Again, this is Max Freedom Long speaking.
This is the third short talk on the ancient SECRET or HUNA system which is first found in Egypt in the early dynasties when glyphs were used for writing. The Secret Lore spread more or less over the then civilized world, and after some 5,000 years as a priestly secret known only to initiates, it was threatened by loss or complete extinction as a system.
Reginald Stewart, my close friend of the 1936 days when we were struggling to find out what the “SECRET” contained, ran into a tribe of Berber shepherd people in North Africa who could tell him much about the ancient lore. The Queen of the little tribe was an initiate “kahuna” or “Keeper of the Secret”, and it was from her that Mr. Stewart gained much secret information which he later passed on to me to assist me in my effort to recover the amazing system of Psychology plus Religion.
The Berber “Queen Kahine” or “woman kahuna”, said that her people had, many centuries earlier, lived in Egypt and had known the SECRET and been able to use it in many wonderful ways. She claimed that it was her people who stood by when the Great Pyramid was being built, and used their magic to levitate the great stones into place.
Important to us is the legend she recited in which, at about the year 100 B.C. the Keepers of the Secret looked into the future and foresaw the fact that their beloved lore was on the verge of becoming lost. Much alarmed, they used their fine psychic powers to look about the world for a place to which the Huna tribes could move — and in which they would find safety for the Sacred Huna Lore — find a place out of the world where Huna could be preserved and passed down from parent to child without danger of loss or great contamination.
The legend goes on to say that through psychic vision, the kahunas saw the empty islands of the Pacific, and that they would be the best sanctuary. So, the word went out that all eleven of the little tribes of HUNA people were to leave Egypt and go in big double canoes down the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean, and then make their way as best they could to the far Pacific Isles.
There were, she said, TWELVE TRIBES, but her tribe remained behind as a rear guard lest the others be detained by the rulers of the period. (For be it well understood, that people who could work magic were valued and would not be easily allowed to depart — carrying their secret knowledge with them.)
When the eleven tribes were on their way, the twelfth tried to follow, but it was too late. They were headed off and forced to go north overland to find safety. They eventually reached what is now Berber Territory and there found a region so safe that, with the help of their magic, they were able to keep alive and also to preserve the Secret Lore for as long as did the other tribes who had fled to what we now know as Polynesia. These tribes, she declared, were the original LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL — which have never been found.
The eleven tribes which got away divided, some going along the coast to stop in India for a time and there teach the local priests the SECRET before moving on to the far destination. At least one tribe went along the coast of Africa and came to Madagascar. There at least part of them settled, and even today, half the people of that large island are of the same blood as the Polynesians and speak the same general language. From this place, or spreading from Egypt, a certain amount of the SECRET moved slowly into Africa. There it mixed with local beliefs and superstitions, but can still be identified in the lore of witch doctors.
The Berber tribe found by Mr. Stewart had come to speak the Berber way, but the Queen still knew the old Huna words and had to use them in sharing her lore with Stewart, for, as she said, there were no words in other languages to fit the Ten Elements of Huna. Young Stewart, who was adopted as a blood son before being taught Huna, took down in his note books the words of the Huna language used by the Queen in teaching him, and years later, when he began to help me unravel the Secret, he passed on words from his yellowed note book pages — words which were almost identical to the dialect now used in the Society Islands in the South Pacific.
He was started on his slow way to become an initiate kahuna, as was the daughter of the Queen, and one of the things which they were promised was that in due time they would be introduced to the great nature spirits who watch over and control the lesser creatures and the elements. They would be “ordained” in a ritual way, and after that could make contact with the spirits for themselves and request favors.
The Polynesian kahunas knew the same spirits — totem spirits or gods, if you will — but in the mountains of North Africa, the Queen could not call to the spirits of the sharks and turtles and ask them to do her bidding. Instead, she called to the spirits overlooking the local birds, and requested that all the birds within a certain distance be made to gather where they sat on a high hill and waited.
Soon birds of all kinds began to arrive and light on the ground around them. Big birds and little, they all came. Stewart said, in telling the story that he was amazed at the number of assorted birds living in that small territory. The birds, once through coming in, were greeted by the Queen, thanked for coming, and given permission to depart — which they did in orderly and unhurried fashion.
On another day the snakes were called in, and a surprising number came wiggling into their charmed circle, to be admired, spoken with, and in time thanked and sent on their way.
Unfortunately, Stewart was never ordained or “introduced” to the totem Spirits. Nor was he able to learn more than a beginning of the lore of the Ten Elements, for the Queen was accidentally killed by a stray bullet one day when two feuding groups of Berbers fought through the valley below the place where the Queen’s little tribe was encamped. No other teacher was available, and Stewart was forced to give up hope of being initiated, and return home to England. It was many years later when Stewart came across my first book on the lost lore of the kahunas, and in it recognized the nearly identical words which he had been taught and which he had written down in his notes. It was through his aid that I was able to learn the nature of the third spirit of man – the High Self or Superconscious. Also, some help was given in understanding the nature of the vital force, mana. Among other demonstrations made by the Queen before her untimely death, was the accumulation of a large surcharge of low mana and the use of it to push a heavy door through the frame and into a temporary storage cave.
Mana is not quite like static electricity or the kind we generate with our chemical batteries. Nor is it like electricity generated by our power plants. Other forms of electricity want to go places and produce a current. Static electricity is the nearest to mana in its nature. It will charge an accumulator and the charge will remain there for a time. But it will leap at the chance to discharge. The low mana or that manufactured by the low self in the body, is like a static charge in that it charges the body and stays put until used.
In my Second Talk I spoke of how mana was to be accumulated by breathing more deeply for a time. I might add that when the breathing is being done, the low self must be expected to build up a mana surcharge in the body and in the shadowy body or aka which surrounds it. I told of the use of the extra mana in making strong thought-forms, and thus in making lasting memories.
In passing, may I say that sight is made temporarily better by putting on an extra charge of mana. If one is tired, a pause to charge up helps greatly, and surprising help in remembering has been reported from students who put on an extra charge now and then while taking an examination.
There is still much testing and experimental work to be done before we will know as much about the manas — the three manas — as did the old initiates. For instance, in Hawaii in the old days the kahunas helped their friends in inter-sectional fighting. They stood behind the fighting lines and charged up sticks with low mana. These they threw over the heads of the men of their side, and when a stick touched one of the enemy, the mana discharged like a great charge of static and knocked the man cold. Women trained for the task also stood behind the battle lines, and when a warrior was too spent to carry on, he fell out of the rank and one of the women recharged him quickly with mana so he could get back into the fray with club and spear.
Mesmerism is a similar use of the mana surcharge. A few years ago a mesmerist in Los Angeles used to demonstrate his power by charging up, then pointing his finger at one after another of the volunteer subjects seated in a row. Each one, when pointed at, would slump and slide from his chair, to remain on the floor for a minute or two and then revive. The heavy surcharge of low mana, when commanded by the operator to go all at once into a subject, acts as if alive, and does so, causing the low self to lose consciousness for a short time. In contrast, hypnosis is the use of the mana of the middle self, and is used to implant thought-form clusters as “suggestions”, with sleep or the unconscious and rigid state is caused by suggestion and not by mana shock as in mesmerism of the drastic kind just described. The low mana, when filling shadowy substance, and when directed by the consciousness, becomes, to all intents and purposes, intelligent force. It can solidify the aka substance, and the spirits of the dead often come to séances and use mana which they borrow from the sitters. With it they can make trumpets sail through the room and tap people on head or knee while causing voices to sound through the trumpets. They can lift living persons and carry them about. This is called “levitation”. Many mediums have been levitated in remarkable ways, and some carried to places at a distance. Poltergeists seem to be spirits bent on mischief who get hold of mana and use it to throw things, to make crashing noises, lift heavy furniture, even start fires and throw water.
The use of a mana charge in a single great effort makes it possible for spirits to lift things as heavy as a grand piano, or even to shake the house. A little mana goes a long way when all of it is spent at once in causing something to move. In séances, the spirits sometimes produce what we call “apports’ by taking a thing — even a person — at a distance, changing it into an invisible state or form, and bringing it into the séance room, there changing it back into its solid or natural form. The High Self of the spirit may well be helping it in the work, for it has the power to make such changes in matter. My friend, Mr Stewart, speculated that perhaps the lifting of the massive stones for the easy building of the Great Pyramid may have been done by kahunas with the aid of spirit friends who were given much mana and set to work.
If you want a simple use for mana — if you do not wish to study to be a mesmerist, hypnotist, spirit medium, or perhaps a builder of pyramids — the one I can recommend most highly is its use in healing. You may be a natural, healer and not know it. Or you may be able with a little practice to develop fair healing powers. If you wish to make a test of your abilities, you must be willing to practice a little to teach your low self what it is to do. With practice it will learn, and after a few successful healings, confidence will be gained — FAITH in your own powers gained — a faith that can make all the difference.
There are three main steps to be taken, once you find a friend with an aching head or a pain of not too chronic a nature. Try simple ills at first, and don’t be like one of my friends who learned the art and boasted that he could heal or at least better, anything except a “pain in the neck” — of the kind produced by boredom. Cuts, burns and breaks are good to practice on, and with daily treatments with mana, a surprising response may be brought about. The kahunas of old could often heal a broken bone in a few minutes. Mana hastens the healing process greatly if properly applied.
The first step is to do the breathing which I have described earlier, and as you breathe deeply and slowly and rhythmically, silently asking your low self to manufacture a large mana charge. Keep in mind the fact that you plan to use the mana for healing your friend. Also keep in mind the fact that you are going to ask your low self to call upon your High Self to help during the healing.
When you feel that you are well charged up, make a mental picture of yourself and your low self causing the patient to be in PERFECT HEALTH, then picture the call being made to your High Self. Don’t talk the picture as that just makes words, and the low and High Selves need PICTURES constructed of mana-strengthened thought-forms. Keep your mouth shut and your mind open. The picture is your plan, your blueprint, your road map. BUT, it is also the MOLD which will be used to remold the conditions into health.
With the picture in mind, advance to your patient and place your fingers lightly on the place which hurts or which is injured and needs healing. If the place is not to be touched for one reason or another, first touch the hand or head of the person, then hold your hands at a small distance from the body and on either side of the seat of the trouble. The low self can project the mana through the shadowy thread the touch establishes if you mentally request it to do so. While holding the hands in position, hold your picture in mind of the call going to your High Self, then of the mana flowing through your fingers and into your patient to charge up the part to be restored.
The treatment can last a minute or two, and then you can pull away, recharge with mana, and repeat the treatment — several times if you like and if it takes that many times for the patient to report a feeling of being helped. End by giving thanks silently to the High Self and then to the low, after which go wash your hands and tell yourself that you are washing all the illness or imperfections down the drain, never to return. This will keep you from possibly picking up the pains through suggestion. Remember that you are PRAYING for the healing and also furnishing the mana which the High Self may use. This is one of the places where RELIGION comes into the methodology of Huna.
Now rest a few moments, turning off the recorder, then come back to it for some questions and answers … (Time out for a smoke will be appreciated by some.) (The general discussion may, of course, start at once and the question and answer part of the talk be put off until later. Or healing experiments can start at once.)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q. Isn’t the healing you have described the same old one of “Laying on Hands?”
A. It certainly IS, but in this case we learn from Huna what, besides making a prayer, we are to do in the ancient healing ritual. BUT, one does not have to touch the one treated after an aka or shadowy thread of contact is established. “Absent treatment” as practiced in the metaphysical cults of today, makes good use of the aka threads without knowing that they are doing so. Look at a person, hear his voice, or see his picture or his signature written in ink, and your low self can pick up a thread and follow it in a flash to contact the Person.
Q. Did the Egyptians have a word for this kind of healing?
A. It is not known whether they did or not, but the kahuna initiates in later Hawaii had a fine code word to name and still conceal the meaning of the name of the process. They were great layers on of hands, and they called the hands mana-mana, which codes the fact that much mana went through the hands. The outer meaning of the word mana-mana, however was “hands”, or it meant “to divide” — the “dividing” being partly code in telling us that we shared our mana or divided it with the person treated.
Q. When the evangelist, Kathryn Kuhlman, heals people and makes them fall unconscious into the arms of the “catcher”, is she using mana, perhaps a form of mesmeric shock?
A. From what we know of Huna, it seems probable that she is. In an audience where emotions run high, mana is automatically generated and can be pick ed up as a surcharge by a speaker. She probably causes enough mana to go into the person treated to enable the healing to be done by whatever agency may be at work. Unfortunately, when the mana charge is all used up, the low self of the one healed may cause the malady to return. If this happens, a second healing seems very difficult. Under ideal conditions, the treatment which results in an instant healing should be followed up with daily treatments with mana for several days.
Q. What is the difference between the three manas which are named as three elements in the composition of man?
A. It is not known whether there is a change in the nature of the low mana when it is taken and used by either the middle or High Self. It has been spoken of as a change in voltage, but it seems most likely that the nature of the mana changes little or just a little, and that the difference lies in the USE made by a particular self of the basic life force. Mana is not like ordinary electricity which we use in the radio with variations in the frequency and pressure. In telepathy, for instance, the messages have been known to travel to the other side of the earth without weakening.
Q. You said that the mana used by the High Self was symbolized as honey by the early Egyptians, and that the bee was its symbol. How about the low mana? Did they have a symbol for it also?
A. Yes. They had a very amusing symbol, the grasshopper. This insect symbolized the low self, and because it secreted a brown tobacco juice (as we called it when I was a boy) from its mouth, the juice was used as the symbol of the low mana made by the low self. Drawings of the grasshopper were also made and used with special significance by the early Egyptians.
Now I wish you my aloha. MFL
