SUMMARY OF THE HUNA PRAYER METHOD
By Max Freedom Long

Before attempting the serious business of making the prayer, it is
assumed that:

(a) One has become well acquainted with his low self, has found
out something of its likes and dislikes, has established a teacher-
pupil relationship with love, understanding and quiet discipline,
and has made the low self understand that it is to take orders from
the middle self.

(b) The low self has been taught to develop its own special talent
for telepathy. It is experienced in sending thought-form clusters
along the aka cords at the direction of the middle self.

(c) The low self has been taught to accumulate a surcharge of
mana. If this has been done by means of exercises and careful
testing, then a command to the low self to accumulate the surcharge
should be enough, when one approaches the prayer time.

THE PRAYER STEPS

PREPARATION BEFORE MAKING THE PRAYER

1. Amends must be made for hurts done others. Or, if this cannot be
done directly, good deeds, gifts to charity and fasting will help
convince the low self (as well as the middle self) that the books
have been balanced, and that one is now deserving of help from the
High Self.

2. One will have decided upon what is to be asked for, making
certain that it is for the good of all concerned, and of hurt to no
one. One will have projected himself into the future and imagined
himself living in the new conditions. He will have made very sure
that the low self is in full agreement that the desired condition is
truly desirable, and worth the work necessary to bring it about. He
also will have considered and accepted any additional responsibility
the granting of the request may entail.

3. The plan will be made for a series of daily prayers on the same
subject, always formulating the prayer in exactly the same way.

The instant or miraculous answer seems to require a very large
amount of mana to enable the High Self to bring about the changes
required on the physical plane. It is the exceptional individual who
will be able to accumulate a sufficient mana surcharge and offer it
with a sufficiently well-made picture of the desired conditions to
get instant or nearly instant answers. Also, it must be remembered
that some problems, especially those which involve the lives of
others, take additional time to work out through a gradual change in
circumstances.

4. Three or four unrelated things should not be presented in the
same prayer action. For instance, suppose one wants perfect health,
new work that is pleasant and useful, friends, and also the healing
of an ill relative.

It is best to present each in a separate prayer, spaced at least
an hour apart, after practicing a vivid visualization of each one in
turn.

5. Visualize the end results which are desired, and do not be too
specific as to how they should be brought about. This leaves the
High Self free to bring about the desired condition in its own way.

It must never be forgotten that the High Self is the "Utterly
Trustworthy Parental Spirit," and that it knows best what is good
for its man. It cannot be forced or commanded to do what would be
the wrong thing, by answering a prayer for something that would
bring the wrong conditions, either for its own man or another. One
does not try to compel the High Self to answer a prayer, nor "storm
the gates of heaven" by following the very modern practice of
affirming with all possible command of will that some set of desired
circumstances is appearing as an actuality, here and now, whether
they are good for all or may be hurtful to some. One asks, as of a
living Father, that the prayer be accepted and acted upon—always
with the proviso that it is something good and fitting and proper to
be brought about.

6. One will have taken time to practice long enough so that a swift
and easy contact can be made with the High Self at any time, even
though a prayer is not made. Such practice is simple. There should
first be an accumulation of a surplus of mana, then a quieting down
and meditating on the nature of the High Self, the fact that it is
veritable, and that it is always waiting, willing and anxious to be
asked to take its full part in the job of living the happy and
successful and helpful life. Its love for its man and one's love for
it will always be the central themes in every meditation, for one
must arouse an emotional response of love in the low self—a response
which can be felt and shared by the conscious self. This love is the
magnetic force which draws the low self to make the contact with the
High Self, and to desire to make its gift to it in the form of a
sending of mana across the aka cord of connection.

Love ever desires to give and to serve, and the ideal gift from
the lower man to the High Self is mana. Such a gift, given freely
and without a prayer attached to the giving, is the ideal offering.
It makes it possible for the High Self to bring about such things on
the physical level of life as one may desire to help to accomplish.
Through the High Self one can, with such gifts, help to bring needed
assistance to others, even to serve on a world scale.

* from The Secret Science at Work

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