Long claimed that a low, middle, and higher self were recognized by the ancient kahunas. The New Age practice of Huna emphasizes practical living and harmony with three levels of consciousness or selves. In 1953, he published The Secret Science at Work as a Huna textbook, and in 1965 The Huna Codes in Religions, examining parallels between his invented system and religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. There are no accepted Hawaiian sources that refer to the word 'Huna' as a tradition of esoteric learning. He called the religious system he developed from this revelation 'Huna' (the Hawaiian word for secret), and wrote his first book in 1936 to chronicle his beliefs. In 1934, he woke with a revelation that the secrets were encoded into the Hawaiian language itself. He left Hawaii in 1931, convinced that he would never learn these secrets. He became interested in the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient kahunas and modern practitioners of traditional, indigenous Hawaiian religion, but none of the ceremonial people talked to him so he was unable to penetrate to the inner workings of this religion. Max Freedom Long, who was not Hawaiian, went to Hawaii in 1917 to work as an elementary school teacher.
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