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DANCE, CIRCLE, ROUND A CENTRE
A symbol of the harmonious exercise of the higher
qualities, in unison with a central ideal.
"We perpetually revolve about the Principle of all things, even when
we are perfectly loosened from it, and have no longer a knowledge of
it. But when we behold it, then we obtain the end of our wishes.
Then also we are no longer discordant, but form a truly divine dance
about it." - PLOTINUS, On the Good, or the One, § 8.
"In the Acts of John' the disciples are described as holding one
another's hands so as to make a ring round Jesus, who stands in the
midst, and to each line He sings, they intone in chorus the sacred
word Amen.'" "
Jesus exhorts a disciple thus,— "Now respond thou to my dancing. See
thyself in Me who speak, and when thou hast seen what I do, keep
silence on my mysteries." Then dancing,—
"Observe what I do, for thine is this passion (suffering) of the
Man, which I am to suffer." - G. R. S. MEAD, Fragments, etc., pp.
431-4.
The "disciples disciples" are symbols of twelve of the most
disciplined qualities of the soul, and they therefore stand, as it
were, round the central Ideal (Jesus), and look for teaching and
guidance to that which is highest. Then, as the Divine nature in the
midst expresses the harmony (singing) within, the disciplined
qualities vibrate in unison. The exhortation is the teaching of the
Spirit that the quality must merge and identify itself with the
Divine, and conform unreservedly to that which is higher than it can
understand. It is to observe the harmony (dancing) within the
spiritual and ethical Ideal, and to bear patiently the suffering
which it has to undergo in the personality (man) in order that the
Divine ideal may be realised.
"Scaliger, who astonished Charles V by his dancing powers, says the
bishops were called 'Praesules' because they led the dance on feast
days. According to some of the Fathers, the angels are always
dancing, and the glorious company of the apostles is really a
chorus' of dancers." – Encyclopædia
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