Compound Blur Incorrect Placement

I've done some additional experimenting with the blur effect. Anyone who is able to respond to this in an intelligent, civil, and productive manner, your knowledge on this is welcome. I managed to figure out a workaround solution for anyone interested. If you know of a more efficient manner of doing this, please let me know.

As stated, I already attempted various methods for adding the blur effect before posting the original post here on the forums, including the use of precomps. So I stripped away all of the extra assets and experimented with only the energy effect and the blur. 

In this image, the Blur effect is placed underneath the energy effect. With the Energy effect set to Screen. The blur completely disappears. It might be difficult to see, but in the actual scene, there's no blur at all.

Actual scene:

 In this image, the Blur effect is placed on top of the Energy effect. It completely obscures the Energy effect in the process.

In the actual scene, the Blur effect actually appears, but again, the Energy effect is obscured.

Here's the workaround that I was able to figure out. By placing the Blur effect on TOP of the Energy effect and then PreComping, it made it possible to manipulate and move the Blur effect around the scene, which isn't possible when you simply drop it in the main project file (if you attempt to move the Blur frame around, the actual Blur sits in one spot and vanishes if  the edge of the frame is moved beyond the Blur). At least not in my version of AE 18.2.1 (Build 8). The problem is that the actual Energy effect is not visible. So after PreComping the Blur on top of the Energy effect, I then added the Energy effect to the main project file and was able to manipulate it's placement on top of the PreComped Blur effect. 

This method is far more cumbersome and complex than what was in the tutorial that I got the idea from. It's the Super Power Energy Effects (After Effects Tutorial) from Film Riot. They're a great channel with some great tutorials. These guys are top notch to say the least. I followed the tutorial to a T, but for some strange reason, my Compound Blur is not functioning like theirs did. Hence, this workaround. 

Since you haven't provided the link to the tutorial, neither of your claims can be verified. The rest is beside the point. The simple and very obvious answer is that you are still missing something/ doing something wrong. All your insults don't change that.

Mylenium

Of course rotating the "Ghost" layer does not rotate the effect matrix. This is simply wrong within AE's very own logic. Never has been any different. Either you missed a step or the tutorial is garbage. The "Ghost" will have to be pre-composed, rotated inside the pre-comp and the resulting layer be fed into the blur effect.

Mylenium

The effects are probably working just fine and you made a mess somewhere. Effects don't just randomly shift positions and within AE's logic everything is very likely just fine. Since you have neither offered a link to the original tutorial nor a screenshot of your actual timeline with all the relevant properties revealed we can't tell you more than that, but from having moved an adjustment layer inadvertently to simply having missed a critical step like pre-composing something there could be any number of issues here. Go back and check for these things while re-watching the tutorial to trace your steps. Anything else will require more info.

Mylenium

After testing out various other Blur effects, it's not just the Compound Blur. None of the blur effects are giving the proper location placement when assigned to the Energy Effect.