3/22/08 Aloha Ka Kou! (May there be friendship and love between us – greeting
when given to more than one person.)
Hau’oli La Hanua – Happy Birthday to Te Iwi, my sister on the Big Island of
Hawai’i.


To Recap: English Journalist William Reginald Stewart sent Max Freedom Long
translations of root words in Hawaiian Stewart had learned from Lucchi – the
last of an unbroken line of kahunas (in Hawaiian the plural of kahuna is kahuna
with a horizonal line over the 'a' in ka, but we don't have the font to do that
here) of a Berber Tribe in the Atlas Mountains in North Africa. The language of
the tribe was not Hawaiian, but a dialect Hawaiian had long been used by the
Berber kahuna (quahuna) for doing 'magic'. (As Light writes: “Magic is a word
for power not yet understood.”) Using Stewart’s notes, the notes of Dr. Brigham
the curator of the Bishop Musuem who had directly observed kahunas doing their
magic for decades, and putting these together with the ‘new’ discoveries in Mr.
Long's day of psychology and psychical research, and the ‘battered remains of
the original Huna philosophy in various religions, Max Freedom Long ‘cracked’
the Huna Code ‘hidden’ in the root meanings of the Hawaiian Language.


Many people in Hawai’i today don’t believe it. The reason why can be found in
Mr. Long’s book The Secret Science Behind Miracles: “There are many, many words
in the language used by the kahunas which contain the direct or symbolic root
meanings. . . . Modern usage (early 1900’s) follows the pattern laid down by the
early Missionaries to Hawaii, who knew nothing of the science of Psychology and
were not initiates into Huna. For this very reason, it is very natural that
modern students of the Hawaiian language should object to root translations as
used in this study. However, until such students can also show why hundreds of
similar words should not have been translated according to the meanings of their
roots by the Missionaries and by Lorin Andrews when making his dictionary in
1865, it seems safe enough to use root as long as the general meanings average
up. Without such root translations it is impossible to see the slightest reason
for certain meanings having been given certain words. . . .The various steps in
the healing processes of Huna may be traced through the terms used by the
kahunas. These terms, when translated through their root meanings and given
additional meanings through the symbols used, furnish an insight into the theory
as well as the practice of healing and related rites.”


Mr. Long gives an example: “The word for “prophet” is ka-u-la. This word
means a rope, a cord or a string. Such meanings seem utterly foreign to the
secondary meaning of “prophet,” but if one has knowledge of the kahuna belief
that a prophet gets information concerning the future from the High Self, by way
of a shadowy cord of connection, the implications become clear. The root ‘ka’
has the familiar meaning of ‘to reach from place to place as the shadowy cord’.
The root ‘kau’ means ‘to put something in a high place, as thought forms of a
prayer for vision of the future, in the shadowy body of the High Self. The
root ‘la’ completes the picture by symbolizing the form of enlightening
knowledge which comes only from the High Self.”


Many today who disavow the ‘discoveries’ of Max Freedom Long lack both a
knowledge of the language of old Hawaii – before the missionaries arrived – and
the commonplace knowledge of Hawaiians – before the missionaries arrived – of
‘shadowy cords and shadowy bodies and low self, middle self , high self’.


Such beliefs today seem quaint and silly to ‘modern’ humans versed in ‘modern’
psychology and ‘modern’ religions, which remain thousands of years behind the
knowing of the kahunas of ‘old’ Hawai’i.


We today who are adepts in metaphysical knowledge and in particular metaphysical
knowledge of mind and spirit know much (not all) of what the ‘old’ Kahuna taught
is truth. We shall share and compare in this series our knowledge with Huna
knowledge.


While many then and now have rejected Max Freedom Long’s claim he found ‘the
secrets’ of Huna (which means, in one of its root meanings, hidden secret) the
Kahunas of his day did not. They greatly respected his achievement and to
acknowledge this they taught him more.


Why care about Huna today? Again, we return to Mr. Long’s own words: “There
are two features that make the psycho-religious system of the “Secret” (Huna)
outstanding and set it apart from modern systems of either religion or
psychology. First and foremost, IT WORKS. It worded for the kahunas and it
should work for us. Second, and but slightly less significant, it works for men
no matter what their religious beliefs.”


Except it doesn’t work today. Not like it did, with one possible exception:
Kahuna who have been fortunate enough to be trained in the ‘old’ Huna knowledge
AND are fortunate enough to have followers who have been sheltered from birth
from the beliefs and viewpoints of ‘modern’ society – including modern Hawaiian
society.


Why? To do what the ‘old’ Kahunas could do one must have followers taught from
birth onward to believe that certain medicines, plants, foods, drinks, objects,
massages, rituals and the Kahunas themselves hold special powers. True Kahunas
then and now know this is not so – that the power lies in convincing the
subconscious it is so.


True Kahunas (as in any field there are a lot of charlatans as well as those
fooled into believing themselves to be what they are not) know a great deal more
about the subconscious self than is generally known in psychology, psychiatry,
hypnotherapy, religions, spiritualism, metaphysics and by modern man and woman
in general.


If the feats of the old Kahuna cannot be duplicated today, why learn more about
Huna?


These feats can be duplicated by you IF you can convince your subconscious self
of its power to do ‘low magic’, as Huna refers to feats of power, including
healing, done by the unihipili or low self (terms used in Huna for the
subconscious self). Then maybe you will be ready to convince your conscious
self (‘uhane or middle self in Huna) of the presence and power of your Higher
Self (‘aumakua or High Self in Huna). If you do convince yourself of this and
you add to this the new knowledge brought in by Light - you will be able to do
‘high magic’ which is what Huna calls feats of power, including instant healing,
done by the Higher Self.


Next week – we begin a thorough examination of the ‘unihipili’ (subconscious
self) in Huna.


Tomorrow - Easter Sunday - our teleseminar is about The Two Laws of Spirit and
Life Lessons. Join us 'live' or listen to a recording of it by phone or
internet this week. If you don't know how email us, we'll tell you how.


With Light, Pamela and Dr. Hugh
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