AG Speaker Meeting Mary. Jun. 2, 2026

Hi, I'm Billy.

I'm an alcoholic.

Hello, Billy.

My sobriety date is June 15th, 2017.

The Atlantic Group...

Oh, yeah, it is my anniversary month.

Thank you.

[audience applauding] Uh, the Atlantic Group is my home group.

Jeffrey H. is my sponsor, and I am working on step nine, doing my best to live in 10 through 12.

And thank you, Jordan, for asking me to speak tonight.

I'm very grateful to be here.

I feel like it's a privilege to speak at any AA meeting, but it's particularly meaningful to be at my home group tonight speaking on the traditions.

So I'm gonna get right to it.

It is custom at The Atlantic Group that we read the long form of the tradition before we delve into our talk.

So Tradition Six, "Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim.

We think, therefore, that any considerable property of genuine use to AA should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from the spiritual.

An AA group as such should never go into business.

Secondary aids to AA, such as clubs or hospitals, which require much property or administration, ought to be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups.

Hence, such facilities ought not to use the AA name.

Their management should be the sole responsibility of those people who financially support them.

For clubs, AA managers are usually preferred.

But hospitals, as well as other places of recuperation," recuperation means places where you recuperate, so he's referring to other medical facilities, "ought to be well outside AA and medically supervised.

While an AA group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied.

An AA group can bind itself to no one." So, uh, in the 12 and 12, which is where I'm gonna get most of the information I speak about tonight, Bill talks about what the concept, what this inception of the idea behind Tradition six...

or the reasoning for Tradition Six comes from.