[1] Having been successful from childhood in applying subjective laws to objective expressions, her desire to deal more with the cause than with the effect impelled her to follow her inclinations and devote her life to metaphysical work.

Beginning with a small class in Huntington Chambers, Boston, in 1904, she took larger quarters in Richards Hall a few months later.

[1] By the time Seton had returned to New York, the Sunday morning services of the New Thought Church in that city had moved to the Forty-eighth Street Theater and were attended by hundreds of people.

Self-healing and the higher physical, intellectual and spiritual unfoldment were taught, including such subjects as the following: "Science of Life," "Science of Success, "Laws of Self-Healing," "The Conquest of Poverty," "The Truth on Life and Death," "New Mysticism,' "Concentration," "Silence," "Public Speaking," Fundamentals of New Thought Church and School," "The Race Problem-Money" and "The New Civilization."

The property of the Oscawana Association included 140 acres (57 ha) of woodland with walks, drives, trees, flowers, birds and running brooks.

[1] Seton lectured at the League for the Larger Life in Washington, D.C., in 1923 after having completed a trip around the world covering a period of two years in which she visited every continent.

Her magazine articles appeared in Nautilus, Reality, Success, Aquarian Age, Rally (London), Liberty (Australia), and Woman's Way (New Zealand).

[2][3] She was twice married: (1) December 7, 1882, to Samuel Stephen Kapp (1859–1939), of Cleveland, Ohio; (2), November 16, 1903, in Denver, Colorado, to Franklin Warren Sears, pastor of New-Thought Church, New York City.