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EOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
QUESTION No. 187.
7s that terrible entity which Glyndon saw in Bulwer Lytioris
"Zanoni" the same as Mr. Plyde in Robert L. Steven-
son s story ?
Answer: isTo. There is a similarity in certain respects,
but in other points there is a very great difference. The
dreadful entity seen by Glyndon is spoken of in occultism
as the "Dweller on the Threshold." When the neophyte
enters into the Desire World consciously, having left his
physical body behind in sleep, he must pass an entity such
as that described by Glyndon. This is the embodiment of
all the evil deeds of his past which, having not yet been
expiated, await eradication in future lives. He must recognize
and acknowledge that entity as part of himself. He
must promise himself to liquidate, as soon as possible, all
the debts represented by yon terrible shape.
This entity is not even apparent to the ordinary man
during the times between death and a new birth, though
ever present. It is a demon, and is offset by another shape
which represents all the good a man has done in the past,
and may be called his guardian angel, but these twin forms,
as said, are invisible to the ordinary man at all times,
though ever potent
in his life.
It sometimes happens, however, that an individual passes
out at death with a desire nature so extremely strong that
after he has expiated the deeds it contained in Purgator}',
and has entered the Second Heaven, this shell holds together
and lasts until the man is reborn. It is then drawn
to him by magnetic attraction and he possesses, as it were,
a double desire body. The desire body of the old life may