April, 1964

“Facts & Truth”

 

MY HEARTY THANKS TO YOU ALL (or at least to most of you) for keeping your letters short and saying, “No reply needed”. Also for holding up on visits or, if you just have to call, for making the visit as short as possible. With this much appreciated help I have managed to get a little more done on the book since finishing the last Huna Vistas and starting on this one. If you do not send me a stamped and self addressed envelope when you write to me, I will take it for granted that you mean that “No reply is expected”. Many of you are taking me at my word that I would prefer to have only a dollar at a time sent for Cigbo and his box so that IF I should fall by the wayside and be unable to continue getting out the H.V. there would be less loss and if no questions are to be answered when a dollar arrives, my work is made easier in not having to write to acknowledge the gift for Cigbo. By the way, I have taken to telling those who write to ask about joining the HRAs that membership is $3 a year in gifts, if they can afford that much, but that if they happen to be one of the many chronic writers of constant and long letters, asking questions, a gift of from $3 to $10 should be sent with each letter to enable me to hire office help in making the answers. (Cigbo is, of course, the only office help I could get, but he is sure that his answers would be about as good as mine.) (Requests for P.A. readings should go to Cigbo with a gift.)

OUR MEMBERS ARE DIVIDED  into several classes by the length of time the individual HRA has been with us. Some wonderful and long suffering friends have been with me from the very start, and others are brand new from month to month. The seasoned HRA will know all the things discussed in the past, but the new HRAs are often confused about many points. A letter came in recently from one of the newer members, Mrs. O.H. of California, and I promised her that I would answer it in the next H.V., as I thought there might be others who would be puzzled by the same things, and as reviews are often good for the more seasoned members who may have forgotten or need to brush up on various items.

Dear Mr. Long:
I am enjoying the study of Huna through your books, also your monthly bulletins, though the interpretations of the Bible material are way beyond me. I am willing and eager to try the methods. Yoga breathings also appeal to me and I have started them.

“Knowing how very busy you are, I have been reluctant to ask certain questions which have been plaguing me. These questions just haven’t been answered for me in your writing unless they have escaped me. So here goes:

“After death, according to Huna, do the present three selves maintain their unity? When we reincarnate do the three selves reincarnate as a unit again? What happened to the memories of the present Auhane, also its E.S.P.? Who is the real ‘I’? Where did the physical body come from?” (Signed by Mrs. O.H.)

MY ANSWERS: I wrote in my earlier books that I doubted that kahunas believed in reincarnation, not having found a word in their language for it. Later, I came to the decision that they believed that we incarnate about a dozen times under normal conditions of progress. This seems to have been so much taken for granted as a common piece of knowledge that they used no special word, saying only, “to  live a new life”. (Ola for live or life, and hou for new or to repeat.)

The Huna theory is plain that we evolve and gain life experience, starting in the lower life forms and gradually arriving at the state of an Aunihipili. As such, we are still part of the animal world and get an animal body in the way all things get bodies. The animal body is subject to all the accidents and dangers and pleasures of the animal level, and the body is under the blanket care, via instincts, of some higher form of Group Soul in all probability. The Aunihipili begins its first incarnations as a real animal and has the usual greeds, angers, jealousies etc. These are symbolized in Huna is “dark things” and are the “sins” or “mistakes” made while learning. The Auhane is a guest in the body house and its job is to instruct the Aunihipili and teach it to be a man instead of an animal in its actions. Gradually, the Aunihipili learns, and, after perhaps a dozen lives in different bodies into which it is helped to enter by the Aumakua and Group Soul, it is ready to “graduate” at death to the state of an Auhane As an Aunihipili it carries only a few submerged memories of its past incarnations. When it becomes an Auhane it carries over no memories because all remembering is done by the Aunihipili. It seems, however, to have a sense of its own identity or selfhood. It has no ESP powers, as these belong to Aunihipilis. Its two abilities are to rule the Aunihipili with its hypnotic strength of mana or “will”, and to reason inductively. It “rationalizes” all events which are sensed by the Aunihipili before they are recorded in the Aunihipili shadowy body as “thought forms” making up memories.

The Auhane has to learn to guide and control the Aunihipili and to teach the lower animal self to act like a man, to stop hurting others and to learn to be gentle, loving and helpful, also to work with others instead of trying to fight with them. As the Aunihipili exerts a great power over the Auhane by thrusting its emotions on it, and by holding illogical and “fixed” ideas which prevent the Auhane from exerting its usual control, the Auhane is more or less involved and carried along with the Aunihipili, getting the upper hand only in the later incarnations before another graduation arrives and it and the Aunihipili both step up a level. The Aunihipili becomes an Auhane and the Auhane is helped to find its sex mate from which it was separated untold years earlier, and the two unite in the “marriage made in heaven” to become an Aumakua which is both male and female, a Father-Mother “Utterly trustworthy Parental Spirit”. As a new Aumakua it will, when the next series of a dozen incarnations is started, be the Guardian and Guide spirit for the new animal self which will be selected from the animal world and helped into a human body, there to be joined by the newly graduated Aunihipili who has become an Auhane and will be now a guest in the body in its turn. The Aumakua lives outside the physical body, but is connected with it by an invisible cord of shadowy aka stuff.

The three selves remain together normally, all through the various stages of progress, but once in a while by some accident or by the manipulations of evil men, the selves are separated, perhaps temporarily, perhaps for a long time. In old days certain Aunihipilis seem to have been enslaved through the use of hypnosis when men were sacrificed in the degraded temple worship of later times in Polynesia, and these spirits were then used in the “death prayer” to steal mana from one to be killed until he died of exhaustion. The tales of “curses” and “spells” put on tombs to protect them in Egypt, if true, suggest that the enslavement of Aunihipili spirits may last for centuries.

In addition to the fixations which cause Aunihipilis to refuse to obey their Auhanes, there is now and then spirit influence of an obsessional nature. Usually the Aunihipili is controlled hypnotically by the Auhane of a spirit. Good and friendly spirits do not attempt to force their control of the Aunihipili and its actions and emotions.

Huna tells us little or nothing about how the memories are lost by Aunihipilis between reincarnations, but the Aumakua is said to have the power to learn at will anything that has happened in the past, and to foresee a little of what is yet to come. It may be that the Aunihipili carries over in dormant form memories of past incarnations, or the Aumakua may furnish the information. In recent years much has been made of “Life Readings”. These are often made under hypnotic influence in efforts to cause the present Aunihipili to recall and tell about past lives. L. Ron Hubbard, in his system of “Dianetics” aimed at finding and removing what we would call “fixations”, made much of one person suggesting to another to the end that the person to be aided went back in memory to find the fixations, even going back to past lives to hunt for the causes of present difficulties. HRA Rev. Franklin Loehr and his wife spend most of their spare time regressing people to help them to learn of their past lives, and in a current bulletin release he says that they are booked solid for sittings until next October, and that the major part of their income is now derived from pay for this type of work. This summer they will leave Los Angeles to settle in New York and try to expand their work there. The validity of all such information concerning one’s past is always open to question because it is seldom possible to check. However, one of the HRAs tells me that in England a number of people who were regressed told where they had been buried in a past life and under what name, with the result that old headstones were located. bearing the names and given dates of death.

The question about who is the “real” self is one that is met on all sides these days because of the contention of the sages of India that only one of the dimly seen three selves of the man is real. This is what we would call in Huna the Aumakua. In India it is considered to be a divine or god self and a very part of the highest Universal God. The Aumakua of Huna is looked upon as on one of the lower levels of the heavenly realm, with level after level above and a very great distance, so to speak, separating it from the Ultimate God. The Huna idea is that one self is just as real as the next, and that the idea that only one part of the man is real is only an example of a misunderstanding of the little Huna knowledge once shared by them with kahunas, when the latter were passing through early India. In Yoga the sages mistook lasting properties for reality, and thought anything in a state of slow evolution, such as a human “self” could not have reality because it was in a state of change. The divine self in the man was thought to be beyond change, and the limitations of time and space. The major effort in Yoga was to attain the union of the “unreal” lower selves of the man with the Divine Self. Huna tells us that the male Auhane spirit can unite with the female mate because they were “one” or a single self originally, but that there is no such thing as union with a self of a higher level by one of a lower. In the lore of kahunas, the great aim was that of evolving, eventually, to be an Aumakua on one’s own, not to give up individuality and become lost and utterly selfless in the “great ocean of divine consciousness”. That vanishing into the universal mass consciousness may be the final step, but it is so far distant in terms of evolution and time that we hardly need to mark our evolutionary road maps with a red pencil as yet.

In trying to learn just what kahunas of old believed and how they worked, we must keep in mind the possibility that they were wrong in their conclusions and in part of the methods they used. We must also remember that we may not have the correct idea of what they believed. This is the field of research, and speculation is an inevitable part of delving. My personal opinion, for what it may be worth, is that the Huna system is fairly well recovered, and that there can be no question that it is more reasonable and that it answers more questions better than any other system of psychology merged with religion.

Dear Max: (Wrote HRA W.O.E., of California recently)

“Your Huna Vistas are always interesting, but as to your interpretations of the coded passages, I would never have the patience to work out such blind meanings. In these days I want straight talk and facts in plain language, and if I am not worthy of being told or taught that way, so be it. There ought to be teachers who know and who are not afraid of being burned at the stake.” (Signed W.O.E.)

I COMMENT: The world is full of plain statements of “facts” and one can read in the straightest and plainest language imaginable just how man was created, just why, just what he came to learn, how it is to be learned, how to overcome all evil, and how to obtain immortality in some beatific state. One can lay hands easily on a hundred books revealing the utter and absolute truth via spirits or revealing the same truths verified by age and tried tradition. The only difficulty is to determine which of the revelations is the correct one – as they all disagree on endless major and minor points. We agree that we all long for something we can understand, something simple and crystal clear which is open to all men, good and bad with no need for codes and mysteries. We also agree that it would be good, in a similar way, if we could be given a way to make a living which would not be filled with deadfalls and traps. We could do with a pat formula to use to smooth out all our love relations and family and national differences. Lastly, we need very often a certain remedy for fear, illness, black resentment and plain boredom. Like the Indian maiden, after being wooed by a brave with tales of his hunting prowess, I would remark, “You catchem first, then we talk about eat um.”

NOT THAT THERE ARA NOT MANY THINGS which would be most pleasing to one to believe factual and utterly true. For instance, Margaret Storm, author of the book, Return of the Dove, told me in a recent letter that there is a uranium fallout from atomic explosions of the past, and which fallout is causing much illness of a mysterious order. She then gives the encouraging information which she has, I take it, obtained from her spirit communicators, “The reason that the uranium fallout is precipitating at such a rapid rate now is because on January 1, 1964 a new type of Light was released into the earth’s atmosphere. It is the third Cosmic Ray of Divine Love and sweeps away all that is inharmonious. The upper atmosphere is being cleansed and very soon we will notice the effects on the lower atmosphere, including the smog. This Cosmic Ray Light will affect all humans, animals, vegetation, and the soil itself. This Light has a very high and fast vibration and as the months go by will make it impossible for the ‘unready’ to remain in embodiment.” (Perhaps she will have a new book out in not too long a time to give more details. Meantime, we who go in for Huna may be the “unready”, and perhaps we had better begin to change our ways. In her letter she says, “….while I am not interested in Huna per se, I find that many aspects fit in with my own philosophy as set forth in my book….”

ANOTHER STATEMENT OF UTTERLY TRUE FACTS which would be delightful to accept is to be found in the book of a tolerant friend of the HRA, Ethera Prins. It is titled, The Light That Must Not Fail. In the preface, page 10, one reads, “A great Soul has descended to this planet and is now embodied in female form. This Great Soul is in constant contact with the Rulers of the Heavens, and will soon present to the world a most wonderful pageant of Love and Knowledge. The method of her divination will be described in a forthcoming book which also contains messages and revelations from the Rulers of the Heavens. The Promised One will soon bring a great Love and Inspiration to mankind: inspired writings will promote a satisfying feeling of calmness and tranquility upon those who read Her divinations. Her melodious voice will bring a profound thrill and a soothing ecstacy to those who hear Her; and the sight of Her will cause profound admiration and a delight that is beyond comparison, as she sends to her audience expressions of the Great Love which she has for all humanity. Those who have used the past period of man’s Free Will as an opportunity to usurp, mock, and even deny the Creator, and who continue to do so, will turn to stone and ashes, or worse, and will lose their rights to further life, elsewhere.” (Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have the Mother Incarnate and bring love to the earth! “And fain would I believe.”) (The book may be had from World Harmony Inc., P.O. Box 1927, Beverly Hills, Calif. Price $2. Add 150 for postage… and sales tax if you live in California.)

PREDICTIONS ARE ALSO MOST INTERESTING in rounding up “facts & truth”. For those of you who did not read Return of the Dove when it came out, let me do a bit of reviewing. Current “people in the news” came up for comment by the ones responsible for the information contained. On page 43 I quote a section to give the flavor: ‘Now, on this earth, we have at least one man, Otis T. Carr of Baltimore, Maryland, who states that he has solved the problems connected with building spaceships and he is prepared to manufacture them to order. He claims that these  ships will fly safely anywhere in our atmosphere, to the moon, and to Venus, Mars or other planets in our solar system. The ships need no fuel as they generate electricity from the atmosphere as they fly. (Between 1957 and 1959.) Mr. Carr is one hundred per cent correct. In fact he is so right that recently no less a person than El Morya, Chohan of the First Ray, stated that no earth person in an unascended body would be permitted the freedom of the cosmic highways. A person with an unascended body is a person who is carrying around in his atoms a heavy load of untransmuted karma. El Morya also stated that an individual with an ascended body could, of course, travel the cosmic highways freely at any time they were open.” (Too bad Mr. Carr let El Morya down as he did and failed to produce for his backers the promised spaceship. “Fact and truth” to some … while it lasted.)

Dear Max:

Re: H.V. #53, pg. 6, bottom. “Breathing in to 4 counts, hold 2, exhale”. Which side used to breath in? How many counts to exhale? Can one exhale any number of counts? About the Ida-Pingala rhythm, H.V. 53, page 7, last paragraph. (From M.H., Wisconsin).

I COMMENT: Nothing was said in the passages mentioned about breathing through one nostril and then the other, but that is a popular practice advocated by writers on Yoga breathing. I have been hoping to get more information from our HRA who stands so strongly for Yoga. (He says not to refer to him as a Yoga expert.) On March 7th he read my instructions drawn from Yoga for the West and sat down to discuss that material. His letter is long, so I will condense what he said in my own words, or quote parts.

OUR ADVOCATE OF YOGAS BENEFITS SAYS

He thinks such books as the one mentioned above give “a diluted version for people whom the author judges or, expects are to be too weak or spineless to work at the real McCoy. Exercise No.1 that you passed on from him is better than not having an exercise. The most important feature of Hatha Yoga, Pradipika, is that the exhalation of the breath be unvaried.” He gives no instruction for length of exhalation compared to inhalation and holding. “Four breaths per minute is not much, considering that the I-P breath, full strength, is of 45 seconds duration, single breath.” He says watching for sensations is wrong and that “all thought should be put out of the mind, and the mind be kept as blank as possible. The object of breathing rhythmically is to get calm and to keep calm, and to develop.” He does not say just what to develop. “We are to set aside the will power as being an obstacle to mental development”! He does not say what is meant by mental development. Would this be of the Aunihipili emotional and memory faculty, the Auhane inductive reasoning faculty or the use of the “Will” by either of the lesser selves? Or is the Aumakua recognized as having a part in such development? He warns that some systems have resulted in obsessional difficulties and says “I believe that the effort to try other mental activity than merely to monitor the breath is what gives that kind of trouble.” He advises that the breathing system be made as simple as possible, just breathe as instructed and think only of doing it. I suppose the mind is not to be blanked to the point of not observing the the passage of time and flow of breath. He tells how he tried mental actions at first and got as a result “something foul and dangerous had been stirred up …” A bit more instruction comes after some paragraphs of discussion. “As a result of my proceedings all made in faith that the I-P rhythm was (a system) handed down faithfully: that the Huna prayer was proper – all these sensitivities (which came to him) have come unsought, for I did not know (in advance) what to expect, if anything. Act in faith, sit facing east while breathing; lie at night with the head to the north; sit with hands turned up (palms up?) in the lap, one at a time while breathing, (are the hands lifted alternately to press a thumb on one side of the nose and then the other in breathing?) and have confidence.” I am sorry not to be able to pass on definite instructions, but HRA L., from Illinois, gives something to help. He writes:

“In reading H.V. 55, page 10, I am reminded of my trying to use this left and right nostril breathing method. To me it seemed to defeat its own purpose by shifting my attention from important to unimportant endeavor and locations. My results in accumulating prana have been best when I concentrate on the air passages just under the bridge of the nose, imagining there is a spongy organ at this location that strains out the prana and lets the air go on into the lungs. The prana can be directed into the brain, and then to any part of the body. A wonderful effect can be had by sending it into the subjective ganglia along the sides of the spinal column. I first noticed this prana a number of years ago one warm spring day while walking south thru the crowds on Michigan Avenue. Crowds, if they don’t interfere with my walking, seem to increase the prana for me. (The implication here is that he was doing his breathing exercise as he walked?)

YOGA AS “UNION”, and my conclusion that the “union” is between male and female Auhanes at the time of graduation to the Aumakua level, has come in for some discussion and may be of general interest to pursue a bit. “Avalon” in his book, The Serpent Power, is the most exhaustive work on Yoga that I have on my shelves. On pages 25 to 32 he discusses the problem of “union” or Yoga, should any of you wish to read for yourselves. Let me lift a few ideas and lines for those of you who must “run as you read.” Yoga is based on the idea that Shiva, as Ultimate God, is pure consciousness, but that this unit of consciousness goes into action in creating a universe, and so uses power or energy which Shiva produces from Himself to make his wife, or “shakti”, the great Devi or Mother of the Universe. She, as the Life-force resides in the human “at the  lowest centre at the base of the spine, just as Shiva is realized in the highest brain centre, the cerebrum or Sahasrara Padma. Completed Yoga is the Union of Her with Him in the body of the Sadhaka….” (The successful practitioner of Yoga). “Yoga is the realization of the union of the Mother and Lord (Shiva) aspects in that state of consciousness which is absolute.” This realization is something to be attained only by the most strenuous and carefully guided activities, we read, and so far as I can see, is not the  union of the lower selves of the man with the higher self. It is the realization of the consciousness joining the power to create material or subtle things or states. We must not forget that in ancient religious practices the element of Magic was usually basic: men doing certain things in certain ways to cause the gods or invisible beings and powers to work for their benefit. Mixed with the desire to manipulate magical powers was the religious complex centering on the doctrines of reincarnation and karma. The Yogi was forced to look backward and forward in time as well as harness the Mother-Father consciousness  power units. The speculative literature on the obtaining of escape from the “wheel of necessity” is vast in India. Complications build on all sides for the student. On page 82, Avalon (Woodroffe) writes, “To the question whether man can here and now attain the supreme state of bliss, the answer in Yoga is ‘yes’.” It would seem that in some way the Yogi hopes to enter in and share the state of union of the Mother-Father elements after learning to bring them together in the union that is the final word of bliss. I must confess that I like Huna better.

It is so simple and direct and at least I can make head and tail of it and can avoid the masses of contradictory speculation surrounding Yoga in old, middle and late India. Moreover, I have long suspected that the “Masters” of India and Tibet who were mentioned so frequently in early Theosophy as masters of all the hidden powers, were nothing more than the spirits of today who give learned advice to the mediumistic living – advice which is usually as wrong now as in the early days of Mme. Blavatsky and her founding group. (Don’t scold me. I’ll let you believe in them if you wish, and back you up in your right to so believe.)

But don’t allow me to discourage any of you who have the time and inclination to try Yoga breathing exercises as an improvement on the Huna mana accumulation method and the definite prayer use to be made of same. But remember that the men of India found their Yoga methods often difficult to cash in on. Avalon says of success with Yoga, “(Success) may be the fruit of experiences of many preceding lives. Kundalini (Mother force) must be gradually raised from one centre to another… it may be years, or, in exceptional cases, months.” He says a teacher is a “must”.

THE RESEARCH WORK OF H.R.A. WILLIAM DRAKE of Escondido, California, has been varied and most interesting during the past year. He has given his entire time to research along healing lines, using the Johrei methods in association with the Church of World Messianity, of Japanese origin, also testing out, as opportunity allows, the Huna ideas and methods. He made attempts to contact his Aumakua some months ago, and began to see in his psychic sight or meditation, visions, beings who appeared in human form as male and female. He thinks these may be lesser gods who are of the Aumakua level or above it, or even of a different kind of life but closely associated with Aumakuas. He has simply come to call upon these “gods” and try to get help and information from them as they see fit to give it.

RECENTLY HE ASKED FOR INFORMATION concerning the “graduation” process in which a male and a female Auhane unite to make a new Aumakua. He was given a rather remarkable vision in which he saw the “union” being brought about, and described it briefly in a letter to me. I asked for a more complete report, and he took time out to write an article for the H.V. The article is a little too long for our limited space, but I will try to cut it down to size without leaving out points of significance. For convenience I leave out the quotation marks, but put any of my own comments in ().

THE MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN by HRA William Drake

With information had from the “gods” and some of his own conclusions.

No male is 100 per cent male and no female is 100 percent female. Every male is part female and every female is part male. The perfect state is achieved when “soul mates” are joined to make one in the celestial realm. (This union can only be accomplished after each of the mated Auhanes has become ready to “graduate”.)

The ceremonies which are described were witnessed on the spiritual level during a period of worship. Others have seen similar ceremonies, undoubtedly, but may not have reported exactly the same thing. Each of us color our “seeing” with our own background of understanding and experience.

The Gods and Goddesses whom I saw, appear to be celestial beings under the rulership of a higher Eternal. They were gathered in a large hall as my vision picked them out. In the hall at the center was an altar which was built in three sections placed in a straight line. The middle section had winged gates. Three steps led up to the altar, which appeared to be fashioned of gold with astrological designs, along with inlaid carvings on stones and in metals, depicting plants, animals, humans and angels. These things seemed to portray the life levels through which man rises, as through the “Cycle of Necessity” to learn the lessons of Truth, Love, Harmony and Wisdom before becoming ready to become united, as male and female, and made into an Aumakua or god.

The female candidate for the initiation of union was escorted into the hall by a group of nine Goddesses. (The Huna theory, as mfl sees it, unites male and female, as that, as an Aumakua, no appearance would be made, as in male or female bodily aspects. Perhaps the vision was symbolic, or there may be “Gods” just as he sees them.) The Goddesses, who were beautiful beyond the power of words to describe, each wore a lovely gown trimmed with gold and belted with a golden sash. On the head of each was a plain gold band. The female candidate was far more beautiful than women here on earth. She was dressed in a simple white robe, no jewelry or powder or paint, and looked plain and coarse in features compared to the Goddesses. (The symbolic nature of this vision is seen in the fact that the female Auhane appeared as if in a physical body. The Aunihipili, and it alone, has a physical body, and the Auhane aka body, in which, it would appear, would not have the shape of the physical form – probably an oval or ring, as the halos or “glories” pictured in religious paintings.)

The male candidate marched into the hall with an honor guard of nine Gods, and each God wore a beautiful white robe trimmed with gold and with a golden belt and on the head a golden crown. The candidate was far more handsome than earth males, his features seemed very plain compared to those of his escort. The two candidates were barefooted, but the Gods and Goddesses wore sparkling sandals.

The two groups met and formed a circle around the candidates. A tall, golden God stood before them and unrolled a scroll, then began questioning the candidates in turn. They answered satisfactorily, and appeared to be eager to be united as one and to love faithfully, also serve the Eternal. The altar had now changed into a square with one side open where a wide golden line marked the base of a golden triangle whose apex was at the center of the altar. Inside the triangle was a circle. The triangles always indicate a trinity and the circle the Gods, consequently a very liberal interpretation would be that the Aunihipili, Auhane and Aumakua are the only pathway to the state of Godhood or the Divine State in which the male and female spirits are united to make Gods or Goddesses. (The united pair, in Huna, do not stand again as two separate “gods” but as ONE.)

The candidates were placed by their escorts at the base line of the triangle; then three golden Gods led them to the center of the golden circle, where they knelt and faced the apex of the golden triangle and the center section of the altar. Their shoulders and hips touched and the three Gods moved to stand at the points of the triangle. The one at the apex chanted and performed a cleansing rite while the two others sprinkled each candidate with holy water. This, it appeared, made them ready for the “Ordeal of Fire”, which came at once. The God at the apex of the triangle raised his hands to heaven and a solemn silence fell in the hall. His words as he chanted were liquid and musical. He paused, stiffened, stretched suddenly, and a blaze of golden fire rolled down from the heavens and over the two candidates for initiation. They seemed first to quiver, then vanish entirely. After about twenty seconds the God lowered his hands, the golden fire swirled upward and the pair appeared in the same position as before, except that they were more closely united and had become far more beautiful. They had now a soft golden color.

The golden Gods seemed to breathe deeply, then walked slowly from left to right around the triangle to the next station. The same ritual was performed and the candidates were again enveloped by the golden fire, after which they appeared much more closely united and more golden and beautiful. At the third station of the altar the ritual was repeated and a greater fire called down. The pair vibrated violently and again vanished. After what seemed a long time the fire died away and they once more appeared, still more beautiful and more closely united. These three steps of the ritual may have been for the purpose of removing any blockings such as the complexes and fixations, and might be the work of “Eternal Grace” to prepare them for the final rite.

The golden God at the apex of the triangle lifted his hands high and all of the Gods and Goddesses did likewise; and one and all prayed silently. Suddenly a great is white light slowly descended and swirled about the candidates, who embraced and then were no more as the white light increased in brilliance until too strong to see with the astral vision.

The prayer was finished and Gods and Goddesses lowered their hands and a brilliant white oval was seen in the center of the triangle. Looking extremely hard I thought I saw two heads within the oval, one male, the other female, but with no bodies. There was soft, sweet music and the singing of heavenly voices as the three golden Gods performed a rite of blessing, after which they lowered their hands and the oval disappeared and a new God and Goddess emerged in glowing white robes, trimmed with gold, making them clad as were the other Gods and Goddesses. They bowed their heads and were crowned and the Gods wrote the new names on the altar. (After some additional rituals performed at the altar) the newly created God and Goddess were embraced three times and at their own command the brilliant white oval appeared. All gave thanks (and after more rituals) the ceremony was finished.

It is possible that the oval vehicle is used to create and to perform miracles by the perfectly united male and female, acting together as instruments of the Eternal.

BOOK REVIEW

HRA J.C. of California, who has several times discovered most valuable books for our Huna research studies, recently brought me Jean Doresse’s The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics, a translation from French to English, 1958, publishers, Hollis and Carter, Ltd., 25, Ashley Place, London, S.W. 1, England, price 42 shillings. This 445 page illustrated book tells of the finding of 44 more books in upper Egypt, written in Coptic and evidently used by early religious sects. They appear to belong to the pre-cannonical Gospels and one may be the original Coptic version from which the Gospel of Thomas was copied in Greek.

The scholarly book is by a Frenchman who has worked in Egypt with such MSS and who has made his own translations and is able to pull together the whole problem of Gnostic sects and literature in a most satisfactory way. He has a modern approach based on vastly more material than Meade found available when he did his great work of trying to assemble and present the materials in his Fragments of a Faith Forgotten. Here is material I have needed for years, and often fresh translations and frequent comments and comparisons. Through much of the old writings one can trace elements of the secret teachings of Huna.

Starting on page 338, the author discusses the possible identity of the “Thomas” supposed to have been responsible for the Gospel of Thomas in the Coptic. From his study, the writer gives passages showing that there had been a strong early belief that Jesus had a twin brother, Didymus Jude Thomas, and in the Book of Thomas, supposedly written by Matthias, it is said that “The Saviour, brother of Thomas, said to him: “Hear! I will reveal to thee what thou thinkest in thy heart: how they say thou art truly my twin and companion, how they call thee my brother.” The fascinating angle here is the possibility that under the blind of a male twin, we may have code telling us of the “Mother” half of the “Father”, or Aumakua as represented by Jesus when speaking as an Aumakua rather than as a man. More later. MFL