Harmony.

“About one-half the people in the world spend their time seeking happiness and the other half waste a lot of energy in bewailing their fate because they are not happy. It is the rare and unusual thing for a soul to realize that happiness is not a force but a result of the harmonious action of many forces, and therefore is the inevitable effect of their own thought and actions which have put into operation these forces. Happiness has very little relation to the outside conditions as it relates from causes produced by inner and finer thought effects which act directly upon the emotional centers.” – Grace M. Brown

 Grace Mann Brown ( 1859 – 1925 ) was an American writer and spiritual leader. Her work was related to the New Thought Movement, Divine Science and Christian Science. Much of her work focused on spirituality, metaphysics, mysticism, esoteric and occult sciences.

The thought-way of love is sweet and true.

Thereon w shall breathe only harmony and we shall sing the song of life in all its fullness and in all its goodness.

Thereon we shall speak only kindly and we shall perceive the beauty and attract the opulence of the world.

Thereon we shall act only courteously and we shall know the joy of being alive.

Harmony is the accurate balancing of the constructive life force.

To think with Harmony is the sure method of attracting to our part of life all the good of the universe.

To abide on Love’s thought-way is the sure method of thinking with harmony.

And to abide on Love’s thought-way we shall think lovingly of all life’s manifestation.

Verily the great necessity of clean thinking is upon us.

Thinking which will dissolve the accumulated trash of pain and poverty and woe.

Thinking which will bring the earth home into shining newness.

Thinking which will manifest the new earth and the new heaven.

Yes, we will hearken to the call of the new time, we will make, ourselves more worthy of this dwelling-place of the most high, which is just as high as we are capable of being and which is always heightening to meet our strengthening.

When we do the best we know and give the best we have, we are giving our finer and sweeter part to the world and of course we cannot escape the return current from out the world; what does it matter whether or not we know where w are sending it or from whence it comes, the necessity creates the demand and the demand attracts its requirements, and when we serve the law through and by the thought-way of love w serve in sweetness and fineness and freeness.

H who desires to serve the law, always finds love’s thought-way.

He who is pure in his heart thought always sees the divine vision.

He who is chaste in his love always abides with his heart’s treasure.

Because the law is supremely just and justice is the foundation of harmony.

Mental harmony : its influence on life (1916)

Grace Mann Brown was active in the New Thought Movement, writing and lecturing extensively. She also wrote some of her works under the pen name Ione. She was instrumental in creating The Order of the Essenes and was its President. In 1906, Brown was Vice President of the World New Thought Federation.

Brown would succeed Fannie B. James as Editor of Fulfillment Magazine. Also, from 1920 to 1921, Brown was Bookkeeper for the American Unitarian Association. She would go on to found the Modern Society of the Essenes: Essene Circle.

Books

• Studies in Spiritual Harmony (as Ione; Reed Publishing Company, 1901–1903, 134 pages)
• Food Studies (as Ione; Denver, The Reed publishing company, 1902–1904 101 pages)
• Seven Steps in the life of S. A. Weltmer (Weltmer Institute, Nevada, Mo. Cloth 1906)
• Life Lessons: A Series of Practical Lessons of Life, from Life, and about Life (Hudson Press, 1906, 207 pages)
• Soul Songs by Ione (Grace M. Brown, 1907)
• The Word made Flesh, A Study in Healing. (Grace M. Brown, 1908)
• To-day; the Present Moment is God's Own Time (Grace M. Brown, 1910–1911, 200 pages)
• The Inner Breath; 'Vivenda Causa', a revelation of old world wisdom in new world form. (Memphis, Tenn., The Business philosopher (c. 1922) 4 p.1., 7–182 p.20 cm)
• Dollars and Health: concerning the psychology of the spleen and other things... (Written and published by Grace M. Brown, Denver [1915?). 20 pages
• Think Right for Health and Success (Edward J. Clode, 1916, 184 pages)
• Mental Harmony (Edward J. Clode, 1916, 195 pages)

Articles in journals and magazines

• The Essene – monthly magazine published by Brown, 1900–1917
• Fulfillment – monthly metaphysical magazine 1904–1907, later became the Weltmer Magazine
• "Practical Metaphysics" in The Herald of the Golden Age Vol. 10, No. 4 Oct 1905 p.69
• "The Greatest Thing" in Master Mind Magazine Vol. 3 of 15 Oct 1912 to March 1913 p. 153
• Washington News Letter several appearances.
• Now magazine, several appearances.
• The Modern World volume 9, page 128
• Mind Magazine volume 8, number 3, June 1901, p. 149
• The Balance from The Balance Publishing Co. Denver, Colo. A magazine of learning, of a standard 64p. monthly.

Lectures

Brown spoke at the Fifth Annual Convention of the New Thought Federation. The convention was held in Nevada, Missouri, on September 26–29, 1905. She also gave a lecture entitled "Treasures" at the Unity Building Dedication Convention on Sunday August 19, 1906.

Professor Weltmer has a fine sense of discrimination and his deductions vary in their analysis as well as in their construction. His ideas on thought, as presented herein in his own language, are refreshingly different.

“Thought is a product of the infinite mind.

Thought is not a product of the human brain.

Thought is the result of the action of the divine mind, and is expressed in everything which that mind has created.

Our thought culturists say that thought is the result of brain activity, but we take the extreme view that thought does not require the human brain for its existence. The mind uses the brain as an instrument of expression, that it may direct the bodily movements and functions. When the brain is injured or disturbed , it does not suppress the thought, but it does not act as a medium for thought.

The brain is without memory, because memory is a faculty of the mind. If the memory was dependent upon the brain, and men should happen to leave their bodies upon this earth when they enter another realm, they might leave their memories with their bodies, which would be decidedly inconvenient, if they wished to remember their friends who had gone before them.

Nothing has ever been demonstrated which could equal the vibration caused by thought. It is the most powerful dynamo in existence. Man’s entire relation to universal life depends upon his conception of and his correspondence to the universal thought energy.

The happiest moment of my life was when it came to my full realization that the power which responded to my effort to uplift a soul, to inspire a mind, and to vitalize a human body, was not a power, nor was it brought into manifestation because of any virtue which I possess, or because of any virtue which I possess, or because of any personal merit. It was merely the result of my unified action and conscious intention with the law, which manifests the spirit-substance through this marvelously divine thought activity.

Jesus made the statement with full assurance when He said: ‘It is not I that doeth these things but the Father that worketh through me.’

What is this mighty intelligence that, through the formulation and expression of its giant power, brings worlds into being and man-atoms into conscious unity with itself?

Ask the electrician whence comes the power which furnishes the electric light and which propels the car. He will tell you that it comes from the dynamo; but where does it come from the dynamo? Does he have to agree with some law that already exists, which may indeed be a part of the physical expression of God?

He will tell you that his process is to make a dynamo that has wheels to revolve at a certain velocity, which is rapid enough and accurate enough to correspond with the electric energy as it exists in diffusion, they vibrate in unison, and the power is under the control of the force which harmoizes with and utilizes and transmits it at the direction of his will.

And so with this glorious universal thought energy. The human dynamo, th mighty man magnet, attracts according to his vibration this thought force and harmonize with and utilize and transmits it as he wills.”

Seven Steps in the Life of Prof. S.A. Weltmer (1906) by Grace Mann Brown