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Home of Truth

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Home of Truth
OrientationNew Thought
AssociationsAffiliated New Thought Network, International New Thought Alliance
FounderAnnie Rix Militz, Harriet Hale Rix
Origin1887
San Francisco, California
Official websitethehomeoftruth.org

The Home of Truth is a New Thought denomination founded in San Francisco, California founded by Annie Rix Militz.

History

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In 1887, Annie Rix Milnz attended a class led by Emma Curtis Hopkins in her home city of San Francisco. Applying her New Thought 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.[1] 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.[2] The denomination published Master Mind magazine from 1911 to 1933.[3] Home of Truth had some of the most rapid growth of any New Thought group in its early years, but has experienced significant decline in recent times.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Keller, Rosemary S.; Ruether, Rosemary R.; Cantlon, Marie, eds. (2006). Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Vol. 1. Indiana University Press. pp. 760–761. ISBN 978-0-253-34685-8.
  2. ^ Satter, Beryl (2001). Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920. University of California Press. pp. 103–105. ISBN 978-0-520-22927-3.
  3. ^ Dresser, Horatio W. (1919). A History of the New Thought Movement. T. Y. Crowell Company. p. 232.
  4. ^ Shopf, Kevin (2018). What Makes a Founder?: Determining the Founder of New Thought (Thesis). University of Calgary. p. 91. doi:10.11575/PRISM/32815.
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