September, 1962
A Bulletin of Letters
GOOD NEWS
I am most pleased to be able to report that almost a third of the HRAs who were notified that they were in Cigbo’s dog house because of “neglect of Cigar Box” have been heard from and are back in the fold. A few have written to say they have lost interest for one reason or another, as was to be expected. For the most part, the need was only a reminder that Cigbo needed his annual help to keep from getting splinters in his feet from scratching on the bottom of a bare ‘box. The overseas HRAs have not yet had “deadwood” letters sent out to those who have been forgetful, but I notice Cigbo eying their address stencils with some questioning in his small and slightly crossed eyes.
IT IS HIGH TIME THAT WE HAVE A “LETTER BULLETIN”, so:
Dear Friend:
How extensively you are delving into the past in your research work? Do you dwell much on what is ahead in the future? The discoveries about outer space? The fate of the U.S.A.? Will Communism cease to be a menace? M.S.S. (California.)
MY ANSWER: Yes, indeed, I do! I am as anxious as the next fellow about all these things. I read the daily papers and skim such magazines as offer the opinions of experts in various of these lines. Some of the HRAs write at times to tell me what they have concluded, guessed, hoped, feared or hunched. It may be recalled that a few months ago I made remarks in the Huna Vistas discussions which some of the HRAs interpreted as indications that I am a Red. Others thought I must be leaning as far to the right as the John Birchers. One resigned in hot indignation and has since been bombarding me with literature aimed at convincing all readers that we must turn back the clock of social progress, put an end to graduated income taxes, Social Security and the things which prevent the rugged individualists from running things high, wide and hansome, as they did in the grand days of child labor, sweat shops and The Public be damned. On the other side of the fence I have a few good friends who, while not approving of the way the Reds are doing things, feel that we are not progressing fast enough in curbing abuses which still serve to allow the powerful to run things for their own benefit rather than in a way to serve the good of the many. I think that the majority of us are “middle of the roaders” who see rather clearly that the day has come when we no longer can, as individuals, “go it alone”. It is the day of united effort in which most of the jobs are to be had in the works of great corporations, chain stores and spheres of work dominated by trade or professional “Associations.” My barber belongs to a trade association in which all the barbers for miles around are united to fix the prices charged for their services. In my youth our town barber cut hair for 25¢, and later on, in Los Angeles, certain shops managed to get enough business to keep open by cutting the 35¢ price to a quarter. At that time barbers were universally poor. Now they are organized to the extent that they are well paid for what work they can manage to get. Also, in my youth, doctors and dentists had no set prices for their services and were not organized to keep out those who wished to practice a different form of healing or to set up cut rate dental offices, advertising loudly and pulling teeth free of charge on street corners to further advertise their offices. The Osteopaths and Chiropractors, Naturopaths and even faith healers were all able to set up shop and divide the available business with the medical doctors. Now the medical men are so well organized and powerful that they protect their field almost as completely as do the barbers. The carpenters, plumbers and electricians have powerful unions and workers have learned to unite to be able to meet the united corporations and other “Associations” – as of Building Contractors – on equal footing. We unite to build our great roads across the face of the land. We are learning to co operate instead of be rugged individualists following the rule of “The Devil take the hindermost”. True, the unorganized part of the population suffers on the one side from the fixing of prices, and on the other from the fixing of prices for service. Some day we may see the ones caught in the squeeze organized to protect their general interests. They have the vote, of course, but being in a minority, and being unable to unite on any set of political proposals, they remain disorganized and the prey of politicians who happily set one half to work fighting the other half. I was most interested in a talk given on the trend to united action by the president of Dartmouth College to the alumni. (If any of you think I am a Red for holding my opinions concerning the need to work together instead of against each other, write for a copy of his address and you will at least see that I am in good company.)
As to going back to ancient times to peer around and dig for bits of information in dark comers, I can say one thing for my surrender to such impulses, at least it is SAFE in comparison to digging into politics and sounding off on what I think I find. The HRA could easily split and fall into a dozen pieces over political points. The only reason we have not exploded into fragments long ago because of religious differences is that those who differ with the general findings of the Huna studies do NOT join the HRA. By keeping to birds of our own feather, we are fairly safe in much the same way as are Methodists or Catholics. As to doing a similar job of trying to look into the future to see the outcome of Red efforts or of space exploration, I am forced to admit that I am not qualified to enter that field. I can do little but make guesses while I sit in the back of the world hall and listen to what the experts have to say as they strut the stage and smite the man of other opinions hip and thigh. I read that the sudden winds carried fumes from underground atomic blasts in Nevada to the district of Troy, N.Y., and caused pasture contamination which forced the authorities to take milk off the local market for several days. But I also read that the great Poobah of the Atomic Energy Commission, or someone equally elevated as an “authority” says the radioactive particles are harmless. If the shoemaker should best stick to his last, I feel that my last, if I have one, is Huna, and that I do well to continue to concentrate my efforts on what it has been, is at the moment, and perhaps may be in the time to come. Meantime, I try to remain aware of the fact that we must take care not to become too serious and in that way freeze into dogmatists. We must cling to our humor – the great antidote.
Dear Max:
……for this economy is deathly sick in behind the ballyhoo curtains.
Watch your step (in the matter of publishing any book to be written when/if) as you would in a dark and rutty alley. Be in no hurry to part with or obligate yourself for sizable sums. Get your little ship in as good shape as possible. There is an unprecedented storm ahead. It may strike any month now, even in August. And High Heaven alone would know what the outcome will be ….. F.McC. (Also California.)
I COMMENT that I give this letter as a part of my response to the expressed wish for information as to the political and economic future of U.S.A. The information in the above letter is derived from observation of trends combined with’ a questioning pendulum and a strong hunch. A warning to keep ones head down is always good.
On the other hand, a recent letter from Wing Anderson, known for his work with prophecy collecting and publication (as well as the republication of “OAHSPE,” and his work with sleep suggestion) is most reassuring. Not too many months back he was expecting a disaster to hit the Pacific Coast and for this reason (at least in part, I take it) left Los Angeles and went to live at the Essenes of Kosmon center at Montrose, Colorado. He has just spent some months in England, and has now returned to Los Angeles, where he plans to remain at least until next June. He may start a new business there. I was greatly surprised to read in his letter that, in England, the sales tax has risen to 45%. If this is not a misunderstanding on my part or a mistake in typing on his, it makes me feel that our 4% sales tax in California is just a minor burden. Wing found the people in England most kind and friendly.
Dear Mr. Long:
Your Huna Vistas for July was very interesting, but all these experiments with the pendulum and the other diagrams you describe are too slow. They are all right for those who are interested in experiments for scientific purposes, but I prefer the Christian method of mental and spiritual thinking through advanced ideas in Divine Science, Religious Science and Ernest Holmes, Dr. Murphy and others as they write in the International New Thought Quarterly. I am not orthodox and read my Bible only as a symbolic interpretation. I have read Rudolph Steiner a little [over] a year ago, as well as many other books, including much Theosophy. They have all given me backgrounding, so it is easy to follow any teaching I read about. I received the letter about the creosote bush tea for arthritis. I have tried herb remedies of all kinds, but thought perhaps it would be all right to try one more, so sent for some. I am not gullible, and did a lot of thinking about it first. I still believe some form of metaphysical treatment can be the only cure with Osteopathic included. If Osteopaths would study some form of occult schools also and add to their physical manipulations they could do wonders …….. M.T. (Wisconsin.)
COMMENT: This HRA came into the Huna circle in the hope that she could get help for a painful arthritic condition of long standing through the TMHG. I am very sorry to say that, so far as I kow, our work did no good, although during the period in which work was done she was at one time greatly and almost instantly relieved of the pain in her knees by Osteopathic treatment. I find frequently that those who join us in the HRA because someone has suggested that they try the TMHG for healing help, have little interest in the experimental angles of our work.
Dear Mr. Long:
…. I have gone along with your research work, and know that it is long and laborious and carefully done, with faith in what you are doing. I just can’t see going through all of this to find God, the One Source and Only Power in the Universe to get the answer to our problems or to find God. As Jesus said, “If you abide in me and my words abide in you…” That is if we can abide in a state of awareness where we absolutely know we are with this mighty power and intelligence of the Universe and that we have been given the ability to use our portion of Divine Mind we, in faith and belief, can ask what we will and, “It shall be done unto you.” We live and move and have our Being in this Great Sea of Universal Intelligence and Power and it is waiting for our acceptance, that we may use it at all times for that which we need and desire. Maybe I am wrong and you are 100% correct, but few of us see the light through the same avenue. Do not continue to send Huna Vistas. My every good wish that you find all you are seeking for and more. L.H. (California.)
MY COMMENT here is that the average of answered prayers, where the above described approach is made in the search for healing, is too low to satisfy many of us, especially when we know of the results obtained by kahunas. The study and research is necessary if we are ever to get past the low average of results offered by the older churches and by the new “Science of …” type. The painful fact has been that a large part of those who apply for help via the TMHG have no willingness to give a hand in the effort to develop a working knowledge of Huna. Almost never will one of these take a single one of the steps needed to cause their Aunihipili to become convinced that its man deserves the healing or help which is asked. Fasting? Giving help and comfort to others as advance payment in kind? Not in any case which I can recall at the moment. The beauty of the New Thought approach is that the old and perhaps arduous of Christianity has been done away with. One does not have to repent hurts done others and be baptized. One need not give time or money to help anyone because it serves that sufferer right to be made to suffer so long as he or she refuses to accept the doctrine and start “thinking right: to be right”. The whole loaf of the Huna lore in early Christianity has become half a loaf in the watered down “Science of … ‘ beliefs and practices. Yes, hardly a morsel.
A misleading play on words has replaced the knowledge of himself that can help the individual understand himself in his relation with his Aumakua and any Higher Gods. The Aunihipili and the physical body, even the Auhane mind, all have been tossed overboard so that the man can become pure spirit and leave all else behind him to be “denied” as “unreal”. The meal set before the convert who enters one of the “Science of …” cults is so scant that he must – and usually does – bring in with him to fill his plate, much of the metaphysical dogma already accepted, be it a few crusts from orthodox Christianity or some sustaining crumbs garnered from the religions of the Orient. I speak from experience. I tried New Thought in my early days and found the fare so thin that I came rushing out with my belly filled with illogical words of affirmation and wind. Even if I had been able to tolerate the Mumbo with which I had met, the Jumbo was too much. (Yes, I know. I will get several hot letters to set me right on this score.) (Someone is bound to ask what it was I classed as mumbo jumbo, so I may as well say that what gave me my quietus was the chanting in unison of the affirmation, “We have eternal life, here and now!” I ventured to question the possibility that the use of this affirmation would enable the affirmers to live forever and was promptly screamed down. But I won in the end. Three of the furious ladies are gone, while I, who refused to chant, have enjoyed eternal life – at least thus far.)
WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT, the famous master of colorful English, was engaged back in 1921 trying to lead a group very similar to the present HRA – a mixed group. He had come away from orthodox Christianity by way of Theosophy, and had accepted the teaching that the inner and Higher Self of man was the great reality and that one needed to learn to stand aside and let this Self work through one. The philosophy which he taught through his monthly letters was most satisfactory in so far as the Aumakua was touched upon, but it fell on its face many times because the reality of the Aunihipili and Auhane was not understood and because recognizing the parts played by the two lesser selves made denying reality to them just one more jerk on the growing pile of tangled yarn. While he did his best to balance Maya and Her illusion against the people who could not be pushed aside as unreal, he failed to solve the riddle.
I was one of his group, back when, and I had not yet found the answer which blessedly lies in the Huna knowledge that the three selves are a team, each working on its own level of life and material density, and each needing understanding in terms of its place on the evolutionary ladder. As we are again trying to get certain parts of “Science of …” out of our hair, let me quote a passage from Comfort’s 53rd letter, dated June 25, 1921. 1 quote:
With the man who is honestly caught in materials, you can be patient. There are plenty to practice on. But with the person who moves about this place crying, “Wonderful wonderful! …. All is good; I am divine; I draw from Unlimited Supply” you can be patient, too, if you are poised enough. Is it not a fact, however, that when one really begins to Know, to practice the Presence, to draw from the Unlimited, he scarcely dares speak of it to others; at least, he does not for awhile? He studies to fasten himself tighter and tighter and tighter to the Source. I believe while we are yet mainly imprisoned in the mind, we are free to talk much and openly. In speaking of the many cults in the world today, the Happiness Cults, the Plenty Cults, the Health Cults – one who is wise in these things recently said to me: “All in all, I think they have done more harm than good.” It wasn’t just a random remark, but spoken from deep study and long trained observation. He did not speak with finality, however, merely saying, “I think.” I have pondered much about this saying. I could hardly credit it at first, because 1 came out of the hardened bigotries of the church, through the gentle, kindly leading of the older and purer of these movements. I learned to breathe more deeply and to become faintly conscious of the Higher Road because of it; and yet a terrible devastation is going on, as a result of these many psychic activities. The old sins are boyish and easy to put away, compared to some of the adult errors which one falls into, if he tarries too long among these phony paradises of the mind.
I do not see the fruits (of regeneration) in the outer lives of the many who cry, “Wonderful, wonderful”. Rather I see egos intensified, passions sublimated, greeds more sweeping and relentless, in those who have taken the shorter cuts to power. I see wrecks and eccentricities of genius, rather than its poise and chastity. I see in some the jesuitical eye and in others a suppressed fury of desire to astonish the world, and in the eyes of others a more terrible plight of soul imprisonment than before. There are no secrets. These things burn up to the wide night like beacon fires upon a headland. Perhaps these are exceptions. Perhaps I still see only that which I care to see; and yet the conviction remains unshaken in my heart that there can be no coercion; that the Holy Spirit can only cleanse those who come to the Fountain; that one must render oneself and do all in the outer in one’s power to make oneself clean; that one must learn to abide alone before one can endure the coming of the Lover; that one must be basically aware that thinking a thing does not make it so; that there must be established in the consciousness that delicacy that seems only to come from pain, which makes possible Discrimination between the vibration of the mind and the vibration of the Spirit.
Dear Max:
I have enjoyed the Vistas, but there is something wrong. I cannot tell you what, unless it is that you give the impression of uncertainty which makes one feel that we are just wandering around and going nowhere. I would very much like it if you would send me any Vistas in the future which have something special in them. While I enjoy reading the Vistas, I am not taking part in any of the experiments or exercises, except to see if they work. I gained more faith from your books and the Vistas that it is a reality that there is a power. M.E. (Nevada.)
THERE IS A FINE POINT to be drawn between our research work in the HRA and the work of the numerous people who set themselves up a “teachers” so that they may “lay down the Law”. In research we begin work because we feel the need to find an answer to some question or a solution for a problem. We are well aware of the fact that we will fail far more often than succeed. We also know that one of the most difficult things in the world is to be able to learn enough about a subject to formulate a question of real and pertinent value or to see clearly enough to put together the elements of a problem before starting to solve it. Of course, we are uncertain usually a large part of the time when we have, delightedly, managed to set up a new line of testing and experimentation on the mental or physical level. We can take the recent experiment which I performed of trying to get answers via the pendulum to questions about writing a book – questions asked in language, and to be answered by the pendulum symbol swings for the English words, “yes” or “no”. In my writings I have repeatedly said that I had concluded that the Aumakua does not think like we of the Auhane and Aunihipili think. It seems to replace memory and reason by some form of direct knowing. I should not have neglected to remind everyone that there had happened nothing to cause me to change my conclusion, but in the enthusiasm of filling the Huna test tubes with a new mixture which might – just might – react over flame and transmute base metals to pure gold. What resulted from the experiment, I reported in all candor and to the best of my ability. It was apparent failure. Admittedly, this is a “going around in circles.” But despite this we have learned a few most interesting and possibly valuable things. First, we have learned that the Aunihipili has a fascinating ability to construct symbol movement patterns with the pendulum to tell us something in its own way. Second, we have learned again the lesson that caution and vast circumspection must be used in evaluating the results which we seem to get through testing. I confess that I was tripped up by my own eagerness. One should, I agree, not race across a strange rug and chance having both feet fly out from under one. (On the side, may I say that I have not at all finished with this experiment. There is something there that my Aunihipili was trying to tell me.)
In contrast to the importance of the research work, there is the great need for certainty. “Nature abhors a vacuum”, and the human mind cannot tolerate a question without an answer. From the Dawn Ages men have had to have answers to the questions pressing hardest in upon them. Usually they were not able to give the correct answers, but answers they must have, so they invented them. The thunder, lightning, storm and quake were explained as the work of various gods. They made good and helpful gods as well as hurtful and dangerous ones. They asked themselves how to propitiate the bad gods and how to gain the security which would come thru the help of the good gods. They invented more answers and when these were accepted, they all settled down to enjoy their sense of security. They had filled the bad vacuum caused by being unable to solve the problems. We are so constituted that we can gain vast comfort from even a wrong answer, so long as we believe it right.
Just because we have discovered Huna and its answers which are the most rational of all, and because many of us have accepted these answers as correct and dependable, does not excuse us from sharing the human need for an answer upon which we can rely and in which we can find the blessed and necessary sense of security. In our research work we move with courage and daring out an inch from the tight little circle of known security. We cling with one confident hand to the little finger of the Father and take care that we stay close enough to be able to retreat on the instant to the protection of the Mother. Nature has endowed us with the urge to grow, and because of this, once we have found something upon which to depend utterly for out basic security, we dare prod the serpent with a twig or gaze unabashed and questioning at the stars. The uncertainty which was sensed behind my writings in the Huna Vistas was that of the unanswered problem, but not at all an uncertainty concerning the verity of my Father/Mother or their love and gentle tolerance of my ignorance. However, it cannot be denied that some of us become upset by the hint of an unanswered question. Research and experimentation is not for these. But, if they can realize this and admit their reluctance to face outward from the safe circle, even for an experimental moment, they can still hold fast and enjoy security. If one does not panic in the thinner air of Huna and rush in terror back down the hill to embrace the “Rock of Ages” left yesterday, it may be that in time one will come to sense what so many of us have sensed in the past, that we are NOT alone; sense the Guidance and the Plan always held over us even when we venture to prod a fresh serpent.
May I share with you another passage from Will Levington Comfort’s 53rd letter? It will haunt you, as it did me, if you do not resolve its problem by adding your own happy ending. I quote again:
Consciously to cultivate one’s Genius means to reject more swiftly the promptings of the mind; even those promptings of a fairness and effectiveness that once you thought must be straight from the Self. It means in Meditation to pass beyond the two sides of a question, past choice or need of decision …… You are a woman lost in a strange city. In one house in this city waiting for you are your husband, your father, your mother, your child. You are hungry, ill, frightened. If only you could find that housel. It holds everything – it is your peace, your place, your joy and strength. From its windows you could look with love upon all the world; from its doors you could pass forth all gifts.
If you were there, you would have everything, you could open your doors to all sick and terrified and hungered as you are now. If you could only reach that house! Look at the thousands around you who have forgotten that they have a house. You can only help them from your own threshold.
Dear Friend Long:
….. I enjoy the Vistas and talk to my “George” regularly every night before going to sleep. On another sheet I have put down an account of George’s behavior, and would appreciate your sending it back with your comments.
(The sheet mentioned follows): When I wish to establish contact With “Hi Self” 1. I relax. 2. 1 tell “George” what I want – mostly it is Guidance. in connection with some problem, sometimes an improvement in health for someone. Then this happens: 1) My pendulum starts swinging in the “yes” pattern (on the 12 o’clock vertical line) getting stronger all the time. I assist by correct breathing. 2) After a certain time, generally from 3 to 5 minutes, the pendulum starts to swing to the right, and finally forms a circle, getting stronger all the time. This keeps up until I “give thanks” and close with “Amen”. Then the pendulum reduces speed and comes to a full stop rather quickly. But I never feel any special sensation. If you have any suggestions or comments, I would appreciate them very much. F.M. (California.)
I COMMENT: This is the type of check on the experiments which I always hope for and all too seldom get. The men of the HRA seem to take to the experimental work and especially the mechanical pendulum side of it more often than the women. In the testing described by HRA F.M., he gets the pendulum reaction I get when I use the steps he describes and then ask for a P.A. reading of the Aumakua of someone whose signature I have before me. The vertical swing turns slowly to the clockwise circle, both being far larger than when reading for the Aunihipili and Auhane. If I next ask for the degree standing of the Aumakua, the pendulum swings in the ordinary manner while I count out the swings and get the degree, (usually over the 450 level). In contrast, when I use the pendulum to check on what happens when I try to contact the Aumakua, after accumulating mana, and then send the mana over the connecting aka cord, I get the building 12 o’clock swing, but instead of the change over to the large circle, I get a large and very strong horizontal swing from 9 to 3 o’clock on the chart dial. This horizontal swing slowly stops and I may feel the tingle on the skin or the sensation of cobweb strands across my cheeks. I decide that working contact is established and then present my prayer picture of what is desired. Some things, such as the desire for inspiration or Guidance from the Aumakua cannot be pictured, so one has to be content with naming the desired thing in words. I also, at such times, asked for information as to whether or not certain plans for writing which I mentioned might be good or bad. As we know, the answers seemed mainly to be given by the Aunihipili in an endeavor to please me. I would very much appreciate reports from others as to what form the pendulum swings take for them under these two types of prayer conditions. It is quite possible that our Aunihipilis differ in deciding on what swing patterns should be used to indicate different things. My report may influence your “George” when you test. Dr. Brunler discovered that the pendulum appeared to react all by itself and make a swing pattern to fit the thing tested. He got a “V” swing over gold or a check which could be cashed for currency. It struck me at the time when he told me of the pendulum reaction, that it could NOT be a radiation from gold that was being indicated because the paper of the check must have quite a different radiation to say nothing of the signature. I prefer to think that the Aunihipili (which we know to be really very clever in its own level of mentation and action) tries to invent a swing pattern fitted to the object tested. The “V” was used to tell Dr. Brunler that gold was to be found here or there when he did map dowsing. It also made for the learned doctor one type of swing over ordinary drinking water and another over “Holy water” from a Catholic church – the latter pattern being a cross. As the sign of the cross is made over water when it is blessed by the priest, it may be that this in some way influenced the Aunihipili in inventing a significant swing pattern.
Dear Max:
……. In regard to your pendulum tests and the writing: I have found that the “Spirit” is definitely cyclical. You just “rest up” from the pendulum work of the meditations or prayers. In a little while you will find yourself going stronger than ever.
I have discovered something, I think. Before releasing it, perhaps you had better test it out and make some pendulum checks yourself. Here it is:
Take a deep breath and hold it while you rotate your head four times, first to the right four times, then to the left four times. Then release the breath. This makes one dizzy, but if gently persisted in, has a remarkable effect in clearing the vision and creating a tranquil, uplifted and serene mentality for prayer.
In other words, I believe that it is a strong producer of mana. This is what I have been after for a long while. You will remember several years ago that I began my correspondence with you by asking how to generate more mana. You will remember your experiments in Honolulu with the Count, involving the dog, etc.
Of course, in my opinion, one’s nearest tangible approach to the Healing Spirit is the breath. The proof is that without it we perish within a few minutes. Like yourself, I believe that this Spirit is originated within ourselves by the breath, the food we eat, also the sun, and a strong Power passing through our mind via the brain. (The mana in its three forms? MFL)
Assuming the above to be reasonable, we can, in surrendering our thoughts, words and deeds to God, also surrender the strong mana created at the same time. Sending it up the aka thread, we get back Mana Loa, the Miracle Force ………
I have been testing along these lines for some years now, and between us, I believe this is it, and further, I believe that this energy can be stored and can be used by the Aunihipili in an emergency after it has been trained in prayer methods. When an urgent need arises, we do not have time enough to go through the steps of prayer, and that ever loving Aunihipili snaps into it for us like lightning. I’ve experienced this. Let me know your reactions. W.B. (California.)
I COMMENT that this method is well worth trying. I have not finished my own tests as yet, but this seems to combine the best in the rhythmic breathe and hold of simpler Yoga with the conscious accumulation of Huna. The head movement seems to do something beneficial to clear the neck tensions and perhaps increase the circulation. The vision becomes sharper than is usually the case when mana is accumulated in the ordinary way, and the mind seems to clear. As HRA W.B. also said in another letter, it removes fatigue in a surprising manner in less than a minute. Take part in this piece of research, if you will, and report your findings.
Dear Max F.:
….. In one of your Huna Vistas you mentioned, “If we could only find out what foods eating companion spirits didn’t like …” Figs, especially fresh ones. Cut in quarters, sprinkle a little salt on each piece. Rub a piece over the “All Seeing Eye”. (Center of the forehead.) Place the quarters in different locations around the house. M. G. (California)
I COMMENT: This is at least a start. I imagine that the information was received from the writer’s spirit guide, “Urtian”, but she did not say so. In any event, I will be pleased if any of the HRA can find a way to get those needing help to try out the method. Figs are just coming into the market now in California and may be elsewhere.
Dear Max Freedom Long:
(This is a passage from a long letter from HRA. Dr. Aubrey Westlake, whose book was recently reviewed and has been of such interest to us: Patterns of Health.)
I was most interested in your present conclusions that what you took to be advice of the Aumakua was in fact, only your Aunihipili giving you the answers it thought you wanted. This, I am sure, is what happens unless one definitely and deliberately orients one’s whole thinking towards the Christ. I know you cannot at present accept Steiner’s concepts, but I am more and more convinced that he has given the key to the perplexities and dangers of these times, and this is where the magical systems fail us. They were true in their time, and, as you know, worked and gave results, but they are not true now, or rather they require reorientation and interpretation in terms of the real Truth of Christianity. As you know, I have been troubled about you, because I felt, rightly or wrongly, that you were becoming stuck and bogged down in the old Huna concepts, and did not apparently see that they required an interpretation in the light of what Steiner calls “the profound Mystery of Golgotha.” But what you have now written fills me with hope that perhaps the logjam is shifting when you say, “I shall have to find a way to make a start in a new direction as I keep trying and seeking for inspiration.” You carry such a great influence by your unique work on Huna, and its publication to the world that I am more than anxious that the influence should lead forward to new truths for this Age, not backwards to obsolete ways of thought and action ..
If you work on the problem of “eating companions”, a subject of urgency and importance, it is very necessary to get the whole work Christ centered, as otherwise one lays oneself open to great dangers, for the demonic forces are so powerful now that unless one invoked the great powers of Christ, one is liable to get overwhelmed, even with the best of intentions. That is why the therapeutic patterns were sought for in the name of Christ, as patterns equally powerful could have been forthcoming, but actually empowered with what Steiner called the Ahrimanic forces. If you can take this step forward – in real understanding – then I am convinced that the whole of your work will take a creative leap forward.
MY WARM THANKS to Dr. Westlake. I do not as yet catch the flash on just what it is he senses to be lacking, or on just how the present stage of the work with Huna, and with the Huna in Bible material might be re-interpreted to better fit the needs of this Age, but I am greatly intrigued by the possibilities which are so kindly indicated. Here, indeed, is a time to pray for Inspiration and Guidance. MFL
