Rhonda Byrne says that she discovered the Secret after a bad period in her life. She says she found this secret that had been discovered and then covered up. The movie is fast-paced and exciting. There is something very compelling about how the first few minutes of the movie portrays this secret, as if it’s just about to be revealed and then is taken away. If the Secret is based on actual historical fact, we should be able to trace it through the lineage that is offered.
Rhonda also says she traced this secret back to the Emerald tablet. In the movie, a scroll was made from the tablet and passed to a priest. Then a Knight Templar passes a scroll to a priest. Then the scroll is analysed by St. Germain. Later, a drawing of the Azoth (a panacea potion) is shown.
The lineage is a bit different on the website. It starts with Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet. The website then lists a series of historical figures in no particular order. They are W. Clement Stone, Plato, Isaac Newton, Martin Luther King, Carl Jung, Victor Hugo, Henry Ford, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Robert Collier, Winston Churchill, Andrew Carnegie, Joseph Campbell, Buddha, Alexander Graham Bell and Beethoven. So lets follow the trail and see for ourselves what these sources say.
Starting with Hermes Trismegistus>
