fourth creatures (cherubim)

38:7.6Cheru­bim 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. These chil­dren of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit are char­ac­ter­ized by “fourth crea­tures” much as are the Ha­vona Servi­tals and the con­cil­i­at­ing com­mis­sions. Ev­ery fourth cheru­bim and ev­ery fourth sa­no­bim are quasi-ma­te­rial, very def­i­nitely re­sem­bling the mor­ontia level of ex­is­tence.

38:7.7These an­gelic fourth crea­tures are of great as­sis­tance to the ser­a­phim in the more lit­eral phases of their uni­verse and plan­e­tary ac­tiv­i­ties. Such mor­ontia cheru­bim also per­form many in­dis­pens­able bor­der­line tasks on the mor­ontia train­ing worlds and are as­signed to the ser­vice of the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions in large num­bers. They are to the mor­ontia spheres about what the mid­way crea­tures are to the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets. On the in­hab­ited worlds these mor­ontia cheru­bim fre­quently work in li­ai­son with the mid­way crea­tures. Cheru­bim and mid­way crea­tures are dis­tinctly sep­a­rate or­ders of be­ings; they have dis­sim­i­lar ori­gins, but they dis­close great sim­i­lar­ity in na­ture and func­tion.

38:8.43. Mor­ontia Cheru­bim. These “fourth crea­tures” of the an­gelic or­ders al­ways re­tain their quasi-ma­te­rial char­ac­ter­is­tics. They will con­tinue on as cheru­bim and sa­no­bim, to­gether with a ma­jor­ity of their mid-phase breth­ren, pend­ing the com­pleted fac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing.