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I am listening to The Secret on CD for the first time. It seems like Sigils is the Law of Attraction in its simplest form.

Yes I know what you mean. When The Secret came out I instantly checked out the book from the library. It is a lot like sigils and chaos magick. Except they butter it up and take out all the occult stuff and make it look like just a positive thinking thing. They may of researched Chaos Magick and stole the idea or just pure coincidence.

I found an old book made in the 1970s called Pyschograms which is also what The Secret teaches. A psychogram is this, you say to yourself, "I am confident that the universe will provide me the means to pay my rent this month." Basically, you are telling your subconscious mind to tap into the "infinite universe" to help you get whatever you want.

That's basically what it comes down to.

neither the secret, nore chaos magic came first. they are both, inspired from previous teachings of the new thought, etc, so none is a rip off of the other. more like they are both rip offs.

ans spare s methods simply recycle the agrippa method, and bysantine magical monograms, nothing new

Every kind of magick is a rip-off of one kind or another, each generation building on the last. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes just adding fluff and ceremony. I have no clue if the writers of the secret are familiar with sigils, but the it's certainly plausible. The law of attraction does differ in one point, though: sigils are meant to be used and then forgotten, while with the secret one practically obsesses over one's desire, visualizing it as often as possible.