Law of Attraction : Little Flower Publishing : 9798218061234 : 02 Dec 2022 : The earliest written expression of the idea now known as the law of attraction (LOA) is attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and is found in a text called the Emerald Tablet, which includes the widely quoted phrase, "as above, so below." The LOA can also be traced to Plato's law of affinity, which states, "likes tend toward like." Until the birth of the New Thought movement in the late 1800s, prototypical ideas about the LOA circulated within occult subcultures including alchemy, Hermeticism, Gnosticism, Rosicrucianism, Kabbalism, witchcraft, and many other secret societies and mystery school traditions. Scholars have grouped all of these various ideas under the single label of Western esotericism, and there are three fundamental ways to view these esoteric, mysterious ideas: They are nonsense or foolishness.They are heretical or dangerous.They stem from, or are based on, a single strand of truth referred to as