This refers to a section of the Big Book which details the benefits AA members receive from having worked the first nine Steps of the AA program. The Twelve Steps are the basis of the AA program of recovery. The title of a collection of essays in book form published in 1952 by Alcoholics Anonymous as a supplement to the Big Book. It details, as its name implies, the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. Shortcutting AA's program of recovery by two-stepping, eliminates an essential part of recovery.
Any resultant sobriety is therefore shaky at best.
Back to the list. AA's Second Legacy of Service. In the first Step, we admit not only that we are powerless over alcohol, but that our lives have become unmanageable. Only by accepting the unmanageability of our own lives can we open ourselves to change by a Higher Power. Back to the list.