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 also 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 California in March, 1856, the first child of Hale and Alice P. Rix.[1]
She was a schoolteacher in San Francisco in her early thirties when she attended a class taught by Emma Curtis Hopkins, the New Thought "teacher of teachers". During the meeting Annie found herself healed of both a migraine and deafness in one ear.[1]
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, the following year.[1]
The 1915 International New Thought Alliance (INTA) conference, held in conjunction with the Panama–Pacific International Exposition—a world's fair that took place in San Francisco—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.[2] 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 Alameda, California. Home of Truth had some of the most rapid growth of any New Thought group in its early years, but has experienced decline after the deaths of its founders.[3] She also established the Master Mind magazine a popular periodical in New Thought circles.[4] Annie and Harriet are buried in the Rix family crypt with their parents and siblings at the San Francisco Columbarium.
Bibliography
Rix is the author of these books:
Concentration (also known as "The Nature of Concentration". (1918)
^ abcMelton, J. Gordon (1999). "Annie Rix Militz". Religious Leaders of America. Gale Group. p. [page needed].
^Dresser, Horatio (1919). History of the New Thought Movement. T. Y. Crowell Company. p. [page needed].
^Shopf, Kevin (2018). What Makes a Founder?: Determining the Founder of New Thought (Thesis). University of Calgary. pp. 61, 91. doi:10.11575/PRISM/32815.
