Theophany - Object of the Ring Dance

Frederick M. Huchel, the only Mormon presenter at the recent Temple Studies Group Symposium II in London, England, shared his paper titled, "THE COSMIC RING-DANCE OF THE ANGELS - An Early Christian Rite of the Temple." It is a redacted version of a much longer one which will be available soon. In the released presented version we learn many wonderful aspects of what he calls, "sacred choral ring dance of prayer" and other elements that are connected to this sacred rite in antiquity. One such element is the topic of theophany and how the object of the ring dance was to open a conduit to heaven, a means to open the veil. Brother Huchel in the Abstract shares this:

In examining what can be reconstructed of the liturgy of the First Temple, and its apparent restoration in early Christianity, no loss can be more significant — or more poignant — than the loss of the sacred choral ring dance of prayer, which was seen to mirror the cosmic circle dance of the concourses of angels, in their concentric heavenly spheres — a dance which had the effect of opening up a conduit, from the Holy of Holies, up through the planetary spheres, to unfold a view of God Most High upon his celestial throne, in the highest Heaven, as chronicled in the experiences of such ancient prophets as Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the apostle John on Patmos.

The experiences of the nineteenth-century prophet Joseph Smith, from his initial theophany to his translation of the experiences of Lehi and the Lord Jesus Christ in the Book of Mormon, to the Pentecostal experiences surrounding the dedication of the Kirtland Temple in 1836, combine with his restoration of the ancient circle of prayer to bolster our understanding of the Biblical record, and provide a greater understanding of this ancient rite of the Temple.

For Frederick M. Huchel book by the same title see here:
The Cosmic Ring-Dance of the Angels: An Early Christian Rite of the Temple. Huchel has traced the roots of this temple ritual from ancient times to the modern day and in doing so has done some incredible research. He presents a lot of evidence that suggests that the early Christians performed and perpetuated ancient temple rituals that were meant to connect the throne of God and angelic hosts in heaven with worshipers on earth.