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The secret of the secret

“ONE spring day towards the end of 2004, Rhonda Byrne discovered a secret – the secret laws and principles of the universe.” Or so the Australian TV producer herself announces at www.thesecret.tv – which is, as suspicious readers may already have guessed, plugging a book and a DVD. These are inspired, she says, by a 1910 book written by one Wallace D. Wattles entitled The Science of Getting Rich.

The secret is, apparently, that “Money is magnetic energy. You are a magnet attracting to you all things.” A clue as to how this attraction may be…

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