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The Dweller on the Threshold, painting by Theosophist Reginald W. Machell (c. 1895). Machell explained that it shows a man confronted with the shadow of self outside the path.” Yet, eventually, the initiate reaches the vision of his own higher self—the knowledge of true occultism.” Source: [https://www.cesnur.org/2018/machell_san_diego.pdf https://www.cesnur.org/2018/machell_san_diego.pdf]