Cherubim and sanobim
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Cherubim and sanobim are the faithful and efficient aids of the seraphic ministers 38:7.3
celestial artisans teach efficient energy intake to cherubim and sanobim 44:5.10
chief of cherubim and sanobim took part in the council of Melchizedek receivers after rebellion 67:6.5
they are directed by seraphim, of whom they are the faithful and efficient aids 38:7.2-3 48:5.1
Cherubim and sanobim are continuously engaged in efforts at self-improvement. By study in the schools of the planets they acquire additional tongues. 38:7.5
Cherubim and sanobim are by nature very near the morontia level of existence, and they prove to be most efficient in the borderland work of the physical, morontial, and spiritual domains. 38:7.6-7
They are the lowest order of angels, hence all the nearer of kin to the more progressive types of human beings on the evolutionary worlds. 38:7.1 48:3.4
cherubim and sanobim may attain a full seraphic standing (38:8.2,6) 48:5.10
In the Urantia Book
They appear in personality registers (30:1.68,86) (30:2.88)
Origin
- these beings were created by local universe Mother Spirit 26:1.14 38:7.6
- Mother Spirit transforms deserted cherubim and sanobim into Mansion World Teachers 38:8.5 48:5.1-2
Número
Headquarters
- they always remain in local universe, they do not go with their seraphim masters beyond the local unverse 38:7.3
Service
- they are always associated with seraphim; keep records sponsored by seraphim. A pair of seraphim is assited by a pair of one cherubim and one sanobim 38:7.3 113:2.9
- they are in charge of delivering undeveloped souls of untimely dead childs to probationary nurseries, where they have educational facilities 47:2.1-2
- they help Spirit-fused survivors repossess mortal memory 40:9.5
- they do not help guardian angels on mansion worlds when their pupils attain the morontial life 38:8.5
- also perform many indispensable borderline tasks on the morontia training worlds and are assigned to the service of the Morontia Companions in large numbers 38:7.7
- The cherubim and sanobim are the routine spirit workers on the individual worlds of the systems. 38:7.4
- Each type of angel is very limited in solitary function; hence they usually serve in pairs. 38:7.2
The rebellion
- many were lost in Lucifer rebellion. One third of all the Jerusem cherubim attached to the administrator angels were lost with their disloyal seraphim. On Urantia there was a terrible loss of personalities among seraphim and cherubim. 53:7.6-7 67:3.2
- there were some rebel cherubim and sanobim on earth up to Christ’s death 77:7.4
Types
- cherubim is right-hand deflector, the positively charged angel, the senior or controlling personality 38:7.2 44:5.10
- sanobim is left-hand deflector, the negatively charged angel, the complement of being 38:7.2 44:5.10
- Cherubim and sanobim are “fourth creatures” as Havona Servitals and conciliating commissions. Every fourth cherubim and every fourth sanobim are quasi-material, very definitely resembling the morontia level of existence. 38:7.6-7 38:8.4
- they do not have a difference in sex but cherubim have a difference called positive or aggressive and negative or retiring 84:6.5
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Beelzebub 77:7.4 — Mt 10:25; Mt 12:24,27; Mk 3:22; Lk 11:15,18-19.
Where it appears
Cherubim and sanobim is linked in 28 paragraphs of the text.