Life After Death in Ancient Egypt

Years ago I read “The Temple In Men” by R.A. Lubicz. A hard to read book, much of which I now only vaguely remember.

One thing that stood out was that ancient Egyptians were fascinated with symbolism, especially in the context of the human body. They built their temples, wrote texts and lived with the idea that there are things in this existence that the human mind will never be able to comprehend.

Perhaps erroneous, I can make an analogy with imaginary numbers in math. Using symbols where there are things in life that cannot be comprehended. The _equation_ of death works, it’s just that there’re parts of it that remain unknowable.

Might be OT, but there's something about this writing style that wears on me. It reminds me of high school essays: excessive use of formal-sounding phrasing (lots of "yet", "indeed", "it[space]is", etc), flowery language, like the author is trying too hard. In this case the repeated references to Ozymandias really ram it home (we get it, you remember a poem we all read in English class, and you even understood its themes).

Anybody else noticed this before? I see it all over the internet; it's hard to define but very distinctive