The Mystic Dance of Jesus - Zoe Hypostasis of the Archons Translated by Bentley Layton:
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The Origin of the World
Introduction
The Text
The literature surrounding Sophia (Wisdom) and Zoe (Life) has ever been a pagan attempt to triumph over Christ and His Word through theatrical performance. The Mystic Dance of Jesus is False: Scripture denies that Jesus Danced to the Pipes. Neo-Gnosticism teaches people dance and drama.
Max Lucado the Holy Spirit is the Song and Dance Master?
ZOE in Phoenix: The Gold is not in the superstition hills but He is the God Who made the Hills. Zoe takes a question and turns it into a direct command: "Shall I look to the hills? No. I will look to the God who made the hills." Restoration of the most ancient pagan belief about God.
We have looked at some of the writers supporting literal or spiritual dancing with God HERE.
Sophia-Zoe or Eve-Zoe was the Gnostic feminist view that the true agents of God were women. Men kept in step by becoming the musical worship teams. Zoe is related to Lucifer, the light giver, and was called "the beast."
And we have looked at the Sophia - Zoe connection HERE and the quite similar commecial Zoe group HERE.
A fuller ancient resource is the Hypostasis of the Archons
The Mystic Dance of Jesus reveals he source to be Gnosticism not unlike Dionysus religion:
Jesus Sang:
- Glory to Thee, Father!
- (and they moving around in a circle anwered him) Amen!
- Glory to Thee, Charis!
- Glory to Thee, Spirit!
- Glory to Thee, Holy One!
- Glory to Thy Glory! Amen!
- We praise Thee, O Father;
- We give thanks to Thee, O Light;
- In Whom Darkness dwells not! Amen!
- For what we would give thanks,
- I say: I would be saved;
- and I would save. Amen!
- I would be loosed;
- and I would loose. Amen!
- I would be broken;
- and I would break. Amen!
- I would be born;
- and I wish to give birth. Amen!
- I would eat;
- and I would be eaten. Amen!
- I would hear;
- and I would be heard. Amen!
- I would understand;
- and I would be understood. Amen!
- I would be washed;
- and I would wash. Amen!
Now Charis is dancing.
- I would play on the pipes;
- dance all of you, Amen!
- I would play a song of mourning
- lament all of you, Amen!
- I would flee;
- and I would stay. Amen!
- I would be adorned;
- and I would adorn. Amen!
- I would be at-oned;
- and I would at-one. Amen!
- I have no house;
- and I would have houses. Amen!
- I have no temple;
- and I have temples. Amen!
- I am a lamp
- to thee who seest me. Amen!
- I am a mirror
- to thee who understandest me. Amen!
- I am a door
- to thee who knockest at me. Amen!
- I am a way
- for thee a wayfarer. Amen!
- Now answer to my dancing!
- See thyself in me who speak;
- And seeing what I do,
- keep silence on my mysteries.
- Understand by dancing,
- What I do;
- For thine is the passion of man
- That I am to suffer.
- Thou couldst not all be aware
- of that thou does suffer.
- If I were not sent
- as the Logos by the Father.
- Seeing what I suffer;
- thou sawest me suffering;
- And seeing,
- thou didst not stand still,
- But wast moved greatly,
- thou wast moved to be wise.
- Thou hast me for a couch;
- rest thou upon me.
- What I am thou shalt know
- when I depart.
- What now I am seen to be,
- I am not.
- But what I am
- thou shalt see whan thou comest
- If thou hadst known how to suffer,
- Thou wouldst have power not to suffer.
- Know then how to suffer,
- then thou wilt have power not to suffer.
- That which thou knowest not,
- I myself will instruct thee.
- I am thy God,
- not the betrayers´.
- I would be kept in time
- with holy souls.
- In me know thou
- the Logos of Sophia.
- Say thou to me again:
- Glory to Thee, Father!
- Glory to Thee, Logos!
- Glory to Thee, Holy Spirit!
- But as for me,
- if thou wouldst know who I was:
- In a word I am the Logos
- who did dance all things,
- and who was not ashamed at all.
- It was I who danced.
- But do thou understand all,
- and understanding, say:
- Glory to Thee, Father!
- Amen! Amen! Amen!
The modern musicians and dancers truly believe that they are THE mediators between man and God. This is the ZOE concept where ZOE is the feminine instructing principle known as Lucifer (he/she) and she was called THE BEAST.
The Testimony of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Thanksgiving Hymns (1QH), Hymn 1 reads in part:
It is Thou who hast created breath (spirit) for the tongue
- and Thou knowest its words;
- Thou didst establish the fruit of the lips
- before ever they were.
- Thou dost set words to measure
- and the flow of breath from the lips to metre.
- Thou bringest forth sounds
- according to their mysteries,
- and the flow of breath from the lips
- according to its reckoning,
- that they may tell of Thy glory
- and recount Thy wonders
- in all Thy works of truth.
- have lifted their heel against me,
They have overtaken me in a narrow pass without escape
However, in hymn 11, Jesus triumphs in the Spirit They enter my heart and reach into my bones to...
- and to meditate in sorrowful meditation.
- I will groan with the zither of lamentation
- in all grief-stricken mourning and bitter complaint
- until iniquity and wickedness are consumed
- and the disease-bringing scourge is no more.
- Then will I play on the zither of deliverance
- and the harp of joy,
- on the tabors of prayer and the pipe of praise
- without end
The Community Rule (1QS) reads in part:
- And at the beginning of their weeks
- for the season of Jubilee.
- All my life the engraved Precept shall be on my tongue
- as the fruit of praise
- and the portion of my lips.
I will sing with knowledge and all my music
- shall be for the glory of God.
- (My) lyre (and) my harp shall sound
- for His holy order
- and I will tune the pipe of my lips
- to His right measure.
- Such allegorizing passages contain the nucleuses of the later substance, and perhaps the presage of the future trends of Christian music. The first three centuries of the church witnessed many controversies; some of them concerned themselves directly with music. The most important of these issues were: (a) organized versus spontaneous praying and singing; (b) scriptural versus extrascriptural poems; (c) fusion with Hellenistic music; (d) vocal versus instrumental music; (e) the rise of monasticism and its influence upon ecclesiastical chant." (Interpreter's Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 467)
Jeff Walling: Daring to Dance with God
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