November, 1962

Naming the Aumakua and the Po`e Aumakua

 

PLEASE READ THIS: I keep saying in the Huna Vistas that when you move, the post office does not forward the H.V. class of mail. Instead, the issues are returned to me marked, “8¢ return postage due”. A new address is sometimes scribbled on the envelope, but I have no way of knowing whether you are off for a vacation of a week or two, or gone away to stay. So, when I buy back a bulletin I chuck it in a box and then remove your address stencil from the set. I note on your file card that you are gone, then I wait for you to write to say what your new address may be. If you do not write, you become a LOST HRA, which is akin to a lost soul. If you do happen to miss the H.V. and write eventually, and if you want back issues which you have missed, either send 25¢ for each one desired so it can go first class mail, or wait until the next regular mailing is sent out. The figure of 25¢ includes 3¢ used to send out the issues, 8¢ each to ransom them back from the post office and 12¢ for the new first class postage, to which add the cost of two envelopes, a new address stencil and a dollar’s worth of my invaluable time.

“Dear Max. (read a recent letter), I have not heard from you for four or five months nor got any Huna Vistas. Are you sick or dead or something? If not, please rush me the issues for the last five months. I am now living with my daughter at the address written on this letter, and have been doing some prospecting and hunting. I like it up here a lot. I hope nothing has happened to you. [Signed] An HRA

WHEN AND IF I CANNOT KEEP GOING WITH THE HUNA VISTAS, for any one of several possible reasons, I have arranged to have someone let you know, and I am slowly making ready a little mimeographed book which I plan to get bound and put into envelopes and tied in bundles so that a copy can be sent to each member in good standing in place of the balance of however many Huna Vistas may still be due. If you wish to play safe on not getting your full quota of Huna Vistas after making a donation to Cigbo, send in only a dollar each four months. In that way the book I am making ready will be sure to be worth enough to reimburse you. It will run 40 pages, mimeographed with lines evenly justified at the ends, and printed on both sides of a heavy and opaque gray paper. The cover will be heavy leatherette paper. The title is a vast secret. If the making of such books proves to be not too difficult, I may, after this experiment, decide to do a few more for general distribution to the HRAs and friends. Dealers, of course, do not handle soft cover little books of this sort, and they are entirely taboo in libraries.

FINDING THE BONES OF KING KAMEHAMEHA in Hawaii, by psychic vision, as reported on test in the last Huna Vistas, has aroused considerable interest on the part of several psychic HRAs, one of whom has written that she saw Kamehameha and that he wishes very much to have his bones remain hidden in the secret burial cave. As things are, she reports having him tell her, all is peace and progress for him on the other side. But, should his bones be found and handled and discussed by the living, the influence would tend to make him subject to their mental calls, and disrupt his “there living” life all too badly. I am of the same opinion. What need is there to locate the secret burial cave and uncover the remains of one peacefully resting?

MEADE LAYNE, former good friend and HRA, mentioned in the last H.V., seems to be working hard to “come through”. We still have no explanation of why he has not come through satisfactiorily via Mark Probert, the medium with whom he sat so many times in the past, so effectively. In any event, evidence accumulates that he is seeking an outlet in HRA psychic circles. A strange  and most provocative report comes via letter from HRA Rev. M.G., of California, who knows HRA Layne only from mention of him made in the Huna Vistas. I quote from her letter of October 5th, 1962:

….. A number of months ago, someone in spirit just said the name, “Meade”. No other identification. I didn’t know anyone by that name. A few days later, I heard, “Mr. Layne”. I wondered who or why that was given. I then thought, my son’s name is Merryle Layne – M. Layne. The spirit said “Yes”. That was all again, and I didn’t connect the two names even then. A week or so later, I was in the bathroom washing my face and as I raised up and looked into the mirror a flash of light and sparks spelled out “Meade Layne” and it was given in such force that it shook as if shouted in the writing. I felt a little stupid to think that I hadn’t connected the two names before, but said, ‘Oh, Mr. Long’s friend!’ He said, “Yes”. I asked if there was a message he wanted to give you and he said, “The next time you write to him.” Then he walked away, saying something about dwelling too long in the subconscious. If he has returned since, I didn’t know it, and I have written you several times since then. Perhaps my forces (guide, Urtian?) will look him up and bring him to me some time when I am writing to you. (Speaking of another subject, she writes): I am enthused my Aumakua spoke in audible words. Urtian (her guide spirit) helped me, of course, and when it happened it seemed so natural and not out of the ordinary that I didn’t even realize it until a couple of days later. Then Urtian reminded me about it and I knew what had happened. He had been working constantly with me for the last several months on my clearing and using of light hypnosis and suggestion, similtudes, etc. I was given a Aumakua name a while back but only in part, Ana.

Then when I read your No. 38 Huna Vista, I had the rest of it, Au, then pronounce again with the vocal change between A and U.

I COMMENT that I rather expect Meade to get messages through to us, given time. What he may have had in mind when he said he had been “dwelling too long in the subconscious”, I have no idea. In the matter of the name for the Aumakua, this one follows the strange pattern already noted. It also describes a self which is older and more experienced – one which has been on the scene longer. The AU means “I” and ana is the Hawaiian for our “ing” ending. We might translate Au ana as a continuing “I” or Self. Au is a root word which has several meanings, some indicating “flow” or “motion” of water (mana force), and “time”.

The root or base word, au, when doubled, gives us the Hawaiian word auau which means to “wash, or cleanse with water”. This symbolizes the ability of the Aumakua to use the high mana to cleanse the Aunihipili, perhaps. The word, when used imperatively, has the meaning of, “to excite or hasten one”, and perhaps we have in this the symbol of the part played by the Aumakua in helping the Auhane and Aunihipili to grow or evolve faster. The word given our HRA as the name of her Aumakua, Au ana is given in the Hawaiian dictionary as either a verb or an adjective, but not as a noun, making the literal translation poor for use in explaining its use as a name. Let me quote the dictionary meanings for you so you can have a try at finding the significant symbology in them.

“Au a na: Au,to swim, and ana, the participial termination ing. A skmming off. The word has its origin in the overturning of a canoe, when men and cargo of the canoe float off in different directions. (2) To be scattered or dispersed, as things dispersed in upsetting a canoe. (3) To go astray, as the mind. To be wandering, as the thoughts. (4) To scatter from each other, as people. (5) To go here and there in search of something. (6) With hoo, the causative, to scatter; disperse abroad; to cause to wander; to go from place to place.”

A very interesting use of the word, au, is found in au la ma: “To give or cause light around.” The ordinary word for “to cause” is hoo, but here au is used, and one can hardly avoid the implication that the Au makua or “Older Parental Spirit”, is shown in the word as the one which brings the symbolic “Light” and illumination to the lower pair of selves. We know how a flood of white light comes to one at rare times when contact is made with the Aumakua, and we have in the word, Light, the symbol of the Aumakua in the ancient Huna system. The study of the symbol meanings of Huna, is, indeed, a fascinating one. Literally, au la ma translates via the roots, “I, the light that accompanies and continues.”

FAMOUS MEDIUM OF HAWAII VISITED. You may remember that not too long ago FATE magazine ran an article giving a glowing account of the psychic powers and accomplishments of a white woman living in Honolulu, Mrs. Mary Renne Glenn. At the time I had a number of letters from HRAs asking what I knew of the lady. Several of the writers wanted to see her when visiting Hawaii. Just now, an HRA reports actually going to Honolulu and making the necessary effort to find Mrs. Glenn and get permission to call on her. He is, himself, a good “mental medium”, and his conclusions are those of one who may be classed as an expert in the field of the psychics. Let me quote parts of his letter:

… You would have thought from the article on her activities in FATE, that she was a real kahuna. She was said to be in direct touch with Pele (Hawaiian Goddess of Volcanoes) and had predicted all of the volcanic eruptions and other catastrophes accurately for several years – I was able to see her from 9 to 12 on a Sunday morning. Such a disappointment. She could give me nothing. I could see that she was no medium at all, in the sense of the word as we know it. She knew but little of spirit communication or real mediumship. I was amazed. She told me that no one is allowed to give out anything remotely suggesting the psychic or occult. To do so makes one liable to heavy fines. The old laws passed by the early missionaries against kahuna activities are now turned against all mediums. Keith Rhinehart, a medium now in Seattle, was arrested there and fined $200 a couple of years ago.” (He was sitting with David Bray, who calls himself the last kahuna.)

Mr. Bray is half Hawaiian and an old showman. He learned many of the old chants and prayers in his youth from an uncle who was by way of being a fair kahuna. In past years, while taking what he knows of the lore of kahunas most seriously, and claiming to be the one and only authority on such matters, he has lived what might be called a “double life” – of necessity. He was made keeper of the old throne room of former Hawaiian royalty, and often made extra money putting on an appropriate kahuna costume and going to chant a blessing on projects such as the laying of a cornerstone. He may have been involved in the reported efforts by Hawaiians skilled in such matters, to remove some”bad luck” curse such as the one supposed to cause the too frequent deaths of men working to drive the tunnel through the top of the hills at the place where the Pali road crosses the top of the island. In Hawaii one may believe what one wishes, but, outwardly, one must pretend that anything valid in the use of kahuna methods is “superstition” or a farce. “Daddy” Bray had lost his beloved wife and had gone to the medium, Rhinehart, who was then in Honolulu, to try to get into contact with her and to get a message. He was also arrested when the police raided the seance. There was quite an uproar in the papers over the matter, but, if I remember rightly, he escaped drastic punishment for his share in the wicked and sinful effort to communicate with a spirit.

A STRANGE STORY ABOUT PELE was also told by my HRA friend who reported on visiting Mrs. Glenn. Again I quote: “Last week a lady, Mrs.           invited us out to have dinner with her in her beautiful home. In the course of the evening the subject of Pele and the Hawaiian gods came up. She casually remarked, “I have seen Pele twice” just as if mentioning a simple fact and nothing more. She said that she and her son were on the Island of Hawaii, and one day she was sitting in the car waiting for her son who was a short distance away. She saw an old woman with long, bushy white hair, leading a small dog. She called to her son to come quickly, but when he got there the old woman had completely disappeared. No trace of her anywhere. Then 20 miles down the road, ahead of them, they saw her again. Now, of course, they knew it was Pele. But the best was yet to come! Listen to this!

The son, having his camera with him, snapped her picture. Later, thinking no more of the matter, he laid his camera on a shelf in the living room. Next day he went to get it. It was gone. Nowhere to be found. Vanished completely. But the next day, he was startled to see the camera again in its regular place. It had been returned. But all the films had been taken out. Madam Pele dislikes being photographed. In fact, will not stand for it. Now what I can’t fathom is this: the people believe all these things which are nothing but Spiritualism or the Occult or ESP or whatever one likes to call it, yet, any exhibition of such things here is met with prison or fines.”

A CORRECTION IS CALLED FOR ON PENDULUM HEALING, as passed on from HRA O.K. of Arizona. In H.V. No. 38. on page 5, fifth line down, where it was said that the pendulum should be held in the left hand, it should read in the right hand (unless the user is left handed). She explains, “The pendulum is held with the thumb and first finger of the right hand while the first finger of the left hand is held in contact with the injured spot. Another hint: a comfrey leaf, freshly picked, eaten every day will relieve asthma.”

SPEAKING OF THE USE OF THE PENDULUM, it is interesting to note that the bob will swing in a straight line between two similar things, but between two dissimilar things, such as a square and a circle drawn on paper, the swing to up and down between them. Try it with two circles or two squares drawn on a paper, then between a circle and square. This will get the idea across to your Aunihipili and establish a code for it to use with the pendulum to tell you what it observes in its own mysterious way. Once you have worked with the circles and squares, you can go on to people to see whether they are sufficiently alike to be compatible or antagonistic. Take the pictures of two rival political candidates and place them so that the pendulum will swing in a space of about two inches between them. As a rule the swing will be up and down or separative. Try two politicians of the same party and if they agree fairly well, the swing should be back and forth between them. If you wish to know how two people will get along together, use their pictures or signatures in the same way. This is a great help for matchmakers and saves much time because the right young people will be introduced to each other, but not the wrong. The method and the use of the signatures will also tell one whether a stranger is apt to be agreeable or not. If one wishes to test food and medicines to see if they are right for one, the pendulum can be used, but the code is generally one in which the pendulum swings in a good clockwise circle when held over things which are beneficial, but in a counterclockwise circle if not. You can make your own code to use to indicate degrees of goodness or badness. It is possible to count numbers over items, to indicate how much is good to take, as for example, one pill or three, or one helping of food or two. And a little of something may be good, but too much, bad. It is well to add to one’s code some yes and no angles to cover that ground. The story is told of the old Scot who tested his first “wee nippie of whusky” and found it good, but when he was nursing his hangover the next morning, he announced sadly, “I dina ken what was wrong, but something must have been. Hooever, the wee bob made even a bigger and better circle over every nippie, until near the end of the bottle we both went around together in really grrrrand circles. “

PLANT GROWTH AND ITS STIMULATION BY PRAYER gets into the news often these days, reminding me of our tests made several years ago on growing things. At that time we simply accumulated mana, touched seeds or growing plants – even young trees – and asked the Aunihipili to give the mana to the growing thing to help it grow. There was no question about the results. The mana fed plants grew faster by far, although in one test which I made, I seemed to have gone too far with the treatment, for in an hour after one long treatment, a small bed of plants wilted and acted as if burned.

An Ohio HRA recently sent me a picture clipped from a local newspaper, in which appears a minister, Rev. Ralph Haines, of Piqua, standing beside a bean vine which he had stimulated by prayer, and which had grown to rival the vine of “Jack and the Beanstalk”. In the picture he holds the largest bean I have ever seen. It is longer than his arm, and half as thick. In one night it grew from a length of 22 inches to one of 29.

One is caused to wonder whether mana alone was involved. Or was some high or elemental “group soul” brought into action to use the mana and cause the unusual growth. We suppose that plants do not hear and understand the words of the prayer, so some superior intelligence seems indicated. If we accept Huna, we say that all prayer goes to the Aumakua, because it is the only self connected to the aka cord. But “nature spirits” might also be near and listening. We seem to live in an atmosphere saturated by spirits of many kinds and levels of growth.

IMPORTANT RESEARCH NEWS ON AUMAKUAS is in the making. For a time we who have been experimentally making Psychometric Analysis readings of Aumakuas of people have been puzzled by the apparent inaccuracy of such readings. The degree of an Aumakua might come through different in each of three separate readings. William Drake, California HRA, was the first to call my attention to this peculiar change. Then I became aware of it in rechecking readings, but I could make nothing of It.

Then came a letter from HRA M.G., of New York, who is a skilled dowser and a Trustee of The American Society of Dowsers. Her P.A. reading is identical to my own except that she rates a degree higher. Making P.A. readings was easy for her, and her readings matched my own very closely almost from her first tests. Let me quote parts of her letter dealing with tests made in reading my Aumakua:

“Your Aumakua came in with a long 6 to 12 o’clock swing spanning the diameter of the 2 inch chart circle. After the initial building up of the swings the pendulum seemed to get intermittently heavier and give little ‘tugging’ sensations – it actually seemed as if it were ‘pulling’. Once in a while this happens when I do a P.A. on other people too. Have you noticed this kind of phenomenon?

“It then went into the clockwise circle: It went to the ‘b’ level on the chart and stayed there a while, then went to the ‘d’ level for a while, and finally to the outer rim of the circle; then gradually stopped.

“The degree reading is interesting in that I think I have discovered something new. I had done your Aumakua reading once before and had forgotten what it was until I checked my notes a few minutes ago. Anyway, the degree I got just now is 554. The previous reading made in August was 567 degrees. This was disturbing, for it indicated a discrepancy. I checked to see which one was correct but found that both were! ‘How come?’ I wondered. Then the answer hit me: There are different levels of the Aumakua! I went on to try to find out how many there were. I hesitate to tell you my results because it sounds so odd.   Nevertheless, you should know about it so you may do your own checking: There seem to be about 500 levels!

“Of course, I cannot accept this at face value, for I am still a novice and my work has not been sufficiently checked for validity. If it is correct, this finding is important. If it is not correct, at least it is interesting, and might be looked into.

“One thing is apparent: This result tends to substantiate some of the teachings of Theosophy and other occult groups that say there is a Hierarchy of Masters and such, leading ultimately to the Eternal ONE. In any event, it suggests that there are other reaches of the mind, or consciousness, which go far, far beyond that which we humans can ever penetrate – at least in living form. In that case, we humans would seem to be rather puny and undeveloped life forms – mere infants, perhaps only just born?

“Using the analogy of the infant again, it may even be that our physical growth and development from birth on may be actually the gestation period of the spiritual self. In that case, the death of the physical body would be analogous to the actual birth of the infant. This is a concept that would be difficult to accept, but it would be interesting to speculate on it.

“I just rechecked your signature today and the Aumakua is back at 567 degrees. Why? This variation suggests that the way you are thinking at a given time might make some difference. So, for your information, I should tell you that I checked it at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time. If you decide that you would like to put some of this in the Huna Vistas, it might be better not to mention the ‘500 levels’. It sounds so silly and fantastic. However, do whatever you think best.”

I COMMENT: After excitedly running some pendulum checks to see what I could turn up to add to this new line of research, I am inclined to think that HRA M.G. has hit the jackpot. This being a research organization, our warmest congratulations go to her. (Were we of some dogmatic religion where beliefs are frozen, we might be getting ready to excommunicate her for daring to think outside the tightly closed circle.)

FOR SOME TIME we have had a fair outline of Huna through the analysis of root and combination meanings found in words familiar to kahunas. We have added to our speculative information by checking Huna against many other older religious systems. But one of the most impressive tests of the accuracy of our findings has come through the use of the pendulum. Being able to make a P.A. reading of the two selves was a most convincing first step. Then came success in reading the “eating companion” spirits bothering the fully or partially obsessed individuals. Another great step ahead was made when we learned to make readings of Aumakuas as well as of the Aunihipili and Auhane. While the pendulum crutch used to help the Aunihipili get across to us information it alone can discover, is not entirely “material” evidence, it is a long step in that direction – perhaps as far as we will go toward getting material evidence of things psychic unless someone can successfully build an instrument through which spirits can communicate with the living directly.

THE PO`E AUMAKUA OF HUNA: or “The Great Company of Parental Spirit Pairs”, has been known to us for some time and we have understood it as a strange and other worldly association of “Selves” quite unlike anything we have on the physical or mental level here below. The paradox of the single Self is that it is made up of a united male and female pair of Auhanes, with each member of the pair remaining separate and individual when desired, or united when group work of any kind is undertaken. The male and female halves of the Parental Pair blend and unite to use their creative power in the miraculous way. When there is work which demands united action and agreement on the part of many pairs, the “Great Company” or Po`e, is formed.

IN SUCH A GREAT COMPANY, the union of member Selves would, in theory, be much closer than any blending or uniting we can experience in the flesh or in thought which is based on dissimilar data. What seems to have happened is that we have made P.A. readings of either member of the Parental Pair, and found that they have different reading as individuals, but perhaps the same reading in terms of degrees when in a state of union. More than this, the searching Aunihipilis engaged in reading at that upper level, may well have found the whole “Great Company” and discovered that as many as “500” are so closely tied together in a unit that many different readings can be taken.

THIS LEAVES US A LITTLE BREATHLESS with the implications. We wonder whether the Mother has a different degree of evolution than the Father of the Aumakua, and it begins to look as though this may be possible. We already know that all Aumakuas are apt to give different degree readings. It appears that one may graduate into the Aumakua stage with a 450 degree reading, and continue to evolve and grow, with the degree reading always rising. In the Great Company, we seem to have found a mixture of Aumakua Pairs of differing degrees of growth.

IT MIGHT BE THAT, as in life on the physical level, the male and female can work well as a team although of different growth from the evolutionary point of view. Or, as HRA M.G. suggests, the degree level found at a certain time may register higher or lower according to what thinking process is going on. It is less easy to believe that the thinking of the moment being done by the Auhane and Aunihipili would cause the Aumakua degree reading to change. On the other hand, I have for some time been able to call for a separate degree reading for each of the three selves, and have found that the combination reading obtained from an individual is raised to a marked extent by having the standing of the Aumakua averaged in with the levels of the Auhane and Aunihipili. If a signature is written during a prayer period when the contact with the Aumakua is made, the degree reading obtained may be as much as 100 degrees higher than without prayer. Of course, it would seem a more perfect arrangement for the successful UNION of the Aumakua Pair if both male and female were of the same degree exactly. On the other hand, one may do well to keep in mind the sex rivalry that causes males to feel superior while any female will be certain that she is the most intelligent. In making a P.A. reading, the Aunihipili, if male, may tend to color a reading of a female and downgrade her, while the reading made by a lady Aunihipili might reverse the process. While we are aware that the woman may have more intuitional ability than the man, or that there may be slight differences in intelligence tied to sex, it would seem safer to expect the degree reading to be based on more definite characteristics.

THE “PULL” OF THE PENDULUM noticed by HRA M.G. is something with which I have been long familiar, although I have given it little attention. In making a reading for the Aumakua, and also in using the pendulum to run a check on progress when trying for a full contact with my Aumakua, I have had the pendulum pull and tug as if trying to swing in an overhead or full circle – something I have put down to a show of great enthusiasm on the part of my Aunihipili as it endeavored to tell me how strong and wonderful it was finding our Aumakua. This angle will be something worth watching.

THE “MASTERS” and “BROTHERS OF LIGHT” suggestion is well made. Aumakuas in the Great Company certainly would qualify, although there must be much question concerning any Aumakua taking on a physical body and appearing as the Theosophical “Masters” of Mme. Helena Blavatsky’s day were reported to have done. On the other hand, we kaow that the spirits often produce fully materialized bodies and use them briefly at seances, and these, while probably not advanced enough to be Aumakuas, may have been the “Masters” of the early T.S. As for the tradition that there are “Brothers of Light” standing’to help mankind, this would appear to go back to the Huna knowledge that Aumakuas make themselves known by causing the appearance of a fine heatless LIGHT, this being characteristic of them to the point of having the very word “Light” used to indicate the Aumakua. The existence of a “Black Brotherhood” has been suggested frequently in occult literature, but, if there is anything back of this idea, it seems more probable that members of such a troop would be nothing more than lesser spirits of the “eating companion” sort, bent on obsessing and influencing for evil those they can influence in the physical. This influence registers as hypnotic or mesmeric in P.A. readings. Many good spirit friends stand by to help the living, but they exert no such influences, and to find and read them in association with a living person, demands that one ask for a special search and report when a reading is being made. The very good and most advanced spirits appear to be able to get Aumakua help for healing at times.

THE TIE BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THE GREAT COMPANY, seems to be an object of endless speculation in early religious circles, with only kahunas retaining a clear understanding of the aka thread or cord made up of many such threads – these acting as the means of uniting spirits of all levels in a very real way. As the tiny and adhesive strands of a spider’s web make a fine symbol of the aka threads, the web became used as the symbol of all that the aka threads make possible. The whole of Creation has often been pictured as a gigantic web in which we reside in life as well as in death, each having a place in the web, and each being connected with all others by the web threads. It makes a good symbolic picture to contemplate.

Consider the possibility that each of us is connected by aka threads to all members of our family, dead as well as alive, and extending back several generations. This would make a family web of at least 500 crossing threads, each crossing a point at which to say a spirit or person is lodged. If we go back a sufficient way with the generations, we would eventually have a thread connecting us indirectly with practically everyone in earth and in heaven – or in Hell, if there should be one. We are not alone, as I have remarked before in the Huna Vistas. In fact, I begin to feel very much the cosmopolite. Add everyone’s Aumakua and multiply the “500”.

The search for something to tie spirits and things together into a whole has been frequent. There is also the search for a “something” which ties the stuff of the universe together and keeps the electrons and their tiny associate units from parting, uniting or ceasing to perform their particular part of “the dance of life”. Here the best guess at present seems to me to be that aka substance united with consciousness and empowered by some form of mana force is indicated.

IN THE ROAD I KNOW, by Stewart Edward White, page 237, we find that “Betty”, who describes what she sees in her trips into the realm of spirits, tries to explain the connecting something which we are discussing. I have quoted this passage before, but let me give it again.

“I am,” said Betty in her next approach, “face to face with this vast level of consciousness that is back of human consciousness. They (her spirit friends) show me a great rope twisted of many strands …. I don’t understand it. It runs through us all …. It is the connecting link. It is the connection through which we act on each other on this (the spirit) level. When we touch it, it is charged (by us?) with life and vitality, (mana?) an open way to wisdom and understanding. If you touched, reached this level, somebody would answer somewhere if you had a real need they could supply. It is the universal conductor in some way.”

… I’ve said it badly because I gave the impression of a merging of individualities (in the consciousness she tries to describe). They are distinct; but it’s the merging of the substance possessed by all of them,  which, kept uppermost, produces the magic. “

“This is very advanced teaching, ” warned the Invisibles. “We are not sure that it is wise to precipitate it, but we’ll sketch its meaning. Very briefly and crudely, it is to this effect: The undeveloped being lives in isolation of consciousness within himself, his village, his town, his country, depending on how far along he is, always contained within definite personality limits, separated from other creations by the confines of his senses and sympathies. The developed man is as different a creature in the breadth of his perceptions as is a walnut in its difference from the winds. The developed man can search out any distance with an extension of himself (protrude an aka “finger”, kahunas would have said), his full consciousness concentrated at any point he desires. He assumes kinship with other consciousnesses as poignantly as with his own.”

BEING BORN INTO THE PHYSICAL LEVEL as are the Aunihipili and Auhane in each reincarnation, is not so much a series of gestation periods to give birth to a spiritual or Aumakua, as a series of matriculations in the first and second grades of the life school. The Aunihipili is in the first grade now. The Auhane is in the second grade. The Aumakua Pair sit together in the same seat in the third grade. One does not, according to Huna, grow a new body to house the Aumakua. One simply graduates into the next higher level of consciousness when sufficiently schooled. It may take a dozen incarnations to learn the lessons of each grade, but, certainly, not the endless number of incarnations presented in the main beliefs of India.

IF YOU ARE ABLE TO MAKE P.A. READINGS, please run checks on readings for Aumakuas and let me know what you get. HRA William Drake thinks that it is possible that the Aumakua degree readings may run as high as 1,060. It may be that he has reached up through the Aumakua level and made contact with the next level above, the one in which kahunas believed that Aumakuas live when they graduate a step up and become Akua (god) Aumakuas. These are exciting times for us in our research, and there is always the feeling that we may be led to understand one thing after another until our reconstruction of Huna is completed.

I MADE A VACATION TRIP of a week in early October, going again across the big Navaho Reservation, this time on a new short cut road to see the ruins of the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park. Evidence seems sufficient now to prove that North America was populated long before the supposed coming of peoples across the Bering Sea bridge from Asia. Recent excavations have uncovered the remains of men intermingled with the bones of the early mamoth and three toed horse. The cliff dwellers were in the Mesa Verde country for 1300 years before they learned to build in great natural caves in the cliffs. However, there was slightly less than a hundred years of the cliff dwelling period, then it is supposed that the great drought which is shown in tree rings of the period, caused a migration.

SHINE SMITH was not at home at Powow Trading Post when we called. You will remember that he is a missionary who long ago broke with the church which had first sent him to work with the Indians, and who for years has collected food and clothing to give the needy Navahos and Hopis after feasting them at a big Christmas party. Many of the HRAs responded generously to the invitation last year to send money or clothing for the party. This year no preparations are being made for a party. Shine has grown too old to handle it. Besides, times have improved greatly with the Indians, especially the Navahos. They have uranium mines and oil wells, with a refinery. They have just opened a saw mill costing over $500,000 and which will mill their own timber and furnish employment for at least 300 Navahos. The Tribal Council uses the returns from all resources for the good of the tribe and no individual gets rich …. Many fine new schools with good teachers are provided. The herds of sheep are being reduced to keep from over grazing the land, and fine roads are being built. Water wells are being drilled to open up dry grazing sections, and everything is looking up. The new town of Window Rock has been built for the H.Q. of the tribe, and is laid out artistically and built with red native stone. Recently the Council deposited a cool million dollars in a branch bank which was opened at Window Rock. They publish a weekly newspaper (to which we subscribe), and are proud of their many accomplishments. They are working hard to educate the children, and a few leaders are college men. Christianity makes little appeal to them.
MFL