Cherubim & Seraphim : celestial winged beings with human, animal, or birdlike characteristics depicted in Jewish, Christian, & Islamic literature. They act as throne bearers or throne guardians of the deity. In later theology Cherubim are angels of the second order, & Seraphim of the first.
... created a whole set of beings who have no sex and whom men speak of as angels; how does one call it? "Your guardian angel", or what else? It is especially "angel". Page 158 (Pavitra) Cherubim, seraphim. Yes, yes, that's it. They have given many names. There, then. Sweet Mother, in the old traditions they always speak of the wives of the gods who are troubled by the asuras. What ...
... generally supposed that Michael is Christ." If Christ acts in the form of Michael against Satan, then wings are most natural for him: all the Angels in Christian tradition are winged, just as the Cherubim and Seraphim are. And we may observe that the fusion of Christ with Angel or Cherub or Seraph (often interchangeable terms) is not quite exceptional in this tradition. We may remember the account by Brother... topped with a Lamb-like purity. Again, The Revelation mentions a book sealed with seven seals. It is in the right hand of God who is sitting on a throne in Heaven. None among the priests and the cherubim present is found worthy to open it. Suddenly there appears in their midst a Lamb having seven horns and seven eyes: the Lamb takes the book and starts breaking the seals. But before this event the ...
... give up rest and sleep and food, yet remain all unwept, unhonoured and unsung! Never mind! Perhaps in heaven they will have a big address given them one mile long and signed by all the angels—cherubim and seraphim together. November 14, 1935 Nirod, [ Underlined. ] 15-11-35 As the Doctor has approved of R's treatment and S himself says he feels better under it, it is better to continue ...
... give up rest and sleep and food, yet remain all unwept, unhonoured and unsung. Never mind! Perhaps in heaven they will have a big address given them one mile long and signed by all the angels -cherubim and seraphim together. 43 (7)NB: By 'lime juice', I meant orange juice - R would call it 'sweet lime juice', not orange juice which is supposed to be different! Sri Aurobindo: Perplexing! Why ...
... universal Family" is "One Man" - "Jesus the Christ" - beheld by the Eternals, we realise that it is Christ who is described in The Eternal Great Humanity Divine surrounded by His Cherubim & Seraphim in ever happy Eternity. 59 There are also the words: "Jesus / The Eternal" 60 and "the Divine Lamb, even Jesus, who is the Divine Vision" 61 and 56. Ibid., p. 605 (A Vision... passages on the Zoas collectively. Even otherwise we should be forced to give wings to all the Zoas, for Blake speaks of them as "the Four Living Creatures, the Cherubim" 276 and speaks elsewhere of "Wings of Cherubim" 277 and "Cherubim of Tender-Mercy / Stretching their Wings sublime". 278 In a scene concerned with Urizen's fallen state we have "his shudd'ring waving wings" 279 and in his final... They are, as it were, the Four Faces of the ultimate Reality which Blake designates "the Universal Man", also "the Eternal Man". And in Biblical language apt to the supernatural he calls them "the Cherubim". 28 In speaking of the "Man" who is "Universal" and "Eternal", Blake goes to the very core of his mysticism and connects us as we are to the huge recesses of Supernature. According to him, these ...
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