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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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In the spring of 1940, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave a dinner for many of his friends to which he invited
A.A. members to tell their stories.
2.
3.
The Tradition section of
this volume portrays in
some detail the experience which finally
produced the Twelve Traditions and so gave A.A. its present form, substance, and unity.
4.
A well-known doctor, chief physician at a nationally prominent hospital specializing
in alcoholic and drug addiction, gave Alcoholics Anonymous
this letter:
5.
But when the broker gave him
Dr. Silkworth's description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster.
6.
On the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator,
and said he was perfectly
willing to do anything necessary.
7.
To 1950, the year of his death, he carried the A.A. message to more than 5,000 alcoholic men and women, and to all these he gave
his medical services without thought of charge.
8.
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression
that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in the
nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals.
9.
10.
He came and got me home and to bed, gave me a few drinks that night, and one bottle of beer the next morning.
11.
12.
After many painful discussions, they
finally gave me my credits and I migrated to another of the leading universities of the country and entered as a Junior that Fall.
13.
14.
I gave the matter much time and study for the next two and a half years, but I still got tight every night nevertheless.
15.
16.
We gave up our positions and off we roared
on a motorcycle, the sidecar stuffed with tent, blankets, a change of clothes, and three huge volumes of a financial reference service.
17.
So the hand of Providence
early gave us a sign that any alcoholic is a member of our
Society when he says so.
18.
Under these conditions we
can employ our mental faculties with assurance,
for after all God gave us brains to use.
19.
20.
If the Creator gave us our lives in the first place, then He must know in every detail where we have since gone
wrong.
21.
The physician who, at our request, gave us this letter, has been kind enough to enlarge upon his views in another statement which follows.
22.
Most of us must admit that we
have loved but a few; that we
have been quite indifferent to the many so
long as none of them gave us trouble; and as for the remainder -- well, we have really disliked or hated them.
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