November, 1964

Ha Rite, Vitic & Huna Prayer

 

SPECIAL NOTICE!!!!!! PLEASE READ. The Huna Vistas are being suspended for a few issues, but will resume in due time, perhaps with the February issue. Cigbo says to tell you that all “succritions and duzes are to be pushed up for three months or as long as it takes before boss again gets back into the collar.” There are two reasons for the temporary suspension. First that it has become evident that unless I can get some free time to work straight through the final draft of my new book, it will never get written. Second, my eyes have been giving me trouble, what with so many letters to read and answer and the work on the book additional. With Huna type prayer actions, new glasses and the partial relief from the demands made on my eyes, I am sure all will be well. (This issue is being produced with some difficulty – so bear with me. Crabs, as usual, will read proof for me and come up with the customary contradictions of Mr. Webster.)

A MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all! This is a little early, but because of the lapse in publication of the N.V., is necessary. I could hardly let the Season go past without sending my greetings. Again, as last year, if you wish to send me your greeting, simply put one of the many Christmas Seal stamps which you have pressed upon you into an envelope or paste it on a post card and send it instead of squandering good money on an elaborate card.

THE TMHG WORK will be continued straight through, but letters must be kept as short as possible. No healing requests from nonmembers will be accepted during this period and will be rejected with a form letter.

THE FOUR COUNT BREATHING METHOD for accumulating mana as discussed in the last issue of the Huna Vistas, has been the subject of several letters which have come in from HRAs who have given the method a test. Before discussing reports on tests, it may be a good idea to consider afresh the Huna concept of mana and its uses. For easier handling, let’s divide up the subject.

WHAT IS MANA?

“Science” contends that there is no such thing and has no classification for the “life force”, either as a physical force or a mental one. As to there being a special nervous force which makes Mesmerism or Hypnosis effective, this, according to the scientists, is foolishness. To them, all is suggestion, but they do not attempt to tell the difference between the suggestion that demonstrates its effectiveness only when the subject sees fit to accept it, and the command suggestion of the hypnotist which his conditioned subject cannot refuse to accept and obey. In the matter of there being a possible “spiritual power” – our High Mana – all is vast and scientific silence. However, the Physiologist recognizes the fact that all living things must have a form of life energy, regardless of what it is or how it is come by. The plant has to have its variety of the life force, but seems to make it with scant use of the oxygen in the air. The aquatic forms of life draw oxygen from water unless they rise to the surface of the water periodically to breathe air, which is a much richer source of oxygen.

The prana of India is a little more complete as a concept than the scientific one which we have just listed. But while Huna looks upon mana as a basic life force which is manufactured in the organism from food elements which it can utilize, the Indians taught that the force was drawn in from the blanketing “cosmic life force” stored in the etheric double, with its chief center being in the breast. The word, prana, is Sanskrit and means “breath.” (I am quoting Powis Hoult in his Dictionary of Theosophical Terms.) Because prana means “breath”, it is probable that it was so named because of the connection between accumulating mana and the HA Rite of breathing introduced by migrating kahunas. It may also be quite possible that the Sanskrit  speaking sages of India rejected the use of the kahunas’ word, “mana”, because in their language it meant “to measure, or a measuring with the mind or by physical means.” The same word as “manas” meant “mind” so the word for “breath” was selected.

It is interesting to compare the basic word meanings in Sanskrit with those in the language of the kahunas. Mana meant only “a force” , be it ordinary physical or ordinary mental or even supernatural force. But the Polynesian word for “breath” contained the same general implications as in Sanskrit. It was ha nu, in which ha, is “to breathe hard, and the number four”, while nu has as one of its several meanings, that of “to think”. (This balances nicely the Sanskrit if we combine prana and manas.) But the “sacred language” of the kahunas did not stop there with its careful symbology and code meanings. “Breath” was also aho, which means “a cord”, and which immediately reminds us of the aka cord over which mana, once accumulated, is sent to the Aumakua in the use of the Ha Rite of prayer. An odd secondary meaning of aho is, “it is easier; it is better. ” In this we can see the belief that to use the Ha Rite and get the help of the Aumakua was easier and better than to work alone as an Auhane and Aunihipili pair. A third word for “breath”, ea, was most significant as it had a variety of meanings which coded the sending of mana to the Aumakua. The chief ones of the code meanings were:

1. To call or to answer a call. coding the contact we make with the Aumakua in the Ha Rite.
2. To lift up; to rise, as water. This codes the lifting up of mana, its symbol being water.
3. Dust raised by wind.

Here we have the thought-forms of the prayer symbolized as particles of dust, and the breath as the wind, these giving us the sending of the prayer to the Aumakua through the use of the “wind” as the “strong breathing” of the Ha Rite. Hana mana, in Hawaiian is “make mana”, and in hana we have the prime root indicating in the ha the use of breathing strongly, four times, then, as indicated by the root na, to become “quieted’ or momentarily passive, when we apply this meaning to the rhythmic taking of four breaths to aid in accumulating a surcharge of mana.

Another significant meaning is to be found in hoo mana or “to cause mana”, and this is “to worship”. This, of course, is not just accumulating mana. It is also the sending of the mana to the Aumakua.

In its nature, mana resembles in its action the static electricity which can be accumulated in various ways and stored in various substances. But it acts in a quite different way. It seems not to be polarized or to leap, as does the static charge from the more charged substance to the less to balance the energy. Mana acts as if it contained the ingredient of intelligence. It leaps or flows only when the command of mind is given. It appears also to be involved in the handling of clusters of thought-forms, as in hypnosis – a process in which the mana of the operator is sent to the subject, carrying thought-forms embodying the suggestion. In some way these thought-forms of suggestion seem to be able to take and retain a charge of mana. with a higher potency, causing the Aunihipili of the subject to react to the suggestion. The iron in the composition of the blood, and the fact that it picks up the oxygen from the air in the lungs and carries it along to burn the blood sugar present also in the blood, hints that mana may have some relationship to magnetism, in the latter a stationary magnetic field being formed and remaining fixed unless acted upon by some other substantial object to disturb the field.

In our search for a way to make artificial mana, the holding of a magnet in the hand has been popular from ancient times. In modern times there came the idea of holding a magnet in one hand and a rod of hardened carbon in the other, the supposition being that a force would be generated and stored in the body. The force was given the name of VITIC, and in the old HRA Bulletins of late 1951, Nos. 64 and 65, Vitac was noted and discussed at length after Meade Layne had opened the subject in his Round Robin releases.

Mana, as”od” had long been known in psychical research circles, and Reichenbach had experimented with it for some time, his prize demonstration of the lines of the force being in showing that a certain entranced medium could lift objects such as scissors from the table without actually touching them. A considerable time later, Brian Brown, in his book, Dynamic Power of the Inner Mind, wrote about the possibility that the ancient Egyptians had made vital force artificially. He told of the portraits of Egyptian priests and rulers, painted on the walls of tombs and showing that they held a round rod of something in each hand. He guessed that one rod was made of magnetic rock or even of magnetized iron, and the other of carbon, perhaps of hard coal. Experiments were reported in which a magnet had been held in one hand and a carbon rod in the other to see if nervous force was increased. Nothing very definite was learned, largely because there was no way to make a mechanical test of the strength of the force or of a charge or stored unit of it.

Not long ago, as the saying goes, “something new was added” to the matter. This is a wire loop such as the one developed as a “poor man’s oscillator” from the experiments done by Lakhovsky with his “Multi-Wave Oscillator.” As with many of the HRAs, Riley Crabb and his “The Journal of Borderland Research” ($5 the year, to be ordered from him at P.O. Box 548, Vista, Calif, Zip 92083) has been relied upon to keep me abreast of all things in the “farthest out” field of radionics, gravity machines and Saucers – and he serves us all well, seldom missing a bet on anything which has the slightest promise. (Egerton Sykes, of “Pendulumn” magazine, $4 the year, 31 King’s Road, London, S.W. 3, England, being another mainstay.)

Some months ago the working plans were given in the B. S. R. A. journal by Riley Crabb, and several associates took part in experimenting with the Lakhovsky Multi-Wave Oscillator. This instrument produces waves similar to those sent out from radio broadcasting stations, only on a far smaller scale, and with the coils containing wire circles in spiral form, roughly speaking, there is produced about all the wave lengths in the book. One sits between two such coils hitched to appropriate mechanisms and the cells of the body, supposedly, accept such waves as they need to make them normal, while rejecting all others. The inventor claimed great and varied healing benefits from the machine. Later a single wire was advocated with the ends not quite meeting but held, when the wire circle was placed around the body, arm, neck or sick part of the body, with strings tied to the free ends of the insulated piece of wire used. In England they made up and sold such wires, making them (at least the one a friend sent me to try out) of a piece of light cord made  up of two insulated wires twisted one around the other. Riley tells me that the twisting of two wires is bad, also that the ends of the single insulated wire can be overlapped half an inch and taped together to hold the circle in place. I am so dumb that I fail to understand how a single wire can replace the several sizes of wire circles in the MWO set up, but one wire the size of the bodily part to be treated is supposed to do the trick, what with cosmic radiations hitting the metal and causing it to send out proper waves. Of course, any circle of copper wire will automatically surround itself with a “field”. (If you wish further and more explicit information send $2 to Riley and ask for the issue of the Journal describing the way an M.W.O. instrument can be made, and the latest issue showing how to build a new Vitic Instrument – such as I am about to describe.)

Your will recall that Nicola Tesla, the electrical genius, whose P.A. reading shows that he was overshadowed and informed by a good spirit of high Intelligence, brought through some most valuable electrical inventions. In a similar way, one of the B.S.R.A. members, who is mediumistic, recently got the help of a spirit who claims to be none other than Mesmer, famous for his work with mesmerism, and a gentleman who, during life, depended greatly on magnets and magnetism in generating the mesmeric force which he used – or thought he was using. This spirit communicator gave instructions for constructing a new form of “vitic” making instrument, and a few evenings ago, Riley with his wife, Judy, (whom all of you who know their work, have come to look upon as a proper occultist in her own right), brought up a model recently built of the new instrument. It is rather simple and has a 6 inch circle of insulated wire mounted on a board with the ends slightly overlapping. Coming through a hole in the board at the center of the circle and protruding four inches at right angles to the circle, is a rod of iron painted with bronze paint. From shelves above and below the edge of the wire circle stick out Alnico magnets, one above the iron rod and one below, their poles set so that they would attract each other. Then there is a six inch rod of hard carbon about 3/4 inch thick. To use the outfit, one stands beside the instrument, relaxes, and takes hold of the iron rod with the left hand while holding the carbon rod in the right. Not facing the wire circle, but sidewise to it.

Our project for the evening was to test the instrument to see if it would increase one’s natural charge of mana as measured by the pendulum. I measured the charge of one of the ladies present, and it caused my pendulum to swing in a normal 3 inch clockwise circle above her right palm. She then grasped the iron rod of the instrument with her left hand and held the carbon in her right for about a minute, after which time she let go the instrument and I tested again with my pendulum, this time finding that it increased the size of its circle to almost double, indicating a much greater mana charge, provided my Aunihipili was measuring mana and reporting it. This was most convincing and exciting. I then tested my own charge and took my turn on the instrument, finding my normal charge also decidedly increased. Following that I tried accumulating mana in the regular way with a few deeper breaths, and again tested and found the charge large. With this large charge on board, I turned and stood facing the wire circle of the instrument, its iron rod aimed at my solar plexus. In a moment the charge vanished and measured well below my normal, leaving me to wonder what had become of it.

I next tested with the pendulum to see what might be registered at different points on the instrument, and found that just beyond the plane of the magnets, and testing at a position facing the wire circle, I got, at the right of the circle, a strong clockwise pendulum swing. At the left, I got a similar swing but counterclockwise. At the top of the circle the pendulum swung back and forth between my body and the wire, while at the bottom the swing changed to a sidewise swing. In front of the iron rod and over the carbon stick lying on the lower shelf of the instrument, the pendulum made no movement and I judged that at those points things were negative.

This is very new and exciting because it seems to offer a mechanical way by which one can get a mana surcharge. If it IS mana. Whatever it is, I am all for trying to find out more about it and for getting from the use of the instrument as much aid or information as possible. Up to this point the interest in BSRA circles has largely been confined to the healing possibilities, first of the Lakhovsky MWO instrument and now of the new Vitic instrument. The first has been possible to put together at a cost of parts of about $60, I an told, and some of the more able members of Riley’s group can help one to locate parts and assemble them to the point at which one plugs in and sits down between the coils to try the effects. To date, Riley tells me, some have had health benefits and some have not. The same can already be said of the Vitic instrument and its periodic use. As a side effect, the MWO outfit seems to drive out eating companions. If this turns out to be a reliable remedy for this serious trouble, I will be ready to stand up and cheer at the top of my voice.

Riley has been doing his best to help those who are interested in the new Vitic instrument to get parts for making them. He announced in the last journal that he thought he could soon begin to supply the needed parts in a kit which would be simple and easy to assemble, the cost running about $30. At the moment he does not have kits ready, but he hopes soon to have them. (I have asked to have one as soon as they can be supplied.) I almost forgot to mention the fact that everyone feels an electrical tingle when grasping the iron rod of the instrument. just what it is that causes it, I cannot say, but there certainly is something there that can be felt. The spirit directions for making the rod were to coat it with copper, and the nearest that can be done in this line is to paint the rod with metallic copper or bronze. Perhaps later there can be found a place where the iron rods can be electroplated with copper. Or, if one had very thin copper foil or sheets, one might try rolling the rod in a sheet and tucking in the ends of the resulting tube. Good hardware stores can supply one with the strong four inch Alnico magnets, but to find the carbon is more difficult. I tried years ago and could get only arc light carbons in 3/4 inch sizes with a softer core. White insulation on a No. 12 wire is to be had from electricians, and the wood can come from a lumber yard. The cold rolled steel bar measures 8″ x 3/4″ and can be had at hardware stores or machine shops. The magnets which are used have holes drilled at the top of the horseshoe and a small screw goes through the hole to fasten the magnets to the 4″ wide shelves, at about the center, placing them about two inches forward of the wire circle and with the open ends of the magnets from 2″ to 6″ above or below the circle, the exact distance not being considered important. The magnets are not placed edge on to the wire circle behind them, but flat sided to it. (Riley’s drawing and description will give you what you need if you plan to build one. Send for Vol. XX, No. 7 of the BSRA journal for this and be sure to enclose a dollar for the issue will have to be sent by first class mail unless a regular bi-monthly mailing happens to be sent out on that particular day.)

TO GET BACK TO THE HA RITE and the four breath rhythm matter, may I say that in my own tests the steady rhythm is good and fits in with what I have always done, but when I try to count and to think about the significance of the four numbers in Hawaiian, my Aunihipili forgets the job of collecting a mana surcharge. My tentative conclusion is that the rhythm is the important thing and that perhaps the breaths might well be taken in series, four to a set.

HRA Ann Ober, of California writes: “I have been breathing experimentally to see if four breaths are superior or not to previous methods of accumulating mana which I have tried. I have tried everything from taking fifteen breaths to taking only two, to see if I could establish some kind of a norm. I find that a posture of merely standing with my hands at my sides, relaxed before an open window, and taking four to six breaths is as effective as anything I have yet tried for accumulation. In addition, I find that if I hold each breath after a full inhalation for just a ‘graceful pause’, or, perhaps to the count of no more than three, a good feeling of well being accompanies the function which may add to the amount of mana on hand. In fact, I have found that if I have that ‘wilted on the vine’ feeling that often happens in this hot weather, the above procedure will revive me promptly for another go at any activity that I happen to have on tap. If I have a long Huna prayer session, I find that a pause to re-charge with mana in the middle of a prayer is often needed in spite of the precautions that I have taken beforehand, but the 4 to 6 breaths are as effective for me as taking more breaths seems to be. There seems to be an upper limit of effectiveness.” (And I would add, perhaps to one’s capacity to take and store mana in the aka body. mfl)

IT MAY BE that the FOUR angle on breathing is related to other things which we find indicated in the occult literature of past and present. The four directions were given much attention in ancient times, and the directions of up and down seem to have been reserved for heaven and hell. In astrology, the four quarters of the year were important and were well marked on the horoscope charts. In Holy Church one crosses oneself and this again covers the four cardinal points. Add the circle to the cross and we may have our Vitic instrument with its four different energy indications at the four sides. It is interesting to speculate on how much may have been discovered in ancient times and then forgotten – only to be rediscovered in bits.

AS TO “THE LITTLE PEOPLE” mentioned as possible helpers in instant healing of bones, three letters have come from HRAs telling of awareness of them in childhood and even in adulthood. HRA M.O.S. writes from Arizona, “Some day when I have time I shall tell you about my ‘Little People’ who are always around to help. When friends overstay their visit, for instance, I ask the Little People to show them the door. It always works. They leave right away, happy because they had suddenly remembered something important to do.” (How I would at times love to have her L.P. here to help me out! mfl.)

HRA I.J.W. of New York is psychic. She asked her guide about the possible help of the “Little People” and passes on the reply to us. I quote:

“If you are tired, or if you need their help, here are two ways of holding the Elementals. The first is with Power or Force. You are stronger  and shall I say, wiser? By your strength you can cause them to be, and to work for you. If you use the Wisdom, you will of necessity evoke the third quality or second method,

“The second is Love. Only by Love backed by Wisdom and Power, do we use these ‘Little Ones’ for their ‘Good’, as well as our own. You who are so wise and who know so well the Power of Concentration, do not need to ask how to create them. One word of warning. Each of us, having been given the gift of choice and reasoning, is completely responsible for that which he creates. Create only in Love and hold until that which is created moves only in Love and so gives no hurt or harm.”

From  this message I gather that the sending spirit looks upon “elementals” – as do the Theosophists – as something we can create by our own willing and picturing, then control and put to work. Blavatsky, in her Veil of Isis, page 342, writes:

“An adept who prepared to converse with the invisibles, had to know well his ritual, and be perfectly acquainted with the conditions required for the perfect equilibrium of the four elements of the astral light. First of all, he must purify the essence, and within the circle in which he sought to attract the pure spirits, equilibrize the elements, so as to prevent the ingress of the elementaries into their respective spheres. But woe to the imprudent inquirer who ignorantly trespasses upon forbidden ground; danger will beset him at every step. He evokes powers that he cannot control; he arouses sentries which allow only their masters to pass.”

However, what I have in mind is not an artificial “elemental”, for I incline to believe that there ain’t no such animal. Instead, I will accept with reservations a telepathic projection of suggestion in the form of a mental picture of the action being suggested to someone at a distance. The Theosophical literature which I have seen affirms that the artificial “elementals” made by magicians and used by them, have short lives and tend to break up soon. This would fit exactly the shortlivedness of the thought-form clusters embodied in such suggestions as might be projected along an aka thread of contact. The mana in hypnotic suggestions wears out and usually must be renewed by the operator in ten days unless the patient has been taught to renew the mana himself through the use of self-suggestion.

The Polynesians had very definite Little People who were called the Menehunes. A variation of the name is Manahune, and means “a servant”. From this and the many legends concerning the helpful work of the Little People in Polynesia, we may assume that the gnome-like helpers had once been well known and their help valued. The name for them as manahune means “mana” plus “secret”, so they had their own kind of magic and used it. In Hawaii there are old fish ponds walled in beside the sea, and stone walls built to keep rivers in their banks. These are so old that the only history of them is contained in the statement, “They were built by the Menehunes long ago.” Unfortunately, the legends which speak of these Little People do not tell how one might gain their friendship and help. But there must be some way to do so, either by a living person or by a spirit acting as a guide and helper of a living medium. I say that it must be possible for the reason that the kahunas who can heal a broken bone instantly seem to have such help as the Little People can give.

Perhaps if we all keep watching for such a method, we may pick up a hint here and another there, eventually piecing together a complete method. In my childhood our family sometimes hired a colored woman as baby sitter, and the stories she told may have dated back to ancient traditions. I recall one story of how a cellar, just like the one under our house (which I stopped using as a place to play after hearing the yarn) contained several “right smart hants”. The owner, of the cellar desired to capture a few of them to use as helpers. To do this she put some licorice into very thick and sticky syrup and set a platter of it on the  cellar floor. The “hants”, who were attracted by this bait, came at night and put their lips to the sticky mess, loving licorice above all things, and, as their bodies were made of such thin and fragile stuff, they dared not pull hard enough to unstick their lips for fear of tearing them from their heads. So, in the morning there they were! Still stuck fast, and they made a bargain to come each day when called to help the lady with her housework, especially doing the dishes and sweeping. She then brought warm water and unstuck their lips and all was well, that is, except that they broke too many dishes and wore out brooms too fast with their energetic sweeping, so in time they were released from their promises and allowed to go free. Any of you have a cellar with Hants? And who can supply the licorice? I have some syrup. Recently I have paused from time to time in the lower garden to see if I could sense the possible presence of one of the Little People, but so far I have sensed nothing. When I have time I plan to take my pendulum and spend a little time asking my Aunihipili to look around in places where a member of the Little People tribes might be lurking, and then report by the yes or no swings what has been found …. If anything. Cigbo suggests that I might do well to take along a pinch of salt, as he hears that a pinch dropped upon the tail of a bird allows one to catch it.

According to tradition – Irish tradition, I seem to recall – one must use proper care in establishing working partnerships with the Little People. If one has the slightest bit of evil in him, the same is immediately reflected in their activities. If one has even the least taint of willingness to steal or to tell even a tiny lie, they will steal you blind and lie to you about it until they are black in the face – which is a very wicked condition for a human to force upon a Little Person who has no natural sense of right and wrong of his own. The tradition further informs us that almost no person living in these evil days is sufficiently pure at heart to dare inviting the help of the leprechauns. Perhaps I had better specify in my planned search that no leprechauns be included – just Menehunes who might not reflect my little wickednesses. Imagine (!) our hilltop as it would be these days of pre-election hopes, hates and fears if we and our neighbors had individual leprechaun partners. We would be certain to set in motion unseen forces which would administer amazing and devastating kicks in the pants to the candidates of both parties. We number three Democrats, four Republicans and one Undecided upon whom we all work in our turns. (The attitude of our Undecided member is odd. He seems to be in his right mind, but I can’t understand WHY he can’t see things my way. In fact, he seems to have the strange idea that if either party can get its candidates to come out firmly against Uncle Sam, he’ll vote for that side – feeling as does that Uncle Sam has been in office too long and that “it is time for a change”.) In running the Tarot Cards to see which side will win, I get a very strange set of results. I can only conclude at this mid-point in the election campaign that whichever man gets the presidency, he will soon wish heartily that the other fellow had won. The cards seem to be trying to tell me something, but it is so bizarre and darkly unexpected that I can make neither heads nor tails of it. Two days ago, as I write, the Russians tossed Nikita into the discard and got themselves two new men to try to run their show. Both of these men have constructive P.A. readings which are normal except for a slight irregularity in their Aunihipili circles, indicating something not quite right in the line of worries or fixations. Leonid I. Breznev, who will be the chief in the position of First Secretary of the Communist Party, has a degree reading of 357, which is pretty low to give him originality or even good executive ability. Alexei N. Kosygin, who will be Premier, stands much higher at 362, and if we are to judge from the past in which men with the highest degrees are able to go the farthest, he may push Breznev to one side. Of course, there is always the possibility that both men are being used as cat’s paws by some other man who remains behind the scenes to pull the strings.

RUSSIA’S CARDS under the new leadership give The Emperor as the center card of a run of five, indicating a return to dictatorship. This is flanked by cards of petty strife and much delay which will demand and bring forth the “strong man” to pull things together after a period of pulling and hauling. No bad cards to indicate wars or disasters. Gradual increase in trade.

CHINA’S CARDS after the successful setting off of the A Bomb, seem to show that, having saved much face with this accomplishment, the national energy win be turned toward increasing the manufacture of things and the invasion of world markets in a large way. The dream is to have atomic power to run mills, and with cheap labor, to outsell and undersell other nations. Four successful business cards fell in a row, and not a single card of war or disaster in three runs. A draw for Nationalist China gives the card of the lady bound and left on the reef, which would be an indication of inaction. The threat of “unleashing” the old Dictator and allowing him to attack Red China was never so empty as now.

ENGLAND AND EUROPE show small business gains and continuing prosperity, with no war or disaster cards. The hands of the Egyptian Arab block remain tied, and Israel plods forward as the Knight of Pentacles on his black horse steadily progressing in the world of finances. If solid peace and security can be assured, this may swiftly become the world money center.

THE UNITED STATES CARDS show no war or disaster and a fair amount of prosperity, but the Russian pulling and hauling is even stronger in our cards. All the little cards of looking backward have come up, with other cards of trying to give up some present gains and turn back to old and formerly bright plans and projects. Internal strife is indicated, as I read the draws, on three fronts. The battle for justice for the minority groups will grow hotter and spill over constantly into the halls of the Supreme Court even while the latter will be under attack and its powers assailed. Big Business and Big Labor will battle and the people caught in between will be hurt and prices will rise. In politics one side will be unable to lift a finger without the other side screaming, “treason”. What little spirit of cooperation we have had of late will die the death in a storm of recrimination and increasing hate between members of the parties of the right, middle and left. The only happy note to be struck is one in which the Trump Cards of Temperance and the Hermit show, giving promise of Higher Guidance and progress in religion and education. I am reminded of the old saying, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” And, the whole country seems to be torn with “Hate This!” and “Hate That” propaganda, many responding blindly and almost with hysteria. Half the people appear to be mad at someone or something, and the other half to be building up fears of assorted kinds and colors. The first half is willing to cut off its nose to spite the face of the opposite party, and the second half is so frightened that it wants to cut the world’s throat and have done with the dangers. No one seems to have read that book titled, The Mature Mind. When I get to be king – but perhaps I’d better skip that one.

A LETTER OF INTEREST from HRA R. LaV., of California says in part, “‘It was your first book that started me on the path of success  and you may quote me …… Each time I find myself in a pocket of negative surroundings, I hark back to the days when I was stranded in a foreign country, penniless, and a friend in Iowa sent me your first book. We (herself and husband) used your method and in one year we were lifted from rags to riches and came to the United States. My husband is always amazed at the peculiar set of circumstances that brought us here with $10,000 all in the space of one year.

THE “VITIC” INSTRUMENT AGAIN. I had told Riley Crabb that when he could get kits for us to build the Vitic instrument, I wanted one, with the result that today he came bringing one! I was delighted and am now trying it out and also using it before the TMHG sittings to see if additional mana can be accumulated for our mutual use. Riley and Judy tried this instrument out last evening while watching a TV show, each having about ten minutes on it – with the result that both were so steamed up that they could not get to sleep until after 2 in the morning. (In the early days of Vitic, Meade Layne reported that the effects lasted about 12 hours.) Either my imagination is playing tricks on me, or I DO feel a definite little something when grasping the iron rod, and after about a minute there comes a prickling of the skin on the back of my hand, also on the back of the hand in which I hold the carbon rod (this one a full inch in diameter). I asked Riley when he thought he could begin supplying the instruments for those like myself who want to experiment with one, and he said he had made arrangements to get the kits made up and that they would be ready to begin sending out inside a week. The price has been set at $30, which will include postage and the sales tax for those living in California. I also learned that for $5 post paid, Riley can supply a tape with HRA Isabel Hickey’s Harmony Grove lecture (telling of her experience with Huna in glowing terms) on one side, and a lecture by someone else on the other side – just who, not specified. The lecture in which we are mostly interested, by Isabel, may also be had, postpaid, in written form, as transcribed from the original tape, from Riley, at 50¢ in U.S.A.

Cheers! If any of you want to do some missionary work for Huna, get the tape, then borrow a portable phonograph from one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and also their method, going to a house, setting up the phonograph and starting it to play when you have rung the bell. No, that’s not quite right. Phonographs don’t play tapes and have to have electricity. Any way, it’s a nice helpful idea.

I AM HAPPY TO REPORT that the sprained left eye is doing better, what with much prayer and administering mana through the fingers, also what with a new lens  and perhaps – just perhaps – with the aid of two treatments to date on the Vitic instrument. About the new book. I repeat, please do not order one yet. I’ll let you all know when it has a name, a price, a length and a publication date. I now estimate the release time at next July if Guidance and Help continue.
M. F. L.

Max Freedom Long “Tinned Letter” of April, 1964
P.O. Box 875, Vista, Calif.
Dear HRA and Friend:
My thanks for your communication and for the envelope all stamped and addressed to make it easier for me to send a bit of reply on the margin of this “tinned” letter. One of the new HRAs has asked me to send her a prayer to repeat twice daily, and you may be interested in the reply, so here it is:

The Huna method of making a prayer is one in which there steps to be taken. First, one must decide just what one what one wants. When this decision is reached, one pretends that the prayer for the thing or condition has been fully answered. One then, so to speak, “tries on the shoe to see how it fits”. In this way one can soon tell whether something asked for is really what one wants. Very often this test shows that we have asked for something that has elements in it that we do not actually desire. One then changes the desires to fit the situation and proceeds to make a clear mental picture of the condition or situation as it will be after the prayer is answered. This picture must not include the least bit of the present unwanted situation or condition because the mental picture is made up of thought-forms which the Aumakua, to whom the prayer must go, uses the thought-form  picture as a “seed” and causes it to “grow” into the reality. If the picture includes one of oneself with the sickness or bad conditions still there being prayed away, the answer to the prayer will be contaminated by the very conditions one wishes changed.

If one cannot decide what changes should be made to better conditions, then it will be difficult to make a proper “seed” picture. This often applies when one wishes to pray for changes to be made in the lives of others. One may wish to ask guidance and divine help for loved ones, or for changes to stop evil persons from doing things which are hurting oneself or one’s loved ones. We can pray for protection for ourselves and others, but we are not allowed to try to prevent another person from using his free will. We cannot try to force others to do our will, as they must be allowed to learn, even if from their own mistakes. In situations where a definite picture cannot be made of the outcome of desired changes, a general or over-all picture must be made showing the present situation changed to something desirable and good for all concerned. A picture may include just oneself, as in praying for health, but it is well to include in the picture one’s friends and surroundings, with the friends happy because you are well and strong, or prosperous and happy. Very often we make the mistake of trying to picture the means of bringing about the answer to a prayer. The Aumakua must be allowed to use its superior wisdom to bring about an answer. The end result is what we must picture, not the steps we think might be taken to bring about the complete answer. One may do well to write out a brief description of the desired condition just as it will be when the prayer is answered. This description can be memorized and used as the actual prayer. Reading or reciting what has been written forms a “seed” picture and the Aunihipili will send it to the Aumakua telepathically at prayer times. The prayer should be repeated word for word, three times, when one has quieted down and called to the Aumakua to come to one and listen.

To make a contact with one’s Aumakua is a thing which the Aunihipili must do for us when we wish it. Often the Aunihipili feels guilty of some “sin” of having hurt others or having done or not done various things. In the Lord’s Prayer one asks for forgiveness for such sins, but the Aunihipili will be impressed that it is forgiven only if something is done to make amends, either directly to those hurt or neglected, or by doing good deeds to others if the ones originally hurt cannot be reached. If one has trouble sensing that contact is made before the prayer is given, it may be well to hold up the prayer and take a few days to do good deeds and get rid of the guilt feeling in the Aunihipili. Once one is free of this inner sense of guilt, a fine flood of love and a deep feeling of worship and gratitude will come as one calls to the Aumakua to pay attention and let us contact it via the silver cord that connects it with us.

The preparation for making a prayer should be started by breathing more deeply and concentrating on accumulating a surplus supply of vital force or mana to offer as a sacrificial gift of love to the Aumakua. The Aunihipili will send the gift flowing over the connecting shadowy cord as soon as it reaches out and makes the contact. In a short time one may feel a returning flow of mana as fine rain falling on one, or as a tingling or as a strand of cobweb touching one on the cheek. Great love and joy is felt. One can then ask in simple words that one’s prayer be accepted, and that if it is good in the eyes of the Aumakua, it be answered.

If one senses that there is a refusal, or that the Aunihipili feels guilty about asking for whatever it is, something is wrong and the prayer picture should be considered carefully with the idea that perhaps it is not right in some way. We may have planned to ask for something that the Aunihipili feels is not right or that we do not deserve, or that might hurt another. The Aumakua may even cause us to sense something wrong in what we ask as we are repeating our prayer three times over. In the Lord’s Prayer we are instructed to ask for our “daily bread”, which is a modest request. If we ask that we be given unearned riches when others hunger, we ask more than our honest share of worldly goods, but, on the other hand, we may ask for enough for normal and  happy living and for normal and happy surroundings, including health and the inner guidance.

“Thy kingdom come,” is the prayer that the whole world be made good, and that evil be vanquished, and we must be willing to make the world good as best we can as individuals. One must strive to be hurtless and helpful and kind, as the first step in saving the world.

Once the prayer picture is properly made, or several of them to fit different needs, one can contact the Aumakua as often as desired and each prayer picture may be presented or described thrice over. One ends the prayer by giving thanks that the prayer has been answered. This keeps the picture clear of the elements of the unwanted parts of the bad and unwanted conditions of the present. “Ask as if ye had received it NOW” is the right way. One must have faith and think of the desired prayer picture as a “seed”, real and pure and good, and already having the material of worldly substance being built into it. One has faith and looks to the bright day of the full answer to the prayer, trying not to dwell mentally on the bad present. “Hold the thought” of the good condition which is real in the thought level of the Aumakua already, and will be real in the denser material world in time. Repeat the prayers word for word at least daily, and keep offering the sacrifice of mana with loving devotion. Mana is the water that daily is needed to water the “seed” and make it mature. MFL

A LETTER FROM MAX:

Dear HRA and Friend:

About a year ago I told you that I was not sure that I could keep on putting out the HUNA VISTAS each month, and I asked that no more than a dollar be sent for Cigbo unless you wished to forgive him the remainder if he was unable to send a year more of the H.V. Now I want to repeat that, and to say that the pressure on my time and strength has kept increasing, what with getting out the new book and trying to sell it to get back the investment and, hopefully, a profit.

What I would like to do is stop issuing the H.V. on a regular monthly schedule, and just make up and send out an issue when I can, and when I feel that I have something worth saying. I know that this is not fair to the few of  you who have sent in money to cover a year of monthly issues, and if you will drop me a line to say what refund you feel will square us up, Cigbo will refund at once. He has a nest egg in his box and some paper and stamps and envelopes in hand, so no one need send him a dollar again until he runs short and begins to yeowl for help. Perhaps we can get things straightened out by degrees so that we can have the H.V. as a quarterly and, in this way, still keep in touch.

Again, my warm thanks for so much help to enable me to carry on here in the middle of things.

Much aloha, Max Freedom Long

P.S. TMHG work will continue steadily for the time being, but later I may want to clear my afternoons and have the 3P.M. sittings only part of the time. I will let you all know if such a change is made. M