Preface–an attempt to explain

Imagine your world unified. No vast oceans to separate only large beautiful pools of tranquility to enjoy. Imagine life lush and never dying. Imagine how massive, how bright, how awesome all of nature could be without the plight of death and decay. Without the fall of all. We enjoyed this wonder. We enjoyed blazing through the firmament that covered the earth. The atmosphere as you call it was perfectly sound and created in such a way the ‘greenhouse effect’ created something marvelous. The ozone created a protection that allowed temperate climate at all parts of the globe at all times. Perfection, beauty, life.

Yet there was a limit. There were boundaries. Yes that ozone layer that so artfully was placed as a soft effervescent blanket allowed our lives to flourish. God placed us on this planet as his caretakers. Every type of mineral, jewel, waterfall, river, cave, mountain, valley, was in our keeping. It took very little effort to maintain such a perfectly designed system. You have a bit of this order in your world. The wonder that the exhaust from your mouth, car, and animals the carbon dioxide your fear mongers so hate is the very essence that every tree, bush, and flower needs to produce the oxygen you need and thus a wonderful cycle. Unless there is excess. We simply needed to maintain homeostasis. Then we were free to live amongst those laws. We were free to learn, invent, and develop relationships. The only thing we could not do was leave.

Only once a solar year, not exactly like your year but there is no reason to go into the details. You will still understand. Yes, so once a solar year one representative was allowed to leave the planet. To travel at light speed to wherever in the universe. They were not required to return, but the only time they could return was at the same time of the year that they left. If they chose to come back it was unlikely they would be chosen again as a representative. There were our own laws for choosing the representative. God’s law was simple only once a year could a cherubim leave or return to earth. The reason? Some might criticize God and said it was a power grab: a notion to keep reminding us that we did not create ourselves. Others said he probably had a better reason. For instance, if all of us came and went as we liked we would erode the atmosphere that allowed us to live in such plenty and ease. There might be some truth in those statements. However God did not reveal it directly. Yet if you sought him with all your energy, with your core, you would come to know his heart. You would come to trust if not understand his law. Yet he did not require that. He did not require us to talk to him let alone worship him. He simply gave us the opportunity.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Yes and before your kind he created us. You may call us angels, but that is a confusing term. We are not pretty ladies with wings. No. We do not have a gender. However, since it is impossible for your kind to think in genderless terms without using the pronoun it, we will ascribe each cherubim mentioned to be either he or she. Remember they really are neither! Also due to our four faces. One face is an ox, one is an eagle, one is a lion, and one is like yours, human. We refer to each other in plural. Also this creates a difficult situation for your kind as you do not often exist in plural forms. Yes, Siamese twins that share a body, but even each head is often a entirely different person. Therefore we will subject ourselves to your singular labeling. Remember though we are not singular as you are. We are four in one. Well enough talk about us. I will try to tell help you along in this story. I know your language well and although its devices are limiting, I will try to communicate with you. Come to the place where we live. Come see our world that now is yours. See where we were in the life before. The beauty at that time went far beyond what you could imagine. Yet try with these words to picture it in your mind. Try to see the possibilities in a world without hate, without evil, and without pain. Come to the earth of the Cherubim.