“Indeed, the encounter with the toll houses after death is only a specific and final form of the general battle in which each Christian soul is engaged during his whole lifetime. Bishop Ignatius writes: “just as the resurrection of the Christian soul from death of sin is accomplished during his earthly wandering, precisely so is mystically accomplished here on earth, it’s testing by the arial powers, its captivity by them are deliverance from them; at the journey through the air after death this freedom are captivity is only made manifest”. Some saints such as Macarius the Great – whose passage through the toll houses was seen by several of his disciples – us into the demonic tax collectors without opposition, because they have already fought them and won the battle in this life.”
Father Seraphim Rose
the Soul After Death