Master Mind, The.
The Christ Mind.
1911-1925
Los Angeles, CA.
Editor: Annie Rix Militz, Harriet Hale Rix
Publisher: Master Mind Magazine Company.
Succeeded by: The Christ Mind
1/1, October 1911-September 1925.
$1.00 a year, 40 pp.

Annie Rix (1856-1924) and her husband to be, Paul Militz, were ordained in the New Thought Movement by Emma Curtis Hopkins, in a class that also included Charles and Myrtle Fillmore of Unity. She originally taught through her Christian Science Home (later Home of Truth after "Christian Science" was co-opted by Mary Baker Eddy) that she had founded with her sister Harriet Hale Rix (1863-1931) in San Francisco, and then spent years teaching in the Fillmores' Unity classes. Unlike her early teachers, Militz embraced spiritual teachings beyond her Christian background, under the influence of Swami Vivekananda, whom she had met at the World's Parliament of Religions in 1893. In 1911 she separated from unity and started this journal

Militz, as Horatio Dresser noted in his history of New Thought, was among those who strongly denied the reality of matter and the absolute primacy of Mind: "This type of teaching is like Christian Science in that its adherents believe that mind is the only reality. In philosophy they would be called subjective idealists. They deny the reality of matter." The journal reflected these beliefs. It proclaimed that it stood for:

The Supreme Universal Intelligence that heals every disease through knowledge.
Reveals absolute Truth, Omnipresent and Omnipotent.
Interprets and gives the true meaning of all Scriptures.
Uncovers the holy Love nature that establishes the brotherhood of man.
Delivers from sin, sorrow and poverty. Transforms the earth into heaven.
Is the mind of Jesus Christ.
Being the Mind of God.
The only Mind that Is.

Most of the material in the journal was written by Rix or Militz, and consisted largely in series of articles on "The Science of Healing," "The Birth of the Christ Within," "Eden Restored," "Concentration," "Hearing the Inner Voice," and the like, and also the occasional article on "Abraham Lincoln, the Seer," "New Light on the Bible," and "The Egyptian Book of the Dead." It regularly listed the appropriate times around the world for "Soul Communion" ("the Half-Hour of silent blessing observed the 27th of every month all over the world at the same time"), and gave times every day for visualizing a daily idea. During World War I, the times were given for united "Planet Healing." (During the War, the journal also emphasized the virtues of disarmament and non-resistance.) It also promoted a Healing Circle for those who sought its aid ("enclosing an offering") and a Home Ministry for those "who desire to minister spiritual healing and teaching to the world." The journal provided in each issue a New Thought Directory of the names and addresses of like-minded New Thought practitioners and institutions across the country, and extensive book reviews and lists of periodical exchanges.

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