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Sovereign Sanctuary of the FAR+C
Ajunta, 15 September 1968
Office of the Imperator

Preface ~

It is a joy for me to give my testimony to the magnificent fulfillment of our great friend, Roger Caro.

Never was such an arduous task executed with so much patience, tenacity, sureness, and competence.

A Puzzle constituted by 40 loose color photographs, disordered and without caption, was solved and commented upon with mastery. This was a titanic undertaking, for to restore the correct order it was first necessary to learn the secrets of the Magistry --- at least in theory; for who wouldn’t be astounded by the superb result obtained when one has before one’s eyes Pleiade Alchimique, and above all the 508 quotations contained in Concordances Alchimiques, which places all the valid authors, both ancient and modern, in parallel, phase by phase, thus placing the Great Work in a favorable light.

All of the preceding demonstrates a rare hermetic knowledge. Consequently, how would Our Order have been able to remain indifferent before such an unselfish work? So it is with one accord that our Supreme Council --- upon my request --- permits you to publish the Complete Great Work Photographed.

These photographs, which were formerly taken by our deceased and much-missed son, Kamala-Jnana, during the course of an alchemical experiment at Ajunta, could only be published by you, my dear Grand master. Also, do not stop yourself because of financial or other considerations. Go ahead, you have the faith, you have the knowledge, you know what must be done to succeed. Go then, and continued to sow the good seed. Don’t let yourself stop for anything, and remember always that God accords success only to his predestined --- the others, the complicated, will have eyes which don’t know how to see and ears which don’t know how to hear.

That these photographs and their commentaries touch as many of the chosen as possible is my most fraternal wish. Seekers can be delayed no longer, for you have said all, written all, and shown all.

God bless you, my dear Grand Master. Our Order is proud of you.

May Peace be upon you, in you, and around you.

A.J. D’Ossa

Introduction ~

We will surprise no one by saying that a great number of seekers have asked us for the photographs which should illustrate the Siphra Di Tzeniutha. These 40 pictures, announced at the end of the Dictionary of Alchemical Philosophy by Kamala-Jnana, fascinate the adepts of the Great Art. Today, placed in chronological order, they are a true feast for the eyes of an Alchemist; a symphony of colors marking now the dry way of the Great Work, for what a job to regroup and methodically reorder this heap of scattered films, and give each of these a caption both valuable and audible to the Children of Light.

Well, all that is no more than the past, a dark past, with neither glory or fame; a past made of sleepless nights, or of sleep troubled by a thought always in perpetual motion. This past lasted from 1961 to 1967 --- six years of researches and readings --- but in 9 months (thanks to our cards and notes) we had done all the spadework. Still, the light should illuminate the details only a great many months after, and progressively.

Today everything is in order. A college of 20 adepts, under the chairmanship of the venerable Imperator of the FAR+C, has willingly given its unanimous consent to the appearance of the present work -- certainly a modest one given its bulk and the number of its pages, but so great and weighty with information.

May the Alchemical Temple of Ajunta see here our fraternal gratitude, for sincere seekers will find (thanks to this approbatur) a new source of information to master and in which to rejoice. What does it matter to us that a color plate (like those contained in the Dictionary) costs 75,000 old Francs altogether, and that there be 43 in the present work, since the hour is come to reveal that which is hidden.

This sovereign R+C missionary of 83 years (younger and more active than many young people) has said to us, "Go forward, do not let anything stop you". His wish is an old order. The Complete Great Work Photographed is off the presses. May heaven thus accord its graces to the future 250 possessors of these plates. That too is our dearest wish.

Roger Caro

N.B. --- The present work is the last public alchemical contact connecting our present Imperator and the Sons of Science.