Subtle influences on the soul

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"A travelling atom, having passed through all the phases of Cosmic evolution... has itself become... a centre of attraction. Thereby it draws to itself a certain number of atoms of each plane through which it passes until it arrives at the Cosmic belt which is decreed as its habitation by its own specific gravity in relation to the centrifugal forces of the Cosmic whirlings."

-Dion Fortune, The Cosmic Doctrine

After the previous post's musings, I flipped back a few chapters in the CosDoc - something I have to do with regularity each time I hit a point where I don't understand what I'm reading - and happened upon this. I see this as a cosmic-scale description of "engage all the planes" that suggests why it's an important consideration for the small-scale version called a human life. Being part and parcel of the whole, we've been subjected to influences from all planes and so though we've "landed" in habitation on the physical plane, the more we work with all the planes, the more we can "draw to ourselves" the actions/reactions of each plane so that, like Great Entities that, when embarking "on a fresh phase of development in order to re-establish their harmony" will begin the new phase "with the experience of the preceding phase implicit in their nature." 

Each pass "through" a plane's influence builds into the soul, essentially - laying a foundation for subsequent intention and action.