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Max Freedom Long went to Hawaii
Max Freedom Long went to Hawaii in 1917 to work as an elementary school teacher. -
Long left Hawaii
Long left Hawaii in 1931, convinced that he would never learn Hawaiian secrets. -
Long realized the secrets are in the language and came back
In 1934, he woke with a revelation that the secrets were encoded into the Hawaiian language itself. -
Long wrote the first book
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. -
Huna Research
In 1945 Long founded Huna Research. -
The Secret Science at Work textbook
In 1953, he published The Secret Science at Work as a Huna textbook -
The Huna Codes in Religions book
in 1965 The Huna Codes in Religions, examining parallels between his invented system and religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity -
Long's Death
On his death in 1971, he was succeeded as its head by Dr. E Otha Wingo (in accordance with a request by Long), and moved its headquarters to Missouri, where Wingo was a professor. It has fellowships in Canada, Australia, England, Germany and Switzerland, in addition to the United States. -
Huna International
Huna International was formed as a religious order in 1973 by King. It has three branches: Aloha International, Voices of the Earth and Finding Each Other International. -
Native American Religious Freedoms Act
in a Pacific Island nation influenced by American Missionaries, the people were disallowed from practicing their original teachings until the federal government of the United States passed the Native American Religious Freedoms Act in 1979