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The
12 Traditions
1: Our
common welfare should come first, personal recovery depends
upon A.A. unity.
2: For our group purpose there is but one ultimate
authority-a loving God as He may express Himself in our group
conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants, they do not
govern.
3: The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire
to stop drinking.
4: Each group should be autonomous except in matters
affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
5: Each group has but one primary purpose-to carry its
message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
6: An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend
the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise,
lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from
our primary purpose.
7: Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting,
declining outside contributions.
8: Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever
nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special
workers.
9: A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may
create service boards or committees directly responsible to
those they serve.
10: Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside
issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public
controversy.
11: Our public relations policy is based on attraction
rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal
anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
12: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our
Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before
Personalities.
Reprinted
with permission of The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.
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