The document traces the history of the law of attraction from ancient civilizations through modern times. It discusses references to concepts like the power of thought from Egyptian texts, Buddhist teachings, and the New Thought movement in the early 20th century which popularized works discussing the connection between thoughts, feelings, and manifesting reality. Key figures who wrote about these ideas that eventually became known as the law of attraction are cited.

1. History of the Law of Attraction
It’s not a new fad!
Date

2. Its origins are possibly as old as
recorded history
✤ 2000 BC in the Indus Valley the Tirthankars - led to Jainism and the
thoughts that every soul is a dormant source of infinite energies
✤ Egyptian and pyramid texts from 2400 BC tell us “there are no limits
to where the spirit can go.”
✤ Coptic and Gnostic texts from the Essenes and Nag Hammadi appear
to support many of the ideas behind Law of Attraction
✤ The Gospel of Thomas in particular contains supportive quotes about
it’s what you do on the inside that influences the outside world

3. ✤“All that we are is the result of
what we have thought. The Mind
is everything. What we think we
become.” - Buddha

4. ✤ “Do not dwell in the past, do
not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the
present moment.” Buddha

5. The New Thought Movement 1904
-1910
✦ Thomas Troward (1847 - 1916) - a teacher of Mental Science
✦ William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) - “Thought Vibration or the Law of
Attraction in a Thought World” (1906)
✦ James Allen (1864 - 1912) - “As a Man Thinketh”
✦ Wallace D Wattles (1860-1911) - “The Science of Getting Rich”
✦ Charles F Haanel (1866 - 1943) - “The Master Key System” (1912)
✦ Ernest Holmes - “Basic Ideas of Science of Mind” (1926)
✦ Napoleon Hill (1883 - 1970) - “Think and Grow Rich” (1937)

6. “There is a thinking stuff
from which all things are
made, and which in its
original state permeates,
penetrates, and fills the
interspaces of the
universe.”

7. “The Master Key is here given to the world as a
means of tapping into the great cosmic
intelligence and attracting that which
corresponds to the ambitions and aspirations of
each reader”

8. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it
living someone else's life. Don't be
trapped by dogma - which is living
with the results of other people's
thinking. Don't let the noise of others
opinions drown out your own inner
voice. And most important, have the
courage to follow your heart and
intuition. They somehow already
know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary."
“A lot of companies have chosen to
downsize, and maybe that was the right
thing for them. We chose a different path.
Our belief was that is we kept putting great
products in front of customers, they would
continue to open their wallets”

9. Summary of LOA in history
✤ The concept is not new, and may date back literally thousands of
years
✤ Mankind gradually shifted to being very left brain dominated -
especially with the advent of the Scientific Method approximately 300
years
✤ The focus on it was re-established in the late 19th Century
✤ Much of what was thought and written was later supported by
developments in Quantum Physics/Mechanics
✤ LOA has been relaunched in a monumental way by the movie “The
Secret”