” He uses Aurameters, Biometers, and Kilner-type viewing screens through which auras may be viewed and studied. He also uses the pendulum expertly. His wife is similarly gifted and able in the matter of such investigations. Together they have written a large and a small book, the latter a most exciting account of their work in Fiji. (Both were reviewed and announced in the Bulletins.) The two small ivory statuettes which they blessed into icon vibration in connection with George’s ancient Ethiopian icon are in use here at the Study as a possible aid in the TMHG healing work (as is the potentized oil painting made and presented by HRA Mrs. Kingsley Tarpey of London). (It is difficult to say how much these things aid in getting the help requested from the GREAT COMPANY OF AUMAKUAS in the TMHG work, but no stone is left unturned and they are used, hopefully and expectantly. Several HRA visitors have reported feeling strong and good “atmospheres” around them, and HRA Verne Cameron found strong and very definite radiation forms running out or up from them, his tests being made with his Aurameter, an instrument so sensitive that it can find and outline a thought-form picture of some imaginary object placed, as on table or shelf. HRA Cameron, by the way, is very anxious to get out an enlarged reprint of his book on this instrument and related matters. His water dowsing has been increasingly successful, and he now dowses for oil and has also come to map dowsing, something he did not do a few years back. He gave HRA Sandwith his Aurameter and taught him to use it.)

HELP FOR LIGHT OBSESSION or being bothered by spirits in various ways has been reported by HRA J.B., who also reports help through the TMHG, writing in part, “…Things are improved. I distinctly heard you enunciate my name at one 3 o’clock session. The other help has come from a doctor (D.C.) in San Jose, Calif., whose name will be sent on request if help is needed. Her treatment is described as, ‘ …the application of a stimulating current of electricity, applied with an electrode to specific nerve areas of the head. This gives a mild, not uncomfortable shock to the patient that leaves him relaxed and induces refreshing, much needed sleep, increases the vigor and greatly aids in repelling entities, eventually discouraging habitation.'” I mention this because a month seldom passes but that at least one person writes asking what possible help can be found for light obsession troubles. If the one in trouble has a strong will and will fight, the trouble can eventually be ended. In most cases the victim will not fight, often being set on letting the spirits take over more and more. Only individuals of good normal health and excellent will and personality patterns (Biometrically speaking) should keep contact with spirits. Those of weak wills and natural mediumistic characteristics should avoid such things as very great and very real dangers.

LETTING HIS AUNIHIPILI SAY WHAT THE REMEDY SHOULD BE for various ills, has been successful in some instances, reports HRA V.F. from Australia. He uses the pendulum and asks his Aunihipili what will cure the trouble of the moment for him or a friend or relative. He goes over lists of things which might be taken, done, avoided, and so on, getting the affirmative swing when the right thing is mentioned, and then continuing to get all possible details. He successfully uncovered the cure for gout, which had attacked him now and then for years. Other successes were mentioned, and a few failures, amongst the latter an attempt to use a Aunihipili remedial directive to heal cancer in its advanced stage in an elderly male relative. He continues his testing project enthusiastically and seems to do better as time passes.

HRA J. R. FELT THE TMHG POWER STRONGLY, after writing to ask for help following a severe operation. She writes, “3 P.M. (The DEG Time) I feel obliged to tell you that within the last few minutes… and still continuing, I am aware of a perceptible and unexpected increase of life, energy – and something else quite indescribable, a pleasant improvement. I hope that I may keep it up.” Aumakuas are so very kind to us when we open the door to their loving help.

FROM THE NOTES OF A BRITISH STUDENT, NOW DEAD: Experts were sent recently by one who formerly knew him well and respected him greatly for his insight. He had read my first book on Huna and commented on parts of it in his notes and letters. I select random passages to pass on here. “Fancy Max Long hitting on the truth of dreams which come by day. I am even to this very day continually recognizing one, which comes suddenly, not during a doze but with hardly a blink, I suddenly see a shadowy scene which has no reference to my daily life, and may I say to you, that these waking dreams are not the product of a disordered imagination but are very ‘real’ in the sense that a sleep-time dream is real. Good old Max Long for putting it into print! Now I may talk about any future waking dream without fear of what you might think. The rest of the world can go hang as far as that and we are concerned.

“Long’s book has within its covers much of what we have been spending years in abstracting from other sources. The Super conscious is very easy to control once you have discovered the practical knack of transferring the consciousness. Here is a hint to help you overcome your difficulty with transferring your consciousness to the top of your head: Arch your eyebrows to the physical limit, at the same time letting the eyelids drop shut lightly. Do not squeeze them shut. Then try to force the blood to pulse at the top of the head until the backs of your eyes hurt. Just a few seconds for a start will do. No need to try casting out your thoughts. Once you acquire the physical knack, they will disappear. But you remain conscious of externals, and so to avoid distractions, get to a silent place for this work Not until you ‘come round’ do you realize that you have succeeded in contacting the Super conscious. Proof of success comes when results begin to show, but the process is risky because you can never be sure just what thought you are carrying into the Super conscious (in this way). It may well NOT be what you intended.” (The friend who sent these excerpts to me, adds, “I, too, have found this to be true from a curious experience I had at the end of 1945, at which time I was experimenting along these lines.”)

Comment: In these notes I see that the method described above for making contact with the Super conscious is one “learned from Goddard,” whoever he may have been. I had mentioned a similar method in my book, in which one tenses the jaw, tongue and palate muscles until the ears roar, and then holds this tensing as if by so doing the center of consciousness in the base of the brain were being forced up to the top. The eyes were lightly closed. This, I had found, seemed to cut off the trains of thought running through the mind and leave a mental blankness of sorts. It was also a good method for use in quieting the Aunihipili if it was tangled in some circle of worry and refused to let go of it, especially at night.

… 40% CORRECT ANSWERS in the telepathic game identifying the objects in boxes,” reports HRA C.S. from Pennsylvania in a recent letter. “I find my subconscious or ‘Subby,’ as I call her, is fascinated with the game. Instead of boxes, I use identical cups. I have found that when I consciously use ‘The Father’ to help me, and relax more, I get the best results. Without the help of  The Father, I average only about one-third correct.”

A NEW HRA REJOICES AT HAVING DISCOVERED HUNA “For the past month I’ve felt an equanimity of mind never before experienced,” writes HRA E.M.B. from Hawaii where he and some fellow army musicians have been into Huna from every possible direction during the summer. He continues, “This is a wonderful mental improvement, for since childhood, I’ve had a philosophy that would make Schopenhauer look like an optimist. The old doubts occasionally manifest themselves, but not painfully. This also includes doubting the wisdom and goodness of the Aumakua. Consequently I am now undergoing an orientation program to develop a healthy attitude. All literature on Huna research has been helpful.”

Comment: One of the greatest pleasures any of us can have is that of sharing the “Light” we have found with another, and to find that it means as much to him as to us. Little wonder that the human animal explodes into action when it finds the thing that seems to it to be the correct interpretation of life and its meaning. The missionary spirit bursts forth and the shout is, “I’ll tell the world.” Who was it who wrote that nothing became our own until we had shared it with others?

THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, in a Canadian radio broadcast, shows that the professors are getting so bold as to line up with Dr. Rhine in the ESP type of research. (Tut and more tut! from Old Scientific Attitude.) A letter from HRA H.R., who listens in at Buffalo, N. Y., says, “They are conducting research in ESP and the hypnotic state. A person was tested and gave a full account (under hypnosis) of what he did on a certain date 20 years ago. He was then asked what he would be doing on a given date 3 years hence. The person gave an account of his actions on the projected date in the future. This was later checked and also found to be correct. The test took place in 1951. They have made several thousands of tests and many interesting data have been discovered.

Comment: Gradually, the materials of Psychic Science are becoming recognized as sufficiently valid and respectable for the Universities to be forced to stop pretending they are not there. Hundreds of experiments have been carried on to learn the effects of hypnotic suggestion or silent Mesmeric influence. Only once in a while can a subject project himself into the future successfully, and the ones who can, often make only one correct prediction to a large number of incorrect ones. Were this not so, and were the operators able to tell what might be correct and what not, without waiting for the dates of predictions to arrive, the future of the world might be read in a most revolutionary manner. The professors have no explanation for the mechanics of this infrequent predictive ability, but Huna has. Kahunas, who may well have made the highest predictive scores ever known to mankind, decided that only through the Aumakua could the future be seen, and seen via the Aunihipili only (a further complication).

Another complication to be faced when trying to explain how the future can sometimes be seen is offered by the kahuna lore. This is their theory that the Aumakua molds the future for the individual, using aka or etheric substance to make a pattern or “field” – which then is filled in with material, space and time, and becomes real in physical terms like a scroll unrolling a minute at a time. This future pattern is made to fit the hopes, plans and fears of the individual as they relate to his surroundings and associates and their futures, also to the world future.

When, kahunas believed, the old future, which had been made well in advance for a person, was to be broken down and replaced, IN ANSWER TO PRAYER, by a better future, there were many future events and conditions which, in the breaking-down process, became filled to some extent by the material-time-space complex and so were real even as they broke apart.

The bad things in a future which is being broken down, and which become real, are the “storm” which is tempered to the lambs. They may also be symbolized as “the last days” which, if not “shortened” for the benefit of the “elect,” would see disaster overtaking them. One who recognizes his Aumakua and asks to have the present future torn up and replaced by a new one which is pictured, is indeed a “lamb of God” and one of the symbolic “elect.”

In my own life, and in following the lives of many HRAs for several years, praying often with them in the TMHG for changes in their conditions, I have noted the fact that the old future seems often to contain bad elements which suddenly appear and which seem to indicate that one would have been better off not to have asked for the changes to be made. But not once have I run into a set of bad events which have been entirely disastrous. The storm is always tempered to the enduring point and soon passes. After that, the good things begin to appear as if the kind Aumakuas had given some special little present to recompense the lower man for what he has suffered to gain their help and to allow them their rightful place in the job of living. Time and time again I have seen this strange gift being given after tribulations had been endured in the confident belief that the Aumakua was wisely staying at the helm even when things seemed to be drifting into deep, dark waters. Perhaps this is one of the many reasons why kahunas chose to call the AUMAKUA PAIR, “Father.” Earthly fathers also give little gifts to ease along the little ones who have to suffer through ills from which they cannot be protected.

I have also noticed that when the bad things in one’s future are about to arrive, one is often forewarned of them in a dream. I have learned to recognize these dreams and to counter their evil portent with immediate and very energetic prayers for protection. I picture the evil as replaced by the normal and good. I do not always go scot-free, however. Recently I dreamed of cutting through my left knee cap in an accident with a home-made power saw. Despite my prayers and later care, the accident came in a most unexpected way and the skin above my knee was taken off in a thin slice – nothing serious at all, fortunately. I watched for the “present” and soon it came. I had wanted a large wrench, but did without one because of the expense. The present was a fine used one laid before me for 50¢. Aumakuas are so very kind.
MFL