 Many of the principles that would become standard in the movement, including the Law of Attraction, were clearly laid out in his "Your Forces and How to Use Them", released as a series of essays during 1886–1892.Mulford was born in Sag Harbor, New York in 1834, and in 1856 sailed to California where he would spend the next 16 years.During this time, Mulford spent several years in mining towns, trying to find his fortune in gold, copper, or silver.