The Secret kinda got things right with their focus on love.
If you notice their diagram of feelings, love was at the top of the list. They
did not mention Matthew 22:37 – 40 which Jesus talks about love:
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This
is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is
like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On
these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
The Secret tries to do what Satan tried in the garden and
try to make us think we are God or at least have the power of God. When The
Secret references God they are referencing “the universe” and how some people
call that God, but do not acknowledge a conscious energy that is above all. It
explains God as a force you can manipulate with your mind and nothing more.
Now through the video they quote scripture and reference
that Jesus was teaching “The Secret”. In the “directors comments” feature on
the DVD you get some insight into the “feeling” diagram and they mention that
number 1 is love because it is the most powerful and attractive feeling in the
universe. The do not mention the referenced scripture exactly but imply it.
I believe the reason they imply the scripture and not
actually use it is that loving God comes first and for them to say that would
acknowledge that the “universe” was controlled by something other than energy.
Loving God would imply that you would love the “universe” to get more “universe”.
Honestly, the Law of Attraction works here as well, if we
love God with all our hearts God will be with us. We will attract God and
nothing wrong with that!!
Now was this what the tree of knowledge opened the eyes of
Adam and Eve? Occult and Satanists will say so and that God trapped Adam and
Eve in the garden before their eyes were open and they were released. In their
mind Satan gave them freedom. In reality we know this to be false since
everything Satan may at first seem ok, but ends up turning out awful.
James Ray, one of the people who spoke and helped write The
Secret in 2009 had many people die in one of his “sweat huts” in Sedona, AZ. I
point to this since he was one of the main people in the DVD to make the
connection between energy and God, how a scientist would describe energy the
same way a theologian would describe God. My point here is not to debunk the
secret but to show its roots are not without flaw, unlike God.
Test the secret and you will eventually see it works, but
without acknowledging God and love being the key to everything one drifts and
may be happy for some time, but never find true peace. That is why the rich
will keep attracting more wealth as they love money, but will miss out on the
salvation through Jesus!