From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INTELLIGENCE occurs
9 times
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1.
... intelligence?
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
How could there be so much of
precise and
immutable law, and no
intelligence?
2.
... Intelligence, a
Spirit of the Universe underlying ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
As soon as we
admitted the
possible existence of a
Creative Intelligence, a
Spirit of the
Universe
underlying the
totality of things, we
began
to be
possessed of a new
sense of
power and
direction,
provided we
took other
simple steps.
3.
... intelligence and
labor, men will have shaped ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Solely by their
own intelligence and
labor,
men will have
shaped their
own destiny.
4.
... intelligence, backed
by willpower, can rightly control ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
We are
certain that our
intelligence,
backed by
willpower, can
rightly control our
inner lives and
guarantee us
success in the
world we
live in.
5.
... intelligence, for
just that long was a ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
For just so
long as we were
convinced that we could
live
exclusively by our
own
individual strength
and
intelligence, for just that
long was a
working faith in a
Higher Power impossible.
6.
... intelligence, men
of science have been forcing ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
With
great intelligence,
men of
science have been
forcing nature to
disclose her
secrets.
7.
... Intelligence, right
there our perverse streak comes ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
When, however, the
perfectly logical assumption is
suggested that
underneath the
material
world and
life as we see it,
there is an All
Powerful,
Guiding,
Creative Intelligence,
right there our
perverse streak comes to the
surface and we
laboriously set out to
convince ourselves it isn't so.
8.
... Intelligence, Universal
Mind or Spirit of Nature ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I could go for such
conceptions as
Creative Intelligence,
Universal Mind or
Spirit of
Nature but I
resisted the
thought of a
Czar of the
Heavens,
however
loving His
sway
might be.
9.
... intelligence was
the last word, the alpha ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
Instead of
regarding ourselves as
intelligent agents,
spearheads of
God's ever
advancing Creation, we
agnostics and
atheists chose to
believe that our
human intelligence was the
last word, the
alpha and the
omega, the
beginning and
end of all.
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