Master Masons

Walton Hannah’s Darkness Visible, first published in 1952, is a sharp and careful examination of Masonic ritual through the eyes of a Christian theologian. Hannah, an Anglican clergyman, wrote not to mock or sensationalise but to show how the moral lessons of Freemasonry might appear to stand in tension with orthodox Christian belief. His method is simple: he quotes passages from the Craft’s three degrees and compares their language and symbolism with biblical teaching.

To Freemasons, the book can seem both fair-minded and uncomfortable. Hannah acknowledges the good done by the Craft, its charity, order, and fraternity, but argues that it borrows religious language without clear theology. He worries that when Masonry speaks of “light,” “resurrection,” or “immortality,” it teaches a moral truth apart from the specific revelation of Christ. In his view, Masonry points men toward virtue but not salvation.

Yet Hannah’s work is more mirror than attack. He…

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