...to the Universe belongs the dancer...

” So he told us to form a circle, holding 

one another’s hands, and himself stood in the middle . . . 

“Answer Amen to me,” [he said] and began to intone a mystical chant: 

“To the Universe belongs the dancer.” 

  Amen 

“He who does not dance does not know what happens.” 

  Amen 

“Now if you follow my dance, see yourself in Me who am speaking . . . 

You who dance, consider what I do, for yours is 

this passion of Man which I am to suffer. For you could by no means have understood 

what you suffer 

unless to you as Logos I had been sent by the Father . . .  

Learn how to suffer and you shall be able not to suffer.”

from the gnostic text
The Acts of John