What are the Dwellers of the Threshold?
Dwellers On The Threshold
A term coined by Bulwer Lytton in his novel Zanoni that refers to an invisible malevolent entity that attaches
to and influences a particular person. Helena P. Blavatsky defined them as “maleficent astral Doubles of defunct persons”
(TG). The Dweller is actually the astral shell of the same individual in a previous incarnation. The personality during that
earlier incarnation may have been so strong, but selfish or materialistic, that its animal life had not worn itself out yet.
It may incarnate itself a number of times with the parent Ego or Causal Body. There may come a point however when the parent
Ego acquires a new personality and no longer uses the old astral shell, which still has animal life in it. The latter, however,
is still drawn to the parent Ego and becomes a malevolent influence. This is the “Dweller of the Threshold” (see CW XII:636-637).
Blavatsky wrote that Robert L. Stevenson’s story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is but another allegory of the same true phenomenon.
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