Law of Attraction History

By Glenda Feilen


The history of the Law of Attraction extends back to the beginning of the universe - if indeed the universe had a beginning. This in itself makes for an intriguing conversation.

We do know that our world had a beginning. The Big Bang theory is now generally agreed on. But did the universe start, or has it always been here? If it did not start, then it won't end. But we are getting away from the subject.

Natural laws have always existed, so we may safely say that the Law of Attraction has also been around forever. No one is aware of exactly when it was first 'discovered.' Almost certainly, some ancient people knew about it. There's a popular opinion that it was known 7 - 8,000 years ago, which would take us back to the Stone Age.

It is interesting to hypothesize whether such knowledge could somehow have had an impact on projects like the construction of the pyramids, or Stonehenge and other enormous works.

Precisely how were those massive stones at Stonehenge relocated? The mighty sarsens, each one weighing 50 tons. They must have been pulled for about 25 miles, and it has been been estimated that it would take approximately 500 men to drag one stone, with another hundred to move the massive rollers upon which the stones were laid.

Then they needed to be uprighted, and the lintel stones positioned on top. Not simply slung up any old way. They were keyed in with amazing precision. For some reason, I find it tough to believe that this was achieved by manpower alone. I know it sounds wild, but something along the lines of the Law of Attraction, some natural law, may have been known to these people and they were able to use it advantageously in their building.

We don't really know anything about the beginning manifestations of the Law of Attraction. However we do have documents of the views of people from the 19th and 20th. centuries. H.G. Wells wrote in his book, "The Time Machine" that 'Viking people know very well that time is only a kind of space.' In yet another part he wrote, 'There is no difference between time and any of the 3 dimensions of space except that our consciousness moves along it.'

Plenty of the great thinkers of that period were firm believers in what was later referred to as the Law of Attraction. Interestingly, of all the major newspapers, it was the New York Times in 1879 that used the phrase first in connection with the trains of the Colorado Gold Rush.

The electrician, John Ambrose Fleming, advocated the 'energy of attraction,' and pronounced his beliefs in 1902.

The New Thought Movement of 1904 - 1907, of which Thomas Troward was a huge leader, claimed that physical matter arose out of thought.

William Walker Atkinson, in 1906, used the phrase in his book 'Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World.'

Another important proponent was Wallace Wattles who, in 1910, wrote his famous piece, 'The Science of Getting Rich.' I have no idea how rich Mr. Wattles became from this volume, yet lots of individuals have professed to use the Law of Attraction to bring them wealth. In any case, the Law of Attraction is an idea that ought to be continously studied in years to come, who knows what power it could potentially unleash for mankind?




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