%0 Book Section %B Exploring Early Grand Lodge Freemasonry: Studies in Honor of the Tricentennial of the Establishment of the Grand Lodge of England %D 2017 %T The Essential Secrets of Masonry: Insight from an American Masonic Oration of 1734 %A Shawn Eyer %X An in-depth scholarly analysis of the June 24, 1734, "Dissertation upon Masonry," the oldest surviving American Masonic speech, and the third oldest in the world. Critical commentary includes intertextual relationships and an analysis of the types of esotericism mentioned in the document. %B Exploring Early Grand Lodge Freemasonry: Studies in Honor of the Tricentennial of the Establishment of the Grand Lodge of England %I Plumbstone %C Washington, D.C. %P 152–215 %G eng