I think you're either overthinking this or have a fundamental lack of understanding of Alchemy, the tree of life, and approaching divinity.
There is a reason why we don't call it "attaining divninity". We "approach it".
This brings up a great point about emulation of the cherubim through Man's intellect.
We aren't anything, we can't "be" anything (this is a principle taught in the Psybermagick book by Peter J. Carroll)
Pg. 99 "Every Careless use of the words 'am', 'are', 'is', 'was' and 'be' reveals, upon correction, a wealth of ingrained assumptions
and lost information content."
Man IS the intellect (whoops) see how ingrained it is?
Maybe the proper way of saying it would 'be' "Man resides in the intellect" consequently, I think, therefore I think that I think.
Pg. 95 "In an attempt to describe 'being', you can only actually describe doing. The only thing we can observe is 'doing'.
We can't observe our own being, our existence, or essence.
SO, we can ONLY emulate using intellect to approach divinity, The Cherubim Angels specifically, because they are the essence of Intellect.
This is a very important concept talked about in the book "Cellestial Intelligences" by Gregory Kaminski.
It's all about Pico della Mirandola's syncretic philosophy, the first that observed the Christian-Cabbalist link, and was the foundation
for western esotericism. Very great read, I own a beautiful copy by Anathema Publishing.