Consider your quotation about the Dao, it says nothing about godhead indeed it can be better considered a statement about the universe: "All things derive their life from it , All things return to it, and it contains them." The Dao does not have volition and all that you do is part of the Dao. But as I said all this is sophistry, especially on your part, as the idea of a deity without volition would be complicated, running into the problem of predestination.
Next you veer into the Gospel of Mary ... not Mary Magdelene for the putative author is not identified by that title within the corrupt and incomplete text you are suborning to your cause. One scholar identifies it as being written in the 1st Century CE but whatever the rights and wrongs of her case there is no physical evidence because Mss from which it was taken are copies. The only P. Oxy that are certain to date from the 1st Century CE are fragments of Job and Esther. The P. Rylands is mid 2nd Century CE. P. Berolinensis 8502 is 4th or 5th Century CE. The only real arguments that the original text might have been early is the female protagonist and the preference for stoic philosophy; style, however, is not substance.
The lines you quote from "Mary" are standard Stoic philosophy and, as is the nature of Stoicism, says nothing about god.
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