Manifestation and the Law of Attraction

The doctrine predates The Secret (2006) by a century: in 1889-90 Prentice Mulford wrote 'Of whatever you think, you attract its like'. Atkinson named it the Law of Attraction in 1906.

An American teaching, in print by 1890, that a person's thoughts draw matching events to them.

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Prentice Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them, vol. IV, 1890, White Cross Library numbers May 1889 to May 1890Mulford taught in 1889-90 that whatever a person thinks attracts its like from the unseen into the physical.
Of whatever you think, you attract its like
William Walker Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World, 1906, chapter 1Atkinson's 1906 book (New Thought Publishing Co., Chicago) names and teaches the Law of Attraction as thought-vibration.
Like attracts like in the Thought World
Prentice Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them, vol. I (F. J. Needham printing, 1903), 1903, 'The law of success'Mulford's teaching that the mind is 'magnetic', drawing in whatever it dwells on, including fear.
it attracts to itself whatever thought it fixes itself