readily admit that these lacunae should be filled, time-
consuming as that may be, because the facts on which this
book are based are urgently needed; through no fault of the
author’s, these data have come too late.
The reader is entitled to an explanation of the long history
and circumstances under which this work was compiled, not
just of the content itself. This is, in fact, the third manuscript I
have created on this same subject. I threw the first manuscript
into a central-heating furnace, having been warned just in time
about an official search, which took place minutes later. I sent
the second draft to a Church dignitary at the Vatican by means
of an American tourist and was absolutely unable to obtain any
kind of information about the fate of the parcel once it was left
with him.
This long history of subject-matter elaboration made work
on the third version even more laborious. Prior paragraphs and
former phrases from one or both of the first drafts haunt the
writer’s mind and make proper planning of the content more
difficult.
The two lost drafts were written in very convoluted lan-
guage for the benefit of specialists with the necessary back-
ground, particularly in the field of psychopathology. The irre-
trievable disappearance of the second version also meant the
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AUTHOR’S FOREWORD
loss of the overwhelming majority of statistical data and facts
which would have been so valuable and conclusive for special-
ists in the field. Several analyses of individual cases were also
lost.
The present version contains only such statistical data that
had been memorized due to frequent use, or that could be re-
constructed with satisfactory precision. I also added those data,
particularly the more accessible ones from the field of psycho-
pathology, which I considered essential in presenting this sub-
ject to readers with a good general education, and especially to
representatives of the social and political sciences and to politi-
cians. I also nurse the hope that this work may reach a wider
audience and make available some useful scientific data which
may serve as a basis for comprehension of the contemporary
world and its history. It may also make it easier for readers to
understand themselves, their neighbors, and other nations of
the world.
Who produced the knowledge and performed the work
summarized within the pages of this book? It was a joint en-
deavor consisting of not only my efforts, but also representing
the results of many researchers, some of them not known to the
author. The situational genesis of this book makes it virtually
impossible to separate the accomplishments and give proper
credit to every individual for his or her efforts.
I worked in Poland far away from active political and cul-
tural centers for many years. That is where I undertook a series
of detailed tests and observations which were to be combined
with the resulting generalizations of various other experiment-
ers in order to produce an overall introduction for an under-
standing of the macrosocial phenomenon surrounding us. The
name of the person who was expected to produce the final syn-
thesis was a secret, as was understandable and necessary given
the time and the situation. I would very occasionally receive
anonymous summaries of the results of tests made by other
researchers in Poland and Hungary; a few data were published,
as they raised no suspicions that a specialized work was being
compiled, and these data could still be located today.
The expected synthesis of this research did not occur. All of
my contacts became inoperative as a result of the wave of post-
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Stalin repression and secret arrests of researchers in the early
sixties. The remaining scientific data in my possession were
very incomplete, albeit priceless in value. It took many years of
lonely work to weld these fragments into a coherent whole,
filling the lacunae with my own experience and research.
My research on essential psychopathy and its exceptional
role in the macrosocial phenomenon, was conducted concur-
rently with, or shortly after, that of others. Their conclusions
reached me later and confirmed my own. The most characteris-
tic item in my work is the general concept for a new scientific
discipline named “ponerology” . The reader will also find other
fragments of information based on my own research. I also
effected an overall synthesis to the best of my ability.
As the author of the final work, I hereby express my deep
respect for all those who initiated the research and continued to
conduct it at the risk of their careers, health and lives. I pay
homage to those who paid the price through suffering or death.
May this work constitute some compensation for their sacri-
fices, regardless of where they may be today. Times more con-
ducive to an understanding of this material may recall their
names, both those which I never knew and those I have since
forgotten.
New York, N.Y. August 1984.
PREFACE
TO THE RED PILL PRESS EDITION
Twenty years have passed since the writing of this book. I
became a very old man. One day, my computer put me in con-
tact with the Scientists of the Quantum Future Group who con-
vinced me that the time had matured for my book to become
useful and to serve the future of humanity. They took the trou-
ble of publishing it.
The passing of these last twenty years has been fraught with
political occurrences. Our world has changed in essential ways
due to the natural laws of the phenomenon described in this
book. Knowledge has increased dramatically thanks to the
efforts of the people of good will. Nonetheless, our world is not
yet restored to good health; and the remainders of the great
disease are still active. The illness has reappeared connected to
another ideology. The laws of the genesis of evil are working
in millions of individual cases of individuals and families. The
political phenomena threatening peace are confronted by mili-
tary force. The small-scale occurrences are condemned or re-
strained by the word of moral science. The result is that great
efforts of the past, undertaken without the support of objective
natural knowledge about the very nature of evil, have been
insufficient and dangerous. All these efforts have been made
without taking into account that great maxim of medicine that
serves as a motto in this book: Ignota nulla curatio morbid.*
The end of Communist subjugation has come at a high price,
* Do not attempt to cure what you do not understand.
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and those nations that now think they are free will soon find
they are paying still.
The question must be asked: why was this work, produced
by eminent researchers and the author for just this purpose – to
prevent the spread of the disease of macrosocial evil, not able
to perform its function?
This is a long story.
I had been recognized as the bearer of this “dangerous” sci-