THOUGHT VIBRATION

by WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON

Special comment by Pat:  If you think you are reading something from an online website of today, think again.  This is where all the writers of the current websites get their ideas and it all started in the New Thought Movement of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.  William Walker Atkinson was born in 1862 and died in 1932.  He was an attorney as well as a metaphysician and was a pioneer in the New Thought movement in America.  Sometimes we might think that he wrote as Theron Q.  Dumont and at other times as Yogi Ramacharaka.  But as William Walker Atkinson he had no equal.

In this most excellent book he writes:

The Law of Attraction in the Thought World

The  Universe is governed by Law - one great Law. Its manifestations are multiform, but viewed from the Ultimate there is but one Law. We are familiar with some of its manifestations, but are almost totally ignorant of certain others. Still we are learning a little more every day - the veil is being gradually lifted.

We speak learnedly of the Law of Gravitation, but ignore that equally wonderful manifestation, THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IN THE THOUGHT WORLD. We are familiar with that wonderful manifestation of Law which draws and holds together the atoms of which matter is composed - we recognize the power of the law that attracts bodies to the earth, that holds the circling worlds in their places, but we close our eyes to the mighty law that draws to us the things we desire or fear, that makes or mars our lives.

When we come to see that Thought is a force - a manifestation of energy - having a magnet-like power of attraction, we will begin to understand the why and wherefore of many things that have heretofore seemed dark to us. There is no study that will so well repay the student for his time and trouble as the study of the workings of this mighty law of the world of Thought - the Law of Attraction.