Claim. God endowed humans with dual constitution — flesh of physical elements (water, clay, air) and spirit of spiritual elements — so that they could rule both worlds directly. The Mount of Transfiguration, where Jesus conversed with the spirits of Moses and Elijah, is cited as evidence of this potential.
Elaboration. Per 6.2. The Position of Human Beings in the Cosmos: “God created human beings to be the rulers of the universe. The universe does not of itself have internal sensibility toward God. Hence, God does not govern the universe directly. Rather, God endowed human beings with sensibilities to all things in the universe and gave them the mandate to rule over the universe directly.”
The dual-constitution design: “God created the human body with elements from the physical world — such as water, clay and air — to allow us to perceive and govern it. To make it possible for us to perceive and govern the spirit world, God created our spirits with the same spiritual elements that compose the spirit world.”
The biblical evidence: “On the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah, who had died hundreds of years earlier, appeared before Jesus and ministered to him. These were actually the spirits of Moses and Elijah, yet Jesus was able to converse with them” (ibid).
DP commits to the substantiality of spirit-world inhabitants (Transfiguration is real intercourse, not vision-only) and to the principle that perfected humans — not angels, not Christ alone — were always intended to govern both realms. This grounds DP’s high anthropology and the claim that perfected humans rank above the angels in cosmic authority.
See also. dp-cosmos-as-incorporeal-and-corporeal-spirit-as-subject, dp-humans-as-mediator-of-cosmos