The Canon / Pillars / New Thought
Pillars · 1904
Primary Lessons in Christian Living and Healing
New Thought / Home of TruthPrimary Lessons in Christian Living and Healing offers an accessible, devotional metaphysics of healing and the realization of one's divine nature. Its central claim is that conscious unity with God, affirmed in thought and lived in practice, is the source of healing, prosperity, and spiritual life.
The book is instructional in form, systematizing a method of affirmation and denial of error for students to apply. Written in the practical-healing tradition of Emma Curtis Hopkins, it casts metaphysical truth as something to be realized through daily discipline rather than merely contemplated.
Through the Home of Truth centres she founded and the periodical she edited, Militz helped establish New Thought on the American West Coast, and the text reflects the second-generation transmission of Hopkins's teaching that underlies later affirmation practice.
In its words
You are the thought of God, the idea of the divine Mind. You have no existence apart from God.
The thought is always like the thinker, therefore Scripture says Man, who is the thought, is like God, who is the thinker.
Practices it teaches
Militz's Denial-and-Affirmation Treatment — erase the lie, then fill in the Truth
Annie Rix Militz — founder of the Homes of Truth and a leading student of Emma Curtis Hopkins — taught spiritual "treatment" as a two-stroke verbal method: first a word of denial to erase a false belief, then a…
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Annie Rix MilitzPractical healing and Christian metaphysics
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