Friday, December 3, 2010

Annie Rix Militz: "The Atonement Understood"

The absolute truth is, that there is but One Being in the universe, and that one is God; that man is nothing of himself, separate from God; that it is a delusion, a false belief, that there is any separation that is real.
The Atonement is the process and the truth and the state of being (the Truth) that heals the sense of separation such as the belief
in the first place, that man is separate from God;
in the second place, that man is separate from his fellow-beings;
and third, that man can be separate from himself.
The Atonement Understood
(An Address Given Before the Boston Class of 1918 by Annie Rix Militz)



Annie Rix Militz (1856 – 1924), Founder of the Home of Truth, was a magnetic speaker, a leader of far vision, a valued counselor in organizational matters in the International New Thought Alliance, and an inspiring teacher. She founded one of the early New Thought groups, Home of Truth, which soon had centers around the world. Annie was also a key figure in the early Unity movement which still uses some of her books.

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", in San Francisco in 1887. During the meeting Annie found herself healed of both a migraine and deafness in one ear. Mrs. Annie Rix had found her life calling. After her third lesson, Annie told her sister Harriet, that she had found her life's work.

On June 1, 1891, a group of leading New Thought students, including Annie Rix, Paul Militz, Charles and Myrtle Fillmore (who later co-founded Unity), were ordained as Christian Science ministers by Hopkins. Shortly after their ordination, Annie Rix married Paul Militz and became Annie Rix Militz.
At the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, she met the Hindu teacher Swami Vivekananda, an event that influenced her to turn away from her formerly Christian view of New Thought to become inclusively interfaith. Her writings emphasize methods of healing and techniques for the development of mental powers.
Mrs. Militz was much in demand as a lecturer and teacher. She taught the monthly class at Unity headquarters in Kansas City in 1900, and travelled widely both at home and abroad.
In the Spring of 1911, Militz had cut her ties with Unity and prepared to fully develop her Home of Truth movement in Los Angeles, and concentrate on her Master Mind magazine which comprised of articles, poetry, lessons and other discussions on theology, study of the bible, prosperity, immortality, soul communion, planet healing, healing circles, the home ministry and other various spiritual topics, her own emerging interfaith New Thought teachings, which she continued to do until her passing on June 22, 1924.

The Home of Truth: http://www.thehomeoftruth.org/


Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902), born Narendranath Dutta was the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission.

He is considered a key figure in the introduction of Hindu philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga in Europe and America and is also credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a world religion during the end of the 19th century.

Vivekananda is considered to be a major force in the revival of Hinduism in modern India.





Ramakrishna
(1836 - 1886), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, was a famous mystic of 19th-century India.
His religious school of thought led to the formation of the Ramakrishna Mission by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda - both were influential figures in the Bengali Renaissance as well as the Hindu renaissance during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Many of his disciples and devotees believe he was an avatar or incarnation of God.
“He is born in vain,
who having attained the human birth,
so difficult to get,
does not attempt to realise God in this very life.” ~Ramakrishna

Annie Rix Militz [teacher of Eleanor Mel].
Eleanor Mel, who led the Boston Home of Truth for more than forty years.
In Albert Lea, Minnesota Miss Eleanor Mel's ministry comes to a close this month. We know that many have been blessed by Miss Mel's teaching and our best wishes follow her in her work. … Miss Mel is to join Mrs. Mary Ellen Brown in Jackson, Michigan, and help spread the “good news” in that city.
MasterMindMagazine April1918 to September1918.After 2 years. That's all I know about Miss Eleanor Mel.

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