interestingly the pimander (or poimandres) (in the corpus hermetica, ie the hermetic writings) describes something like the orthodox toll houses: that at death, the spirit, having shed the body, goes up thru several stations “yielding” specific moral characters to certain demons: 
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something extremely interesting here (this was written in greek, would have been known for sure in a place like alexandria i am fairly certain), the “stations” correspond to the planets, which in many worldviews would have corresponded to actual spheres enclosing each other.
would be interesting to know if the toll houses as a concept are hooked into a classical cosmology of spheres enclosing the world, therefore logically the soul would have to travel through them, like toll booths, on the way back out of the material plane, or who else noticed this
although im certain im not the first person to notice this, googling many combinations of these terms brings no results.
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