Sublime

This brings us to the Fifth Step in the program of recovery mentioned in the preceding chapter.

distilled alcohol changed the sacred art of the brewer and the vintner into a profane economic engine for the consumption of human hopes.

My friend had emphasized the absolute necessity of demonstrating these principles in all my affairs. Particularly was it imperative to work with others as he had worked with me. Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and

The next step into mystical states carries us into a realm that public opinion and ethical philosophy have long since branded as pathological, though private practice and certain lyrical strains of poetry seem still to bear witness to its ideality

Almost 100 years ago, Samuel Angus in his amazing work The Mystery Religions and Christianity, presciently portrays the events in Corinth as “violations of the Christian sacrament”, resulting in “ecstatic psychopathic phenomena”. These ideas are astonishingly prophetic and point to deep insight into the actual situation. Did this author know more

In so doing, the book also seeks to shed light on another and related gray area in recovery: the relationship between the moral, the emotional, and the spiritual, and how these are tied to the development of character.