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The Faithful Assemblies of Christ never followed any of the myths or doing acts or reciting certain forms (Legalism) as a way to CHARM God. The Impure Threskia of the pagans used musical instruments and were called sorcerers in the Scripture and the Greek classics.

Such rituals which Paul called 'Lying Wonders' are derived from Orpheus or "that Thracian." Paul warned about men who could bring on wrath or an ORGY. The only PURE religion is defined by James:

James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer,
         he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
James 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way,
         and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

THE ONE-PIECE PATTERN FOR DISCIPLES: SPEAK THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING

James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law [nomon] of liberty,
        and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer,
        but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

perspĭcĭo , to look through, read through, to look through, read through, cognoscite

Acts 28.26 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, In hearing, you will hear, And will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, And will in no way perceive.

akro-a_tēs , ou, ho, disciple, pupil, reader

THE PAGAN OR BARBARIOUS WRATH IF EITHER MEN OR WOMEN SPEAK ON THEIR OWN

James 1: 26 If any man among you seem to be religious,
        and bridleth not his tongue,
        but deceiveth his own heart, [strong delusions, believe your own lies]
        this man’s religion is vain. [irreverent, profain, made meriment.]

Threskeia is named after Orpheus or That Thracian. Under various names he goes back to Jubal who handled (without authority in a sexaul context) all of the musical instruments.

"Nor are these Thracian orgies, from which the word Worship (threskia) is said to be derived; nor rites and mysteries of Orpheus, whom the Greeks admired so much for his wisdom that they devised for him a lyre which draws all things by its music.
Nor the tortures of Mithras which it is just that those who can endure to be initiated into such things should suffer; nor the manglings [castrating] of Osiris, [Adonis, Attis, Dionysus,] another calamity honoured by the Egyptians; nor the ill-fortunes of Isis and the goats more venerable than the Mendesians, and the stall of Apis, the calf that luxuriated in the folly of the Memphites, nor all those honours with which they outrage the Nile, while themselves proclaiming it in song to be the Giver of fruits and corn, and the measurer of happiness by its cubits.

glōssan, sōma, The body includes the whole body is dead to self

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

[Kosmos or world points to Pythagoras and the others listed below. Jesus said that He was not OF the Kosmos and none of His disciples are OF the World. We can defined the WORLD ORDER by defining the worship of the world.

sophis-tēs , ou, ho, A.master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, “meletan sophistais prosbalon” Pi.I.5(4).28, cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” A.Fr.314, cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistē Thrēki with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” Ael.NA11.1; [melody in a holy place]
II. from late v B.C., a Sophist, i.e. one who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for money, “Apollōnidē sophistē” Euripides, Rhesus, 924
2.sophist (in bad sense), quibbler, cheat, goeta one who howlsout enchantments, a sorcerer, enchanter. Goes

Thrax , Thrakos, ho, Thracian:
Eur. Rh. 915 Muse
[915] Many indeed are the wounds, Thamyris, son of Philammon, that you have inflicted on my heart, in your life and in your death. Yes, for it was your pride, your own undoing, and your rivalry with the Muses that made me mother of this poor son of mine. For as I crossed the river's streams [920] I came too near to Strymon's fruitful couch, that day we Muses came to the brow of Mount Pangaeus with its soil of gold, furnished forth with all our music for one great trial of minstrel skill with that clever Thracian bard; and we blinded him, [925] Thamyris, the man who often reviled our craft.... And yet we sister Muses do special honor to your city, your land we chiefly haunt; and those dark mysteries with their torch processions were revealed by Orpheus, cousin of this dead man [945] whom you have slain. Musaeus, too, your holy citizen, of all men most advanced in lore,

Plat. Soph. 268c Stranger: he is ignorant; but since he is all imitator of the philosopher, he will evidently have a name derived from his, and I think I am sure at last that we must truly call him the absolutely real and actual sophist.
        The imitative kind of the dissembling part of the art of opinion which is part of the art of contradiction and belongs to the fantastic class
Plat. Soph. 268d of the image-making art, and is not divine, but human, and has been defined in arguments as the juggling part of productive activity—he who says that the true sophist is of this descent and blood will, in my opinion, speak the exact truth.

goēs , ētos, ho, A.sorcerer, wizard, Phoronis epōdos Ludias apo khthonos” E.Ba.234, 2. juggler, cheat, “deinos g. kai pharmakeus kai sophistēs” Pl.Smp.203d; “

Threskos (g2357) thrace'-kos; prob. from the base of 2360; ceremonious in worship (as demonstrative), i.e. pious: - religious.

"If any one perchance thinks that we are speaking calumnies, let him take the books of the Thracian soothsayer (Orpheus the inventor of musical soothsaying), which you speak of as of divine antiquity; and he will find that we are neither cunningly inventing anything, nor seeking means to bring the holiness of the gods into ridicule, and doing so: for we shall bring forward the very verses which the son of Calliope uttered in the Greek, and published abroad in his songs to the human race through out all all ages." (Arnobius Against the Heathen, Ante-Nicene, VI, p. 499).

Abaddon or Apollyon as sun god is the leader of the muses or "locusts".

"Orpheus, ancient Greek legendary hero endowed with superhuman musical skills. He became the patron of a religious movement based on sacred writings said to be his own. He was the son of a MUSE and at times Apollo. Apollo (Apollyon) gave Orpheus his first lyre and Hermes (Kairos) gave a lyre and flute to Apollyon. Hermes had used the lyre to steal Apollo's cattle (members)

Thrēsk-eia A. religious worship, cult, ritual, of Apollōnos Hdt.2.37 th. tōn aggelōn worshipping of angels, Ep.Col.2.18.
   3. in bad sense, religious formalism, “anti hosiotētos [disposition to observe divine law, piety] th. biōtikē vulgar superstition, [kharites” tekhnē

The JEWS practiced a RELIGION:

Acts 26.5 having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee

Those who serve these religions are called parasites. A school of the word both ekklesia and synagogue was held once each week. The focus on the Word as the only text book did not include observations such as rhetoric, singing or playing instruments to enhance the Word. A SECT tries to keep your time and money busy all week. That defines a CULT.

Hdt. 2.37 Their religious observances are, one may say, innumerable.
        [4] But also they receive many benefits: they do not consume or spend anything of their own;
        sacred food is cooked for them, beef and goose are brought in great abundance to each man
every day, and wine of grapes is given to them, too... One of these is the high priest; and when a high priest dies, his son succeeds to his office. They believe that bulls belong to Epaphus. Epaphus is the Greek form of Apis or Hapi, the bull-god of Memphis;
     Hdt. 2.42 For no gods are worshipped by all Egyptians in common except Isis and Osiris, who they say is Dionysus; 2.44 I took ship for Tyre in Phoenicia, where I had learned by inquiry that there was a holy temple of Heracles. [The Tyrian god Melkart.] [2] There I saw it, richly equipped with many other offerings, besides two pillars, one of refined gold, one of emerald: Hdt. 2.46 This is why the Egyptians of whom I have spoken sacrifice no goats, male or female: the Mendesians reckon Pan among the eight gods who, they say, were before the twelve gods.

THE BARBARIANS who spoke in tongues where the SPEAK includes playing instruments.

Now, if we are to understand it to mean that Eumolpus, Orpheus, Musaeus, and Thamyris were the fellow-countrymen of those Edonians, Odrysians, and Odomantians, who in the historical age occupied the Thracian territory, and who spoke a barbarian language, that is, one unintelligible to the Greeks, we must despair of being able to comprehend these accounts of the ancient Thracian minstrels, and of assigning them a place in the history of Grecian civilisation; since it is [p. 1181] manifest that at this early period, when there was scarcely any intercourse between different nations, or knowledge of foreign tongues,
    poets who sang in an unintelligible language could not have had more influence
    on the mental development of the people than the twittering of birds.

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Paul knew of the Orphics and Dionysiacs and similar sects in Corinth, Rome and other places. He warned about the BARBARIANS using the "tongues" concept.

La^l-eō, Mark of the Locusts II. chatter, Opposite. articulate speech, as of locusts, chirp, Theoc.5.34; mesēmbrias lalein tettix (sc. eimi), a very grasshopper to chirp at midday, III. of musical sounds, “aulō [flute] laleō” Theoc.20.29; “di'aulou [flute] ē salpiggos l.”[trumpet] Arist. Aud.801a29; of Echo, magadin lalein sound the magadis, [double flute]

Orpheus is supposed to have introduced the vice of sodomy upon the earth. In Ovid's Metamorphoses--

Ille etiam Thracum populis fuit auctor, amorem
In teneros transferre mares...

He also was the first adviser of the Thracian people
to transfer their love to tender youths ...
presumably in consequence of the death of Eurydice, his wife, and his unsuccessful attempt to bring her to earth again from the infernal regions. But he paid dearly for his contempt of women. The Thracian dames whilst celebrating their bacchanal rites tore him to pieces. François Noël, however, states that Laius, father of Oedipus, was the first to make this vice known on earth. In imitation of Jupiter with Ganymede, he used Chrysippus, the son of Pelops, as a catamite; an example which speedily found many followers. Amongst famous sodomists of antiquity may be mentioned: Jupiter with Ganymede; Phoebus [Abaddon, Apollyon] with Hyacinthus; Hercules with Hylas; Orestes with Pylades; Achilles with Patrodes, and also with Bryseis; Theseus with Pirithous; Pisistratus with Charmus; Demosthenes with Cnosion; Gracchus with Cornelia; Pompeius with Julia; Brutus with Portia; the Bithynian king Nicomedes with Caesar,[1]

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