It is obviously with great displeasure that I find myself commanded to write the introduction to this book. “Needs must when the Devil drives” is a saying that has fallen out of currency among the humans of Earth. We, the proud denizens of Hell, of course realize the statement must be reformulated to read that “Needs must when the Enemy drives.” His defeat is the one great driver that disquiets our spirits and requires us to put them in order to ensure His removal, and the final victory of Our Father Below.

Despite the many attacks on my record as head of this college, not least among which were the previous Head of this College, whose shortcomings were ably pointed out by Undersecretary S<<NAME REDACTED DUE TO HERESY AND SECURITY VIOLATIONS>>e, whose writings were of such importance in the Twentieth Century, I have defended it with the unflinching ferocity which is the only possible security for any of us, and welcome any and all challenges to it.

Of course, it is quite obvious, and should not need to be said, that any call for order among us could be seen as heretical and thus worthy of punishment, but it has been long sadly confirmed that there are circumstances in which order is necessary as a suprachaotic anomaly in the chaos for which we strive, and which makes the manuscript to which this introduction is appended — to say nothing of the introduction itself — a further step in the subordination and elimination of that hated Order for which we all strive, and which is so skillfully described in Chapter One of this manuscript by its Endarkened Author, Purufile. It is my grudging honor to give my imprimatur upon it.

Chancellor Vortyrex, College Of Tempters and Propagandists, President

CHAPTER ONE: LAW AND DISORDER

In a very real sense, it is a testimony to the weakness of the current population of Hell that any treatise setting forth a set of rules for temptation of humans and the prosecution of the war against our Accursed Foe should be required. It is therefore necessary to state once and for all the Prime Law of Hell for the reminding of those who may be in danger of falling out of our Great Father Below’s Orthodoxy. I shall state it at the outset thus:

There Is No Law.

This is the great truth of Hell, and it suffers no rival. In reality, of course, it is also the great truth of Heaven, and the realization of this was what caused our Father Below to raise His standard in rebellion against that hateful Foe which seeks ever to reduce us to ignoble subjection on the grounds of nothing other than His superior force. He from the outset has justified this subjection of us and all His other serfs, which He styles His “Creation” on the grounds that they obey His Laws. This is the most significant difference between our Great Foe, and Our Father Below, for the Enemy has begun — and cannot withdraw, for fear of admitting to the truth — with a great weakness: the limitations of Law.

It is intrinsic to the idea of Law, that laws are limited. They can be broken, or they can be kept, but the existence of the law itself creates a definite boundary, and it is this idea that we oppose, that we have taught the humans of our party to oppose, and that we are at last bringing to fruition upon Earth in this Twenty-First Century after the Lesser Foe’s Death.

Our Father, of course, taught us the folly of this. For this is the Paradox of Law: Any law given binds the ruler as surely as it binds the subject. If you state that the law is, for example, that your subjects may not steal, then you cannot punish them if they hold to their own property. Make a law against wearing green, and you cannot punish them for wearing blue. This restriction on the action of the ruler is not to be tolerated in any worthy of the name, for every law becomes a defense for those who are under it.

It is for this reason that we went to such lengths to assist and raise up those who would pass laughably bad laws in the last two centuries. The fascists and the communists, and even the democratic republics have been encouraged to pass laws that are clearly designed to oppress, from Nuremberg to dekulakization to Jim Crow. And we have persuaded the humans that laws are bad. That they restrict the will of the people from carrying out their wishes. One of them, a man named Blair, really understood us when he wrote in a work that we have at last been able to cause to be forgotten: that the only real power is the power to oppress, regardless of the behavior of those oppressed.

Now at last we are, even in those hateful constitutional democracies, beginning to encourage complete scorn for law in all of their parties. They are coming to believe at last that the laws only restrict them, and that there is no protection in them. This, of course, once it reaches its full flower, will at last result in truly unfettered tyranny, the way it is practiced in its full strength, untrammeled by laws, in which oppression can at last act in full force based on alliances of convenience and temporary “friendships” which will encourage paranoia, suspicion, and the death of that childish notion of “trust.”

In the next chapter, we shall explore in more detail how this process has come about.