Methods of the past which have proven effective may be retained, but even these must be adapted to current situations or no real communication will be achieved. There are always two dangers. Man likes to categorize his successive eras of growth for historical purposes. He thus speaks of The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, The Machine Age, The Space Age, and so on. We suspect these arbitrary distinctions are not always too valid, as no one can tell where one age starts and another ends.
Every age is resistant to change because of the innate desire for security.
Thus, the alterations that are made often come by revolution rather than by more peaceful evolution. So we talk about the scientific revolution, or the industrial revolution, exactly as we speak of the American Revolution, or the French Revolution. Revolution sometimes means rather violent attack upon the existing order, and this calls forth frantic attempts to defend and protect the status quo. Because of its nature, the community of the ransomed ones is frequently involved in a struggle with the forces of change since it is the temporal representative of The Changeless One. Upon such occasions it tends toward blind reaction rather than to effective action.