1. That honestly depends on if it is your time and right to help them. If you're helping them because you feel it makes you the star of their show, then it is never a good time to help. If you are at sea, and you are on a boat, and other men around you are in the water, you can only carry so many men that the boat will allow. However, pulling one man out will ultimately cause the rest to seek refuge as well, and the worst swimmers will capsize you.
2. Truth simply is, and cannot not be. There are a myriad of facets acting simultaneously. Alcohol is always alcohol, yet each chemistry uses alcohol in the lab their own way. Without a hint of subjectivity, life is denied free will and thus the Great Work without meaning. I see things paradoxically, the Prima Materia exists as people can mentally recognize it's existence or even speculate something to exist on that magnitude. However, the individual cannot exist without the spark of the Prima Materia as it is all. Then again, what is one? One is one, one can mean all or one can be singular. The definition of one itself is in favor of this paradoxical approach.
3. I generally see this in a light that similar in nature to a mighty tree in a woods. The tree is great and magnificent, it's branches scrape heaven, it's roots touch hell. It provides food and shelter for so many plants and animals. However, even a tree so mighty will one day succumb to rot, decay, damage, and more. It's trunk now home to a score of insects eating their way within. The largest tree in the forest is biologically recognized as the "mother tree" and carries information over centuries. When it is cut down, the mother tree releases all its stored nutrients to the surrounding saplings and other trees. Some trees require the destruction of fire for their reproduction