Dear new Minion,

Hellish greetings to you, amateur devil!

I know you will be surprised to find me, the Prince of Darkness suddenly making correspondence with you. I can clearly see through my own blazing eyes, how elated you will be, considering your self as a lowly apprentice demon receiving a letter from the Ancient Serpent and Master of Evil himself. No doubt, as inherent among our kind, you will surely be parading before the hosts of Hell bragging about your vicious pride of having received a note from me. Be assured! I will allow you that. For since the beginning of time, pride has been my own vanity. Perhaps it was not hidden from you and I hope your master devils had taught you well about my grand beginnings. Just in case they forgot, let me tell you my real name. I was called Lucifer, or “Carrier of Light”. I was the fairest and the most beautiful among God’s archangels. In fact, I believed, many envied me for having been especially created above all the rest in splendor. Things just turned different when I tried to wage a war against the heavens when I too, desired to be equal with God. That was just unacceptable to Him. Truly, He does not want to be equaled by anybody. He wants to be alone in His glory! Many joined me in my cause but still, we were defeated by the host of those coward loyalists under an archangel second only to me, named Michael. I just could not understand why they chose to remain subservient to God instead of seeking their own glories. They were fools.

Now I’m here, in this filthy Earth, with an extremely obnoxious appearance. Nonetheless, if God thwarted my lordship in heaven, I vowed to turn this world into my own kingdom. In short, it was my own pride and ambition that caused God to drive me down here. So much about my sad story, I just wish my special interest in you as a promising demon; will embolden you to be more assiduous in bringing more souls to hell; for that alone, is our business.

Talking about getting more souls, I wish to give you some basic and time-tested techniques in committing as many souls as possible to damnation. You see, after having been cast out of Heaven eons upon eons of time ago; I have tried and mastered all forms of cunning arts of temptation. Never yielding to my thought of becoming equal, if not, greater than God, I earnestly wish to bring all human beings to perdition, if only through that way, I can get even with Him. For this, you should pay much attention. I will give you now, man’s common weak points and the subtle ways of seducing them to do evil.