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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim
Sent: Aug 19, 2020 3:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AAHistoryLovers] What is the origin of "The 'principles' behind the Steps?

Hello.

I am going to try this again. I can't find any historical information as to the genesis of the "principles" commonly studied and used in AA.

My reading of the BB and other literature leads me to think that the Steps and the Traditions ARE THE PRINCIPLES. So who "invented" the various versions of the principles. e.g.?

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The Cleveland site says:?The office was recently contacted by a long-timer who pointed out that the following article provides a list of spiritual?virtues?(not principles) that originated from a plaque which was sold years ago and may originally came from a Grapevine article or other AA newsletter. It is known in the rooms of AA that the spiritual principles are the Twelve Steps. To be thorough, the 36 principles are the?,??and?.

There are many different spiritual virtue lists that refer to the Twelve Steps which have been printed by other AA’s over the years. Although used by many AA members, they are not Conference Approved and the origin of these lists are unknown.

Bill W. considered each step to be a spiritual principle in and of itself.?"

TIA

Jim??