These two paragraphs appear together. I can't imagine they were actually written at the same sitting, though:

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As is well-known, there is a patent lack of contemporary inscriptions to be found on the 4th Dynasty pyramids at Giza.[1] In contrast, the last pyramid of the 5th Dynasty and most pyramids of the 6th Dynasty have their inner walls filled with religious texts which, collectively, are known as the Pyramid Texts. Today most Egyptologists, except perhaps the very inflexible, agree that the ideologies expressed Pyramid Texts can be project, albeit with some degree of caution, back to the 4th Dynasty.

The main thrust of the Pyramid Texts is the afterlife of the dead king. There are many passages that tell how the king unites with the sun-god Re in the eastern horizon at dawn and, seemingly coming from an earlier doctrine, where we are unequivocally informed that his afterlife destiny is among the stars.

If there is no written evidence of an earlier doctrine, how can we be unequivocally informed, specifically with regards to the Dynasty IV pyramids at Giza, that the earlier doctrine included an afterlife in the stars?

I'm not arguing that there wasn't a belief system in Egypt that may well have included this belief earlier than the first appearance of the Pyramid Texts, but it is deplorable methodology to take a plausible speculation like that and make it the foundation of further theories... which is what the OCT does at every turn.

The fact that lots of people believe it is true does not actually make it so, and you can't proceed as if it were. That's the methodology of Creationism... not Egyptology.

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.