February-March, 1966

Max Bares His Heart

 

ANOTHER DOOR HAS OPENED for us in our long effort to get at the basic truths which were discovered by the ancient sages and preserved for us through the use of the Huna Code and the several writings in which the Code was used. What I have to share with you this time is precious and intimate to me – and perhaps the most difficult thing I will ever try to get across to you in feeble words on dull paper. I have hesitated to make the attempt and have twice decided that there were good reasons for not making it. But here, at the end of my long weighing, I have come to the conclusion that I would be less than faithful to your trust in me if I held back. I am painfully aware that only a few of you are ready for what I am going to try to pass across to you, but if only a very few can catch the spark which has been kindled in me, that will justify the dismal failure to reach the others.

I must remind you that we HRAs are a unique lot. We have, on the whole, come up through layers and layers of “teachings”, and have learned to be skeptical in the extreme. We no longer are willing to take the word of any “self appointed” teacher. We have long since learned to distrust the sacred writings of Religion, and for the “revelations” of the lying spirits who write through mediums and claim to be the end of all truth and wisdom, we have nothing but disdain. In other words, we take the word of no one for anything.

For example, in recent months there have been repeated reports from people who have gone to Manila and have watched the Spiritists there do their “spirit healing” with amazing feats of surgery. Some of us have seen the unbelievable color pictures taken by Dr. Nelson Decker of a series of such operations, and still have refused to believe that they were valid photographs and not in some mysterious way faked. Seeing is not believing for us these days when in TV and Motion Pictures we see photography faked endlessly. Nor will we take the word of an observer for fear he may be mistaken in his observations, or a crook trying to fool us for some reason or other. I suppose the crux of the “spirit surgery” matter is that those who doubt longest and loudest do not really care two hoots whether the phenomena are genuine or not. I said to one new HRA recently, when he voiced his suspicions, “Then why don’t you fly down to Manila and see Tony operate for yourself?” He was frank in his reply, “Why should I? What difference does it make to me, after all?” I replied, “Truth for truth’s sake?” He shook his head. “Unless I can do it myself and not have to depend on some medium, it’s only a half truth and impractical.”

This reply is at one end of the HRA spectrum of attitudes. At the other end are the sensitive and inquiring minds who are representative of all that is impractical, and who want the Truth at all costs, no matter from what source, be it God or Devil, so long as it is truth. Use it? They do not aspire to that “practical” level. They are the students who burn the midnight oil silently, night by night, year after year, just to find for the sake of their immortal souls the scant grains of truth which are buried in the literary and verbal kitchen midens of forgotten civilizations. And, inevitably, there come times when they lift their eyes from the ancient earth and the gods ray down upon them a tiny, priceless beam of Truth that carries its own proof of validity. They become momentarily poets, and cry out in deathless verse the intimation of what they have been given to sense and what they die to be able to share with a world too hard and toughly resistant to feel anything gentler than a savage blow.

I am thinking of our own gentle sage, Helen Molyneaux. Salisbury, long an HRA and not too long departed. She would know what I am trying in a stumbling way to say that some things can only be well said in rhyme and verse. Let me give you two examples of how she managed to get across subtle sensings. (From her book, To Touch Infinity.)

BUT YOU, BELOVED

There is a luster in the gallant thought
That our shed bodies may give sheen to grass,
That cells now warm in flesh may be new wrought
In tangled stems where ferns or poppies mass.
There would be beauty in such partnership
To mingle in fresh patterns with old leaves
Or, blended with long buried roots, to slip
As curled young tendrils over weathered eaves.
But you, Beloved? And your dawn swept mind
Your voice, your hair? I want no meadow rue,
No cool green fronds, no atoms re-combined.
I want no altered patterning of you!
Unless – unless our merging cells could be
One petaled bough or one storm wrestling tree!

THIS BRIGHTER STUFF

Beloved, it is true – your very fingers
Were shaped to fit the curves within my own.
But you and I have found what long outlingers
The grace of sinew or the strength of bone:
A brighter stuff than flesh whose atoms spin
In tune with other atoms, cadenced timed.
It is your Self that is my spirit kin,
Your metered thought with which my breath is rhymed.
This would be true were oceans massed between,
Mighty with storm. Today where long kelp flows
I found a salty oak leaf, almost green,
A hundred miles from where an oak tree grows.
Though you were farther than the nebulae,
Your thought would come floating back to me.

Four more lines from the end of her, “He Has Not Lived”

He is poor indeed who never knows
Not with the mind’s knowing
But with the knowing of the heart
That he is one with all these, and with their Source.

WHAT I AM LABORING SO TO TRY TO RELATE is a matter of heart and of the sensing of something – a sensing that certainly involves the Aunihipili and its heritage of our emotions. According to the Huna theory, as we have worked it out from the wisps of intimation and information so reluctantly handed down to us through code and half exposed symbols, the meeting of the Auhanes to form the graduation UNION, is a mind level thing. But what I have experienced certainly involves the Aunihipili as well. It makes me begin to wonder whether the Aumakua gave me a glimpse of Union with the help of the Aunihipili, (who would be left behind later as a graduated Auhane), or whether the beloved little brother also comes along and does its amazing part with its ability to feel the emotion of love. Or is love emotion? Can the Auhane love on its own?

This question demands that we throw wide open again the matter of just what it is that happens when we experience the three (at least three, but there may be more of which we are  not yet aware in our studies) combined seeings and feelings which have been common to sages down the many centuries, and which are the only valid things upon which a true edifice of religion has been constructed.

The seeing feeling of the LIGHT of the Aumakua is so common and universal that Huna begins and ends on the fact that so many have seen the LIGHT in a very similar way and have recognized it as being an evidence of the Aumakua – or of a Higher Being often with different names in different systems of religion. It is the prime symbol of the Aumakua in Huna and as coded in the Four Gospels. Thinking back to my own early experience in the middle of a black night in Hawaii, I recall that there was little thinking involved. I was awakened to find the room filled with the wonderful whiteness of the heatless light. There was no sound – nothing to sense but the “seeing”, but my Auhane mind raced with questions and wonderings. Then the light dimmed and was gone. In a later contact, I was asleep, and I found myself floating without body in a sea of slightly amber light – a vast and all covering LIGHT. This time I sensed great peace and contentment, wanting never to change. But soon I realized that I had forgotten something very important, and when I made the great mental effort of recall, I slowly remembered that I was a man and that my name was Max Long – upon which I awakened and found myself back in the body. Twice I have made the contact with hardly a shade of light, but have known in some way that I was in touch with it and with my Father-Mother Aumakua, and each time there came a flood of joy – a moment or two of an ecstasy of loving and being loved by the endlessly dear Parental Spirit. Always it is the same – basically emotion, and if we have worked out Huna correctly, we have been helped to these contacts through the Aunihipili and its power to use the senses and respond to stimulation with different degrees of emotion, the important one here being that of love. “The JOY of the Lord” some ancient sages have called it. (And some speak of the “Joy” as roused by hearing “the music of the spheres”, although I have never heard it. And the Sufi mystics of Islam have put on record a form of ecstasy to match each of the five senses promising, in vague terms, the enjoyment of such a five-fold state in their version of “heaven”.

In all the great religions of the past we have had, as a Secret of Secrets, and Reward of Rewards, the UNION of the Adam and Eve parts of the man. It is the basic thing that stands close beside the fact of the Light as the Aumakua. In India and modern Hindu derived religious speculations, the UNION has been lost in the confusion of guesses which have been made to win back the lost SECRET. The idea of union with the Aumakua has mistakenly replaced that of the mated male and female parts of each Auhane. The climax of the Gospel Drama is this UNION via the perfecting brought about through Grace used by the Aumakuas. And, now that we are into the Kabala, it begins with the Light, and tells us that it is male-female, and that Jehovah is male and Elohim is female, and that together they are the ONE “Creator”. The story of the creation is almost rushed in its telling in Genesis. And, starting with the elaborate story of Adam and Eve, the continuing account carries forward the coded mystery of the final UNION of the mated Auhanes, even as the Aumakua has already been blessed by a similar UNION.

One alternative may help us keep to the Huna theory as we have worked it out. Can we simply say that LOVE is a thing beyond and apart from the emotions which have been assigned to the keeping of the Aunihipili? We argue that certainly the Aumakua Mother-Father can express love, for we feel it poured out upon us in the rare moments of communion. We may also argue that, as the Auhane has once been an Aunihipili, it certainly should have learned to love and perhaps has never lost that priceless ability. I prefer to believe that someplace in this mixture lies the truth, and that as Auhanes we can be independent. We may even be able to remember for ourselves where love is concerned, and thus have the sure memory to recognize the beloved when met, and of knowing her as the dear comrade of the past incarnations. She may have been wife, or sister or mother or close as a friend while the rough edges were worn smooth by the various experiences of the lives. The two halves that eventually will fit together perfectly to make one piece, have needed the burred projections worn off by lives lived with those not the real mate – by the “war between the sexes” in which each of the marriage partners flaying the other daily, strives blindly to whittle the other down to fit into the mold that was never intended for it. I have from my recent experience no reason to feel that we, as Auhanes, can remember the whittling process and pain and wars of the learning years, but I am certain that enough memory goes with the remembered love to allow all the times of love and association to be recalled and made into one shining RECOGNITION and realization. A new and shining meaning is given to the long familiar words, “I was never so glad to see anyone in my whole life!”

THIS IS MY STORY. I had been thinking about UNION and the mate and about the graduation time to which I look forward so hopefully, and it occurred to me that I might get more information from my Aumakua via the Aunihipili and the pendulum contact method which I have learned to use.

I quieted down, accumulated mana with a series of four breaths and soon the pendulum began to swing. I sent the mana and my love to the Aumakua and the familiar pattern of the plus sign inside the large circle was slowly traced out in the air above the palm of my left hand by the pendulum. When the mana had been offered and the return flow felt, the pendulum stopped swinging and I asked permission to ask questions, getting an answering “yes” through the pendulum. After a few questions and a “yes” to assure me that the theory of “Union” was correct and that I might be helped to such union in no long time, I asked whether or not my mate was ready and whether she might be aware of the coming change and also waiting for it. The pendulum did not move, but as I watched it intently, there came an inner seeing. I stood looking as across a misty stage which was empty. I was lonely …. then across the stage toward me She came. She came lightly, not hurrying greatly, and her shining love leaped ahead of her to meet mine.

This is the place for poetry and all the magically rhymed adjectives, but nothing is enough. All I can say is that “I was never so glad to see anyone in my life!” And, “That I loved Her better than anything else in the world.” I have never before felt such joy in a reunion or such love for the one with whom I was reunited after a long separation.

Little use to try to describe what I felt and how full my heart was in that short moment while she came toward me with such stars in her eyes that I cannot now say what color they were. She was by no means a large woman, and (this is an element which I blame on the Aunihipili and its strange tendency to change things which it has been given to deliver in dreams) she was dressed for all the world like the actresses who play the part of the English flower girl in “Pygmalian”, even to the battered little sailor hat with its bent-stemmed droop of a flower. But I had hardly time enough to see her before – almost ten feet before our hands could touch, she faded out, the stage with her, and I was looking again at my unmoving pendulum. What can I say about the experience and how it left me? Lofty verse? No, I stand tongue tied like a lad before his first love. All I can find to whisper is another line winnowed from the utterings of a million lovers, “I’ll never be the same again.”

No memories were aroused of other lives or other times of association, but my imagination was so quickened that I could see her in my mind’s eye in a hundred quick changes of guise – but always with a face I knew endlessly well, and ever loved. She was not my loved wife of the present incarnation, but seemed to contain this love and all the other loves distilled from the long and broken line of joyous years. In her was and is every woman I have ever loved. She is the little girl with whom I played at seven and who was mysteriously aloof and strange and very dear. She was the Grandmother so loved in my little days, and my own lovely mother. She was the first and middle and last love, all in one. And she is either there, or will be when the graduation day arrives. My Father-Mother have seen fit to give me this conviction.

Thinking of you who will read these lines, I feel abashed. I have bared my heart despite many misgivings, and I am well aware that many of you will sniff or snort or scorn. I am painfully aware of the several letters received in the past, mostly from HRAs who had been deeply hurt, and who shuddered away from the very thought of ever having to meet in union with one of the opposite sex and be blended with that one into a single bi-polar Self. But a few of you stand very close to me, and in you I am confident of the response – for you have loved and have been loved. You speak my halting language at these strange levels where love can be rape, or can be all and everything. To the latter, I have dared to look for understanding.

LET ME REPEAT my statement that all we have to go on as a logical basis for a religion is the strange “seeing” and “sensing” of (1) the Light, (2) the ecstasy of love that comes with contact with the Higher Something, and (3) the experiencing of the LOVE of the one true mate. (I am not listing the Sufi teaching that we may touch the next higher level in terms of all five senses, because that is outside my personal ken so far.)

All other things upon which religions have been based (and there are many new religions and cult systems) fall into the categories of (1) history, (2) false history which has been accepted on the basis of faith, and (3) revelations from one source or another, be it the vision of one person or the dictum of spirits. Add to these sources the ingredients of Psychology, Psychic Science, Mysticism and assorted theories, to say nothing of the disclaiming of all physical things as “unreal”, and you have the many false religions which hold no water, but which can be clung to with all the stubborn and blind fury of bigotry. To my way of thinking, Huna has the best of theories and covers more fully the field of Psychology when it deals with man either alive or dead. But when someone demands actual proof which he can experience for himself, there is, in actuality, nothing that can be said other than that there are the three seeing sensing proofs, and that these he will have to try to experience for himself.

PROOF OF SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH belongs to the field of Abnormal Psychology in the above type of classification, but in the years since the Fox Sisters of 1840, the religion of “Spiritualism” has developed. It has added, of course, to the proof of survival furnished by spirit phenomena, the things which the spirits have said through mediums, the mechanism of automatic writing and so forth. Contradictory teachings thus received cause all spirits to be suspected of lying for one reason or another. Into this pot has been poured the ingredients of older religions, especially Protestant Christianity, the resulting stew making a strange mess that is repulsive to the more circumspect students, and entirely unacceptable to the materialists of the popular press and text book. All that can be said here is that the proof of survival is certainly not enough to use as a basis when constructing a religion, for religion is a “tying back” to a god or God, and without a similar proof of the verity of a Higher Intelligence, the structure falls flat.

BUT THERE IS ONE MORE ANGLE to be considered when we pause to consider spirits and proofs to be had through them of human survival. This comes when certain spirits amaze all the Doubting Thomas boys by working through a living medium to perform “spirit surgery”. It is very apparent that the spirits, or whatever it is that works through the medium, is using powers and intelligence of a kind not common to the living – not even to the best natural healer. The power is used to open the body of the person to be operated upon, then to make changes in the body interior, with or without the use of hands, knives or shears. In some cases no incision is made, as in taking cataracts from eyes (where the eyes are rubbed and the clouded lenses are apparently brought out as flesh through flesh). Bleeding is stopped, and instant healing of a high order is used in a variety of ways, the most spectacular being the closing and healing of the openings, leaving not a trace or scar in most instances. (Fifteen charges were brought against the medium, Terte, in Manila, but were always dropped when no scar could be found to prove that surgery had been performed, by spirit aid or otherwise.)

THE LATEST NEWS ON MANILA HEALERS is most exciting. Dr. Nelson Decker, D.C., succeeded in enlisting the help of a medical doctor who is associated with one of the big California research outfits, and together they flew down to watch Tony work and to take motion pictures in color, and with sound, of a series of his operations. Dr. Decker says that these almost duplicated the operations which he photographed in still color last year, and plans are under way to begin fanning the fires of public and medical interest with showings in no long time. Plans are also under way to bring over a healer and a group of those who take part in the religious type services before the mediums go into trance and begin their work. Opposition to issuing visitors’ passports has now been withdrawn, and we may soon see spirit surgery being demonstrated here in California.

While interest in spirits and religion or in “Spiritualism” as it stands today in the world, is so slight that one can discount it almost completely, the INTEREST in getting one’s Charley Horses fixed up is higher than ever before in world history. If I may make a prediction, let me say that in this situation there are possibilities of a flash of interest, atomic in character. No telling what may come of the matter when and if the films begin to be shown, money raised, people healed by psychic surgery in a matter of painless minutes, and … well, you describe it. The accompanying howl of rage from the materialist medical fraternity should be something to raise several Capitol and Supreme Court roofs.

One of the points in the battle which I see forthcoming, is that of the removal of “the stone” from the patient. This takes us back to the very oath all MDs take so happily when they graduate. They promise never to “operate for the stone”, whatever that meant originally or may now mean. And I predict that they will do battle against the spirit surgeons who make a common practice of removing a stone or something that looks like one but certainly does not act like one.

A few issues back (of the Huna Vistas), I reported that HRA Victor F. of Australia had visited Terte in Manila and asked to be healed of gout. Terte and his better educated friend could not find “gout” in their dictionary, and so decided to operate on general principles. They did, and they removed a “stone” and gave it to the patient. He took it in a bottle of alcohol to his hotel and later it vanished slowly. He was healed for the time being, but relapsed after his return home. Now this “stone” business is strange. In Fate Magazine a woman recently told how she took her small daughter to such a spirit surgeon to have her eyes worked on, and how the medium, in trance, rubbed a small “stone” out of each eye, accomplishing a complete and lasting cure for something or other that had evaded the MDs. But the “stones” could not be studied as they dissolved in their bottle and left only a slight bit of residue which could not be analyzed.

The witch doctors in Africa have been famous for producing a small stone in their healing practice, and saying it was taken from the body or head of the patient. Sleight of hand, we have all agreed, but perhaps we are wrong. Could the elements causing the illness be in some mysterious way collected and placed in the substance of an ectoplasmic “stone”, and in this way removed from the patient? There must be some reason for the creation of a stone of this sort other than just to impress the one who is treated, although the latter purpose is not to be set aside. The use of a physical stimulus is as old and as valuable as the bread pill of the MDs.

ONE OF OUR OWN HRAs, working with the writer of one of the FATE magazine articles of last year, reporting the spirit surgery of Terte, has managed to interest the gentlemen at the University of Virginia medical school in so far that they have agreed to look into the matter. She also has managed to get one of the Foundations to agree to have a look. What will come of the various efforts cannot be foreseen, but the pot is on the way to a boil. If history repeats itself, we may do as was done in Brazil. Similar spirit surgery was so successful there that the Spiritualists collected money and built a good hospital to house the work – only to have the doctors jail all the mediums to prevent the work from continuing. One healer, so I have read, manages at times to heal people even while in prison.

RILEY CRABB, of the B.S.R.A. journal, is my source of information on the activities of Dr. Decker and his friends, and he tells me that the doctor, who was seeing Tony work for the first time, was amazed and greatly intrigued. He went so far as to ask whether he might be able to learn to perform that kind of surgery, and was told that he could. As a proof of the statement, Tony took one of his hands in his own and used it in an operation. The fingers of the hand were moved swiftly across a patient’s abdomen, several inches from the skin, and instantly it was opened with the proper incision. Tony, went so far as to say he could teach anyone to do such surgery, and … well, if this should be possible, and Tony comes over to California and teaches some doctors, mediums, Reverends and so on to work with the surgeons, the lid will certainly blow off. AND, we might even find in the superior intelligence and knowledge resident in the spirit surgeons the elements needed to give us a protective covering of RELIGION such as is enjoyed by the Science of Church healers. Needless to say, there is grave doubt that Tony can teach anyone or even find others of mediumistic, qualities or spirit doctors who will stay with them and perform the operations. If the medical men realize in time how few such operators there may be, they could be spared the bother of fighting the practice and jailing the mediums. Also, they might assist in the important work of Psychical Research which might turn up more information on how such healing miracles are made possible. Incidentally, the Manila healers make no charge for their services, feeling that what they offer is God’s gift and of deep religious significance. However, patients leave little gifts. (To be kept informed on what goes on in this line, the B.S.R.A. journal at $5 the year is the best bet. It will tell the story thus far in greater detail in an issue which should be out around April 1st. Address: Riley Crabb, P.O. Box 548, Vista, Calif., 92083. The journal will keep you up to the minute on all “farthest out” matters.)

DR. DECKER’S ORIGINAL COLOR PICTURES, which I understand are nearly duplicated by the color sound film pictures, were fascinating to me as some of them give evidence of a partial dematerialization of a face and showed the sinus structures beyond the face itself. This “mat and de-mat” method is the same one used in bringing and removing “apports” in the seance rooms. Often the aka or shadowy body outline of the object to be apported is seen hanging in the air before it is filled with substance and drops to the table before the sitters. The whole body of a person has often been treated as an apport and moved from one place to another – this being called “transportation”. We do not know exactly where the spirits get the mana used for these feats but suspect that it comes from the medium and sitters. Cases have been recorded in which the substance used for temporary materialization has been taken from the body of the medium. One famous case was reported in which the woman medium was shut in a cabinet with threads passed through the ring holes in her ears and sealed to her chair to prevent her from moving. She was weighed at the times when spirits were materialized, and the spirits –  two of them  – were also weighed. The weight of each spirit was found to be subtracted from the weight of the medium at that time. In another case a doctor sitting beside the medium at a table was keeping track of her possible movements by placing a foot lightly on top of one of hers. A figure materialized in the room, and at the same time the foot of the medium was found to be missing. The doctor investigated and found that the medium was gone up to the waist, her dress empty and the upper part of her body apparently floating in air as she remained in her place in her chair. The ability of spirits to turn flesh and bone into ectoplasmic nothingness is matched by the ease with which they can make similar use of parts of garments to clothe a materialized person. (See Fodor’s Encyclopedia of Psychic Science for much interesting information along these lines.)

A NEW BOOK OF IMPORTANCE, by our own HRA Regnier Winsel, is titled, The Anatomy of Voice, (96 pages, $4.00, The Exposition Press, Inc., 386 Park Ave. South, New York, N.Y., 10016). In his book he describes new theories and new approaches to the work of bringing out the best in voices. As a voice teacher and coach of much experience he has worked out many new angles and done much to correct old methods and make training simple and directly effective. The book is illustrated with drawings and aimed at use by anyone taking vocal lessons or wanting to improve his or her voice at home. For teachers of voice he offers invaluable information. Dr. Benjamin Ross, of New York, says, “Mr. Winsel’s great contribution to voice development both physiologically and psychologically is well borne out by the ‘before’ and ‘after’ recordings of his pupils’ singing. The results are truly remarkable, and his methods deserve widespread recognition. I am going to study my gift copy and practice some of the simple exercises to see if I can improve my speaking voice – now that, by reading into the clear explanations, I begin to see what I have been doing wrongly all my life. Looking back to a time when I attended a class to try to improve my speaking voice, I can now see that what we did then was place the cart before the horse with all too much fuss and feathers. Congratulations Regnier, on a grand and helpful job!

“THE CHURCH OF BASIC TRUTH” is located in Phoenix, Arizona, and recently I was visited by a newly ordained minister of the church who told me that it teaches HUNA as the “basic truth” which is most pleasant news. He also presented me with a certificate of Honorary membership in the church, and gave me greetings. I am sorry to say that I know very little of this group except that HRA Hepner is connected with it and Mrs. Butler (I should have said Rev. Butler) is to the fore in the organization. I take it that if you wish to be ordained for the ministry for some reason or other, you can study Huna with the leaders of this church, and when well grounded in the Basic Truths of Huna, be ordained. I suppose that thereafter one goes forth and establishes a branch of the Basic Truth Church. I am not too clear on what is entailed, but at least can send my greetings and best wishes. Perhaps we have here the start of the “groups” which so far have failed dismally to get going and then to survive. If this new church group slaps down the various ones who rise up to preach their own pet beliefs in opposition to Huna (as in former groups) and holds the attention on Huna as we now know it, then success may be in sight – at long last.

MY NEW BOOK has reached a number of people formerly unfamiliar with Huna, thanks to publicity in CHIMES, FATE and Orion, with a special help from the B.S.R.A. journal. One new HRA came to us in this way and asks that I speak of his “Bonita Springs Shangri la” vegetarian resort, where HRAs will be made most welcome. This is a health center as well as a place to rest and play. A very special treatment via fasting is available. Rates are modest and a few can pay part of their expenses by working on the grounds or in the general plant. The top man is HRA R.J. Cheatham. The address is Bonita Springs, Fla. 33923. If you are down that way, look in, say you are an HRA, and get acquainted.

ANOTHER NEW HRA WRITES, “I have been using the ‘Hudson Method’ on my husband’s snoring for years – although I didn’t know that was what it was. I had tried all the  other wifely tricks – you know, kicking, nudging and nagging to no avail, and then the ‘wee small voice’ suggested this approach and it has always worked, unless I became too irritated before using the system.

A NEW FRIEND MADE THROUGH THE NEW BOOK, Miss Mariechen Al Au, of Evansville, Ind., writes, “Thanks for the Tarot Card predictions, particularly as they pertain to the war picture. I sent my own prophesy about the war to Mary Fuller, of FATE, for her files as at that time I had not heard anyone speak of the strong vibration of PEACE that was moving into our atmosphere. I wanted the material on record, predicting that the U.S.A. will not be the winner. Also, in a seance at Chesterfield, Ind, January 16, 1966, I asked about the war in an open session, and was told by the guiding force that there would be a resumption of bombing and much blood shed, but that the war would terminate in 1966 – with the U.S.A. on the short end of the stick. I keep ‘feeling’ April as the time …. and NO world war, even as you predict and as the guide said in the seance. Clifford Bias was the medium.

NEWS OF “DADDY BRAY”, self styled “last of the kahunas”, was sent in by HRA M.S. who lives nearby in Kona, Hawaii. An article in the local paper tells of the recent opening of David Bray’s new home, which he calls OLA HONUA (Life New – we translate it “A fresh reincarnation”). It seems that a Foundation has been set up to support Mr. Bray’s activities, and that instead of making the new center up in the fern forest near the volcano, it has been established in a much better place and right on the main line of tourist travel. He has filled the house with Chinese furniture and many things typical of old Hawaii. In the grounds he has constructed a representation of an old temple, and on an altar there he will make sacrifices to the old gods and observe special rituals. Undoubtedly he will put on a good show but not with the kind of Huna we know. He will have none of the three selves and the aka bodies. As to the Code, it is to be supposed that he will be most impatient of it, if he ever hears that such a thing has been found. If you go to Hawaii and make the trip around the “Big Island”, look in on him. He is not our kind of kahuna, but is a delightful gentleman, and he chants beautifully.

HRA George Smith, of California, writes “The IMPORTANT part of prayer is emotion.” (I have been saying that the Aunihipili must take its part and want badly the thing we Auhanes desire. Emotion is a Aunihipili indicator. … HRA H.H.C. of California, writes: “I remember once praying very earnestly, when suddenly, whereas I was ill, I found myself suddenly well ….” This is not uncommon. Someday we will learn how to get Help each time instead of at long intervals.

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, the Kabala has a core of pure Huna, even if this is surrounded by dogmatic and speculative comment. (As I have said in a recent “tinned letter”). In section 6 of the SEPHER YEZIRAH we can read basic truths very thinly veiled. I quote:

“There are three (selves) of which every one stands by itself (in other words, three separate selves combined to make the man) one is in the affirmative, the other in the negative, and one equalizes them. (The Aumakua is the “affirmative”, always right, good and progressive. The Aunihipili is negative in that it is growing out of the animal self level and continues to be hurtful at times. The Auhane stands between the other two, literally, and acts as the equalizer to bring the Aunihipili to contact the Aumakua. The Auhane is the ‘brother’s keeper’ and has to learn through several incarnations to hold its own against the natural evil of the Aunihipili in order to avoid being dragged down by it before being able to lift it up.)

Section 8 “….. and God, faithful King, rules over all from his Holy Habitation to all eternity. He is one above three, three above seven, seven are above twelve, and all are linked together.” Here we see that above the Aumakua all higher Beings were known under the name of “God”, showing that, like the kahunas of Hawaii, the Kabalistic “Sons of the Doctrine” knew that the human mind cannot penetrate the levels above the Aumakua.. The three selves are said to be “above the seven”, and we have the three manas and three aka bodies counting as six, while the physical body counts as the seventh. The organs of the body and the senses are so listed as to form twelve units, and these are used and ruled over, of course, by the selves, in making use of the physical vehicle or its counterparts in the aka body of the Aunihipili,   this surviving after death and coming into use in the between lives level. Wish to try your hand at making a cryptic and coded statement to reveal and still conceal this basic belief of Huna? Hard job. Try it and see. The old boys did rather well.

THE KABALA BECAME A BASIS FOR MAGICAL PRACTICES eventually, and one interesting touch comes in the instructions in the Zohar commentary concerning the use of sexual intercourse as a method of causing the male and female halves of the Aumakua to unite in a similar creative act and create the thing or condition for which the man of the Aunihipilis (also male and female) prayed at the time of such intercourse. The prayer was at its best when it asked that a very advanced soul would be given, should a child be conceived, or that a very special blessing of enlightenment be given. The tradition has crept out of Kabalaism, into secular fields,  and I have run into this belief in several “teachings”. I once met a man of wealth who claimed to have been guided and helped to his money and position in life through the use of this rite of magic. His wife had died, and he had found no other woman suited to join him in continuing thus to set Magic into operation.

In the Zohar there is much, so we are told by A.E. Waite in his The Holy Kabbalah, to be read about the Mystery of Sex. He discusses for many pages the things said and things intimated, acknowledging that he is baffled in many ways by hidden meanings and apparent contradictions. One thing was very clear. It was believed that a man was only half a man without a wife, and it was said mysteriously that a man without a wife had little chance  of doing what we would call “graduate”. This makes sense in a large way, for the significance of this final upward step from the Auhane level to that of the Aumakua lies in the fact that a male and female are joined in UNION to MAKE ONE.

ACCUMULATING AND SENDING MANA to the Aumakua is to be recognized in a rite performed in parts of Africa, writes HRA M.W. from Arizona. She calls attention to Dr. Carl Jung’s book, Memories, Dreams and Reflections, in which he tells of visiting a tribe of natives who had the belief that the sun was God. Every morning they rose and waited for the sun to come up. As it rose they either spit into their palms or breathed upon them, then held their palms up facing the sun. This, they explained was just something they had always done. They knew nothing of the origin of the custom. But here we see the offering of spittle as “water”, the symbol of mana, and of breath as the very life force itself. Customs are preserved long after reasons for them have been forgotten, and often the offering or sacrifice of mana as one’s life force has been replaced by the act of presenting an offering to a god on an altar, or by pouring a libation from the cup before drinking. Grace being said before meals is the idea watered down to words.

BAPTISM AS A RELIGIOUS RITE takes many forms. In Christianity water is used, but its original significance as the symbol of mana has long been lost. If Christianity is restored to original beliefs and rites some day in the future, it will be taught that cleansing of sins and healing are done by the Aumakuas with the use of high mana. The kahunas sprinkled patients with water as a symbol of cleansing, but only after amends had been made for the sins done to others. The Roman Catholics have the Confession and Penance before Absolution and in the latter, the sprinkling with holy water is a left-over from the ancient Huna original. In India the immersion of the pilgrim in the Holy Ganges frees him of his sins.

In the Gospels, John the Baptist was the symbol of all the priests of earth. He baptized only with water, but he said that one would come who would baptize with water and fire. “Fire” makes light and so we have the coded implication that the Aumakua, as the “Light”, uses the mana sent by the Aunihipili to make the high mana which can make instant changes in material things, in circumstances and in what in India is called “karma”. Conditions, and even one’s future, may also be changed. Through this wonderful mechanism of “Grace” one can be “made perfect” and when “graduated” becomes “perfect even as the Father in Heaven is perfect.”

I often ask by letter whether or not the person asking that a certain thing be requested for them or a loved one in our THMG session has been praying in the Huna way themselves. Few reply that they have, or the question is asked as to just how a Huna prayer is made. I get the impression that those who know how to make the Huna prayer and send the mana to the Aumakuas (as described many times in my books) do not need to ask for TMHG help because they can get it for themselves. A few who write asking for help seem never to have heard of Huna, but, having in some way heard that there was a free healing and prayer help service being offered, gamble a stamp on the long chance that Help might be had. Hardly ever does a writer promise to do anything for the Higher Beings in return for Help. In the old days they at least pledged themselves to eat two fish on Friday instead of just one, or to burn two candles before the shrine. Some set a date for an answer, and I have been scolded because a request for “the rent money by the 17th” had not appeared. “Many are called, and few are chosen”. “The poor ye have always with you.” The “elect” and “chosen” are those who have lived through a number of incarnations and have learned to be hurtless and kind. MFL