September-October, 1968

The Taped Lectures

 

MY WARM THANKS to all of you who have read with indulgence of my decision to do all I presently can to spread the Good Word of Huna while I am in this incarnation – to the end that the Ancient Lore will have a better chance to survive in recognizable form when I get back in a fresh incarnation. I must admit that a few of you have sniffed at the whole idea, and that the majority have remained silent and have not written to say I might introduce them to other HRAs with the hope that we could begin to form groups, if not to meet regularly, at least to get those who know Huna acquainted. Too few letters of permission have come to allow much to be done by way of introductions as yet, but in time I think we will do better. The HRA mentioned in the last H.V. as desiring to meet others who could talk with her about Huna, has, I am most pleased to say, been introduced to four who live near enough to be able to visit with her now and then. (They have the lecture tapes and a recorder, so will play them and this will help along.)

THE FIRST PART OF MY GUIDANCE has been acted upon with a will, and is proving to be excellent. The part about organizing on a larger scale may not be part of the Guidance, or at least not be for us yet. I have had several letters from different HRAs objecting strongly to the idea of “Church”‘and paid healers. Some feel these organizations on which I proposed that we pattern ours, are decadent and are NOT what we as a free and spiritual group desire. I am content to wait and to see what appears proper to do when the time comes and we begin to feel that we need a better form of organization for any one of several imagined reasons. THAT THERE IS NEED FOR A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FORM OF ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN seen already because members (and a few new arrivals) are playing the lectures to people who have never heard of Huna before. They may later on read my books and become better informed, but the missionary effort of the moment is based on a great SIMPLIFICATION of Huna and the presentation of a working prayer method to enable one new to it to begin practicing to get the system to working. These listeners are asked on the tapes to subscribe to the Huna way of life and make a pledge to themselves to begin living the hurtless and helpful life and to invite the Aumakua to begin to take its full share in living their lives. They are asked to accept the dictum of “No hurt: no sin” and “Serve to deserve”. They are invited if they agree to conform, to count themselves members of the Huna Fellowship and to accept the privilege of counting themselves Fellows of the Huna Fellowship, (F.H.F.) In starting the tape lectures I announce myself as a Huna Fellow and one holding the title of “Founding Fellow” as well as of “Teaching Fellow”. (Some day I hope that we will have “Healing Fellows”.)

THERE ARE THREE LECTURES already available. These are the basic “starters”.

The first lecture is on both sides of a reel and runs for a full hour. In it I tell what Huna is and how it was rediscovered by means of a breaking of the language and symbol code. In the lecture I try to stir enough interest and curiosity in the listeners to get them to come to listen to the second lecture. In the second lecture, which is 45 minutes and on one side of a tape reel, I go at once into the simplest possible explanation of how and why to use Huna. I ask that the Huna beliefs be taken on faith for the time being so that we can get on with a method which has been used for centuries and found workable. I avoid Hawaiian words as much as possible and try to make the instructions as entertaining as their serious nature will allow. But, this is 45 minutes in which point after point is laid on the line and which demands close attention on the part of the listener. (I have had letters already saying “I must play that lecture over and over and absorb every part of it.” Two have asked the price of the two reels and have sent their $10 to Huna Research Publications, who will handle such sales and collect the sales tax where it applies. The lectures are sent out on loan with the understanding that when they have ceased to be used, they will be returned so that they can go out again to others.)

The “Garden Home Study Group” (which is closed to outsiders, but which is planning to start playing the tapes and forming a class of people whom they find may be interested) near Portland, Ore., has played the lectures and arranged to have them duplicated by a friend who has recorders, then the originals can be returned. (The tapes are on 5 inch reels and run at a speed of 3 3/4 I.P.S., and so will play on most of the older recorders and all the larger new ones, the exception being the small recorders which use 3-inch reels or little cassettes where two reels are encased in a shell and need not be threaded.)

I have had such heartening help with the expense of equipping myself with fine recorders to make up the lectures and “dub” off the copies, that I count that help a strong evidence that Guidance has placed a finger on other HRAs to bring them into the new phase of the work. (As I write, the three big recorders on the table at my left are making a noise like a hive of bees as they run off, in duplicate, two copies of Side 1 of Tape 1.)

One seasoned HRA wrote, “I have known Huna through your books for some time, but had become rather lost in the various angles. Your lectures were wonderful in that they suddenly brought everything into sharp focus and laid down a very direct and logical method of procedure. We have played the lectures for ourselves, and will soon begin playing them before a local (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) group where a variety of things are taken up for consideration or study.”

I suggest that any of you who feel that you have been unable to see the forest of Huna because of the too many trees, might find it worthwhile to ask to borrow the three lectures and use them to sharpen up and even to play to a few friends in the hope that some of them will be able to grasp the ideas and will wish to help form a class – with a prayer healing group possibly to follow. The Garden Home Study Group is mainly a prayer and meditation circle, and they tell me of remarkable healing results as well as Help in affairs and circumstances. The new Huna group starting the study of Huna in Walnut Creek, up south of San Francisco, has heretofore been a Cayce Group and as such, reports some healing of a high order. The Huna studies are in addition to the other line and are given a special day, also being opened to others. They also will duplicate the lectures for their own use.

A MOST PROMISING GROUP in Ellensburg, Wash. (Mrs. Jerold O’Hare, P.O. Box 575, Zip Code 98926 for information if you live up there), has been making a study of Huna and is now using the tapes. They send word that they all have elected to follow the Huna Way and to become Huna Fellows. A very generous contribution has been received from them, and I am greatly aided.

A PLAN TO FORM A CLASS OR GROUP is being pushed by HRA, Mrs. Jack Becker, 323 West Pine St., Long Beach, N.Y., 11561. She has the tapes as her own now and is one who will play them repeatedly. She wishes to get a class together of young people, knowing several likely ones, when school again starts. Meantime, she would very much like to contact HRAs in and around New York City and on Long Island, with the hope of getting acquainted and having a chance to visit with those who speak our language, that is, know and can talk about Huna. She is a business woman and is in and out of the City often.

EDITH M. PARKEY, long an HRA and who has taught her own groups often, now lives at 2928 Linwood Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio. 45226. She would welcome a contact with those in her city or Northern Kentucky and central and eastern Indiana.

IN NEW ZEALAND, at 10 Turakina St., New Plymouth, Dora Jensen, a seasoned teacher and the publisher of a fine little duplicator magazine, “summit”, has been sent the three lectures and will, when they arrive, get together a class in Huna. They know kahunas in New Zealand, so will not be at all surprised at what I report on the Hawaiian ones upon whom my attention has mainly been fastened these long years past.

LECTURE NO. 3 is a follow up for No. 2. It is intended to be played with a week between it and No. 2 so that time will be allowed for the class members to practice making simple prayers in the Huna fashion and be ready for a little inspiration or help by way of partial reviews and the discussion of various phases of the theory and practice. The temptation has been for those planning class formation to gobble all three lectures immediately as soon as they arrive and this may not be as good as to allow a week to pass during which the instructions have been put to work. Here, and in a group where all three lectures have been heard, the call is for “More! More!”

ADDITIONAL LECTURES will be taped and made ready as soon as possible, But until such a time as I get some substantial reports on the reactions of those who hear the lectures and get down to try to follow the instructions, I will not know what further help and explanations are needed and what questions have come up that need answering. One good question is already on the list of those to be answered, and this is what to do about the feeling of guilt arising from giving up the church affiliations of earlier years. I have stressed in the lectures the need to measure all our “sins” or doubtful deeds against the “No hurt:no sin” standard. One must review things which seem to make the Aunihipili feel guilt and ask in every case, “Did that act HURT me or anyone else?” If not, it is NOT a sin. But, as the Aunihipili may have a fixation on the “Do and do not” list, it may be necessary to keep applying the test frequently to bring the Aunihipili into the Light. An explosive point here may turn out to be my casual way of referring to Jesus as the leading character in a great Drama of Initiation. We shall have to see whether or not this trips up anyone who has not read my book, Huna Code In Religions, and who may not know all the reasons for looking upon Jesus in this light. Of course , it is hoped that all of the new arrivals will eventually become sufficiently interested to go into my books and get all available information.

HUNA HYPHENATES will be welcomed and Huna is being offered as something to augment more or less fixed beliefs held by the ones who chance to hear the lectures. True, some adjustments will have to be made in each individual case, but a member of almost any Faith should be able to fit Huna into the older and more familiar things already accepted. I have already had a letter telling me that the “Universal Subconscious” of Troward seems to fit nicely with the idea of the “Great Company of Aumakuas” of Huna. “Universal Mind” fits easily, and while we have little to say about God, as the “Ultimate” (except that He is too large for us to encompass with our limited power of thought), the “God Within” and “Christ Spirit” match the Aumakua perfectly – provided, of course, that we do not stop to argue the Church dogmas of the Trinity. Theosophy has its differences, but these are not of too great importance, and its “Seven Bodies of Man” can be matched well enough with the ten elements of the man in Huna. Unity and the Science Of…. schools of religion are not too far from basic Huna, and even Christian Science, and its view that all matter is unreal, is not too hard to match on the points of practical value. Only the “schools” who sell a never ending course in religion, may object strongly to members allowing themselves and their monthly dues to be weaned away. All grounds for objection will be based on dogmas which Huna may question, but few can object to the “No Hurt: no sin” or “Serve to deserve” basics of Huna as it is now being presented in the lectures.

CHEERS FROM DOWN UNDER. HRA Gaye Meridan, of 22/6 Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, 2011, Sydney, Australia, wrote, as of August 22nd:

Dear Max:

I am overjoyed at the news of the tapes and classes for Huna. This is the way that will open up … but why didn’t we do it long ago? I think I could start and keep a class going here with the tapes and help from you, and perhaps some inter-com from the American groups. Will you send the tapes that are ready so far? I am so happy about this! (Signed:) Gaye Meridan.

The tapes are being mailed at once, and also I have taken the liberty (other HRAs in Australia at or near Sydney, please take note) of giving her the names and addresses of HRAs who might be contacted and who might help get audiences for the lectures. The Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in Sydney has been selling my books for some time, and there should be lodge members there who might show a kindly interest and give a hand.

IN NEW ZEALAND lives HRA Dora Jensen, of 10 Turakina St., New Plymouth, New Zealand. She has been teaching “Truth” for some time and is a good psychic. She has a ready made audience for the tape lectures, and has welcomed the opportunity to spread the Good Word of Huna and get together classes with the thought that from them groups may form. (Help! Help! I have just discovered that when I started writing this H.V. three days ago, I had already told happily of Dora’s work and of the lectures being on the way to her. Since that writing I have had a delightful short tape from her by air mail, and could enjoy her voice and a dissertation on the Kabbalah, a short talk by a naturalist on the birds of New Zealand, and some fine bits of music. Little wonder she was so fresh in my mind today that I overlooked the earlier reference. Excuse please!)

I HAVE BEEN PLEASANTLY SURPRISED to learn that so many HRAs have good tape recorders and so can play the tapes. Recorders, especially the quite new small ones, sometimes play the tapes slowly at a speed of 17/8 I.P.S. (inches per second), and in this way make a tape carry almost twice the length of lectures, however, these recorders often will not play at the 3 3/4 speed, and none of them take the full five-inch reel. Then there is the fast play, running the tape through at 7 1/ 2 I.P.S. to get better sound on music. The between speed I am using for our lectures is excellent for voice, and the majority of older recorders will handle it. Later on we may find enough call for the little cassette type running at the slow speed to make it worthwhile to get equipment to duplicate the lectures for use on the small recorders.

In sending out the tapes from our new Loan Library, I am placing two reels (containing a lecture of introduction of one hour and two 45-minute lectures) in one book mailing carton. In the package I include gummed tape to be used to close the carton when finished with, and in the cartoon I also include a picture of myself which I have had printed for this purpose. Several book lists are included, so that those who listen to the lectures and who may wonder what literature on the subject is available, may have the information ready to hand. The carton is creased so it folds on set lines, and I suggest that if YOU are returning reels, you TURN THE CARTON INSIDE OUT before repacking it and sealing and addressing it. An address label is also enclosed against the time of return.

THE PICTURE OF MYSELF was taken a bit over a year ago and has been slightly retouched to pretty up the old boy. So many people have asked for a picture of me that I have decided to include a print in this Huna Vistas [not included, ed.] to be inspected and perhaps then placed in any one of my books which you may have handy. For those of you who make P. A. readings, you can use it for a run. And, for any of you who may happen to have a picture of yourself to spare, a copy would be most welcome.

SEEING THE WHITE LIGHT OF THE AUMAKUA has been discussed in the tape lectures and has been stressed as something which may be seen once or twice in one’s lifetime, and which one beginning to use Huna should watch for and expect hopefully. I tell of my own early experience of being awakened at night, with my room flooded with this strong heatless light. One of the HRAs who listened to the lectures delighted me by sitting down at once to tell me of her experience. She is a practicing healer, and one day she was called on the telephone by a young mother who asked her to begin treating her young son. The school had just called her to ask her to come and get the little boy because he was ill and running a fever. It was added that he had been exposed, as had others, to scarlet fever, and that two other children were ill. Calling on all her inner power of spirit, she told the mother with great positiveness, “Your boy has been exposed to NOTHING BUT DIVINE LOVE. He is all right.” And, as she spoke she was suddenly surrounded with the White Light. It lasted but a few moments, but greatly impressed her. Next day the small boy and the other children who had been ill were all back in school, completely normal.

In giving instructions for the simplest method of putting Huna to work and getting in line to see the LIGHT as a lasting evidence of contact with the Aumakua, I stress the value of meditation – which is nothing more or less than quieting down and thinking of the good aspects and characteristics of the Aumakua. In this way the Aunihipili is brought into line and given help in making the full contact. Try it.

Dear Max:

(Writes long time HRA Victor Frankenstein.) At last! Your July-August Bulletin arrived today (23.8.68) and I wondered for a long time, where the Huna Vistas including you and me were going.

A repeat of already often repeated findings, explanations in Hawaiian, etc. actually meant a standstill for most of the HRAs who have been with you now for over twenty years.

You have my full help in the new guided step, but as you say yourself, “Groups” are out as they lead nowhere.

I meet here regularly with another old HRA, Stuart Lucy, but one would have to have basic directions as to what to do, step by step, and also to know what the ultimate goal should be. That means that there should be a kind of charter worked out.

A further question is, what could the HRAs contribute in this part of the world – but if the Lyons restaurants spread all over the globe, why not the HRAs?

Perhaps a voluntary organization which teaches members not only Huna, but also to heal themselves. The only difficulty might be that there are so many cranks who will join that the good supporters will flee in terror.

I hope that many other HRAs will voice their opinion in approval of a new step to be taken and all our suggestions will give you a little help in formulating the right steps to take.

In any case I am with you 100%.
Best wishes and regards, Vic.

THIS IS A MOST HELPFUL AND ENCOURAGING LETTER, with the several points brought up in connection with the work. I quite agree that we have been going over and over much the same ground of late, and that the HRAs who have been in the organization for  a long time miss something new and vital in the results of the research or of healing experiments. The healing tests have been very slow in coming, owing to lack of groups and all the things it would take to test out a full circle to see what mana power could be accumulated, sent to the Aumakuas and put to use in healing. But NOW, it is my hope, we are making a start in that direction. First the classes and tape lectures, then coordinated groups of up to 12 to make a circle. If we are to believe that the Drama of the Four Gospels was made to include practical suggestions for work, then our circles should have 12 members, with perhaps a thirteenth to take the place of any Judas who fails to come up to the standard and leaves the circle. The Last Supper saw “food” supplied, the wine being the fluid to represent the water of mana. The blessing was asked, the food offered to a Higher Power, and then, Jesus, as the Aumakua, returned food in a form of eucharist with each member of the circle given his sop or return of the quickened and cleansing high mana. One assumes that the outer side of the picture was hidden behind the coded version that only a knowledge of Huna reveals. But we may eventually find that such a group or circle can call down miracles much as the ones performed so dramatically in the various versions of the Gospels. We need to have proper material for such groups, a knowledge of how to balance them as to sexes, and organization to put the candidates for healing through the kala or cleansing rites. I see a slow and well ordered system in which things are not taken on the spur of the moment by one healer, but in which things go step by step and with a circle expanding the power under the very best of leadership. But we must learn to walk with classes before we can run with larger and more permanent circles. We must feel our way. The tape lectures are aimed directly at those who have never heard of Huna. I am writing letters to the people who have just discovered my books and wish to know more of what is being done. I offer the tapes on loan if they can be played to even a few. As I see it, we must experiment in this way to see whether a simple and popular version of Huna can be taught, and be made to “catch on”. We are now so few in number and so scattered that it is difficult to get two HRAs located even in the larger centers and introduced – if they will exert themselves to the extent of meeting others. I want to give you a letter from a stranger who is quite new to Huna, but who wrote and who was told about the tapes. He is not an HRA, but I hope one day to have him on the list, or to be able to register him as a Huna Fellow at least. He wrote:

“We would like to thank you for the recent introductory materials which you sent us. We find it very interesting and would like to know more about the Huna research. I belong to an Edgar Cayce study group and I presented the materials you sent me for the consideration of the group. Our thinking was that your Huna study group sounded interesting and is possibly something we may take in as a supplementary study. Your letter mentioned an introductory tape. If this is available we would like to hear it. From what I have studied it sounds as though what you are doing is very pertinent to our lives today. May God bless you in your efforts.”

I have made an immediate reply and explained more about the lectures and plans, and have at the same time sent the three lectures. We shall see in time what this type of approach brings by way of results. If the lectures are good enough and will do their intended work, we will continue in this way.

The Edgar Cayce people, so I hear, came into a fat gift that has enabled them to get around and organize study groups in many places. The Walnut Creek group was the first of these with which I have come into contact, and the way we have been welcomed and Huna given a hearing is most heartening. Huna is not being studied in the Cayce group, but members of that group also are looking into Huna and listening to the lectures. As every good teaching has many points in common, I hope that we are able to work with more such already formed groups. It has been suggested that we advertise the lecture tapes in magazines which may reach suitable people, and we may try this out soon. It will not be too long before reports and questions begin to come in, and from these I will learn what to do in changing the original lectures or getting others ready for the follow through.

I have high hopes of getting at the young people in some way. As a junior in high school I recall that I found in an old trunk a manuscript containing what we would call today a “course”. It laid out the steps to be taken to gain an inner enlightenment, including cold baths in winter, and several other things which (I marvel to remember) I was brought to follow for some time. My youthful hopes had been aroused and a fine enthusiasm for the promised spiritual unfoldment, and I stuck with the exercises for the whole of a winter before backsliding when I got no results. Huna is infinitely better and more practical than the things in that old MMS of an unnamed secret order, and youth is still idealistic and some levels of the young will certainly respond if they can be reached.

SOME YEARS AGO I had a dream in which I had, after years of waiting, finally been given a hearing by a committee of learned university men so that I might present my Huna findings and ask that they be judged, with the hope that they would be pronounced valid. There were a dozen old men in the group and I felt that at last I was getting a chance to be heard by the most learned and influential men in their field. As I write, I have before me a letter from a gentleman who might very well qualify as a member of my dreamed of board. AND, he has given his approval. I take the liberty of quoting a paragraph from his letter.

“After writing you before,  I chanced to find at a bookseller’s a copy of HUNA CODE IN RELIGIONS and I have just finished reading it. I am completely intrigued and fascinated, inspired even. It synthesizes for me dozens of ideas and impressions I have had for a number of years. I find it readily acceptable, almost as if I were drawn to it, the interpretation offered by the code. In my studies of ancient Greek, Latin, mythologies and religions I have been increasingly aware that some meaning must be concealed in the variety of meanings of ancient roots. I had inklings concerning many of the passages you have explained, and these impressions have been confirmed, clarified and concretized by the code.

Dear Max:

(Writes HRA Mrs. A.H. George, 9625 Aqueduct Ave., Sepulveda, Calif. 91343. Phone 23 892 5783 evenings, who invites those of you living in the San Fernando Valley to get into touch with the aim of becoming acquainted and forming a group.) Earlier today I returned by post the two tape lecture reels. We had to hear the tapes on two separate Tuesdays since they are quite long and Mrs. Gray had to leave early.

You have a pleasant, friendly voice, which made us feel that you were right there with us. After having read your books, and then hearing you explain and teach, it seemed to clarify many points to us. However there is still a little contradiction as to the breathing for the gathering of mana. Were you perhaps considering making a tape with the actual breathing exercises included?

We are looking forward to your next tape. I am enclosing a dollar to help with the tape project and postage.

Aloha to our friend and teacher, (Signed) Anne George. (Dated 8.29.68)

I COMMENT: This what I have been waiting for – reports on the reception of the three lectures. I agree that the breathing exercises used to gather mana may cause some confusion when described so briefly, and have run the tape trying to see just where the “contradiction” came in, but so far have not located it. However, this gives me a most valuable lead for the next lecture, and I shall see if I cannot make the simple exercises more easily understood. I hope that this tiny group will grow and call for the tapes again to play to new members so that a class can be started, and that by then I will have more lectures ready. What I am most anxious to hear in a report is whether or not the listeners actually tried out the Huna type prayer method simplified and laid out in short form in the second lecture. It is one thing to listen to this lecture and find it interesting, and quite another thing to give the method a serious try. Of course, we have in the above group only those long familiar with the work, so the method was not new and exciting as it might be to those first hearing of Huna and its methods. The San Fernando Valley is near Los Angeles, and should supply us with a good group.

THE BREATHING EXERCISES may not be entirely clear to HRAs who have not heard the tape lectures, and this seems a good time to discuss the matter. The method was explained in my book, Secret Science At Work, as we then knew it. This was before I had come upon the coded information in the Four Gospels which shows that not only was deeper and “stronger” breathing to be done to accumulate mana, but that there was a rhythm of FOUR hinted at in the meaning of the Hawaiian word ha, which means both to breathe more strongly and four or forty. I may be wrong in thinking that we do best to take four deeper breaths one after the other, then pause about 20 seconds before taking four more, and this to keep up until forty breaths have been taken. In my own tests, however, I find that I soon fell into a kind of evenness or rhythm in counting the breaths by fours, and that this was beneficial. It also helps to take over the breathing process from the Aunihipili, and impresses the self and sets it to work gathering mana. The slowness or deepness of the breathing has no definite limits so far as I can see, and one must try the method and learn from testing what seems most natural and easy and so best.

THE “HEARTBEAT COUNT” rhythm is an old favorite. While holding the command thought that the Aunihipili is beginning to accumulate mana, one begins to breathe just a little more strongly to the silent count to keep step with the heartbeat – one (in) two, three, four. Hold a beat, then exhale, one, two, three, four. Hold a beat, and repeat, One (in) two, three, four … One (out) two, three, four.

When four inhalations and exhalations have been done, a pause with the breath allowed to come as it will for 20 heartbeats is good, after which the next four breaths in the same way can be taken. If one is getting overloaded with oxygen and begins to feel light headed or one has some unusual or unwanted sensation, the pause between sets of four breaths can be lengthened. It is not necessary to count until forty sets of four breaths have been taken. Ten sets is often sufficient, and it may be better to make the accumulation and offer the prayer more frequently than to make too strenuous an effort at one time.

It takes a little practice to make the heartbeat rhythm a habit and a standard way of accumulation into which you, as the Auhane, and the Aunihipili automatically fall as you begin a prayer action. At first the attention will be too much fastened on the “count” and the command and expectation covering the accumulation of mana may be neglected. But with practice the rhythm is learned and one falls into it at once, then being able to command the accumulation, and with the end of the breathing series, to command the Aunihipili to contact the Aumakua and to begin sending it the gift of accumulated mana. Hard on the heels of the order to begin sending the mana, the prayer picture is called to mind and the order is given to send it with the flow of mana to the Aumakua. Once this order has been given mentally, the picture of the DESIRED CONDITION is to be visualized as perfectly as possible, and if a prayer has been formulated and memorized, it is now to be repeated, preferably aloud, three times, slowly and carefully. The prayer may be simply a description of the desired state as though it had already been materialized. This description amounts in almost every case to an affirmative statement – an “AFFIRMATION”. Instead of asking for health for oneself, in a prayer such as, “Father-Mother, please give me perfect health”, one presents the thought-form “seed” picture of the end product, the finished answer to the prayer. One describes the desired state and one affirms thrice, “I am in perfect health. I am in perfect health. I am in perfect health.” And the picture of oneself actually in perfect health is held firmly in mind to the exclusion of the ills which one is asking to have corrected. One pauses a bit, then ends the action quietly. Amen.

Or, one can use the ending of the kahunas, “The prayer is ended. it takes its flight. Let the rain of blessings fall.” With this ending an “amen” can be used or not, but one waits expectantly to feel the return flow of mana from the Aumakua, and sometimes it can actually be felt. It is generally like fine rain falling with little needle and pin tingles on one’s head and shoulders. The “Amen” may be held off to see if the “fall” is felt, then said after a proper period of waiting. The idea is that a prayer action should not be left “dangling”. It should be most carefully planned and delivered if one is to get the best results. It must be said, however, that the emotional heart cry of “Help” often reaches the Aumakua and Help is given in emergencies. The Aumakua is not one to stand on ceremony when the time is lacking and the need is sudden and great. Emotion replaces the accumulation of mana and the Aumakua takes and uses the mana which happens then to be in the body.

All “give me” types of prayers include in themselves the picture of the thing asked for and strongly desired, and for centuries such prayers have been answered, but, if we have the theory of Huna decoded correctly, the best results are obtained from the best TEAM WORK and the team is composed of the three selves. The perfectly made prayer is the one that gets the swiftest and most satisfactory answer, an answer in which the things we ask to have changed are not hung like a kite tail to the answer when it descends to our level.

In TEAM WORK, we must also remember, that we have invited the Aumakua to take its rightful part in living the life. It is so much wiser, and it can see ahead as we cannot, so it will accept the daily offering of mana and plan for us and find ways to bring about things which IT sees to be best for its man. This we recognize as “Guidance”, and it is well to expect it and to watch for little indications that we are being guided in one way or another – often in most unexpected ways. The lower man must use what intelligence he has and plan and work as wisely as possible, but even “the best of plans of mice and men” go often wrong without the Aumakua taking a hand at the proper moments. (“Lead Kindly LIGHT” is pure Huna, even if the composer of that famous hymn had never heard of Polynesia and “LIGHT” has been the code symbol of the Aumakua with the kahunas from time immemorial.)

FOLLOWING AND RECOGNIZING GUIDANCE deserves a page of discussion in itself. It is a fine art, if ever there was one, and when one decides to live forever after the hurtless and helpful life and TO ASK FOR AND FOLLOW GUIDANCE, one must be of stout heart.

FIRST OFF, the old and faulty future which we have been causing to be built for us from our hopes and fears – sent daily to the Aumakuas, whether we know it or not – must be changed. Often it seems to be broken up suddenly by the Aumakua to make way for the new and better future which is to be built with its help. In this “break up” the pieces often fall upon our luckless heads, and we join Job in bemoaning our woes, but the “storm is tempered to the lamb” and we always seem to survive even when the worst befalls.

Quimby, who blazed a trail in the metaphysical wilderness at a very early date, discovered that those he healed with his special methods usually became worse after his treatments began, but then took a sudden turn for the better and often went on to a complete healing. One does well to brace oneself for this to happen when beginning to invite the Aumakua to help run one’s life. And, when one backslides and later renews the old resolves, the sky will fall in on one again, in just the same way. The final results, however, make a shining end reward.

Our Dear Max:

(Writes the leader of the new Huna Group and Class at Walnut Creek in California, as of August 29th.) So today is the 5th class in Huna instruction of our Study Group, and has been a very successful month, having learned so much via your tapes and books; we thank you and send you our loving offering of the enclosed check ($17!!). The donation box was opened after the class this afternoon and we felt no better use could be made than to pass it on to you, knowing full well that you can put it to good use. (It goes, happily, into the special Tape Fund. mfl.) I am hoping you will now have the beginning of say 19 others, to start with. You deserve the support of all interested people for your long dedication to its projection into the physical consciousness ………….

We will be glad to have further tapes as you find time to make them; in the meantime we will continue to use Secret Science At Work as our text book ……

Many of our class have said their whole lives have been changed since coming to the classes, and it has been a big step forward for them, so they are, very naturally, enthusiastic, and do not like to miss a class.

I find the young people are taking to it, and it should be the answer to the wide gap between the churches and the materialism of today, which is rather hopeless. We have four who are around 16 contacting us as the present.time ……….
Our best wishes from the class and ourselves – Aloha
Signed: Will (For William J. Cooper, 2116 Golden Rain Rd. , Apt. 6 Walnut Creek, Calif. 94595)

THIS IS THE KIND OF REPORT I hope to have arriving more and more as the number of classes and groups increases. The young people are, I feel, very important these days. They are faced with drafts and world uncertainties which often discourage them and pull them down to the “Hippie” level of “who cares”. To be able to give them a good grounding in Huna and an introduction to their own Aumakuas is indeed a privilege. If they contact Huna before they have accepted some set of creeds and have become rather blindly fixed in them, they will not have so much to unlearn, and can make straight line progress. The woods are full of really fine youngsters who are ever so much worthwhile. Even the ones who go “Hippie” seem to be searching, and one reads that they are talking about Zen and Metaphysics. (In my mind I see young Max Long lighting a lantern and going out on cold nights in winter to find a quiet place in the barn to read the old “course” and try to meditate and concentrate and follow the instructions given with such fine promises by the unknown course writer. There must be a great number of such eager young people ready for Huna if we could but find them.)

SEEING THE AUMAKUA “LIGHT” is being stressed as a wonderful possibility in the tape lectures.If we are to believe the New Testament account, Paul was not especially seeking spiritual things, but was walking along the road to Damascus when he suddenly found himself surrounded with a great light. From his later muddling of the Gospel Drama of Jesus, we can see that even though we are blessed by a contact with the LIGHT, this does not guarantee that from then on we will get the right slant on all religious matters. But such opening contacts come to people in all walks of life, usually when not expected. An Associate sent me a clipping from The Christian Science Journal in which a woman wrote of her experience. She had received a fine healing and had just completed reading an article on healing, when the room was flooded with a “brilliant light,” and in the moments that followed, she received the last step in the healing that had been progressing.

MY HANDS AND HEART have been beautifully upheld over the bulletin years by the love and tolerance and gentle understanding of friends, many of whom I still know only by letter, although I feel as close to them as if they lived across the street. Since sending out the last H.V. with the news that I had been convinced that Guidance was valid and that I should give up the bright hope of “graduating” to the next higher level – with the dearly Beloved – and accept the obligation to return in my next incarnation and pick up the Huna work once more to carry it further along, letters of sympathy as well as of encouragement have steadily come in, and I am delighted by the number of dear friends who promise to do what they can to come back, get into touch, and help me carry on. We agree that it is impossible to know how long it will take for the returns, and that when we get back, we will be in a very different world. HRA Olive Sutton, of Brisbane, Australia, tells me of her psychic impression of many unexpected changes. (It is comforting to have her foresee the fact that there WILL BE a habitable earth to return to in the years ahead.)

Long time HRA and dear friend, Dr. James Allen, of 2 College St., Toronto, Canada, writes in part: “H.V. 84 has given us much cause for thought and contemplation, as it will undoubtedly give to many other HRAs. Your complete change of attitude is of course, quite understandable under the circumstances, especially if you are convinced that you have been given definite Guidance in the matter, and we must respect your convictions accordingly. It is sure a very different kind of a future to look forward to, to say the least, and no one can doubt the validity of the claim that you will be better able to further promote the growth of the Huna Truths if you are on the spot here to do so yourself – for who knows as much about the problem as Max does? …….

“One is compelled to wonder, though, whether you would not be able to utilize the enlarged potential of the Other Side, with all the wonderful contacts and help that would be available to you, to a greater advantage, in being able to help and direct things from This Side – for you unquestionably will have the ability, and all the necessary help, to get into touch with potential  helpers here, wherever they may be, and with increased awareness that must take place in the inevitable change toward higher outlook that MUST take place with the unfolding of the Aquarian Age, which certainly is a much higher level than the Piscean. You should not have as much difficulty in getting your message through as there has been in the past. It is a big question, Max, and we are sure that it has given you a pretty drastic inner upheaval, and we can very definitely sympathize with you on what it has meant to you. However, it must be your own decision, of course, and should it eventually work out this way we can only give you our most sincere prayers and help to the fullest extent of our possibility. But our own personal advice, for what it is worth, would be for you to leave it all in Higher Hands until you reach the Higher Realms, and then you can really find out which of the two plans will be the right and proper one to follow.

“Any way, Max, God Bless You and the very best of luck, now and always!” (Signed:) James and Margaret.

I reply in part, return or no, I will try now to make the most of the time left to me in this incarnation to get the Huna work growing and expanding on as permanent and practical a scale as possible. Yes, all is in the hands of the Aumakuas. My job is to Serve as best I can and continue to plant Huna seeds. MFL