Sunday, October 23, 2011

Law of Attraction - Historical Background

By Glenda Feilen


The the historical past behind the Law of Attraction goes back to the start of the universe - if indeed the universe had a beginning. This alone tends to make a fascinating conversation.

We do know that our world had a beginning. The Big Bang theory is now commonly acknowledged. But did the universe start, or has it been here eternally? If it didn't start, then it'll never end. But we're digressing from the subject.

Natural laws have always been around, so it is safe to say that the Law of Attraction has also always existed. No one can say precisely when it was first 'discovered.' Most likely, some ancient people knew about it. There's a comprehensive agreement that it was known 7 - 8,000 years ago, which would take us back to the Stone Age.

It's interesting to theorize whether such knowledge could by some means have had a bearing on projects like the building of the pyramids, or Stonehenge and other great works.

Exactly how were those enormous stones at Stonehenge moved? The mighty sarsens, each one weighing 50 tons. They had to be dragged for about 25 miles, and it has been been estimated that it would take nearly 500 men to drag one stone, with another hundred to move the huge rollers upon which the stones were placed.
Then they would have to be lifted upright, and the lintel stones positioned on top. Not simply slung up sloppily. They were keyed in with incredible precision. Somehow, I find it hard to believe that this was done by manpower alone. I know it seems far out, but something along the lines of the Law of Attraction, some natural law, may have been well-known to these people and they were able to use it advantageously in their construction.

We don't really know anything about the early manifestations of the Law of Attraction. We do, however, have documents of the opinions 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 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.'

A lot of the great thinkers of that period were strong believers in what came to be 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 relating to 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 great supporter was Wallace Wattles who, in 1910, wrote his renowned piece, 'The Science of Getting Rich.' I can't say for sure how rich Mr. Wattles became from this volume, yet lots of individuals have professed to use the Law of Attraction to bring them wealth. At any rate, the Law of Attraction is an idea that ought to be continously researched in years to come, who knows what power it could possibly unleash for the human race?




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