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Those who are sick, impoverished or bereaved may or may not be a victim of their own negativity. Often, blaming the ill for the illness is very much like blaming the woman for the rape.
Another problem with the Law of Attraction is it may encourage us to lust for things that won’t really serve us. If we attach ourselves to the idea of great wealth, rather than simply having what we need, we may find that the energy of greed conflicts with our spiritual path. That’s right; in some people it seems the Law of Attraction is an excuse for old-fashioned greed, and for attaching to the material, rather than the spiritual.
A third limitation of the Law of Attraction is another piece of Hermetic wisdom – As Above, So Below. If we do the spiritual work to achieve what we want, we also have to do the physical mundane work. If we need a job, we need to work the Law of Attraction, but we also need to work the want ads. If we need to lose weight, visualization will help us. But we also need to back away from the cheesecake. Our actions speak our intentions as well as our thoughts and words.
Many adherents of the Law of Attraction are also habitual diviners. That is, folks who will regularly and anxiously turn to tarot, runes and pendulum , not to seek advice on how to follow their best path, but to confirm that the money, jewelry, relationship etc. they want is actually on its way, as if the Universe functioned like Amazon – just order it and it will come by holy parcel service.
Divination is a wonderful and useful process. But it can’t replace common sense. If we come to divination with a head full of nonsense, a reading full of nonsense is what we may receive.