We say “this new edition,” because, in the first two published in 1818 and in 1825, the author, fighting the huge phalanx of popular errors and mysterious deceptions, fell deep into fatal distraction. The money, pain and risk are not required by this new edition of the Infernal Dictionary. Before now, the reader who wanted to navigate this mysterious maze of distorted, misleading beliefs, was required to seek out and collect many rare books with little subject matter, spend years and large sums of money researching and risking his faith on many occasions. Materials that are generally, with few exceptions, indigestible clusters of extravagant ideas, incomplete compilations, interminable discussions, and disordered or bad books in every sense of the word.
The works of which, before this book, have addressed these varied and extremely numerous materials. The Church, whose torch never fades, can be a sure guide in these eccentricities. The immense collection of materials that compiles the Infernal Dictionary includes confusing aberrations and erroneous origins that almost always grazes the truth. Here is the preface as translated from the 1863 edition of the Dictionnaire Infernal.
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