Claim. God’s ideal political-economic society is patterned on a perfect human body — Christ corresponds to the spinal cord, God-loving leaders to peripheral nerves, political parties to nerve branches, the three branches of government to internal organs, economic institutions to limbs, and capital reserves to the liver — and the Industrial Revolution arose providentially to restore the external living environment, while Christ at the Second Advent must heal today’s “sick body” by reconnecting people’s vertical relationship with God.
Elaboration. Per Part 2 Ch 6 §§3.2–3.3: the universe is patterned after a perfect human being; the ideal world resembles a perfect individual.
Political structure. As the brain commands the body via spinal cord and peripheral nerves, God’s guidance reaches the ideal society through Christ (spinal cord) and God-loving leaders (peripheral nerves); parties correspond to nerve branches. The three branches — legislative, judicial, executive — function like lungs, heart, and stomach under brain direction. Economic institutions analogize the four limbs.
Separation of powers, advocated by Montesquieu (1689-1755) and proclaimed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, was Satan defectively mimicking the Principle ahead of its realization by God. Constitutional democracy set up the ideal framework, but because parties are ignorant of God’s Will, they function “like a nervous system unable to transmit directions from the brain”; the three branches “function like internal organs which cannot sense or respond to the commands of the brain because the peripheral nerves have been severed.” Christ at the Second Advent will remedy this by restoring the vertical relationship with God.
Economic structure. Production, distribution, and consumption should have the organic interdependence of digestion, circulation, and metabolism — fair distribution, reasonable consumption, capital reserves “as the liver stores nourishment.” The Industrial Revolution arose providentially to restore the external living environment; English mass production created the colonial scramble, which simultaneously “opened up a vast territory for the propagation of the Gospel” — contributing to both internal and external restoration.
Significance. Grounds DP’s normative political-economic theology in biological-organic teleology — the body-of-perfected-person template is the criterion by which actual political and economic systems are judged. Three-branches separation of powers is Satan-preempted rather than authentically derived, framing today’s democratic-constitutional order as approximation pending Second-Advent restoration.
See also. dp-cain-type-democracy-from-french-revolution-vs-abel-type-democracy-from-anglo-american-christianity · dp-gods-socialism-vs-satans-communism-as-economic-providence-toward-shared-prosperity · dp-religion-politics-economy-progress-separately-because-re-creation-mirrors-original-creation