Vital force moves up a hierarchy of values culminating in God as Creator

Evidence

Vitalogia could also be the expression of a permanent “Vital Force” in such a way that, in a hierarchy of values, it proceeds until the subject realises itself in God (as Creator). In fact, life in its multiple manifestations offers itself as a reason for speculation, as a phenomenon of an everlasting beauty and as a dynamic logic. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 241

Categorization

• XREF: Directly invokes Tempels’s central concept of ‘vital force’ (force vitale), placing Dokman in dialogue with the foundational Bantu ontology text. — connects to: Vitalist religion equated knowing nature’s secrets with knowing God’s works — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 529