In the Bible study I have been teaching on Wednesday mornings at the village church, we recently were looking at chapter 6 of the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. That led to a discussion about the 9 ranks of angels with the seraphim being next to God himself, and the cherubim just below them.
I had remembered that P. I. Tschaikovsky, one of my absolute favorite composers, had composed some piece of work about that rank of angels, and here it is.
I remember how it blew me away the first time I heard it by chance at night on my car radio years ago. I was alone. I tell you, the composer was a genius . . . or very, very sensitive . . . like Mozart. As I listen, I shake my head in amazement and wonder.
If you want to get blown away, turn up the sound and listen to it at night with the lights off, or with just a few candles lit. You will be within aural proximity to the antechamber of paradise.
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