The religion otherwise known as Alcoholics Anonymous....

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" Few, if any, men or women have completely fulfilled the aims of

Alcholics Anonymous without some sense of the spiritual or to use

another term in its broadest term, religion. Ture, there have been

some who have managed to keep sober simply by mechanical action. But

a preponderance of evidence points out that until one has some

spiritual conviction, and the more the better, he takes no joy in

sobreity. Too often we hear an AA remark, " I think this is a

wonderful program, but I can't understand the spiritual angle. " To

them the religion otherwise known as Alcoholics Anonymous is

soemthing complex, abstract, and awesome. They seem to have the

impression, that religion, the spiritual life, is something to be

enjoyed only by saints, clery, and perhaps an ocassional highly

privileged layman. They cannot conceive that it can be for the

reformed sinner as well. And yet the truth is, the spiritual AA is

there for all of us to enjoy. "

" Spiritual Milestones in Alcoholics Anonymous " Akron AA, circa 1940s

You can find this and other early AA pamphlets at

http://members.nbci.com/aastuff/bookhist5.html

There are PDFs available to download, but they appear to have been

scanned as graphics rather than as text. IOW, they are fairly large

and it doesn't appear to be possible to use the text editing features

of Acrobat Reader to cut-and-paste or edit. Hence, there may be small

(hopefully) small errors in my transcription.

I plan to try an OCR program on them one way or another. Also, there

does not appear to be a copyright notice.