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''Dweller-on-the-threhold''' is a term sometimes used to designate the anti-self, the not-self, the synthetic self, the antithesis of the [[Real Self]], the conglomerate of the self-created ego, ill-conceived through the inordinate use of the gift of [[free will]], consisting of the [[carnal mind]] and a constellation of misqualified energies, forcefields, focuses, [[animal magnetism]] comprising the subconscious mind. Man’s contact with the reptilian anti-magnetic self—that is the enemy of God and his [[Christ]] and the [[soul]]’s reunion with that Christ—is through the [[desire body]], or astral body, and through the [[solar-plexus chakra]].  

The dweller-on-the-threshold is therefore the nucleus of a vortex of energy that forms the “[[electronic belt]],” shaped like a kettledrum and surrounding the [[four lower bodies]] from the waist down. The serpent head of the dweller is sometimes seen emerging from the black pool of the [[unconscious]]. This electronic belt does contain the cause, effect, record, and memory of human [[karma]] in its negative aspect. Positive karma, as deeds done through the divine consciousness, registers in the [[causal body]] and is sealed in the electronic fire-rings surrounding each one’s own [[I AM Presence]].

The '''planetary dweller-on-the-threshold''' is personified in the forces of [[Antichrist]].

When the sleeping serpent of the dweller is awakened by the presence of Christ, the soul must make the freewill decision to slay, by the power of the I AM Presence, this self-willed personal anti-Christ and become the defender of the Real Self until the soul is fully reunited with Him who is the righteous Lord, [[THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS]], the true Self of every lifestream on the path of [[initiation]].  

The dweller appears to the soul on the threshold of conscious awareness where it knocks to gain entrance into the ‘legitimate’ realm of self-acknowledged selfhood. The dweller would enter to become the master of the house. But it is Christ and only Christ whose knock you must answer—him only must you bid enter. The most serious initiation on the path of the disciple of Christ is the confrontation with the not-self. For if it is not slain by the soul who is one in the Christ Mind, it will emerge to devour that soul in the full-vented rage of its hatred for the Light.  

The necessity for the Teacher on the [[Path]] and for the Guru [[Sanat Kumara]] with us, physically manifest in the messenger of [[Maitreya]], is to hold the balance both spiritually and in the physical octave for each individual initiate on the Path as he approaches the initiation of the encounter—face-to-face with the dweller-on-the-threshold.  

In ''The Theosophical Glossary'', [[Helena P. Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]] defines ''dweller on the threshold'' as “a term invented by Bulwer Lytton in ''Zanoni'';... ‘Dweller’ is an occult term used by students for long ages past, and refers to certain maleficent ''astral Doubles'' of defunct persons.” ''Astral Double'' refers to “the ethereal counterpart or shadow of man or animal.”

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{{POWref|26|6|, February 6, 1983}}

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