This morning I have been contemplating Bill Wilsons use of the term 'rocketed'.

25:7 The motif of being 'rocketed' speaks of the tremendous Power which carries us the great distance from where we are now to a new, and better destination (84:14-15). Our understanding of our course and destination in this rocket are developed as we travel through the Big Book.

63:18 This is the beginning of our being rocketed into the fourth dimension of existence (25:7), the world of the Spirit (84:15). Our course has been laid to lead to this precise destination and we prepare for launch first by removing the obstacles from our path.

84:14-15 The directions are clear-cut (29:1); immediately after making our Step 3 decision 'we launch out on a course of vigorous action' (63:18), by launching we achieve a velocity sufficient to break the bounds of gravity and be rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence (25:7). We shed the things in ourselves which block us off from God and enter into 'the world of the Spirit'.

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