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Netism defines 12 principles of universal energy flow as the 12 Pillars of Atum. These can be compared to the 7 Hermetic Principles, but expanded. Ankir is the first:

Life is unending and omnipresent;
its vital essence is deathless,
undergoing only transformations of form.
When it appears to be absent,
it is merely at rest in perfect stillness,
paused before the next threshold brings it to form.

Ankir states that all life is eternal. The form dies, while life carries on through transformation of form. By Ankir, life exists within the animating spark, rather than the vessel that expresses it.
Life is a continuous cycle of birth and death, shaped by the domain of its frequency. Here, frequency is the living pattern a being carries, the tone of its character, the habits of mind it favors, and the level of coherence it can sustain. This means a spirit returns to a vessel that matches its level of development. Animal spirits return to the same species, and humans return to a body capable of advanced thinking. By this model, we have died countless deaths already, and the experience of each life is forever ingrained in spiritual memory.

We define Ankir as spirit; it is the traveling life essence that moves between forms. It composes one third of a spiritual being; the other two aspects are mind or consciousness, and soul, the immutable source. Consciousness is the active, changing aspect that perceives, chooses, and directs behavior. Soul is the enduring source beneath identity, steady through every passage.

Ankir is the mysterious animating force that brings life to a body. Its presence defines the difference between life and death of a form, and it is eternal. When it leaves, we understand it as a permanent, irreversible departure. This is true from our vantage point. The life essence we knew remains alive, while the body ends. The spirit is as alive as it has ever been, having left the form we are familiar with.

Ankir describes life in all forms, including microscopic life, such as cells and bacteria. Smaller forms cycle rapidly, and larger ones more slowly, and they all cycle. The same patterns of renewal appear at every scale. Life is neither linear nor a complete circle. It returns changed by the experience of the former life, ready to try new patterns, while often repeating the previous ones.

Ankir sees all life as sacred. Lower levels must maintain coherence for higher levels to survive. To destroy the cells within our body continuously would shorten our lives. Similarly, destroying the planet shortens the life of humanity as a whole. Although the life force is eternal, it is here for a reason, and the forms that carry it matter.

Just as water shifts from ice to liquid to vapor, the density of Ankir passes through varying phases. We know it best in its densest form in the material realms. After it passes into a more vaporous state, it is no more lost than steam. It travels to the clouds to reform and descend somewhere else, gone to us, alive somewhere else.

In between lives, Ankir enters a state where time and space lose meaning. From that vantage point, the spirit can hold a broader view of its own story, as if past and possibility are seen at once, rather than in a single line. In this, it sees continuity. Great and terrible actions blend into a single field of experience. There is no shame or pride, only observation.

When Ankir enters the next vessel, it resumes the pattern where it formerly left off. Consciousness forgets the past, but if it doesn’t resist familiar urges, the same problems can arise, though in different circumstances. Ankir remembers the consequences of past mistakes and brings this to our attention in intuitive impulses. Most people ignore these impulses, but Netist practices encourage frequent reflection to become aware of them, to grow beyond established patterns that hinder our spiritual development.

Ankir allows for continuity of experience without conscious memory. When a being awakens into a new life with a fresh mind, it often reverts to former behaviors. This is the soul’s journey through countless lifetimes of birth, growth, and death. Each one has value because each experience is stored, and each life becomes material for refinement.

Ankir does not promise that we hold onto our loved ones forever, but it does assure their continuity and remembrance. The patterns they imprinted within us changed us, and that experience remains attached to us. Grief remains real because separation in form is real. Ankir places that loss inside a larger continuity, where the life essence continues eternally.

Do you have a sense of your own continuity? How do you live differently knowing that your life’s journey of growth is eternal?

[Healing_Lotus]

I was a weird kid that liked to freak my Catholic parents out by talking about past lives, I don’t even remember where I got it from. Always kind of had that sense in me, but I know a lot of people who don’t.

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