Weird random gnostic bit that appeared at the end of a breadcrumb Wikipedia trail I was just following:

…have claimed that certain ideas in Fr. Seraphim’s book, The Soul After Death, concerning the alleged existence of “aerial toll-houses”, are heretical.[4] Archbishop Puhalo claims that the so-called “toll-house theory”, which asserts that souls must pass through certain spiritual “toll houses” as a part of their initial judgment after death, is specifically Gnostic in its origin.[5] Other Orthodox authors, however, such as St. John Maximovitch, Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos and Fr. Michael Pomazansky, reject Archbishop Lazar’s interpretation and affirm the reality of the “toll houses”, …

That sounds like tonal crystalline spheres of ancient cosmology which allegedly enveloped the orb of the earth.