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“The modern concept known as the Law of Attraction is a rebranding that draws heavily from older philosophical and spiritual traditions, including Ancient Greek philosophy, Hinduism and Buddhism, Hermetic philosophy, and the 19th-century New Thought movement, and it became mainstream in the 2000s partly through the 2006 book The Secret.”
The claim gets the big picture right: today’s Law of Attraction repackages older spiritual and philosophical ideas, and The Secret helped push it into mainstream culture in the 2000s. The strongest evidence ties it directly to New Thought and Western esoteric/Hermetic traditions. Links to Ancient Greek philosophy and Buddhism are plausible and commonly cited, but they are less firmly documented as direct lineages.
“The Law of Attraction became widely popular in the 2000s partly due to the 2006 book "The Secret."”
Available evidence shows The Secret was a major force in bringing the Law of Attraction into mainstream 2000s culture. Multiple reliable sources describe the 2006 book and related film/media exposure as driving a broad resurgence in public attention. The wording is also cautious: it says "partly due to," not that the book was the only cause.