By protecting others, you save yourself. If you only think of yourself, you’ll only destroy yourself.

Akira Kurosawa, & al., Seven Samurai

Hermetic quote Kurosawa Seven Samurai protecting others save yourself

Consider also:

  1. L’Inferno
  2. “he found it pleasant to realize that the serene purpose of Shangri-La could embrace an infinitude of odd and apparently trivial employments, for he had always had a taste for such things himself. In fact, when he regarded his past, he saw it strewn with images of tasks too vagrant or too taxing ever to have been accomplished; but now they were all possible, even in a mood of idleness.”
  3. Earliest evidence of horse riding found in kurgan mound burials and 1000 years before earliest known artistic depictions
  4. Tree of Life corporate organizational chart
  5. “CXVII As I come through the ordeal which is bliss, Careful I tread to avoid the Abyss And escape the clutches of Choronzon! I raise up the cup and adore Babalon!”