The Home of Truth is a
New Thought denomination founded in
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
founded by
Annie Rix Militz.
History
In 1887, Annie Rix Milnz attended a class led by
Emma Curtis Hopkins
Emma Curtis Hopkins (September 2, 1849 – April 8, 1925 age 75) was an American spiritual teacher and leader. She was involved in organizing the New Thought movement and was a primary theologian, teacher, writer, feminist, mystic, and healer, ...
in her home city of San Francisco. Applying her
metaphysical
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...
teachings, Rix claimed to have cured her own chronic headaches and deafness in one ear. Soon after she founded a New Thought bureau with classes, a bookstore, and more. Rix soon married and started traveling the country; the San Francisco center was operated by her sister, Harriet Hale Rix.
In the 1890s the bureau was renamed the "Home of Truth", and by 1903 there were eight Homes of Truth in the United States. The Homes of Truth attracted an almost exclusively female following.
The denomination published ''
Master Mind'' magazine from 1911 to 1933.
[Dresser, H.W. (1919) ''A history of the new thought movement.'' T. Y. Crowell Company, 1919. p 232.]
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New Thought denominations
Panentheism
Religious organizations established in 1887
Religious organizations based in the United States
1887 establishments in California
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