LAW of attraction - 2

 The debate about Law of Attraction can be found all the way back to 

the 19th century and like all pseudo-spiritual and spiritual 

movements the debate about Law of Attraction did not come from

 

channeled entities. Thomas Troward started the New Thought 

Movement in the 19th century in the United States and had a strong 

influence on the movement. He claimed that the thought process of a 

person precedes all physical form and hence the mind’s action can 

plant the nucleus which if it is allowed to have an undisturbed growth 

will eventually attract all the necessary circumstances for outward 

manifestation.

Between 1900 and 1911 James Allen another English New Thought 

writer wrote a series of articles and books which were continued by 

his wife Lily Allen. In 1902 James Allen published one of his best￾known articles, “As a Man Thinketh”. This formed the basis of the 

New Thought Movement in the early 1900's. William Walker 

Atkinson in 1906 started using the phrase ‘like attracts like’ in one of 

his famous books, Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the 

Thought World. These articles started the basis for the debate about 

Law of Attraction being revived and the revival continued when 

Elizabeth Towne summarized the principal of the Law of Attraction 

by stating that a person is what he or she thinks and not what he or 

she thinks is.

Wallace D. Wattles is one of the early authors of the New Thought 

Movement and also on the Law of Attraction when he wrote that and things can be made from thinking about them. He also wrote that our

thought process is actually a substance which can help in the outer 

manifestation of things, but to do so a person must transcend to the 

creative mind from the competitive mind.

This principle was supported by quantum physics when Neil Bohr 

discovered that energy can be in the form of a particle or a wave. 

Moreover, energy is completely dependent on the expectations of the 

observer. During this time, Napoleon Hill published two of his 

famous books, the Law of Success in 16 Lessons and Think and Grow 

Rich. These two books went on to become some of the bestselling 

books of all times which discussed the importance of controlling a 

person's thought process in order to be successful in life. Napoleon 

Hill suggested that the secret to achieving success is by attracting 

positivity and success into one's life by actually thinking about 

positive happenings and success.

In 1937 Israel Regardie published several books on the concept of 

Law of Attraction as having a biblical basis and one such book, ‘The 

Art of True Healing’ teaches the reader about using the technique of 

focused meditation to help healing of the mind at a spiritual and 

physical level. Regardie suggest that Law of Attraction can be used to 

attract good physical health and is also applicable in the pursuit of 

success in different aspects of life.