Possession is the contagion of Satan who inoculates the human being with his juices and perverts its nature.
It is the marriage of a spirit with Satan and animality. But possession is still a trifle as compared with incarnation.
So, why didn't Jesus purify and cure him? Because when a man is ill he seeks cure by himself, unless it is a child or a fool who are devoid of willpower. So, why did Jesus not treat Judas as a fool and see to it, without his being aware of it? Because it wouldn't have been just since Judas could still use his willpower. Judas knew what is good and what is evil for him. And Jesus's curing him would've been of no avail without Judas's will to remain cured. So, why didn't Jesus give Judas such a will? Should Jesus have
imposed a good will on him? And his free will? What would it have become? What would his ego of a man, of a free creature be?
Dominated?
Satan approached Judas, tempting him, testing him, and he received him. There is no possession if at the beginning there is no assent to some satanic temptation. The snake introduces his head between the bars closely placed to defend hearts, but he would not be able to enter
if man did not widen a passage to admire his alluring aspect and listen to and follow him... Only then man becomes dominated, possessed, because he wants it. God also darts the very kind lights of His paternal love from the heavens, and His lights penetrate us. Or rather: God, to Whom everything is possible, descends into the hearts of men. It is His right. Since man knows how to become a slave dominated by the Dreadful one, why does he not know how to become a servant of God, nay a son of God, and he drives away his Most Holy Father? Judas wanted Satan and preferred him to God.
But, Judas wasn't only possessed by Satan. Satan eventually became incarnate in him.
Only in Jesus Christ is God as He is in Heaven, because Jesus is the God Who became Flesh.
One only is the divine Incarnation. Likewise Satan, Lucifer, was in one only, as he is in his kingdom, because Satan was incarnate only in the killer of the Son of God. When he was before the Sanhedrin and negotiating and pledging himself to have Jesus killed, it was not Judas. It was Satan.
Jesus chose the apostles and He elected them, so that they may go among peoples and they may bear fruit in themselves and in the hearts of those who are evangelized, and their fruit may remain, and the Father may give them everything they will ask of Him in His name.
Do not say: "So, if Jesus chose them, why did He choose a betrayer. If He knows everything, why did He do that?" He is not a man. He is Satan.
If Satan, the eternal mimic of God, had not become incarnate in human flesh, this possessed man [Judas] couldn't have escaped the power of Jesus. That's why I said Judas was much more than possessed: he was annihilated in Satan.
So, why didn't Jesus defeat Satan? Could He not do that? He could. But in order to prevent Satan from taking bodily form to kill Him, He should have had to exterminate the human race before Redemption. So what would He have redeemed?
(PV5)
When Judas no longer believed in Jesus, in the satisfaction of money, or in the protection of human law, he killed himself. Remorse over his crime? No. If it had been that, he would have killed himself immediately after grasping that Jesus knew. But not then, not after the vile kiss and the loving greeting, not then, not when he saw Jesus spat upon, bound, dragged away amidst a thousand insults. Only after having understood that the law did not protect him—the poor human law, which often creates or provokes crime, but afterwards washes its hands of its executors or accomplices and, if need be, turns against them and, after having used them, strikes them dumb forever by eliminating them—and only after having understood that power and money were not forthcoming or were too base to produce happiness, only then did he kill himself. He was in the darkness of nothingness. He cast himself into the darkness of hell.
(N:43)
Remorse could have also saved Judas, if he had turned remorse into repentance. But he would not repent and, to the first crime of betrayal, still compatible because of the great mercy that is Jesus loving weakness, he added blasphemy, resistance to the voices of Grace, that still wanted to speak to him through recollections, through terrors, through Jesus's Blood and His mantle, through His glances, through the traces of the institution of the Eucharist, through the words of His Mother.
He resisted everything. He wanted to resist. As he had wanted to betray. As he wanted to curse. As he wanted to commit suicide.
It is one's will that matters in things. Both in good and in evil. When one falls without the will to follow, Jesus forgives. (PV5)
