Answers to Prayers & Is God Perfect?
August 1, 1957
HRA Edw. O. of San Francisco writes telling of an interesting use of the Huna prayer method: “I left home in 1929, and was home once in 1939, this being the last time I had seen my father in 17 years. About four months ago I began a series of Huna-type prayers in an effort to get to see my father again. He is now 73. I left it up to the Aumakua as to how this should be brought about.
“Last Sunday my father came to the house and rang the bell. I had absolutely no knowledge that he was coming to visit me. He said the trip was planned some three or four months earlier, but that he did not write because he wanted his arrival to be a complete surprise. While I have no doubt that a prayer of this type would have been answered under many other explanations, the Huna-type prayer is the most logical of them all to me. The one thing that I can’t understand is the claim that increased breathing is needed. While I know that it will increase the perception (for some HRAs who report in the Bulletin) I, myself, have never practiced breathing in any special way, and my contact with the Aumakua is easily made. Also, I can’t seem to find any suggestion that Jesus used or advocated these exercises.”
A NEW HRA LIVING IN NEW ZEALAND recently explained in detail how he had drawn a plan and written the specifications as to size, location and price, then set out to find a house to fit the plan. No special effort along the line of prayer was made, but the mental picture was kept to the fore. In about four months the house was found, fitting all the specifications except for the price, and eventually this was lowered to fit the plan and the house was purchased. It was later learned as things fell out, that the house was planned and constructed, the work beginning at the time the plan of the HRA was drawn up. No deep breathing or offering of mana to Aumakuas in this case either; in fact, no conscious use of Huna methods.
PRAYERS GET ANSWERED, there is no question about that. Needs and wishes not prayed about or even held before the mind as mental pictures to be materialized, often get reactions just as if prayer had been used. The only question is whether or not answers may be had more certainly and more quickly if the full Huna-type prayer is used with the heavier breathing and accumulation of mana which is later sent to the Aumakua. There seems to be little question but that the kahuna pinned their faith on the breathing and mana part of the prayer. We have to decide whether or not they were right. As to Jesus, I have told repeatedly how parts of the words attributed to him, when translated into the “Sacred Language” give us the root word ha which symbolizes the getting and sending of mana through deeper breathing etc. In the New Testament, the performance of a miracle is “hana kupaianaha.” I have underlined the root ha to make it stand out. One begins to “make” a miracle with the breathing-mana-sending ritual and also ends with it. In the other roots making up the words we find the symbol of the mana rising to the Aumakua, and the thing desired appearing as from or above water, the “water” symbolizing the mana given to Aumakuas and used to make the answer to the prayer for a miracle to appear. Similar instances of hidden Huna in the words of the New Testament would fill a small book, and are found in the most unexpected places. For instance, the word “brethren” has in the hidden or secondary root set of meanings (hoahanau) the symbols of the breathing steps, the aka cord of connection with the Aumakua and the idea of causing something to appear or to be created – to be given birth. One can only conclude, after a careful study, that to become one of the “brethren” amongst kahunas who surrounded the master kahuna, Jesus, one needed to know Huna and to learn to use it. We might draw the conclusion that, if one gets satisfactory answers to prayer without making a prayer, or by simply visualizing the needed and desired thing or condition, then Huna is hardly needed. But, if results are not good or are too long in coming, the Huna type of prayer might be very much worth trying. The English word “miracle” comes from the same root as “mirror,” with an ancient meaning that to see something perfectly reproduced or reflected in the mirror was a thing of wonder. A cult reaching around the world used the idea that what we hold in mind as before God as a mirror, would be reflected back as a factual and material answer to prayer. However, the “Goddess of the Mirror” was usually considered the source of such bounty, not the male aspect of the Higher Beings.
MY OWN RECENT EXPERIENCE seems to indicate that when some simple thing is requested in making the Huna-type prayer, one has hardly to make the need known to the Aumakua to set the wheels turning. Twice I needed help in the grove and twice a Mexican laborer appeared the next morning at the door to ask for work – and this when it is so difficult to get such help here at Vista. The answers which are hard to get are those involving changes in the lives of others as well as oneself. We seem not to be allowed to take from another his privilege of using his free will, even when we desire only his good. Healing is also difficult when one has no way to get at and remove the causes of illness. But prayer is always ever so much worth a trial. The Parental Father/Mother are so unendingly loving and kind that we are given every good and proper thing that is possible. Where else can one get so very much for little more than the asking? Where else is living so protected and so pleasant as when one dwells in the shadow of the Most High PARENTAL SPIRIT PAIR? (Do I hear someone objecting? Yes, I quite agree. The original should be allowed to stand untouched in all its beauty. “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”) “Shadow” is aka in the Sacred Language of kahunas. Is it implied by the psalmist that one remains in contact with the shadowy body of Aumakuas? Perhaps. (Do I also hear an objection from those familiar with the passage as translated by the missionaries of Hawaii with the apparent help of a kahuna? Yes, I have not overlooked the use of malu, or “shade” instead of the word huna for “secret.” I would guess that the kahuna used two words for shade or shadow to make certain that Hawaiian readers in the know would understand.) THREE RESOUNDING CHEERS!
It begins to look as if our continuing prayers in the TMHG for world peace and a return to sanity are being answered. The recent shake-up of leadership in Russia is most encouraging. I have followed the course of Russia for several years by the simple method of making psychometric readings of the leaders as they came and went. Always found men with counterclockwise or weak readings in the saddle. But as of July 15th, when I took my copy of “TIME” magazine and turned to pages 32 and 33, finding pictures of the men now on top and of the three deposed, then making readings of each from the good picture reproductions, I began to feel a thrill of excitement.
Khrushchev (left to right beginning on top of page 32) was . Marshal Zhukov, head of the army was next with a reading of .
Note that we have a clockwise leaning will pattern for Khrushchev as well as a clockwise and fairly round, even if small, personality circle. The man means well and is constructive. His 372 degree Bio standing is that of a man far above ordinary in intelligence, and indicates a good grasp of machines and the like. He will do his best to mechanize the farms and get production going.
In Marshal Zhukov, President Eisenhower’s friend, we have the “V” will pattern, showing that he will take orders from one he feels is in power, but he is clockwise and constructive on the whole, and with the same degree reading as Khrushchev, they will see eye to eye and make a team hard to beat.
Premier Bulganin (top next page) has the reading which, it will be noted, lacks a will pattern, is counter clockwise for personality, and with a degree of only 280. Poor timber.
Below, Molotov, counter clockwise and Kaganovich, same reading but lower degree . Then Malenkov, who means well in a warped way . These are the three deposed, and the first two are intelligent enough, but personify destructive and vindictive purposes. The third seems to have risen because he took orders well and was genial in his own warped way. Mikoyan and Tito, who show in the picture, do not concern us at the moment, but on the next page we have Shepilov, reading , who is instinctively bad. His large counter clockwise circle came in the reading before his small C.C. will circle registered. Not too intelligent.
Ekaterina Furtseva, the woman (page 35) in the Presidium has a reading of . She is constructive and will go along helpfully, even if not intelligent enough to lead the way. Cheers!
THE STRANGE EFFECT OF WRITTEN NUMBERS and “printed circuits” has been called to my attention by HRA Miss M.K.P. Laws, of England, who is an expert dowser. In an article titled HEALING BY NUMBERS in the magazine, “PREDICTION,” she tells of finding rooms built over places where harmful radiations rise from the ground to cause illness or restless sleep. There is a definite connection between the incidence of cancer and such radiations, also. If one stands over spots giving off these harmful radiations, the pendulum gyrates wildly. It has for some time been the expensive habit to string wires and special things in certain ways to ward off the radiations, but Miss Laws describes an effective and inexpensive substitute for the metal “neutralizers,” [which is] nothing more nor less than certain numbers written on paper and placed in appropriate sides of the room. She wrote in the article, “At the outset, a rough plan of the room needing protection was prepared. Then, orienting it in the exact compass position of the actual dwelling, I held over it in the right hand a special type of pendulum which had a movable adjustment to tune in with all colors of the spectrum. In this case the adjustment was to red, which has been found to be responsive to the earth rays. In the left hand, a pointer was run down a list of figures ranging from 0 to 9, while the mind firmly held the thought of the matter at hand. For me the pendulum gyrated for each number the pointer was held over until it came to the right one, when it stopped dead. The next thing was to make four cards bearing the selected number, one a single digit and the other three with the digit repeated – e.g. 8, 88, 88, 88) The cards were then placed on the plan or taken to the room itself, and were laid around the walls or in different parts until tests with the pendulum showed that the rays had been neutralized. The cards sometimes had all to be placed on one side of the room. In the work done so far, it has not been necessary to use all the digits from 0 to 9. The number 8 has recurred several times.”
Miss Laws discusses the several theories which assign actual power to numbers, then tells of leaving some of the numbered cards lying around her own room, only to find through a colleague who phoned to say harmful rays were showing – supposedly from a plot of her quarters – and to ask why. She admitted that she had been sleeping badly and began dowsing at home, ending by finding that the cards bearing numbers were causing the trouble by an apparent reversal of the “neutralizing” effect. By turning them all face down she ended the trouble, but concluded that such numbers on cards had very definite effects, explainable or not. Work of a similar nature has been going on for some time in Europe, but opinions vary on how and why numbers cause the effects they seem to do. All Huna can offer to explain the matter is that the writer of the numbers places mana in them and keeps contact with them via an aka thread so that the mana-aka in the cards continues to exert some effect that makes for good or bad radiations. “Circuits” imitating electronic or electrical circuits may be drawn on paper and are found to act well enough for certain people, but not for others. The Delawarr Camera and some “electronic” instruments work for some, but not for all. Evidence accumulates to show (1) spirit influences involved in taking pictures of things distant in time or space or, (2) the psychic powers of the operator must become a part of the mechanism to make it work. The little magazine, “PENDULUM,” published in England, has a discussion of similar matters in the June issue, also a short article on Huna and the HRA with a list of my books. (Subscription is $3.80 a year, 12 issues. Markam House Press, 31 King’s Road, London S.W.3., England. Please send subscription money direct, NOT to me!) One article is titled, “The Adventure of the Printed Circuit.”
MY SPECIAL THANKS to you all for sending in the results of your experiments in the line of concentration and Huna version of meditation, with time ideas can be held. Also for much information on the use of self-suggestion and related matters. If you have not run your experiments yet, try to make time for them. It will be well worth the effort in several ways.
Dr. HORNELL HART, author of the book AUTO-CONDITIONING The New Way to a Successful Life, recently joined in a series of lectures given in Los Angeles. HRA D.A. of Los Angeles attended and reports, “After hearing Dr. Hart I wish it were possible to sit in a class under him long enough to condition my unconscious to automatically respond as my conscious mind wants it to! Dr. Hart is a masterful and master-teacher. He is a tremendously strong and vivid person, intent on teaching people to live joyously and to create the kind of personality capable of profound service to our fellow men, to transcend the life we now live, reaching out into the spiritual potentialities of life with courage and creative faith.” I am sure we will hear more and more about the great benefits to be gained from taking control of the Aunhipili with the use of auto-conditioning.
I learn that Dr. Hart has a very strong religious side to his nature and that he stresses this angle in his lectures. That is most heartening news (no pun intended), as in the Huna approach to this method the end and crowning benefit is found in getting the Aunhipili to contact the Aumakua properly so that the three selves can work together as they should when “integration” is complete.
NOW THE REVIEW OF A VERY IMPORTANT BOOK
NURSLINGS OF IMMORTALITY is the title of a new book by Raynor C. Johnson, Master of Queen’s College, University of Melbourne, in Australia, and identified with the degrees of M. A., Ph. D. and D.Sc. My copy of the book is the gift of one of my very good English HRA friends, Maj. O.G. (I had the earlier book of Dr. Johnson, IMPRISONED SPLENDOR, as the gift of HRA Chas. Pitts, of the old Sunnyvale Group in central California.)
Dr. Johnson has almost completely delighted me with his two books, especially his last one, NURSLINGS OF IMMORTALITY. He would have delighted me completely and without reservations had he but known Huna at the time of writing this last book and had he compared the Huna system with the philosophy of Douglas Fawcett, which he selects as the most acceptable of all, and which he reduces to simple terms in his presentation.
THE GREAT QUESTION which has occupied the attention of philosophers of all ages and climes has been basically that of who made the universe and why and how. Most philosophers, as the rebellious Friedrich Nietzsche pointed out, made God in their own image and then set out to prove at all costs that He was like that. He complained bitterly that philosophers refused to consider the facts of life all around them, but chose to remain partly blind while harping on the single note which they had selected to replace the octave.
IS GOD PERFECT OR ISN’T HE?
This is the question which has caused the most trouble. The sages of ancient India whose philosophy may be read in the early writings of that land, decided that God was perfect, and they then had to admit that, being perfect, he could not be improved in any way. That left the question of WHY he created men and the whole of the universe unanswered. No possible need could be imagined which would have caused him to create anything. He could desire nothing because, being perfect, all desires must already have been filled. He could not wish to get rid of anything, for the same good and logical reason. The only way to answer the question was to say that all things as we see them are maya – unreal, and entirely imaginary. It was argued that nothing could be real unless it was no longer in a state of change ruled over by the illusions of time and space. The only possible hope for mankind was said to lie in growth through this vast illusionary nothingness until all obstacles were overcome, all earthy taints and desires removed, and the purified spark of “soul” returned to blend once more in the body of God. This was all very well, but it again opened the question of why God, if already ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT would have pushed out the sparks of Himself – the souls – into the maya to fight their way back to him. Here the sages stumbled badly, never recovering their pace. They made several guesses, and among these were the suggestion that perhaps God, like all his created animals, wanted to play and to amuse Himself. Or it was suggested that love and the joy of creation might be the real answer. BUT, they could hit on nothing to explain how a perfect God should lack what might be needed to amuse or otherwise fill His need. A few feeble voices may have been raised to say that perhaps God had only recently created the universe and that he was still in the process of making everything perfect to fit his desire. But that did not fit the accepted idea that God could never have been anything less than perfect, complete and absolute, beyond time and space and all needs or desires.
India’s major systems of thought and belief still retain the incomplete answer and depend on the hope that there was some reason or other for man to be created and set to working his way through almost endless maya to reunite with God. This system of belief had led to a most unrealistic, illogical and negative attitude toward life in which those who conform to it must look upon everything good and beautiful and pleasant and useful in life as something to be put aside as part of the wicked maya, the only thing to be tolerated being the escape from living and the steps needed for the moment to help in the escape. The great fetish of Hinduism is “spirituality” and even here in the West we have had the wool pulled over our eyes by the dogmas which teach that unless every or any thing, act, desire, or even thought helps one to get further away from the creation that surrounds us and on toward the ultimate absorption into Ultimate God, it is “NOT SPIRITUAL.” It leaves the true believer with a growing sense of guilt and frustration when he finds himself caught in the dread toils of maya to the extent of marrying, rearing a family and taking a useful place in society – this in contrast to the magnificent and completely anti-social ideal practice of renouncing the world and all its parts in order to retire to the wilderness, there to meditate and try to grow more “spiritual.”
THE PROBLEM OF GOOD AND EVIL which had to be met in India was bypassed with the all-enveloping explanation of maya. This gave rise to the denial that any evil could be real because, certainly, God could not be evil, and as He is all there is, evil is not. This idea crept into early New Thought and grew to its fullest flower in the system of beliefs evolved by Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy. In less idealistic circles, the early Persians were more realistic and observing. They looked at good and evil existing side by side and concluded that there were dual Powers at work in all things. These they symbolized, as did kahunas to a certain extent, as the Powers of Light and the Powers of Darkness, each making war on the other, with the Light destined to win the end if all men learned to side with the good and fight the bad.
In Egypt, a similar dualism developed, and in the Hebrew borrowings upon which they constructed their system, Lucifer appears as a bad lesser god who revolted and led the forces of evil, but who would eventually be completely conquered.
Modern philosophy has been marked by efforts to prove some conclusion reached often before, instead of after, an examination of Creation in action. It became expedient to let religion have the last word on the matter of the nature of God, and to go on from there, often into an examination of psychology itself still only half formed – and to question the evidence of the senses and the very fact of consciousness. Determinism, fatalism, free will and materialism all were discussed with a cautious eye on the churches, and a vocabulary of elaborations produced. Philosophers continued to disagree loudly.
Mr. Douglas FAwsett, an obscure philosopher who presented his system mainly in Germany, so one gathers from the account of Dr. Johnson, decided that we were confronted by a Creation in which it was evident that consciousness in some form or other was guiding the ingredients which give us force and matter as well as form and time. Space holds it all. Consciousness gave evidence of having originally created force and matter, so the spectacle was one of a going concern progressing at a rapid pace along an evolutionary path. As Consciousness appears to inform and guide all units of created things, the conclusion was that God, as the Consciousness as well as the things created, was also part and parcel of the whole which is seen evolving.
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL, inevitably, had to be met, and it was neatly answered by the observation that the evolutionary process began by some change which threw things off balance and produced war between disturbed elements. In the effort to regain balance of forces, evolution progressed. This is reasonable, and it seems to match what we can see all about us. The evil is relative, but not unreal in any sense of the word. What is good for the worm in the ear of corn may be bad for the farmer. Let me quote a passage from page 232 of the book in question. “Imaginism (the name given to the Fawcett system) sees time rooted in the Supreme Being as the form or condition in which duration and succession are possible. Events take place not merely because others have gone before them but because the imaginal (consciousness unit or units) dynamic is using the endless process of interpenetration, conflict, and reconciliation to move the scheme of things forward to its goal of perfection. The causal process is not just a stream of events. Events are conscita for conscriring! (Things already created which are used for new creations by consciousness.)”
Agreeing with Huna (see page 52), Fawcett presents the idea that plans are made as patterns or “imaginals” ahead of the actual work of pouring in the denser materials and forces to fill the mold made ready ahead of time. This is the old concept of a world of perfect patterns or archetypes, and it matches the Huna idea that such pattern molds are made of aka substance by Aumakuas (or still higher units of conscious being) before they are used to materialize things or circumstances on the denser levels of the Aunihipili and Auhane – the physical and mental world levels.
Where Fawcett and Huna differ lies almost entirely in the matter of the process of evolution which produces first a Aunihipili in an animal body, and then a graduated Aunihipili produces or becomes a Auhane which lives as a guest in the body with a Aunihipili and guides its outer actions. The Auhane, in time, evolves a step more, unites with a self of the opposite sex, and becomes a Aumakua. Mr. Fawcett contradicted the theory of a straight upward evolutionary march from electrons to High Beings by having the “soul” (our Auhane) descend at a proper time to join a proper body already evolved and standing ready. (Little or no provision is made for a Aumakua.) I quote from page 54:
“We observe the higher imaginals (higher order of created units of consciousness) appearing and using bodies which are the products of subordinate imaginals (a lower order of created ‘selves’ having physical bodies made up of an organized cell structure composed of countless cooperating lesser creations) in a creative manner.” Thus Fawcett remarks, “We shall find it illuminating to posit that the appearance of man on the Earth is the confluence of two streams of heredity: the heredity of the soul and the heredity of the body. It was the descent of the higher imaginal to the physical level made possible by the ascent of subordinate nature-imaginals to the necessary level of complexity. The manifestation of a soul-imaginal – if such we may call it – may well occur simultaneously in a number and variety of vehicles. To put it otherwise, the spiritual roots of a human being, if traced back, may share with many others an origin in a common imaginal or sub-imaginal.” It would almost seem from the last few sentences quoted above that Fawcett was contradicting himelf in the matter of a descent rather than an evolutionary ascent of the “soul” unit.
THE BROAD PICTURE takes form slowly and beautifully under the skilled brush of Dr. Johnson, and soon one sees God as Consciousness indwelling in the smallest created things.
These things learn to cooperate under the guidance of more evolved group soul types of entity-consciousness-units, and form more and more complex creations, with man at the top of the long list. Man, it is suggested, may be but a unit of some higher and more complex Being, and this hints at the Aumakua vaguely. The picture rises out of sight as Consciousness ceases to use visible bodies and begins to function on a grander and more ably-creative scale in the invisible levels of being. Dr. Johnson, not at all belonging to the group of timid professors who dare not glance aside at such things as Psychical Research, happily carries on his discussion of Fawcett’s system and concludes his book by quoting the opinions of several progressive gentlemen who have died and who elect to come back via mediums to give their present conclusions concerning a number of questions which are important to the understanding of how and why we come to be what we are. Tucked away in corners of the canvas may be found pictured details of many sorts.
THE OPINIONS OF SPIRIT COMMUNICATORS, as sorted and passed on in a choice selection in NURSLINGS, leaves much to be desired, at least from a Huna point of view. The material quoted is largely from the books by the medium, Geraldine Cummins, although other sources are used. F.W.H. Myers, a very active delver into things psychic during life, is most quoted, but the terms he uses give one the uneasy feeling that there is a bias toward Hinduism as we have it in the Westernized form. However, Prof. Myers, (granting that it is he speaking and not a spirit bent on imitating him) does agree with the Fawcett system in many ways, and also seems to indicate that the Hinduism coloring some of his statements has not been fully accepted. He presents the usual “seven planes” but makes variations in their nature. In discussing reincarnation, Dr. Johnson condenses the conclusions of Meyers (page 257): “His own experience of the majority of people he has met leads Myers to suggest that two, three, or four earth-lives are the usual number undertaken.” That agrees with Huna to a certain extent, but still leaves out the very important matter of there being several incarnations as a Aunhipili, then as a Auhane, and then an indefinite term of living as a Aumakua – “Parental Pair.”
IN CONCLUSION, let me say that this is one of the most informative and satisfactory books I have found in this part of the psycho-religious field, and we are deeply indebted to a man of exceptional insight for such a fine and informative handling of a subject which normally would have escaped the notice of the average student. In passing, may I say that one of the good friends in Australia has presented Dr. Johnson with my books on Huna so that he will now know about it, whether it interests him greatly or not. His book is published in England and I would say that $4 in our money would be sufficient to get a copy post paid if sent to John M. Watkins (publishers), 21, Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, London W.C.2, England. The list price over there is 25 shillings, and the postage should be added, about 1 shilling more, if you wish to calculate the price more closely. If you order through your local book store you may have to pay an import duty as well. PLEASE do not send the order to me unless you add 15¢ for an air mail stamp to be used by me in forwarding your order. You should also add enough to purchase an International Postal Order, or take a chance on having me send four dollar bills in the letter. (See why I prefer to have you order direct? Saves me so much time.) Harper, here in U.S.A., has brought out Dr. Johnson’s first book, The Imprisoned Splendour, and it may be had from your local book store at the list price of $5. They may also bring out Nurslings of Immortality soon, but I see no announcement of it yet.
NEWS OF THE BIO CLUB
Psychometric readings from signatures still are running, as one Clubber puts it, “all over the place.” If I could get five noble souls to take time to sign their names in ink 45 times and send the signatures to me to read and then distribute to the Bio Club members, we could at least have five signatures with my reading for each to practice upon in the effort to get together by degrees. Want to be noble? If so, the signatures can be on a single sheet of paper. I will cut them into strips on a photo trimmer here, and your reward will be in having helped, also in getting an average of readings one day.
MFL
