Mahayana Buddhism

One of the purposes for attaining the Stone of the Wise enshrined in the Mercury center (astrologically, Mercury rules communication) is to produce a receptor capable of receiving the more rarefied spiritual influences and an organism capable of transmitting them. Selfish salvation there is none. It is for all others, as well as for ourselves, that we undertake the Work. Likewise, in Mahayana Buddhism, all rituals and meditations end with the dedication that Whatever benefits are accrued may help all beings to reach Enlightenment. ... 

It is also worth recalling that, of the two great forms of Buddhism, mahayana Buddhism places more emphasis on altruism than theravada Buddhism does. This is one of the main distinctions between them. In mahayana Buddhism, the saint is the bodhisattva who so loves others that, when he arrives on the threshold of nirvana, he refrains from entering it so that they may rejoin him and he may help them by lending them some of his numerous merits. However, it may certainly be asserted that theravada Buddhism is the purest form, being closest to the origins and therefore more properly the true Buddhism. 

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