Part 6 of a Series on Huna
4/13/08 Aloha & Greetings:


Excerpts from The Secret Science Behind Miracles, by Max Freedom Long are
enclosed in “quotation marks”. Our comments in [brackets].


“The kahunas [of old] taught the human mind is not capable of understanding a
form of consciousness unlike and superior to its own; therefore, all human
efforts to imagine the characteristics of a final, ultimate, and supreme God
were a waste of time. They believed that there must be some Ultimate Creative
Source, but they did not pray to it.”


“The kahunas, while supposing there were levels above levels of consciousness
above man, as there are levels below him, paid scant heed to any level other
than the one directly above our own. On this level existed the thing we would
call the superconscious part of mind. They called it by various names, [such as
High Self] one of which, the favorite was Aumakua. This translates, ‘Older,
parental, utterly trustworthy spirit’. As it takes two to be a ‘parent’, the
Aumakua was considered to be a spirit composed of a male and female pair.”


[The Aumakua or Higher Self level of the soul does not have gender. It does,
however, have both positive and negative energies. In a lifetime in which the
soul is embodied as a female the Higher Self will associate itself (or the
benefit of the lower self) with ‘she’. In a different lifetime in which the
soul is embodied as a male, the Higher Self will associate itself with ‘he’.]


“All prayers and rites were addressed to this dual spirit [High Self / Aumakua ]
but because it was considered as much a part of ourselves as the conscious or
subconscious is to the modern way of thinking, the Parental Spirit was worshiped
not al all –it was LOVED. No sacrifices were made to it. No bribes offered.
It laid no commands on the lower selves [low self, called unihipili and middle
self, called uhane]. The relation was one of mutual love and trust – the
[ideal] parent and child relation.” [Sacrifices and bribes were made, but not
to the Higher Self.]


“Very logically [and correctly], the kahunas taught that if any prayers to still
Higher Beings [such as Higher Spirit, Light, God] were necessary, the Parental
Spirit [High Self] would know when they were needed and how to make them, doing
for us such things as we are unable to do for ourselves because we have minds of
a lower level of ability.” [Not lower ability, but certainly more limited in
knowledge, awareness, understanding. Almost a moot point because Light writes
mind exists only in Creation, not with God, Light, or Higher Spirit. To know
more, read Light’s Book, Odyssey of the Soul, Light: The Act of Creation,
publication very near.]


“Because of this common sense attitude the kahunas remained simple and free from
man-made dogmas to a surprising degree. They were direct and to the point.
They could afford to be, for they possessed a system that actually WORKED. A
workable system leaves little room for vagueness and dogmatic speculation.”


“This practical system by which magic was performed left no unfilled needs of a
philosophical nature for the kahunas. They had, therefore, no saviors, no
salvation, no heaven or hell, and no revealed religion with books in which were
written, ‘Thus said God . . . “


“Dr. Brigham [the curator of the Bishop Museum who first inspired Dr. Long to
study and find the ‘mystery’ of the kahuna and their huna lore], it will be
recalled, had analyzed the basic nature of magic before understanding it. He
had told me to watch for (1) a form of consciousness which used (2) some form of
force, and (3) manipulated that force through some invisible kind of physical
matter.”


[Dr. Long – we only recently discovered he was a Ph.D.- found in his studies of
Huna that the High Self / Aumakua is the (1) consciousness that uses (2) mana,
the vital force that is electrical in its nature and shows strong magnetic
qualities, manipulating it through (3) the invisible kind of physical matter the
kahunas called aka, or ‘shadowy body stuff’.


Note: Outside of Huna the term for mana is astral energy and the term for aka
(‘shadowy body stuff’) is astral matter or astral body or astral form.]


Dr. Long continues: “As we already know there is such a thing as vital force,
let me begin my presentation of Huna (the “Secret”) by pointing out some of the
things already known about the uses and nature of this force, and then go on to
things better known and explained by the kahunas. It will be seen that the
kahuna explanations also cover much that has been unexplained in the field of
Psychical Research.”


“The three elements, consciousness, force, and invisible matter, give us three
measuring sticks with which to measure all magic. Notice how they apply more
and more to magic as we come to see it unfold.”


“In order to present a detailed and clear picture of the materials under
discussion, I will cite some well known types of psychic phenomena, beginning
with table tipping.”


“When we place our hands on a table and tip it . . . we are face to face with
one or the other of two forms of consciousness. The first form is the ordinary
‘ghost’. It if makes noises and bangs things around in a senseless or childish
way, it is what the Germans called a poltergeist or ‘noisy ghost’. But if the
moving is done by a reasoning and adult ghost, it is normal psychic phenomena.”


“The second form of consciousness is that of a superconscious type of being.
Its work is characterized by the changing of an object into an invisible form
before moving it – perhaps moving it many miles. This type of movement will be
discussed later on. At present we are dealing mainly with the FORCE used to
cause the movement.”


“Modern [early to middle 20th century] explanations of table tipping and the
movement of objects by unseen agencies have not improved on the classical one
that the spirits of the deceased, or similar disembodied spirits, are
responsible for all the phenomena.”


“The kahunas heartily agree that spirits are responsible, but give added
information as to the nature and classification of such spirits.”


It will be interesting to discover as we read more of Dr. Long’s knowledge of
Huna whether Kahuna then or (or Kahuna now) realize the living also can produce
such phenomena through their own ‘mana’ and ‘aka’.


To Be Continued Next Week.
With Light, Pamela and Dr. Hugh
© Foundation For Research & Exploration of Mind Motivation.
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