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Thought Vibration: The Law Of Attraction In The Thought World-by William W. Atkinson
The Law of Attraction in the Thought World
WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON
(1862-1932)
Prolific New Thought Writer
William Walker Atkinson was a very important and influential figure in the early days of the New Thought Movement. Little is known about his early years, except that he was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 5, 1862, to William and Emma Atkinson, both of whom were born in Maryland also.
He married Margaret Foster Black of Beverley, New Jersey on October 1889 and they had two children. He pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bars of Pennsylvania. Whilst he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880's he found it with New Thought. From mental and physical wreck and financial ruin, he wrought through its principles, perfect health, mental vigor and material prosperity.
Some time after his healing, Atkinson began to write some articles on the Truths which he had discovered which was then known as Mental Science, and in 1889 an article by him entitled "A Mental Science Catechism," appeared inCharles Fillmore's new periodical, Modern Thought.
By the early 1890's Chicago had become a major centre for New Thought, mainly through the work of Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Atkinson decided to move there and he became an active promoter of the movement as an editor and author. In 1900 he worked as an associate editor of Suggestion, a New Thought journal, and wrote his first book, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, being a series of lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, thought-force, concentration, will-power & practical Mental Science.
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.
When we think we send out vibrations of a fine ethereal substance, which are as real as the vibrations
manifesting light, heat, electricity, magnetism. That these vibrations are not evident to our five senses is no
proof that they do not exist. A powerful magnet will send out vibrations and exert a force sufficient to attract to
itself a piece of steel weighing a hundred pounds, but we can neither see, taste, smell, hear nor feel the mighty
force. These thought vibrations, likewise, cannot be seen, tasted, smelled, heard nor felt in the ordinary way;
although it is true there are on record cases of persons peculiarly sensitive to psychic impressions who have
perceived powerful thought-waves, and very many of us can testify that we have distinctly felt the thought
vibrations of others, both whilst in the presence of the sender and at a distance. Telepathy and its kindred
