Our ensembles of dancing undoubtedly represent a crude and grotesque attempt of material creatures to approach the celestial harmony of being placement and personality arrangement. [1]
Wild dancing can induce a mystic state. But instead of mystical experiences the more healthful attitude of spiritual meditation is to be found in reflective worship and in the prayer of thanksgiving. [2]
Dance originated in seasonal worship festivals. [3] Initially prayers were acted out; magical dances were nothing but dramatic prayers. Religion was danced out rather than thought out. [4] Many shamanesses were professional dancers. [5] The purely military war dances were refined and made to serve valuable social ends by Planetary Prince’s staff. [6]
Society, today, enjoys the benefit of a long list of useful innovations which were at first wholly military and is even indebted to war for the dance, one of the early forms of which was a military drill. [7]