now , in complete unity a part possesses the whole as the whole possesses every part : and in this way human life is tending toward the image of the supreme unity : for as our life becomes more spiritual , possession becomes more universal , and independent of material contact ; so that in a brief day the soul of man may know more fully the good which has been and is to come , than all he could possess in a whole life where he had to follow the creeping paths of the senses .