| Today I want to take on the idea that the Law | | | | ourselves is bound to us by ties that are |
| of Attraction has been some big secret | | | | sturdy and strong. |
| throughout the ages and only known by a few | | | | |
| select people. I knew that wasn't so. To | | | | Ye Are GodsAnnalee Skarin1952 |
| prove it I did a simple thing and went to my | | | | |
| own personal library at home. I examined a | | | | Visualize the thing you desire to become, |
| number of my books looking for references to | | | | hold it in your mind continually. Never let |
| the Law of Attraction. I was amazed at what I | | | | doubts and fears come like vile, noxious |
| found. If the Law of Attraction was a secret | | | | weeds to crowd out and kill your crop. |
| it certainly was one of the poorest kept | | | | Cultivate it. Believe it, and you shall |
| secrets I have encountered. | | | | receive it. This is THE LAW-the unchanging, |
| | | | eternal law of God. There are not many |
| What follows are a sampling of the books I | | | | laws-just the one-the law that everything |
| came across in my library that referenced the | | | | shall produce after its kind. The fulfilling |
| Law of Attraction either directly or | | | | of the law is the planting-the |
| indirectly. I put them in chronological order | | | | cultivating-the waiting-and the harvest. It |
| starting with the Holy Bible. Along with the | | | | is the same whether it be grain, stock, or |
| book information I included the actual | | | | thoughts sowed within one's soul. It is the |
| reference from the book. Read them and see | | | | one eternal law. |
| what you think. I think you must come to at | | | | |
| least two conclusions-first that the Law of | | | | TNT The Power Within YouClaude M. Bristol and |
| Attraction is not and has never been a secret | | | | Harold Sherman1954, Prentice-Hall, Inc. |
| and second that there must be something to it | | | | |
| for this many people to write about it. | | | | That's the theory of all life, as old as the |
| Enjoy: | | | | world itself. Like begets like-tap, tap, tap! |
| | | | I'm repeating that statement, and I don't |
| The Holy BibleKing James Version | | | | care how many times you've heard it before. |
| | | | Perhaps if I repeat it often enough-tap, tap, |
| "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he | | | | tap!-you'll never forget it. Like begets |
| also reap." (Gal. 6:7) | | | | like. A laugh brings a laugh, a good deed |
| | | | calls for a good deed, riches beget riches, |
| "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he" | | | | love, love-you go on from there! It works! |
| (Prov. 23:7) | | | | It's contagious! The old law of attraction |
| | | | never fails. |
| "For verily I say unto you, That whosoever | | | | |
| shall say unto this mountain, be thou | | | | A New Design for LivingErnest Holmes and |
| removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and | | | | Willis H. Kinnear1959, Prentice-Hall, Inc. |
| shall not doubt in his heart, but shall | | | | |
| believe that those things which he saith | | | | We are all familiar with such sayings as |
| shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever | | | | "Birds of a feather flock together," "Like |
| he saith." (Mark 11:23) | | | | attracts like," and "As you sow, so shall you |
| | | | reap." There seems to be something that |
| As A Man ThinkethJames AllenPublished 1902 | | | | brings together similar things. The mind of |
| | | | man seeks the Mind of God. There definitely |
| Every man is where he is by the law of his | | | | seems to exist a Law of Attraction. |
| being; the thoughts which he has built into | | | | |
| his character have brought him there, and in | | | | The more a man seeks out the creative Power |
| the arrangement of this life there is no | | | | of the universe the more It seems to be |
| element of chance, but all is the result of a | | | | attracted to him. The more he desires |
| law which cannot err. | | | | congenial friends the more he is surrounded |
| | | | by them. The more he seeks, in thought and |
| The soul attracts that which it secretly | | | | action, health, success, or any other |
| harbours; that which it loves, and also that | | | | experience, the more are such experiences |
| which it fears; it reaches the height of its | | | | attracted into his life. The Law of |
| cherished aspirations; it falls to the level | | | | Attraction, in other words, means that we |
| of its unchastened desires-and circumstances | | | | attract into our experience conditions and |
| are the means by which the soul receives its | | | | situations corresponding to the nature and |
| own. | | | | content of our thought. The action of mind is |
| | | | like a magnet, drawing to itself all things |
| This Mystical Life of OursRalph Waldo | | | | of similar content. |
| Trine1907, George Bell & Son | | | | |
| | | | Think and Grow RichNapoleon Hill1960, |
| If one holds himself in the thought of | | | | Ballantine Books |
| poverty, he will be poor, and the chances are | | | | |
| that he will remain in poverty. If he holds | | | | The human mind is constantly attracting |
| himself, whatever present conditions may be, | | | | vibrations which harmonize with that which |
| continually in the thought of prosperity, he | | | | dominates the mind. Any thought, idea, plan, |
| sets into operation forces that will sooner | | | | or purpose which one holds in one's mind |
| or later bring him into prosperous | | | | attracts a host of its relatives, adds these |
| conditions. The law of attraction works | | | | "relatives" to its own force, and grows until |
| unceasingly throughout the universe, and the | | | | it becomes the dominating, motivating master |
| one great and never changing fact in | | | | of the individual in whose mind it has been |
| connection with it is, as we have found, that | | | | housed. |
| like attracts like. If we are one with this | | | | |
| Infinite Power, this source of all things, | | | | The Dynamic Laws of ProsperityCatherine |
| then in the degree that we live in the | | | | Ponder1962, Prentice-Hall, Inc. |
| realization of this oneness, in that degree | | | | |
| do we actualize in our selves a power that | | | | I agree with Emerson that it is time the law |
| will bring to us an abundance of all things | | | | of compensation was emphasized as life's |
| that it is desirable for us to have. | | | | basic law. I like to think of this basic law |
| | | | of prosperity as radiation and attraction: |
| The Science of Getting RichWallace D. | | | | that what you radiate outward in your |
| Wattles1910, Elizabeth Towne Publishing, New | | | | thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and |
| York | | | | words, you attract into your life and |
| | | | affairs. But you cannot get something for |
| The picture of your desires, held with faith | | | | nothing. |
| and purpose, is taken up by the Formless, and | | | | |
| permeates it to great distances-throughout | | | | The Power of Your Subconscious MindDr. Joseph |
| the universe, for all I know. As this | | | | Murphy1963, Prentice Hall |
| impression spreads, all things are set moving | | | | |
| toward its realization; every living thing, | | | | In the ancient world, Hermes Trismegistus had |
| every inanimate thing, and the things yet | | | | the reputation of being the greatest, most |
| uncreated, are stirred toward bringing into | | | | powerful magus the world had ever known. When |
| being that which you want. All force begins | | | | his tomb was opened, centuries after his |
| to be exerted in that direction; all things | | | | passing, those who were in touch with the |
| begin to move toward you. The minds of | | | | wisdom of the ancients waited with great |
| people, everywhere, are influenced toward | | | | expectancy and a sense of wonder. It was said |
| doing the things necessary to the fulfilling | | | | that the greatest secret of the ages would be |
| of your desires; and they work for you, | | | | found within the tomb. And so it was. The |
| unconsciously. | | | | secret was: |
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| Training for EfficiencyOrison Swett | | | | As within, so without;As above, so below. |
| Marden1913, Thomas Y. Crowell Company | | | | |
| | | | In other words, whatever you impress in your |
| Nature is a great one-price storekeeper who | | | | subconscious mind, that becomes expressed on |
| hands us out what we ask for if we pay the | | | | the screen of space. This same truth was |
| price. Our thoughts are like roots which | | | | proclaimed by Moses, Isaiah, Jesus, Budda, |
| reach out in every direction into the cosmic | | | | Zoroaster, Laotze, and all the illumined |
| ocean of formless energy, and these | | | | seers of the ages. Whatever you feel as true |
| thought-roots set in motion vibrations like | | | | subjectively is expressed as conditions, |
| themselves and attract the affinities of our | | | | experiences, and events. Motion and emotion |
| desires and ambitions. | | | | must balance. As in heaven (your own mind), |
| | | | so on earth (in your body and environment). |
| There is a tremendous creative, producing | | | | This is the great law of life. |
| power in the perpetual focusing of the mind | | | | |
| along the line of the desire, the ambition. | | | | Norvell's Dynamic Mental Laws for Successful |
| It develops a marvelous power to attract, to | | | | LivingAnthony Norvell1965, Parker Publishing |
| create the thing for which we long. | | | | Company, Inc. |
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| The Master Key SystemCharles F. Haanel1916, | | | | Man's mind has the same ability to create and |
| Psychology Publishing, St. Louis and the | | | | to shape the invisible atoms of the universe |
| Master Key Institute, New York | | | | as the Infinite Intelligence which works |
| | | | under the Law of Cause and Effect. Your Mind |
| But we shall find that there is a vast | | | | is a cause, from which issue all the effects |
| difference between simply thinking, and | | | | of your future life. If you wish to project |
| directing our thought consciously, | | | | certain effects in your life-like greater |
| systematically and constructively; when we do | | | | prosperity, more money, a better job, a happy |
| this we place our mind in harmony with | | | | marriage-all you need do is know how to form |
| Universal Mind, we come in tune with the | | | | these creative ideas in your own mind. Then, |
| Infinite, we set in operation the mightiest | | | | through the law of Mental Projection which we |
| force in existence, the creative power of the | | | | shall study in this lesson, you can send |
| Universal Mind. This, as everything else, is | | | | those creative ideas to the invisible |
| governed by natural law, and this law is the | | | | spiritual protoplasm that fills time and |
| "Law of Attraction," which is that Mind is | | | | space, and shape the events and the destiny |
| creative, and will automatically correlate | | | | that you desire. |
| with its object and bring it into | | | | |
| manifestation. | | | | Success! The Glenn Bland MethodGlenn |
| | | | Bland1972, Living Books |
| Within You is the PowerHenry Thomas | | | | |
| HamblinPublished early 1920s | | | | You are the sum total of your own thoughts. |
| | | | If you think in negative terms, you will |
| IT is a metaphysical truth that the outward | | | | achieve negative results, but if you think in |
| life is a reflection of the thought life. Our | | | | positive terms, you will achieve positive |
| life is affected by our habit of thinking and | | | | results. Wise men and philosophers throughout |
| attitude of mind, in two ways: first, all our | | | | the ages have disagreed about many things, |
| actions are unconsciously influenced by our | | | | but they are unanimously in agreement on one |
| thoughts, thus helping to bring into | | | | point: "We become what we think about!" |
| manifestation, or attracting to us, an | | | | |
| environment that corresponds to our thoughts. | | | | The Instant MillionaireMark Fisher1990, New |
| Secondly, we discharge or emit an influence, | | | | World Library |
| silent and invisible, that no doubt affects | | | | |
| other people. They are probably not aware of | | | | Your thoughts are alive. The more specific |
| it, but they are either repelled or attracted | | | | your portrait, the better the chances are for |
| by this silent influence. | | | | it to materialize. Details are very |
| | | | important. In mysterious and unexpected ways |
| Every Good DesireErnest C. Wilson1948, Unity | | | | your thoughts, nourished regularly, bring |
| Classics | | | | about the circumstances that allow them to |
| | | | become reality. |
| Like attracts like. Our habitual | | | | |
| consciousness continually draws to us that | | | | The Book On Mind ManagementDennis R. |
| which is like itself. . . | | | | Deaton1994, MMI Publishing |
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| What we give out comes back to us increased | | | | I repeat what is vital to remember: Life is a |
| and multiplied. This is the spiritual law of | | | | creation. And you create it in your thoughts. |
| prosperity. That which we are and express | | | | What you allow to become dominant in your |
| binds to us as with invisible hoops of steel | | | | mind, not only drives your body, it creates |
| its likeness in the world about us. . . | | | | your world. |
| | | | |
| There is a constant relationship between the | | | | Well, there you have it. The big SECRET is |
| world within us and the world about us. An | | | | out. The Law of Attraction, or whatever name |
| old maxim of Hermes says, "As within, so | | | | it is given, is real and working in your life |
| without; as without, so within." This is the | | | | and mine whether we know it or not. Let's use |
| true basis of enduring demonstration. What we | | | | this great power to make our lives the best |
| attract from the world about us as the | | | | they can be. Thank you. |
| response to what we are radiating from within | | | | |