complement of being

38:4.3Though not male and fe­male as are the Ma­te­rial Sons and the mor­tal races, ser­a­phim are neg­a­tive and pos­i­tive. In the ma­jor­ity of as­sign­ments it re­quires two an­gels to ac­com­plish the task. When they are not en­cir­cuited, they can work alone; nei­ther do they re­quire com­ple­ments of be­ing when sta­tion­ary. Or­di­nar­ily they re­tain their orig­i­nal com­ple­ments of be­ing, but not nec­es­sar­ily. Such as­so­ci­a­tions are pri­mar­ily ne­ces­si­tated by func­tion; they are not char­ac­ter­ized by sex emo­tion, though they are ex­ceed­ingly per­sonal and truly af­fec­tion­ate.

38:7.2Cheru­bim and sa­no­bim are in­her­ently as­so­ci­ated, func­tion­ally united. One is an en­ergy pos­i­tive per­son­al­ity; the other, en­ergy neg­a­tive. The right-hand de­flec­tor, or pos­i­tively charged an­gel, is the cheru­bim—the se­nior or con­trol­ling per­son­al­ity. The left-hand de­flec­tor, or neg­a­tively charged an­gel, is the sa­no­bim—the com­ple­ment of be­ing. Each type of an­gel is very lim­ited in soli­tary func­tion; hence they usu­ally serve in pairs. When serv­ing in­de­pen­dently of their se­raphic di­rec­tors, they are more than ever de­pen­dent on mu­tual con­tact and al­ways func­tion to­gether.

113:2.9When a se­raphic pair ac­cept guard­ian as­sign­ment, they serve for the re­main­der of the life of that hu­man be­ing. The com­ple­ment of be­ing (one of the two an­gels) be­comes the re­corder of the un­der­tak­ing. These com­ple­men­tal ser­a­phim are the record­ing an­gels of the mor­tals of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. The rec­ords are kept by the pair of cheru­bim (a cheru­bim and a sa­no­bim) who are al­ways as­so­ci­ated with the se­raphic guard­i­ans, but these rec­ords are al­ways spon­sored by one of the ser­a­phim.