From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
UNIVERSE occurs
9 times
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1.
... universe.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
2.
... Universe.
BB p.75,
Into Action
We
feel we are on the
Broad
Highway,
walking hand in
hand with the
Spirit of the
Universe.
3.
... universe had
a "first cause" of some ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
No
doubt the
universe had a
"
first cause" of some
sort, the
God of the
Atom, maybe,
hot and
cold by
turns.
4.
... universe knows!
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
How he does
cherish the
thought that
man,
risen so
majestically
from a
single cell in the
primordial ooze, is the
spearhead of
evolution
and therefore the only
god that his
universe knows!
5.
... universe needs
no God to explain it.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
6.
... universe originated
in a cipher and aimlessly ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
Few people really are, for that
means blind faith in the
strange proposition
that this
universe originated in a
cipher
and
aimlessly rushes nowhere.
7.
... Universe underlying
the totality of things, we ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
8.
... Universe, we
had to stop doubting the ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
When we saw others
solve their
problems by a
simple reliance upon the
Spirit of
the
Universe, we had to
stop
doubting the
power of
God.
9.
... Universe, who
knew neither time nor limitation.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I
simply had to
believe
in a
Spirit of the
Universe,
who
knew neither
time nor
limitation.
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