these individuals often are mere figureheads

II. xi, 3.  Be prepared also to see comical figures.  One must know how to lead.  One must, one must, one must!                        -Leaves of Morya’s Garden 1925

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231.  When I speak about unifying I am also presupposing fiery welding.  As the caster knows the proper quantity of metal for a group of figures, so does Fire act on the unifying of peoples.  This unification can be represented as the creation of one gigantic figure, with all the power of a giant.  And we must strive for the formation of these collectives of the spirit.  Let us not regard them as artificial Golems.  The monster, Golem, remained without the fire of the spirit and therefore destroyed itself.  The spirit is a fire-bearing magnet, and it is possible to join to it a portion of the higher energies.   -M:  Fiery World 1933

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100.  Let us not take the jumbled figures of the bazaar for the laws of the universe.     

                                       -M:  Aum 1936

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263.  People should study the figures central to events.  They would then understand that these individuals often are mere figureheads, around whom swirl events that lie beyond their comprehension.      -M:  Supermundane 2, 1938