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Max Freedom Long went to Hawaii in 1917 to work as an elementary school teacher.
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Long left Hawaii in 1931, convinced that he would never learn Hawaiian secrets.
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In 1934, he woke with a revelation that the secrets were encoded into the Hawaiian language itself.
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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.
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In 1945 Long founded Huna Research.
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In 1953, he published The Secret Science at Work as a Huna textbook
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in 1965 The Huna Codes in Religions, examining parallels between his invented system and religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity
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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.
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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.
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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