Annie Rix Militz (1856–1924) was an American author and spiritual leader. An early organizer of the New Thought Movement, she is best known as the founder of Home of Truth. With her sister Harriet Hale Rix, Annie Rix Militz was a founder of the West Coast Metaphysical Bureau, a group whose aim was to study philosophies and religions.

Biography

Annie Rix Militz was born in

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in March, 1856, the first child of Hale and Alice P. Rix."Annie Rix Militz." Religious Leaders of America, 2nd ed. Gale Group, 1999. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. She was a schoolteacher in San Francisco in her early thirties when she attended a class taught by

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, the New Thought "teacher of teachers". During the meeting Annie found herself healed of both a migraine and deafness in one ear. That same year, 1887, saw Annie, Harriet, and Sadie Gorie found the Christian Science Home, soon renamed the Home of Truth. In 1890, she moved to Chicago to study at Emma Curtis Hopkins' Christian Science Theological Seminary and was ordained, along with Charles and

Myrtle Fillmore Mary Caroline "Myrtle" Page Fillmore (August 6, 1845 – October 6, 1931) was an American who was co-founder of Unity, a church within the New Thought Christian movement, along with her husband Charles Fillmore. Before that she worked as a sc ...

, the following year. At the

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in 1893 in

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, she met the

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teacher Swami Vivekananda, an event that influenced her to turn away from her formerly Christian view of New Thought to become inclusively

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. Her writings emphasize methods of healing and techniques for the development of mental powers. In 1911 she broke with

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to promote her own emerging interfaith New Thought teachings. The 1915

International New Thought Alliance The International New Thought Alliance (INTA) is an umbrella organization for New Thought adherents "dedicated to serving the New Thought Movement’s various branches, organizations and individuals".

(INTA) conference, held in conjunction with the

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—a world's fair that took place in

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—featured New Thought speakers from far and wide. The PPIE organizers were so favorably impressed by the INTA convention that they declared a special "New Thought Day" at the fair and struck a commemorative bronze medal for the occasion, which was presenting to the INTA delegates, led by Annie Rix Militz. Dresser, Horatio, ''History of the New Thought Movement'', 1919 Militz was a past president of the International New Thought Alliance. Militz and her sister are best known today as the founders, in 1905, of The Home of Truth, an independent New Thought denomination which is a member of INTA, located in

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. Annie and Harriet are buried in the Rix family crypt with their parents and siblings at the San Francisco Columbarium.

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Rix is the author of these books: *''Concentration'' (also known as "The Nature of Concentration". (1918) *''Primary Lessons in Christian Living and Healing'' *''Renewal of the Body'' *''The Sermon on the mount, an interpretation (1916)'' *''Spiritual Housekeeping'' *''Prosperity'' *''I am myself'' *''None of these things move me'' *''All things are possible to them that believe'' *''The wonderful wishers of wishing well'' She was the editor of and a contributor to: *''Master Mind Magazine,'' October 1911 to March 1919

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External links

Biography of Annie Rix Militz at The Home of Truth web site

Biography of Annie Rix Militz at the wwwhubs web site
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