Creating Love: A Guide to Finding and Attracting Love

A.J. Pell is rector of Christ Church in Hope, B.C., editor of the
Canadian Evangelical Review, and an instructor of Liturgy, Anglican
Studies Programme at Regent College in Vancouver, B.C.

These two books appeal to two very common human desires: the desire to
experience the love of another person and the desire for material
prosperity. Both books start from the idea of energy—that money is
energy and love is energy. In fact, apart from some of the bland and
simplistic sayings specific to each topic, the volumes follow a very
basic formula, moving from power (Chapter 3) to “manifestation”
(Chapter 4) through candle-burning, angels and saints, to gods and
goddesses (Chapters 5, 6, and 7). We are told that love or prosperity is
in the earth and that there are spells, rituals, kitchen witchery, and
feng shui that work in each of these areas of life. Both books end with
“the cosmic laws” for prosperity or love. The prospective reader
would do well to give both these books a miss, for nothing in life can
be approached by means of such general formulaic patterns, particularly
things as basic and urgent as our need for love and for reasonable
financial stability.