Huna - Max Freedom Long - Recovering the Ancient Magic

Discovering / Recovering the Ancient Magic

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AFTER an eighteen-year study of Magic in its various forms—not the spurious magic of the stage, but the genuine magic that works miracles—I come as a layman to report my findings to other laymen.

Fourteen years of my study have been spent largely in Hawaii endeavoring to penetrate beyond the externals of native magic and discover its basic secret. I have been trying to learn the very secret of secrets which is guarded so carefully by those who know it.

Months and years slipped by. I accumulated more and more data concerning the externals of kahuna magic. From that data I constructed theory after theory only to be forced to discard each in turn. I drew on psychology, psychic research, spiritualism, religions of all ages and kinds. I gathered more data, sorting and sorting, trying to match this odd bit with that, trying always to find some clue to the secret of power.

And only when logic has been applied to the familiar can we come to the unfamiliar without some complexed belief promptly blinding us and making it impossible to judge with any degree of accuracy.

It is my hope that those wiser than myself may be able to correct my theories, add what data I have been unable to uncover, and so help forward the full recovery of Magic toward the day when even the humblest of God’s children will be able to share in the bright heritage so long lost.

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Life Secrets According to Matthew and Jesus

New life from old texts.

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I've been doing some work recently to find the most original versions of Jesus' teachings I can. Because the original texts weren't written in Greek, but ancient Syriac Aramaic. Fortunately, the early Church split into two distinct organizations, and the Eastern one didn't modify their texts (much) at all. The Western one "evolved" into our more modern King James Version and so on.

The point was, as in "What Jesus Really Said", to get a tool where these basic statements Jesus actually said were available for study - free from the bulk of the various interpretations and commentary.

So I got one of more basic translations (Etheridge) and pulled the phrases which aligned to the "Q" (the work which was derived from the common phrases in Matthew, Luke, and Mark Gospels). (Today I found this PDF based solely on Eastern Peshitta, so knock yourself out.)

Even though there is more work to do in this area, I thought to give you this nice little tool. It gave me inspirational dreams last night, which is always a great side benefit.

(The first paragraph comes from Judge Thomas Trowards, "Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning", which is found in the "Complete Thomas Troward Collection.")

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The Teaching of Jesus – The Master Keys to Understanding Life

“The teaching of Jesus, whether by word or deed, may, therefore, be summed up as follows. He says in effect to each of us: What you really are in essence is a concentration of the ONE Universal Life-Spirit into conscious Individuality if you live from the recognition of this Truth as your starting-point, it makes you Free. You cannot do this so long as you imagine that you have one center and the Infinite another you can only do it by recognizing that the two centers coincide, and that That which, as being Infinite, is incapable of centralization in Itself, finds center in you. ”

Judge Thomas Troward

1. But I say unto you, that you shall not rise up against evil: but if any one strike thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
2. Love your enemies; bless them who execrate you; do that which is good to him who hates you; and pray for them who lead you with a chain, and persecute you.
3. Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect!
4. All therefore that you will that men shall do unto you, so also do you unto them
5. But why dost thou look at the rod that is in thy brother's eye, while the rafter that is in thine own eye thou dost not consider? Or how sayest thou to thy brother, Permit that I draw forth the rod from thine eye, and, behold, there is a rafter in thine own eye? Hypocrite! draw forth first the rafter from thine own eye, and then thou wilt see to draw forth the rod from thy brother's eye.
6. Leave them: they are blind leaders of the blind; but if a blind man shall lead a blind man, both shall fall into the ditch.
7. Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it is opened.
8. But seek first the kingdom of Aloha and his righteousness, and all these shall be added unto you.
9. Lay not up for yourselves treasures in the earth, a place where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where no moth and no rust corrupt, and where thieves do not dig through and steal. For where your treasure is, there also your hearts are.
10. ENTER in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and spacious the way, that leads to destruction; and they are many who go therein. How small is the gate, and narrow the way, that leads unto salvation; and they are few who find it!
11. No man can serve two lords; for the one he will hate, and the other he will love, or the one he will honor, and the other he will neglect: you cannot serve Aloha and riches.
12. The harvest is great, and the laborers few. Ask, therefore, from the Lord of the harvest, that he would thrust forth laborers into his harvest.
13. And as you go, proclaim and say that the kingdom of heaven hath drawn near.
14. And when you enter into the house, invoke peace for the house; and if the house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but if it be not worthy, your peace upon yourselves shall revert.
15. LO, I send you forth as sheep among wolves...
16. You shall not fear, therefore, from them; for there is nothing covered which shall not be revealed, nor secret which shall not be known.
17. Whosoever will find his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.
18. But he who is great among you, let him be your servitor. For whosoever will exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever will abase himself shall be exalted.
19. If there were in you faith as a grain of mustard, you should say to this mountain, Pass hence, and it would pass away.
20. For unto him who hath shall be given, and it shall be added to him; but he who hath not, that also which he hath shall be taken from him.
21. Jeshu answered him, Thou shalt not kill, neither commit adultery, nor steal, neither shalt thou witness false testimony; and honor thy father and thy mother, and love thy neighbor as thyself.
22. If thou wilt become perfect, go, sell thy possession and give to the poor, and there shall be for thee a treasure in heaven: and come after me.
23. Again I say to you, that it is easier for a camel to enter through the aperture of a needle, than the rich to enter into the kingdom of Aloha.
24. And every man who hath relinquished houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, on account of my name, shall receive a hundred- fold, and shall inherit the life of eternity, Many however are first who shall be last, and the last first.

Free Will and Universe - where inspiration is born and thrives.

Let's tackle this head on - 

• The Universe contains all knowledge, a repository for all data.
  
• Free Will puts order into that data.
  
• This is where genius and inspiration comes from
  

Genius is native and usual. Stupidity has to be worked at.

There is no teacher and student. In that scenario, the teacher is the stupid one. 

There is only teacher AND student. Both share roles. 

Goes back to the Huna: "There are no limits." We are all interconnected. (Which explains the Golden Rule.)

And the best way to learn (that I've found so far) is 

1. Find the data you need
   
2. Tell someone else about it who wants to get that data
   
3. Write it out as a text or tutorial that someone who has never met you could understand.
   

Of course, you can see in this the old phrase, "Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, write textbooks."  Which is a cutative to the original idea - that you learn best when you pass it forward. 

Again, back to the Golden Rule - that you get as good as you give. So in order to recieve good data, you much be constantly teaching others - or passing good data along.

See, the Universe isn't coherent. It does run in established patterns, but by habit is chaotic. At least by our standards. Our Internet is a way of getting all this massive knowledge into use, making it available. 

I've been working with Internet scammers recently and they really don't know these rules and how they work. 

You see, in this Universe, every single person is an "Emperor has no clothes." 

When a company delivers truly shoddy merchandize, complaint boards will start aggregating data from that community. With the current setup on Google, new data always trumps - at least for awhile - old data. Social media then, is a continual flow and so ebbs and rises as tides. If you use social media to market your goods, then you have to constantly keep at it.

The difference between scammers and decent companies on these complaint boards is that good companies run slightly over 50% favorable on these boards. Scams run about 5% favorable (shills) and 95% unfavorable.

But a company can't really get on these complaint boards and boost their own rankings - simply because the more posts you put on a non-complimentary thread - the more this simply pushes that thread up. 

Any scam's real solution is to reform. Quick. 

But the community of complainers won't go away. Because they are a community of complainers. People will join and leave, yes. But the basic reason they are there is to contribute to the complaining community. 

If you want fewer complaints - give good products on a routine basis. And offer them at a value which is less than what they would be able to get that product for anywhere else. 

But figure that complaints are like the fact that heroes have fleas and no beauty queen is perfect. 

The downfall of a scammer is that they routinely rip people off. And so, as they are connected to everyone else, this then haunts them until they shut down. Doesn't matter what PR they have. 

I was working recently with some aggregators to collect up this data and then republish it on a manual basis through several outlets. Turns out this drove them nuts. Because I was able to find the dozen or more salient data already posted on the Net and match this up with the people and their contact data - then post this in a dozen original ways, so taking over top areas of the Google real estate. And of course, I then got attacked by these guys in defense.  And told them simply to give me my refund - which is mostly what I was after.

But you see, they were teaching me as well as I was teaching them.

Today, they'll come to work and fire up their searches to see what I posted over the weekend. I've just told them that their efforts to shut me up with bluster about their trademarks didn't work. And I taught them there how to improve their own stance on trademarks - as well as anyone else out there in how to shut them completely down. Completely.

That book I linked in the title (http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/genius---how-to-be-one-how-to-live-with-it/1716492) "Genius" - actually lays out exactly how to tap into this continuous flow of solutions to any problem you run into in life. 

And the test of it with these Scammers has proved it once again. But it's actually based on some very old writings - which are mostly ignored today. It's just that the Internet has brought them back into play. 

I can say clearly and confidently that Internet scammers are doomed. Like the poor, they will always be with us, as an ever-changing set of personalities. And, like the poor, they only have to change their decisions in order to move into being outrageously profitable and honestly helping the rest of humankind succeed and evolve.

Their choice.

Sure, I'm not going to be blogging about scammers forever. Once they pay me off, I'll be able to move onto other areas which are far more fascinating and rewarding. But this was an action I had to take - because intuition told me to. And I've learned more in a shorter period of time about myself and the way the world works than I could have through any study of books or classroom.

And I must have been teaching as I went (the reason I blog, no doubt) as I continued to get good data coming into me - that I could learn from. 

Those people I've met through this line have affected me as I've affected them. We've taught each other.  Scammers and Saints alike.

I figured I owed it to you to tell you how this scene works and why. 

Good Hunting!

Wisdom and Teaching - two companions on the journey

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Wisdom and Teaching - requisite partners in life's journey

One of these odd wake-from-sleep lessons - Wisdom's payment is teaching. You can learn all you want, but as you do - you must share what you know.

There's the entirety of study and training - regardless of what they hold as valuable in Western schools. Once you learn, you are required to teach what you know. The student and teacher are one and the same - because so often they trade roles.

Only in our western culture does the dogmatic teacher-student relationship become a one-way, top-to-seeming-bottom flow.

Our oldest surviving philosophy/life-system is found in the Polynesian Huna-Kahuna (Secret of Secrets). Here anyone who had mastered his particular set of life-skills was a kahuna. And taught only as another student asked questions. Being judged a kahuna wasn't some official status, it was just a community recognition of the wisdom and skill a person had attained. This didn't mean they knew everything about everything. A kahuna skilled in catching fish would not know the same data as a carpenter-kahuna.

So there was ample opportunity for a person to learn from others while having apparently mastered his own niche.

But I don't think that within any particular niche that there are closed doors to continuing knowledge. Farmers I know who are judged expert in rotational grazing cattle (moving them to a new section of land every few days or daily) say that they are constantly learning new stuff every year. (And the land so grazed is producing grasses no one has ever seen before, interestingly enough.)

Once, for some years, I had a job of internal consultant for a large West Coast corporation. It had set policies on how to consult. I had been trained several times on their consulting methods as they had changed over the years. And had gotten so good at it that it had almost become repetitious. Solutions were too easy. But then I got so good that it looked like I was "cutting corners" because I could tell people within minutes what their problem was and write out a short list of policies for them to study and actions to do. This made my bosses so afraid of reprisal from their seniors that they forbade me to act that way. Seeing that I was trying to operate with understanding in a corporate structure based on fear, I quit. Transferred to another department in that organization that had nothing to do with consulting (graphic design, actually) and set about learning a whole new set of skills. And a few years later, transferred right out of that corporate culture entirely.

Didn't mean I quit learning.

After that, I then boiled down their entire structure and phil0sophy into a short book called "Go Thunk Yourself!" This then became a short series, which actually contains a sort of universal solvent to learning just about anything.

Of course, then I had to learn all about marketing, since no one will sell your books for you.

However, just having these books and knowledge doesn't mean you can sit on it - so blogging is a natural means of expression. Here, people can find what they want to understand through searches and RSS feeds and life-streams and other aggregators.

So it's the old Kahuna-student relationship on Internet steroids.

The expert in one field is the rank amateur in another, a willing student as well as a willing teacher.

That's the future of our lives, our planet, our cultures.

What a great life to have!