July, 1964

More P.A. Book Reviews

 

RUTH MONTGOMERY, syndicated columnist in the Hearst publications and with King Feature Syndicate, has recently given kahunas a break in her column. Several HRAs have clipped the articles and sent them to me, and as they are under copyright, I cannot reproduce them here, much as I would like to do so, as they are so well written and colorful.

The first article gives an excellent description of kahunas and their work, and mentions my book, SSBM, as one which will stir one’s interest in the subject. Her own contact with kahunas came in Tahiti, where she found on the tip end of the island of Moorea a nurse who had been trained in all the modern methods and beliefs, but who had a strange tale to tell.

While working at a small hospital on the island, an elderly native was brought in with a broken leg. He refused to let the doctor put it into a cast and insisted on calling in a local kahuna to treat the break. The kahuna came, applied a poultice of herbs, and the next morning the old gentleman walked out of the hospital with the break completely healed.

A week later the nurse broke her arm just before she was to leave for the U.S.A. on vacation. She then hunted up the kahuna and he treated her in the same way. By the following day her arm appeared as sound as ever, so she took the plane. To make certain, however, when she reached the coast, she went to a hospital and had an x-ray picture made. It showed the break but also showed that it was completely knitted.

Continuing her travels, Ruth Montgomery reached Honolulu, and, having trouble with bursitis in a shoulder, she asked for help from friends and made a search for a kahuna to whom she could apply for help. Her account of the search is most interesting and revealing. (Kahunas are fined $500 if caught practicing, so have to work under cover, if at all.) She heard stories of healing which had been witnessed, and was taken to one venerable Hawaiian who, while not treating her, advised her “Just to pray. Thank God over and over, not just once, but many times each day for his blessings.” (This is good and keeps the mental picture of the healed condition going constantly to the Aumakua and if there is an emotion – in this case desire – the Aunihipili automatically supplies mana to the Aumakua to be used in materializing the healed condition as the answer to the prayers.) When she said that it was a shame that his healing secrets which he had learned from his grandmother were not being preserved, he replied that he had a promising grandson whom he might teach.

Actual treatment was eventually obtained from a Hawaiian, Auntie Luka, who is well along in years and who, although working ostensibly with Christian prayer methods, is credited with many healings of the kind performed by kahunas. One story is told of a man with both thighs broken whom she massaged and prayed over while waiting for an ambulance to take him to the hospital. He was a police officer. At the hospital it was said that the x-ray pictures showed the breaks but also showed that they were completely healed.

Auntie Luka came to the writer’s hotel and treated her by administering the old Hawaiian type of lomilomi massage. She then asked that they pray together, and they prayed, apparently in the Christian manner. For additional treatment she prescribed drinking the juice of Chinese flowering limes, which was done, and a jar of the juice taken along to be used when the plane trip to the Mainland was resumed a short time later. (It has not been learned at the time this is being written whether or not the shoulder trouble was cured, although I have had a letter in answer to my own asking about it. I did learn, however, that R.M. has long been interested in psychic research and the “occult” in general. Her latest book is titled, Mrs. L.B.J. She often addresses book and author luncheon gatherings and the like, and has been telling before them of her experiences in Huna land and often mentions my book, SSBM. I am sending her a copy of SSAW so she can see where we went next and as a token of appreciation for helping to get the existence of the good in Kahunaism known to more people. About Auntie Luka: I understand from Riley Crabb, of the B.S.R.A. journal, that in a recent trip to Honolulu he came to know about her and the healing she has accomplished. She makes her home at the Morman colony across the island from Honolulu. In healing the policeman with the broken thighs, we are told in the article that she “whispered a secret prayer” to help bring about the healing. The Chinese flowering limes could not be brought out of Hawaii because of the fruit fly which infests things and makes the growing of citrus fruit difficult. The quarantine is very much in force. The HRAs thank you Ruth Montgomery and wish your healing complete.)

THE AVAILABILITY OF THE CAMERON AURAMETER is a matter which recently came up in a letter from a new HRA who has been reading the old HRA BULLETIN files dating back to 1952. I understand that the dowsing instrument invented by Rev. Verne Cameron may be had from him by addressing him at Rt. 1, Box 1120, Elsinore, Calif., U.S.A. He teaches one to use the instrument and gives one an Aurameter, all for $50. It is not certain whether the instrument alone can still be had at the former price of $25. For those who wish to obtain copies of the excellent mimeographed book telling of Rev. Cameron’s many discoveries and tests, one can send $2.20 (add sales tax if you live in California) to Riley Crabb, B.S.R.A. Journal, U03 Bobolink Dr., Vista, Calif. If only mildly interested, get the book first and judge from it whether you wish to try out an Aurameter for dowsing purposes or as an alternate to the pendulum in making psychometric analysis and similar readings. Articles of much interest to dowsers and pendulum users appear often under the signature of Rev. Cameron in “PENDULUM”, the excellent mimeo British magazine. (Issued monthly. $4 a year. Markham House Press, Ltd., 31 King’s Road, London, S.W.3., England. Egerton Sykes is the editor.) Rev. Cameron was a most valued HRA for many years, but recently found that he could not go along with my expression of personal opinions in the matter of doubting the historicity of Jesus as a man who was also God.

INTEREST IN HE WALKED THE AMERICAS continues and more information has been sent since the book was given a review and a P.A. reading. HRA L.W. living in Maine, sent along the July issue of Ray Palmer’s SEARCH magazine (Box AD, Amherst, Wis., bi-monthly, $2 the year). Mr. Palmer turns out to be the man behind the publication of the book, and in the issue of the magazine just mentioned, is an unsigned article headed, “Did Jesus Come to America? Evidence Proves Mormon Contention.” In the article the arguments are given to show the validity of the claims (said to be made by the Mormons) that Jesus “manifested Himself to ALL nations, manifested through His actual presence.” One now may rightly wonder how much of the material in the book came to the author, L. Taylor Hansen, via the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. Following this long article is a department headed by Mr. Hansen (who seems to be a man despite my pendulum suggestion that he is a woman). In it he answers questions from readers concerning his book, his education, his reason for writing the book and his apparent interest in the American Indians. (L.T.H. says he is part Indian himself.)

Ray Palmer published, a few years ago, an exact offset duplication of one of the original copies of OHASPE called, The New Bible, a long book given by spirits through the mediumship of Dr. Newbrough, and one including illustrations drawn by the communicators through the medium’s hand. Which brings us to the next item:

A P.A. BOOK REVIEW WAS UNDERTAKEN OF OAHSPE by HRA F.M. after seeing my pendulum reading of the various parts of the Bible in the last issue of the HUNA VISTAS. What he got for the text as a whole, he did not say, but he gave detailed readings on three of the reproductions of pictures of religious leaders of old. He explains that in his many tests he has concluded that the degree reading gets lower as the signature or picture ages and that a picture copied several times gives a much lower reading than the original. This is something new to me, and Dr. Brunler, originator of the system of making “Biometric” readings, made no mention of such a change. It can be said that the theory up to now has been that once one gets back to contact the original person pictured, or whose signature is being read, that person gives the full degree and that the age of the medium of aka thread contact is immaterial. As an example of what he found, Frank writes, “I especially noted the great difference between the advertising halftone of the Shroud of Turin and a genuine photograph of same.” He does not say what reading he got in this case, but I recall that Dr. Brunler got a reading of 1,000 degrees from a picture of the cloth  which supposedly carries the imprint of the features of Jesus. I talked to him about it and he was of the opinion that this showed Jesus was the perfect man and that all men would have in time to reach that high degree. A little later, I tried a reading from an excellent photograph of the famous “Shroud” and could get nothing but a counterclockwise circle, indicating to me that the original was a fake. We must remember that Brunler believed it to be genuine, but I doubted it. Our opinions may have colored our readings. Frank says later in his letter, “But according to my 1962 preliminary reading of the Shroud of Turin, Christ has made about a 50% increase (in his growth and degree standing) since his crucifixion, also with two (added) reincarnations, both made by free choice and with unselfish purpose …. According to Oahspe, Zarathustra lived about 9,000 years ago, which is about right for him as a fast evolver to make the 39 degree increase, if evolution of the soul is only about half as fast in spirit as in flesh, as is claimed by some.” His reading of Zarathustra, taken from the picture, was normal and constructive as to will and personality, but 406 degrees for his early days and 445 degrees for his present standing. He was found to be now in spirit and with only two more incarnations to go before graduating to become a Aumakua. He is free now to decide for himself whether or not he will make the two returns to the flesh. (It is not explained in the letter whether or not the slow growth would continue in spirit and replace the reincarnations, but I take it this is the idea.)

Abraham, from the same set of pictures, read normal and 349 degrees for the days when he was living as head of the Israelites. At that time he had six incarnations to go. Now he reads 369 degrees and has three lives still to live, but is now in the flesh and in his 60s.

Moses was originally normal for will and personality and stood at 301 degrees with eight incarnations to go. His will pattern is normal with three plus signs in the letter, and his Aunihipili circle round and strong and clockwise. His degree(?) is now 331 and he has six more incarnations to go, but is now in the flesh in his 70s.

Frank writes, “Well, Max, perhaps this more or less supports your own reported results (of my reading of parts of the Bible) from the mere, many times reprinted pages of the Bibles. We may be nuts, but we pose a cracking problem for the skeptics, whenever they wake up enough to realize it. The last laugh is bound to be ours.” I have not been able to get with the pendulum the number of incarnations yet to be lived, and hope very much that Frank is not accurate in his readings, but only for the reason that he got some more incarnations for me to go before I can do what I greatly desire to be able to do after this life, “graduate” to the Aumakua level. However, if I have to come back a few more times, there will be compensations and I will continue to enjoy the wonderful things of the physical with my Aunihipili while giving happy thought to the wonders of the mental world. I even might be fortunate enough to come back in an environment which would give me early contact with Huna and allow me to continue my present digging and delving. Of course, this all depends on whether the promised help through “Grace” and “Perfection”, coded by the ancient kahunas in the Gospels, is a correct deduction or not. Some of the HRAs do not share the hope of graduation with me, and I recently had a letter from one who is not at all pleased with the idea that we meet and are joined everlastingly to our proper mates when we graduate. She gives her reaction in no uncertain terms, writing, “I think I’ll just go back to being a nature spirit. In the long run most humans ‘bug’ me. Really now, is there any other human being you’d want to be attached to from here to eternity? I find it horrifying!”

To my way of thinking, the mate with whom one is to be blended (if and when), will be an Auhane, and as such, will avoid having the physical defects of the body and the animal characteristics of the Aunihipili to bring over to the union. I am perfectly willing to admit that physically and as an Aunihipili given to many obnoxious ways, I would probably ‘bug’ even my own ultra tolerant Mother, were she still here. But Auhanes do not have warts, limps, bald heads or halitosis. If ready to graduate they would have learned to be generous, modest and considerate, and, when blended with the Auhane mate, the two would join in thinking and realizing and loving and serving, each furnishing what the other lacked, and the resulting condition would be one of fulfillment and great satisfaction. The only drawback which I foresee is that as a new Aumakua we would have to take on the position of “Utterly Trustworthy Parental Spirits” and put up through a dozen or so incarnations with the present Aunihipilis who have become Auhanes, and with two cub Aunihipilis who have come up from the animal world and who may be painfully savage for a time. There is a famous and very descriptive phrase, “Mans’ inhumanity to man.” Perhaps it would be even more accurate if it were “Mans’ inhumanity to women.” In any event I can’t blame anyone for wanting to avoid “graduation”, at least for a long time.

MY READING ON OAHSPE (to get back to our subject) gave the trident will pattern with no Aunihipili circle, and 320 degrees. This shows spirit influence or obsession, so I ran to get the reading of the medium, Dr. Newbrough, just by himself. It was normal and constructive in will and personality and gave 347 degrees, placing him in the class of natural mediums. I then ran for the spirit alone, as I got indications of but one spirit “guide” giving all the information supposedly originating with different divine beings. This reading showed the typical hypnotic or controlling  spirit will swing at 12 o’clock on the chart. There was no Aunihipili or personality circle, so the entity apparently lived with the medium and used his Aunihipili. The degree registered at only 290, which, at least to me, would give the reason for the general childishness of the communications, the changing of the names of peoples and races and individuals from history, all without a good excuse, the writing in the old English of the King James Bible, and the repetition and lack of orderly progression from beginning to some kind of an ending and conclusion.

FOR URANTIA, another spirit dictated book (which contradicts Oahspe at every turn) I got a very similar reading compared with that for Oahspe. The first reading gave the trident will and a counterclockwise personality circle which was hardly less flattened than a straight line running to 12 o’clock. The spirit control was plain. The writer alone gave a reading of a V will pattern and a personality circle which was clockwise but much flattened and with an axis on the non-constructive side of the chart, at 11 o’clock. The degree reading was 316, which is very low for a good natural medium and hints at something like cooperation with the spirit in the writing of the book. The spirit had the same will swing at 12 o’clock and same lack of an Aunihipili circle as the one in the Oahspe reading, but the degree was three points higher, at 293. I was made by this to wonder whether or not the spirit behind the hand of Dr. Newbrough, a hundred years earlier, might have grown a few degrees and come back to work through a different medium. In any case, the material is better in that it is in modern English and goes more “from here to there”, although I must confess that much of it seems to me most improbable.

THINKING AND DESTINY, a book of over a thousand large pages by Harold Waldwin Percival, now passed on, came up next for a reading as it had been asked about by a Canadian HRA in a recent letter. This is a slightly dif ferent type of book as the author claimed that he had no spirit help whatever and simply stated that he spoke directly to some form of Superior Consciousness and got the correct and final answer to any question which he or his friends might ask. The practice was one in which Percival sat with someone to record what he said, and asked the questions, then gave the answer as he got it directly from “Consciousness”. He was a long time student of Christianity, metaphysics and the occult, so in his mind lay much of the material “Consciousness” might need to answer most questions – that is, to answer them to the complete satisfaction of Mr. Percival, even if his answers did not satisfy everyone else. The book, in its turn, offers a completely different and contradictory explanation of how we were created, for what purpose, and for what end. As far as I am concerned, the answers were all the writer’s very own, and it is a satisfaction to believe this, for, if he got the answers from a higher form of Consciousness, such as our Aumakua, it would show that IT was no smarter than Mr. Percival. The reading gave the man only, and showed him to be normal and constructive, anxious to do good, but with only a 342 degree reading, which accounts for some of the egotism and brashness used in presenting statements lacking proof in most cases and rationality in some, as in his earth being hollow dictum.

LAST MONTH’S P. A. BIBLE REVIEW was checked by HRAs William Drake and Ann Ober, both talented in the use of the pendulum and in eagerness to help along the work and fun by running checks on my findings. Surprisingly enough (Or is it really surprising if we all ran into the same things to read?), the Genesis degree readings ran from 299 degrees for Drake and 309 for Max and 310 for Ann. (In past checks Ann has usually run a little higher than Max.) Drake also ran Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy and Exodus, each by itself, getting an average of 299 for the books and 309 for the writer. He found the will pattern of the books a V and the personality circles counterclockwise, which indicates a spirit taking a hand in the writing and perhaps finding it convenient to lie a bit. The writer had a will, pattern in all cases, vertical at 12 o’clock, on the chart face, indicating that the accounts were given by a spirit. Drake remarks, “These five books seem to have been written by the same person. There is probably a little more truth than fiction, but not too much.” Ann got a positive will and circle pattern over Genesis, normal and constructive, and 310 degrees. She tried for the reading of the Aumakua behind the writing and got 432 degrees, which is low as Aumakuas go.

JOSHUA was run by Drake and gave a similar set of patterns but 313 degrees. He decided that a different writer had been at work there.

ISAIAH, which had given me 316 degrees over 8:21-23, and 350 degrees over 53:1-6, with 442 over chapter 9, indicating an Aumakua involved in the latter, was read by Drake, giving him the V pattern and the counterclockwise circle with the writer’s will swing at 12:00, again indicating fiction and spirit working through a mediumistic individual. Chapters 1 to 7 gave 317 degrees with the writer 322. For Chapter 9 the only change was that the book part went up to 329 and the writer to 334. For Chapter 55 the only change was 337 for the book and 341 for the writer, showing a seeming rise on the part of the intelligence level all through. Drake said, “Could have been three different writers here, but perhaps at least two worked together, particularly on the first two listed.” Ann got a constructive will and personality pattern and 427 degrees for the entire book, with 525 for the Aumakua, but information that the writer had not graduated.

THE NEW TESTAMENT was read with the four Gospels lumped into one for a start by Drake. He got the same V pattern for the will but a clockwise circle. This held for both books and writers. The degree was up to 339, which he thinks, “Will show that the four books became more constructive in nature than the Old Testament, and were probably written by more advanced writers. The truth in the accounts is debatable.”

MATTHEW gave me a constructive pattern and 329 degrees, with the Aumakua of the writer at 452 and the indication that the writer had graduated. Drake, on his test, got the book at 339 and writer at 342, higher than my reading. Ann got constructive patterns and readings of 427 and 536 degrees, seeming to follow my stumbling into initiate kahunas behind the writing.

MARK was read by me at 297 for the writer, with 319 degrees for the kahuna or other writer who inserted some Huna code. Drake got 340 and 345 for book and for writer. Ann got 336 and an Aumakua of 485. My reading was lowest.

LUKE gave me a book reading of 317 degrees, but 346 degrees for the writer, and the the idea that he later graduated. Drake got 344 and 349. Ann got 325 and 485 for the Aumakua of the writer.

JOHN read 351 for me with an Aumakua reading of 439 for the writer. Drake got 348 and 352 degrees. Ann got 417 and H.S. 507 not graduated. We came close enough on this book to indicate that something would still register.

ACTS, CORINTHIANS AND EPHESIANS, which I found giving a V and a counterclockwise circle, with only 301 degrees, gave a similar reading for Drake but 299 degrees. He suspects spirit help in the writing and reads the spirit at between 305 and 317, saying, “There was something phoney going on there all right.” Ann got 306 and also a V pattern and a counterclockwise personality pattern, confirming the idea that probably these pieces were written in an effort to give historicity to a fictitious initiatory(?) drama of the Mystery of Jesus after it had leaked out in its outer form to a public which was quite unaware that it held coded inner teachings of greatest value.

GOSPEL OF THOMAS, which I read at 347 and identified with a writer initiate of pre-Polynesian blood, was not read by Drake, as he did not have a copy of the book. Ann, however, had a copy and got a constructive pattern and 347 degrees, exactly the same as I got, but could not get a reading for an Aumakua in this connection.

REVELATIONS, which I found ran just as Acts, ran V and counterclockwise for Drake, with 299 degrees, making him say, “Notice the return here to the same reading as most of the Old Testament. The writer had a will reading at 12 o’clock and a degree of 335. Compare this with the one who wrote Isaiah Chapters 8 and 9. It could have been the same writer and I would say that his prophesies were better in Isaiah by far than in Revelations.” I agree to that, but feel that in Isaiah we have not prophesies of the coming life of Jesus, but the main elements in a “Life” which was already current in circles where the initiatory drama was already taking form and was in use. Incidentally, as our Dr. Martin A. Larson points out in his priceless book, The Religion of the Occident, the Four Gospels are strangely written in the form of a scenario, breaking up with little connecting material into acts which could still be played as in a modern Passion Play. (If you are a new HRA and do not have a copy of this wonderful source book, drop me a line so that I can help you get one.)

THE GREAT INITIATION DRAMAS of the centuries were almost always secret, and for this reason we know only a little about them. In ancient Egypt there have been found the ruins of elaborate halls built especially to take the great lodge meetings and stage the dramas. The Masons claim to be able to trace the origin of their rites to early Egypt.

ONE CAN IMAGINE THE CHRISTIAN INITIATORY DRAMA divided into acts and with a stage manager to come before the candidates in the audience to speak lines which tie together the main events of the play. Perhaps they had some special way to indicate when Jesus was speaking as the Aumakua and when as the man composed of the Aunihipili and Auhane housed in the physical body. In some dramas two faced masks were used for such a purpose. In modern times we could stage the play with “special effects” so that the man, Jesus, would speak from ordinary dull light but the same man would be made to blaze with the white light to indicate that it was the Aumakua Jesus speaking. The effect would certainly be impressive. The final act of the play would be the resurrected Jesus, of course, but the next  to  the  last, which writers would call “the darkest hour” of the story plot, would cover the dramatic illustration of what happens to the lesser man when cut off from his Aumakua and left on his own, without Help, and being crucified by his own mistakes made in the world of the physical, where man shares with the animals the “accidents” and hard knocks of experience which take over his tutoring in the School of Bitter Experience. I have long felt great sadness at the thought that the Christian Churches could have taken for their greatest symbol the resplendent Jesus of the resurrection, but instead, came to cling to the dying lesser man on the cross, cut off from his Aumakua and deserted by his friends. Men are still savage, as the use of the crucifixion symbol proves.

HRA REACTIONS TO THE P.A. BIBLE READINGS have been tolerant for the most part. HRA A.L. of California expresses the feelings of many. She writes, “Your June Huna Vistas has me really putting on my thinking cap, for what? how? and could it be true? I am afraid to try my pendulum on the Bible. It sort of pulls the rug out from under you. I have gone along in many ways with ALL of Huna –  and I do understand how it was filtered into the Bible –  but no Jesus? The childhood teachings of so many churches? Oh yes, I know, I KNOW, its only the good brotherly love we are to practice and the ‘Sayings of Jesus’ are probably just good all around thinking for a better way of life. More power to you. Keep it going. At least it shocks us into trying it (the P.A. readings) for ourselves to try to get it all straight.

HRA V. J. MELSTAD, on the other hand, writes from Canada, where he operates the Yoga Vedanta Bookstore in Vancouver, “Your June Huna Vistas came a day or two ago and is interesting whether one goes along with what you think your ‘George’ found for you or not. I still cannot see how a fellow of such low grade intelligence as the Aunihipili can gather all the information, and especially judge the intelligence of living or dead people far more intelligent than himself. I do not dispute the validity of the information, as much as I do your theory of how you get it!

DR. OSCAR BRUNLER, to whom we are indebted for the system of Biometric Reading, (even if we have changed some things in it), gave the obvious and most simple explanation. He followed the originator of the “Biometer”, Bovis, in saying that all things radiate and that everything from a grain of sand to a germ or worm, and to the physical of man and his mind (the latter added by Brunler) throws off a set radiation with a wave length peculiar to the unit or, in the case of the human body or three self mental structure, the combination of smaller units to give the whole.

The wave length, being measured by the pendulum over the Biometer and registered in terms of the distance  measure of the Biometer, in arbitrary “degrees” (supposed to match angstrom units), were classified and scales of meanings worked up to show that a certain wave length indicated a certain physical condition (Bovis) or a certain “evolutionary growth stage” distantly related to the modern “I.Q.” tests which state results in terms of per centage as compared with a norm of intelligence (Brunler) and in terms of the evolutionary progress of each of the human three self entities as measured in the “will”,  “personality circle” or the code symbol movements for the Aumakua (Long). The supposition is that the Aunihipili or subconscious self can pick up and measure the waves, then indicate through the pendulum the length of the waves. That is as far as it is supposed to go. We then look at the chart that has been worked up to see what a given number of “degrees Biometric” have been found by long experience to indicate. So far, so good, but the pendulum and a code based on its type of action (circling, swinging in different directions, and swinging while the swings are counted) has also been used with remarkable success in such things as finding lost articles and people. Most difficult of all to explain is the successful “dowsing” over a map to locate oil or water at places indicated on the map, even when the place where water or oil is located may be half way around the world, as was the case not long ago when Rev. Verne Cameron located oil for a visiting HRA from Australia, the locations being in that continent and the dowser and map in California. (Later drillings showed the oil to be where it had been marked on the map.)

THE “CAMERON THEORY”, as I think we may call it, was one which contradicted sharply and completely the theory of radiations which had been long accepted in England and elsewhere, and upon which much work had been done to develop instruments which might replace the human element in dowsing with rod or pendulum, or without either, as in the case of a boy of seven in South Africa who is earning several thousand dollars each season under his father’s business direction, just going about “sensing” the location of water. In the May, 1964 issue of Egerton Sykes’ PENDULUM magazine, Rev. Cameron explained his theory in a hard hitting article in which he renewed his long continuing efforts to show why the popular “radiation” explanation of map dowsing is untenable from first to last. (His theory of “Virgin water”, coming up as steam from deep cracks in the earth and condensing to place water in most unlikely high places above regular water tables, bids fair to make him, and justly, the most famous man ever to enter this highly specialized field.) I quote from the article:

“AS TO, DISTANCE DOWSING, map dowsing, seeking lost objects, persons, tunnels, etc., as well as bodies of oil and water underground, I found years ago, and others have verified my findings since, that this is made possible by a function of our mental forces, the Superconscious mind, which is a separate entity, completely mobile, and able to transport himself anywhere with the speed of thought, and having no material body to drag around, as we have, he is not prevented from even going underground to seek information and relay it to us, and he has substance enough to even direct the action of the rod or other implements according to the code we have established with him.

“Until recently, most writers were pretty well convinced that some vague, feeble radiation was coming to every spot on the globe from every substance on earth, so that a dowser could at any point locate and assess any object, anywhere else, even to describing it fully. This would not be the function of any ray or radiation outside of the actual presence and location of the object, therefore the assumption is undoubtedly wrong; there just are no such radiations for more than a distance of a few hundred feet, or a few thousand at the most. How could any dowser select a certain one out of trillions of vibrations coming to him and be able to differentiate between it and all others, and then read the vibrations, and from them gather details as to the quantity, quality, depth, mineral content or other such information; that would be a matter for God alone. On the other hand, going back to the Bible, where David said to a group, ‘And He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways, and shall bear thee up with their hands, lest thou knock thy foot against a stone.’ According to this, if we believe the Bible, each of us is given a Guardian Spirit who is with us from birth to death – at least – to keep us in all our ways, and that would mean to look out for our welfare, our wants and wishes and needs, and yet he is an independent entity with a will of his own, so that by our requesting it, he is able to move about and accumulate information and relay it to us. If you leave out the functions of the mind, you will never be able to explain it, (dowsing over maps, etc.) and, conversely, if you leave out the fact of the penetration of our bodies and everything above the earth and even far into the earth, by powerful cosmic rays as well as other rays, some of which are only now being discovered, you cannot hope to explain the workings of the ‘Bishops rule’ (for depthing water) or the powerful pull (of the dowsing rod).” (The article goes on to reflected rays and their effects on the rod.)

The “CAMERON THEORY” demands only a “Superconscious” entity or self, and does not insist that it belong to oneself as an Aumakua. It may belong to a friendly spirit who is better able to get the help of its own Aumakua, but the end result is the same in either case. The information is obtained by the more able Self and then is given either by direct action or through the Aunihipili. This is the nearest we have as an explanation of how the Aunihipili with its lower mental ability can do what it is seen to do. The acceptance of this theory makes for much simplification of a very complicated problem and one is constrained to inquire how it comes about that if the Aumakua of the dowser or of his Spirit Guardian can act so well and exactly in map dowsing and making P.A. readings, it should allow mistakes to be made so often. We blame this on the Aunihipili and feel that it has tampered with the answers in giving them, but there is still much to be understood.

HRA Edward Schultz of Buffalo suggests a partial answer in what is called a “feedback” system. The steam engine sends a small part of its steam into the governor, which in turn feeds back the power to control the engine and keep it from running away. He imagines a small part of the mana generated and sent to the Aumakua being used in some form of psychic “feed back” to control actions. My guess is that the Aunihipili is the key point and that from it runs the line of power and questioning which eventuates in the “answers” as we see them given. Some Aunihipilis, and perhaps their associated Aumakuas or Guardian Spirits, may be much further advanced and able than others. It also might be that we have underestimated the willingness of Aumakuas to take an active part in things which seem below their level of interest, such as dowsing and the making of P.A. readings. In my personal experience I have tried repeatedly to get direct and clear Guidance when contemplating various projects. The Aunihipili desires appear to color the results entirely too much. Too bad we have not managed a foolproof method by which we could get the answers from the Aumakua without the danger of Coloration by either the Aunihipili or Auhane. Shall we try some more for direct and clear Guidance and Help? We might still hit the right method of approach – mana accumulation, sending and with all the right mental picturings.

BOOK REVIEW

This time it is of a small book titled The Art of True Healing, by Israel Regardie, now republished by HELIOS Book Service, 8, The Square, Toddington, Nr. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Price $1.75. 42 pages. Dr. Regardie has written a number of excellent books, my favorite being his My Rosicrucian Adventure, with his The Middle Pillar and The Golden Dawn running close seconds.

In this little book, written in 1937, the Yoga methods are revamped to make them fit Western needs and understanding more or less. The basic claim is that the “life force” is a free energy in the atmosphere around us as the “prana” of Yoga is said to be. It is gathered by breathing it in with the air, not made like mana by using the oxygen of the air to burn food in the body to create the force. To make the life force flow through the body with proper regularity, one is told to breath steadily, following a consciously set rhythm, the rate not being as important as the keeping of the rhythm. When this is learned, one intones certain prescribed words of Qabalahistic nature, also learning to imagine color, these sound and color vibratory units being added to the “life force” and the combination directed mentally to various points in the body which are said to be centers of psychic powers. The barrier between the conscious and subconscious, we are told, gradually dissolves and the personality is completely integrated, with health and other benefits following. Dr. Regardie says that the system has done much for him and for a great many others who have read his book and learned to put the instructions to use. The system has the advantage of greater simplicity than average. If you wish to try it, order the book from the given address direct and send an international postal order or $2 in bills. MFL