From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... tested experience
with Step Four.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
2.
... tested principles
would guarantee survival.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
We saw that the group, exactly like the individual, must eventually conform to whatever tested principles would guarantee survival.
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