The Secret or Law of Attraction and The Bible

The literature and publicity material that abounds about The Secret or Law of Attraction suggests different sources from where it originated. Some say the author and philosopher Wallace D. Wattles was the man who came up with it first. 

His book The Science of Getting Rich, first published in 1910, has “The original guide to manifesting wealth through the Law of Attraction,” plainly displayed on its back cover. Of course getting rich is something that most people want to do and so the book sells well.

The original film of The Secret also showed lots of images of how wealthy people live. It gave you the idea that if you knew the Law of Attraction you too could live in a mansion with your own swimming pool, buy a very expensive car or jewellery, live like the celebrities do.

However, bearing in mind that The Bible’s Old Testament views divination, wizards, fortunetelling, familiar spirits and the occult in general very badly, it is perhaps surprising to learn that Jesus himself used the Law of Attraction and recommended it to his followers.

 The Law of Attraction gets the sort of results occult practitioners desire, and is magic in action and principle. You would think the Son of God would condemn this perhaps, but not so!

In Matthew 21:21 it says: “Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.”

He was talking about how he had caused a fig tree to wither away and die because he was displeased with it finding that it had no fruit but only leaves. Leaving aside the rather negative picture of Christ killing a tree, it suggests strongly that he was using magic or mind over matter powers.

What he desired happening then took place because he willed it.  He is saying in the example he gives that much greater things can be done by faith alone, and that it is possible to even cast a mountain into the sea if your will and belief is strong enough.

We all have heard that “in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God,”  and so we can assume from this that the true origin  of the Law of Attraction was God and that using it gets the divine stamp of approval!

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