So much valuable time

"For this reason it is that literary and scientific men, who have been tempted to join our ranks in the hope of opening a new source of intellectual enjoyment, and of receiving an accession of novel ideas for their reflection and delight, so frequently retire, if not with disgust, at least with mixed feelings of sorrow and regret, at the unprofitable sacrifice of so much valuable time which might have been applied to a better purpose."

- Robert Hewitt Brown, Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy

Difficulty of Comprehension

"for those unhabituated to looking beyond surface-values and material meanings the exposition about to be given, dealing as it will with the profound spiritual truths and advanced psychological experience allegorized by the external ceremonial, is likely to present some difficulty of comprehension and acceptance."

- Walter Leslie Wilmshurst

From Carcass to Eagles

For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

- Matthew 24:28 KJV

Hereford Cathedral