Let me start way back, with The Kybalion: A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece. The Kybalion offers "The Seven Hermetic Principles", understood to be the occult, secret doctrines brought forth by Hermes Trismegistus, the "Scribe of the Gods" from Egypt, many centuries ago. 
I start here, because in some ways these "doctrines" seem representative of the earlier, mystical and esoteric teachings and the Kybalion holds the seed for what would become in our time the "Law of Attraction" work of New Thought and Abraham-Hicks. There is a long, wonderful journey between Hermes and Abraham, and that is part of what we will be looking at on this site...(I am kind of a nerd around this kind of stuff and love pulling together seemingly distant threads and connecting dots across the centuries and oceans...)
VIBRATION
So the "great Third Hermetic Principle--the Principle of Vibration" is a starting point for this journey. I quote here from The Kybalion: "The Hermetic Teachings are that not only is everything in constant movement and vibration, but that the "differences" between the various manifestations of the universal power are due entirely to the varying rate and mode of vibrations...The Teachings are to the effect that Spirit is at one end of the Pole of Vibration, the other Pole being certain extremely gross forms of Matter. Between those two poles are millions upon milllions of different rates and modes of vibration." (Idealists might find fault because giving attibuting so much power to vibration still, they argue, make one a materialist and not an idealist...More about that later......maybe....)
Across many wisdom traditions, variations on this theme are found---that we attract to ourselves that which we emit, or out-vibrate, or focus upon. This idea shows up all over New Thought, and one addition New Thought introduced was the "Prosperity and Abundance" literature, featuring not just Napoleon Hill, Anthony Robbins and the Secret, but early feminist New Thought leades likd Florence Scovel Shinn ("The Law of Prosperity"). New Thought writers cite frequently passages from the Bible that support the idea of Prosperity and one's ability to achieve it by aligning with it.
The language of "Attraction" differes across lineages. Some write about it as vibration, some are less specific, such as Quimby, who never mentioned "attraction" or "energy" or the like, though many argue that he suggested them and anticipated them, but lacked the cultural context for USING such language...
