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{Introduction}

THOUGHTS HAVE WINGS

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

William James (author,The Varieties of Religious Experience)

I hold it true that thoughts are things;
Theyre endowed with bodies and breath and wings;
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results, or ill.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earths remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future thought by thought,
For good or ill, yet know it not.
Yet, so the universe was wrought.
Thought is another name for fate;
Choose, then, thy destiny and wait,
For love brings love and hate brings hate.

Henry Van Dyke (chaired the committee that wrote the first Presbyterian printed liturgy,The Book of Common Worship)

IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE in the summer of 2007 to watch television, browse the internet, listen to the radio, read newspapers or magazines, or go to bookshops without being deluged with a phenomenon paradoxically known as The Secret.

A publishing sensation in its hardcover, CD, audio and DVD entities; on the top of New York Times bestseller lists, featured on the Amazon.com home page, stacked on the front tables at Barnes & Noble and Borders. Millions of hits on youtube.com, videogoogle. com, news sites, blogs, and a sweeps week cavalcade on Oprah, Larry King, and Regis and Kelly. On everyones lips at the water cooler and yoga class.

The smog of commercial success that hangs over The Secret makes it easy to overlook its essential pitch: that the greatest people in history achieved their financial, intellectual and political success due to their knowledge and use of forbidden ancient teachings, despite the attempts of church and state to withhold and destroy these ideas.

Author Rhonda Byrne tells us that she originally discovered The Secrets secret in the obscure century-old book: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles. The practical directives of Mr. Wattles occult belief system inspired Ms. Byrne to embark on a quick and voracious consumption of other secret texts. These included the ancient Hermetic Emerald Tablet and later writings from New Thought, a nineteenth-century philosophical movement that says the physical world can be affected and changed through ideas and thoughts, particularly in regard to wealth and health, as expressed by the Law of Attraction.

For more than a century, Hermetic ideas have been filtered down for the American public as New Thought, Prosperity Consciousness, New Ageand most recently as The Secret. The Secret has re-introduced Hermeticism into mainstream consciousness on a large scale, but this publication merely scratches the surface of a tradition and knowledge that requires no small amount of discipline, experience and rigor to comprehend its truths. Scholars and alchemists have spent lifetimes attempting to understand the meaning of the Emerald Tablet alone, which is quoted and lionized at the beginning of The Secret.

Hermetic wisdom has infused every major religion and countless schools of thought for over two millennia. The Hermetic tradition comes to us in various guisesPlatonism, Pythagorean philosophy, Sufism and Gnosticism, even in certain Christian principles.

This information has been kept secret for hundreds of years through brotherhoods, not only to retain a fraternal groups sense of exclusivity, but also to guard the information from competing religious and political power structures, and to protect the ignorant from the power of its implications. If you believe that knowledge must be restricted by the directives of church and state, then the idea of the masses becoming aware of these teachings could clearly cause trouble for those in charge; certainly the misuse of some of these teachings could backlash on the user poorly.

Fragments of a Great Secret, says The Secrets flap copy, have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together....

What actually comes together in The Secret is just one fragment of Hermetic thought which has been otherwise available throughout the centuries in hundreds of books. But The Secret artfully simplifies this fragment of Hermetic Law into the kind of language that can be easily digested by modern minds, minds that are constantly distracted by the aggressive multimedia bazaar.

Singing its praises, a yoga teacher says, I know at least three people where The Secret has changed their lives. A friend said his life became immediately much better when he realized that when he complained his life became worse. And when he was grateful for what he had, his mental state and his health improved right away.

As a motivational work encouraging readers to reprogram themselves with a more positive frame of mind, The Secret is a spectacular success. But in keeping its thesis simple and positivistic, with an emphasis on material gain and instant gratification, The Secret has also neglected to include adequate instruction to guard against potential missteps and disappointments.

Within its pages, The Secret intimates, but does not say overtly, that its principles are drawn from the American New Thought movement that developed in the late nineteenth century as both a pantheistic and mystical Christian response to a fast-expanding capitalist environment that saw prosperity as a primary goal. Through positive thinking, affirmations, meditation and prayer, the New Thought movement taught spiritually-inclined materialists how to find health, wealth and happiness through mystical principles. The Secret is the New Thoughts twenty-first century corollary.

An early twentieth century text, The Kybalion, attributed to the Three Initiates, incorporates Hermetic Laws and New Thought movement ideas in a fusion to form the idea of mental transmutation. This mysterious work is thought to have been written by Paul Foster Case (a member of the occult group The Golden Dawn and founder of Builders of the Adytum Mystery School), Michael Whitty and the New Thought movement leader William Walker Atkinson, who is quoted in and given praise by The Secret, particularly in respect to his more than a dozen books explaining his use of the Law of Attraction.

The two-dozen talking head teachers seen in The Secret DVD repeatedly tell the story of their reluctant belief in the Law of Attraction as an immutable spiritual truism, that the Universe is an inexhaustible cornucopia of riches, and that all one needs to do to access them is to believe, be grateful and open to receive. Says teacher Joe Vitale,

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