Succubus

A Succubus is a female demon believed to abuse men (the male demon is the incubus). However, Maria Valtorta uses Succubus as a synonym for "concubine," which is actually the original Latin etymological meaning (succuba). In the context of the episode, it could be translated as "minion," a connoted term, or "spirit devoted to." It would be interesting to investigate whether this meaning corresponded to the usages of the time, which we have not yet succeeded in establishing.

The episode

In EMV 575.11, Jesus dialogues with Judas, who has become rebellious and impermeable to advice as well as orders. This dialogue, in which Judas often interrupts Jesus, is one of the last attempts to To Save Judas from the fate he has chosen.

"Believe, Judas, that appearing before the Lord with an unclean spirit such as yours is not to honor Him, but to offend Him. One must first..." - "Then why don't you purify me and heal me?" asks Judas, already hard, recalcitrant. "I do not heal you! When someone is sick, he seeks to heal himself, unless he is a very little child or a fool who does not know how to will..." - "Treat me as such persons. Treat me as a fool, and provide Yourself for me, without my knowing it."      

"That would not be fair, because you can will. You know what is Good and what is evil for you. And it would be pointless for me to heal you without your will to remain healed." - "Give it to me too." - "Give it to you? Then impose on you a good will? And your free will? What would become of it then? What would your self as a man, as a free creature, be? Succubus?" - "As I am Succubus of Satan, I could be His of God!"    

"How you wound me, Judas! How you pierce my Heart! But for what you do to me, I forgive you... Succubus of Satan, you said. I myself did not say that dreadful thing..." - "But you thought it because it is true and you know it, if it is true that you read in men's Hearts. If it is so, you know that I am no longer free of myself... He took me and..."  

"No. He approached you, tempting you, testing you, and you Homeli Him. There is no possession if at the beginning there is no adhesion to some Satanic Temptation. The serpent insinuates his head between the close bars set to defend the Hearts, but he would not enter if man did not widen for him a passage to admire his seductive aspect, to listen to him, to follow him... Then only does man become Succubus, possessed, but because he wants it. God also shoots from the heavens the very gentle lights of His paternal love, and His lights penetrate us. Or rather: God, to whom all is possible, descends into the Heart of men. It is His right. Why then does the man who knows he becomes a slave, Succubus of the Horrible, not know how to render himself a servant of God, or rather a son of God, and why does he chase away his Most Holy Father?