When such accoutrements are needed they are manufactured artificially to serve the required purpose by the inventive ability of the human mind and creativity. All changes and growth in the human kingdom take place in the consciousness. What evolves is the inner nature, guided and inspired by the divine impulses that filter through the spiritual soul, for that is our essential being, the intangible source that stimulates truly human, humane behavior. All sacred scriptures and mythologies tell the same story of the world's composition and of the responsibilities that pertain to the human state. From the cradle to the grave we are constantly adding to our store of experience and consequently altering the condition of our mind and memory, bringing to bear a larger perspective and understanding with each new vicissitude met in the course of our living.
None is exempt from change.
Our consciousness never ceases its exploration of the realms of thought, though we may choose either to grow from it or to limit ourselves to transitory material pursuits. In the first case we may, like the great ideal figures, Christs and Bodhisattvas, choose to work with nature, take a deliberate hand in furthering the spiritual destiny we share, and develop the qualities that can be expressed when a human being forgets personal demands and enters the service of the divine warrior in the heart. This is not an impossible task but one that has been undertaken by others and successfully accomplished by a few. We evolve all the time, not in body but in mind and soul, gaining with every thought and desire new insights and increased understanding or, conversely, debasing our nature and shrinking our horizon to near extinction of the humane consciousness which distinguishes man from beast. Evidence for that innermost self is something we each have to discover for ourselves.