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80 ARRAS
ASCENSION
in the Hebrew language, and means to interweave
or to mingle, to exchange, to become
surety for anyone, and to pledge even the
life of one person for another, or the strongest
pledge that can be given . Judah pleads with
Israel to let Benjamin go with him to be presented
in Egypt to Jose~ ph, as the latter had
requested . He says : "Send the lad with me -
I will be surety for him" (Gen. xliii . 9) ; and
before Joseph he makes the same remark in
Gen . xliv. 32. Job, in chap . xvii . 3, appealing
to God, says : "Put me in a surety with
thee ; who is he that will strike hands with
me? " (See also 1 Sam . xvii . 18 .) In its pure
form, the word " arubbah " occurs only once
in the Old Testament (Prov . xvii . 18) : "A
man void of understanding striketh hands, and
becometh surety in the presence of his friend ."
In Latin, Plautus makes use of the following
phrase : "Hunt arrhabonem amorisame accipe ."
Arras, Primordial Chapter of. Arras is
a town in France in the department of Pas de
Calais, where, in the year 1747, Charles
Edward Stuart, the Pretender, is said to have
established a Sovereign Primordial and Metropolitan
Chapter of Rosicrucian Freemasons . A
portion of the charter of this body is given by
Ragon in his Orthodoxie Maconique . In 1853,
the Count de Hamel, prefect of the department,
discovered an authentic copy in parchment,
of this document hearing the date of April 15
1747, which he deposited in the departmental
archives . This document is as follows :
"We, Charles Edward, king of England,
France, Scotland, and Ireland, and as such
Substitute Grand Master of the Chapter of
H ., known by the title of Knight of the Eagle
and Pelican, and since our sorrows and misfortunes
by that of Rose Croix, wishing to
testify our gratitude to the Masons of Artois,
and the officers of the city of Arras, for the
numerous marks of kindness which they in
conjunction with the officers of the garrison
of Arras have lavished upon us, and their
attachment to our person, shown during a
residence of six months in that city,
" We have in favor of them created and
erected, and do create and erect by the present
bull, in the aforesaid city of Arras, a Sovereign
Primordial Chapter of Rose Croix, under the
distinctive title of Scottish Jacobite, (tcosse
Jacobite,) to be ruled and governed by the
Knights Lagneau and Robesp ierre ; Avocats
Hazard, and his two sons, physicians ; J . B.
Lucet, our upholsterer, and Jer8me Cellier,
our clock-maker, giving to them and to their
successors the power not only to make knights,
but even to create a Chapter in whatever town
they may think fit, provided that two Chapters
shall not be created in the same town
however populous it may be .
"And that credit may be given to our
present bull, we have signed it with our hand
and caused to be affixed thereunto the secret
seal, and countersigned by the secretary of our
cabinet, Thursday, 15th of the second month
of the year of the incarnation, 1747 .
"CHARLES EDWARD STUART.
"Countersigned, BERKLEY ."
This Chapter created a few others, and in
1780 established one in Paris, under the distinctive
title of Chapter of Arras, in the valley
of Paris . It united itself to the Grand Orient
of France on the 27th of December, 1801 . It
was declared First Suffragan of the Scottish
Jacobite Chapter, with the right to constitute
others . The Chapter established at Arras
by the Pretender was named the "Eagle and
Pelican," and Oliver (Orig . of R . A ., p 22)
from this seeks to find, perhaps justifiabl , a
connection between it and the R . S . Y. C . S.
of the Royal Order of Scotland . [The story
of the establishment of this Chapter by the
Pretender is doubted by some writers and it
certainly lacks confirmation ; even his joining
the Craft at all is disputed by several who have
carefully studied the subject.-E . L . H .]
Arrest of Charter. To arrest the charter
of a Lodge is a technical phrase by which is
meant to suspend the work of a Lodge, to
prevent it from holding its usual communications,
and to forbid it to transact any business
or to do any work . A Grand Master cannot
revoke the warrant of a Lodge ; but if, in his
opinion, the good of Masonry or any other
sufficient cause requires it, he may suspend
the operation of the warrant until the next
communication of the Grand Lodge, which
body is alone competent to revise or approve of
his action .
Ars Quatuor Coronatorum is the name
under which the Transactions of the Lodge
Quatuor Coronati, No . 2076, London, the
premier literary Lodge of the world, are published
in annual volumes, commencing with
1888 .
Arthuslus, Gotthardus . A learned native
of Dantzic, Rector of the Gymnasium at
Frank fort-on-the-Main, who wrote many
works on Rosicrucianism, under the assumed
name of Irenmus Agnostus. (See Agnostus.)
Artisan, Chief. An officer in the Council
of Knights of Constantinople .
Art, Royal . See Royal Art.
Arts. In the Masonic phrase "arts, parts,
and points of the Mysteries of Masonry " ;
arts means the knowledge, or things made
known, parts the degrees into which Masonry
is divided, and points the rules and usA,ges .
(See Parts, and also Points .)
Arts, Liberal. See Liberal Arts and
Sciences .
Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of .
Tradition places Arundel as the Grand Master
of English Freemasons from 1633 to 1635 . This
is in accordance with Anderson and Preston,, .
Aryan . One of the three historical di-i
visions of religion-the other two being the ! .
Turanian and the Shemitic . It produced .
Brahmanism, Buddhism, and the Code of
Zoroaster.
Asarota . A variegated pavement used for
flooring in temples and ancient edifices .
Ascension Day . Also called Holy Thursday
. A festival of the Christian church held
in commemoration of the ascension of our
Lord forty days after Easter. It is celebrated
as a feast day by Chapters of Rose Croix .