From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MYSTERIOUS occurs
4 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... mysterious and
remote, something like Einstein's theory ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Maybe this all
sounds mysterious and
remote, something
like
Einstein's
theory
of
relativity or a
proposition in
nuclear
physics.
2.
... mysterious barrier
we could neither surmount nor ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
There was always that
mysterious barrier we could neither
surmount nor
understand.
3.
... mysterious skill
of clergymen, from which we ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be
sure, we
feel it is
something that might
help us to
meet an
occasional emergency, but at
first
many of us are
apt to
regard
it as a somewhat
mysterious skill of
clergymen, from
which we may
hope to get a
secondhand benefit.
4.
... mysterious way
His wonders to perform."
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also
report that out of every
season of
grief or
suffering, when the
hand of
God seemed heavy or even
unjust, new
lessons for
living were
learned, new
resources of
courage were
uncovered, and that finally,
inescapably, the
conviction came that
God does "
move in a
mysterious way His
wonders to
perform."
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