Posted by Kahuna Lani on March 03, 1999 at 21:58:18:
KARMA
by
Max Freedom Long
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Karma has come in for intensive study of late in the light of HUNA, this after several letters
from Huna Research Associates concerning the famous Law of Cause and Effect taught so
widely in the religions of India and in modern Theosophical borrowings from that mixed source.
Some day I hope to do a little booklet on the subject to show the evidence that the idea was
borrowed, (as was that of Yoga) from Huna, then distorted, strectched and made preposterous
when the Secret behind the idea was lost.
The Kahunas (using the Hawai`ian dialect of the Sacred Language) spoke of cause as kumu,
and effect as hua. One provided a foundation or rooting for the cause, and the sprouting seed or
egg, was the direct result. The same idea was expressed in early Gnostic and Christian terms of
planting and harvest, "As you sow, so shall you reap.".
The root-parts of kumu tell the hidden secret of the outer or generalized law, KU is the There we have the basic belief of Huna once more. It is when we are cut off from from the It will be seen therefore, that in the original Huna, the karma or kumu hua, was not of endless Bad Kumu Hua sequences, therefore, can continue for a period of many years or for all The breaking up of the bad egg crystalized future comes at once when the individual learns It has been the experience of the Kahunas down the centuries that the breaking down of the Huna says nothing of kumu and hua to indicate that causes set up in one incarnation may Max Freedom Long + + +
foundation or back-basis of a thing or condition. But MU means to fill the mouth with water and
keep the lips closed over it so that it can not escape.
hundreds of words, otherwise would have scant usage.> This ties in with the symbol of filling the
mouth with water and spurting it upward, as in swimming with play. The water is the constant
symbol of mana, and an accumulation of water in the mouth stands for the accumulation of
mana. If it is spurted as in swimming with play. That water is the constant symbol of mana, and
an accumulation of water of water in the mouth stands for the accumulation of man. If it is
spurted into the air, it represents the mana being sent to the Aumakua along the aka cord as a
gift. If the lips are kept closed over the mouthful of water and is not spurted upward, the symbol
is that of the stubborn Unihipili or ignorant man refusing to send mana to the Aumakua, and as a
result, being cut off from its normal help and guidance.
normal help of the Aumakua, we get into trouble. The isolated Aumakua can only take the
plans, hopes and fears of the lower man and use them to build the aka outlines of the future.
These are the seeds from which the harvest eventually must come, be it good or bad, painful or
pleasant---or a mixture of these elements.
duration. It was not something carried over for life after life, to be worn out only after ages of
endurance and trial and growth. It was simply that part of the future which is crystalized at any
time by the Aumakuas as the eggs which must be hatched. Huna recognized no Lords of Karma
sitting just below the ultimate to administer the postulated Law with needle-point fineness and a
justice never even slightly tinged with mercy---the mercy which Christianity taught because it
was closer to huna and was directly founded by Huna initiates.
one's adult life because the individual does not invite his Aumakua to take its part in the
three--self life of the man, and because the mana, like water retained in the mouth, is never sent
to the Aumakua to enable it to do the work of tearing down the bad future which has been
constructed, and to replace it with a new and better one.
of Huna and begins to use it to work correctly with the Aumakua. But the bad future has a way
of materializing in part, and falling like hurtful fragments on our heads, once we have asked the
Aumakua to act for us.
bad crystalized future is usually painful. It is also our Huna research Associates experience.
Instead of our Huna-type prayers being pleasantly answered, things seem to go from bad to
worse. The heavens seem bent upon falling in on us. But, the storm is tempered by the Lamp,
and what might have been a final disaster on the way, becomes only a minor difficulty. One must
endure and one must hold the faith that the Aumakua will see to it that no vast disaster will be
allowed to materialize. When the old future has been torn down, one may say in modified hindu
terms, that the karma has been outlived. Then and only then, can the harvest change so that
things are good. The greater the enthusiasm of the beginner who discovers his Aumakua
and sets out to work excitedly sending prayers and mana to have his future reconstructed, the
greater will be the fall of the parts of the old future on his hapless head. But who shall say
that it is not better to storm the gates of Heaven in this way, with all strength and suddenness
than to make a slow and halfhearted approach. As a sidelight on this matter, it is well to
remember with care that a few days of neglecting the Aumakua and leaving the door closed to it
while we keep our mouths full of water, may result in Hua or hatching o some unwanted birds of
strange feather. One does well to make time to pray in Huna fashion each day whether anything
else is accomplished or not.
bear fruit in the next. There is no way to tell what ills may result from causes of a prenatal sort,
but I would judge that it is a fairly safe for us to ask our Aumakua to tear down any such
hang-over of old crystalized future and to make way for the good new future for which we
prepare by making amends for hurts done others, and by doing good to others in a
selfless and kindly way. Jesus, the most fabulous Kahuna, laid much stress on the value of love
in our lives. When love is given expression in our deeds and understanding tolerance, it seems to
become a magic something to be used by the Aumakua to break up the bad future into bits.
Given a sufficient expression of love, the Aumakua gods grind very fine indeed with their unseen
mills, making the fall painless.