John Jocelyn, a spiritual teacher and philosopher wrote that "The Dweller on the Threshold is the result of all unredeemed evil, and today we see mankind as a whole facing its Dweller. This is an astral entity; it feeds upon the foul food of the lower regions of the desire or soul world with its murderous desires... we must face this demon and dissolve its evil force. This dissolution would not be possible save for the sum of all our good forces..."

 -- Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (New York, Vintage Books, 1981), 40.