Abstract movement gives rise to movement in the cosmos.
Forms give rise to abstract movement in a universe, and thereby link themselves on to the Cosmos, of which more later.
It is therefore essential in a universe, to have a form in order to evolve to Cosmic level, thereby enabling them to link themselves on to the Cosmic atoms that gave rise to them, thereby making these Cosmic atoms into Great Entities. Thus do the atomic planes of the Cosmos evolve.
This is the secret of the God in man. He is related primarily, not to the God of his universe, who is his conditioner, but to his Creator who is a corresponding atom in the Cosmos, who creates but has no power to condition, because it is itself conditioned by the Great Entity of which it forms a part. But when the reflected atom of a universe develops a corresponding aspect to the nature of its Creator and can thereby unite with it, that Cosmic atom receives into itself all the conditions of the universe which was projected by the Great Entity of whose body it forms a part. And, as that universe is conditioned by the Great Entity, the Cosmic atom thus becomes a replica of the Great Entity, and being thus completely conditioned by it, is no longer being conditioned but has been conditioned, and therefore its conditioning is of the past, and therefore in the present is unconditioned by the Great Entity, because it has achieved a state in which it conditions itself, and so is independent. It is made free of the Cosmic planes is no longer held in bondage to the service of a Great Entity, but by means of this attachment of an evolved atom of a projected universe, it is raised above the status of the atoms of its plane, and becomes, in its turn, a travelling atom, and together with its attached Divine Spark of the reflected universe, it makes the rounds of the Rays of the Cosmos, and thus, in its turn, becomes a Great Entity and develops a universe.
This is the goal of the evolution of every reflected atom in a universe - to develop a Divine Spark - to complete the evolution from the human to the Divine in a reflected universe, and to unite with its Cosmic Creator, thus enabling the Cosmic atom to evolve through the phase of a travelling atom into a Great Entity.
It is this scheme of evolution which we are now considering. These last details have never been revealed before. Human thought has never before passed beyond the conditioning Logos, but it is now revealed that, though the Logos is the Creator of a universe, each atom in that universe is separately created by a separate Cosmic atom, which aspires, by means of that reflected Life, to achieve a state whereby it can continue its own evolution.
Therefore, it can be said of man that, by eating of the Tree of Knowledge, they should be as Gods. It is this knowledge which has been withheld on the outgoing path of evolution lest souls should be tempted to turn back and forestall their goal, but to those who passed the nadir, it can now be revealed.
-Dion Fortune, The Cosmic Doctrine, 94-96
