Dissimilar Metals: Napoleon Hill's Law of Attraction Backstory and Assumption

Take with a grain of salt the ramshackle evidence against Napoleon Hill. Perhaps his early pursuits were scams and swindles, but over those years (decades) he did develop a clear understanding of what it takes to succeed at business: fraud. Almost certainly his Law of Success was his own invention, strongly influenced by New Thought/Law of Attraction philosophy.

I have new respect for this artful dodger. Through his scrambling to make money for himself and to stay out of jail, he worked out what he was doing and put together a course for others to learn from: to think and grow rich. No crime in that, unless you get caught applying it.
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Ripped off of Wikipedia's Napoleon Hill page:

"A 'secret' of achievement was discussed in Think and Grow Rich, but Hill insisted readers would benefit most if they discovered it for themselves. Although he did not explicitly identify this secret in the book, he offered, 20 pages into the book: 'If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it... You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities unless you work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it.' In the introduction Hill states of the 'secret' that Andrew Carnegie 'carelessly tossed it into my mind', and that it also inspired Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippine Islands to 'gain freedom for his people, and went on to lead them as its first president.' Although he mentions a 'burning desire for money' repeatedly throughout the book, he also suggests it is not in fact his 'secret' at all. By contrast, at the end of his first book, The Law of Success, nine years earlier, he identifies his secret as The Golden Rule: Only by working harmoniously in co-operation with other individuals or groups of individuals and thus creating value and benefit for them will one create sustainable achievement for oneself.
He presented the notion of a 'Definite Major Purpose' as a challenge to his readers to ask themselves, 'In what do I truly believe?' According to Hill, '98%' of people had few or no strong beliefs, which made success unlikely."
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I do not doubt that Hill in his role as a magazine writer met some of the rich people he said he did. I am pretty sure his commission from Carnegie and much else is malarkey. But that is business, you see. THAT is how you think and grow rich -- you "Trudeau."

The Law of Assumption is a horse of a different color -- a different mettle, a different metal. Assumption is the practice of the Divine, and is Divine. Our understanding of assumption grows from theological illumination and spiritual revelation. While the Law of Attraction is earthly -- slick, but earthly; the Law of Assumption is God availed through the inner man, imagination, the power of the Ineffable's Consciousness. It is Divinity in form.