Just Dream Big and Believe: When Did it Start
That is what the law of attraction is saying to those who would listen. If you want something bad enough to truly wish for it, then it will come to you. Granted, this concept has gained a massive amount of popularity – not to mention followers – in the years that passed, but have you ever stopped to think about the law of attraction history? These ideas don’t just pop out of nowhere, so where did they come from, exactly? According to reports, law of attraction history dates back to the early 19th century New Thought movement, but a lot of people think that it actually preceded that time and that the 19th century timeline is merely when the belief started gaining international attention and had works published about it.
It has been said that law of attraction history can be traced to a concept that was found originally in Hinduism and that it had a large effect on Hindi Theosophy, as evidenced by passages regarding the law of attraction as an ideal, which can be found in the Hindu Theosophical History Text. However, the law of attraction was actually first mentioned using that exact term in a book that is as far to Hinduism as it can get. This was a book on esoteric mysteries that was written in the year 1877 by a woman named Helena Blavatsky. Several other books talked about this ideal but a lot of them didn’t call it by its name and usually only discussed it as a concept or thought. For example, Chapter 23 Verse 7 of the Jewish Book of Proverbs states that “as man thinketh in his heart, so he is”, which is really a summation of the theory of laws of attraction.
Several books released in the 1900s contributed to the recognition that this concept has attained, in particular William Walker Atkinson’s 1906 manuscript entitled “Through Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World”. In this tome, he talked at length about the theory and how it works. Other notable mentions of the exact term “law of attraction” goes to the Theosophical writers William Quan Judge and Annie Besant in 1915 and 1919, respectively.
However, law of attraction history calls out the recent turn of century, the year 2000 as the era of “The Secret”, which is a euphemism for the law of attraction. The release of the movie and book of the same name called the attention of some really big names to believe in it, which caused the widespread immense popularity such as is known in today’s modern world.
However controversial the theory of the law of attraction is even today, it cannot be denied that the idea has spanned centuries and shows no sign of waning. This means those people who believe in it must be on to something.
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