Incubus
Also known as demon lover. In occult lore, a lewd male demon or goblin which takes on the illusory appearance of a male human being and seeks sexual intercourse with women, usually while they are asleep.
Incubus
The pagan incubus was a special priest embodying a prophetic spirit who would come in dreams or visions to those who "incubated" overnight in an earth-womb Pit of a temple (see Abaddon).
The terms incubus and succubus have been applied indiscriminately by the Church Fathers to elementals.
"When you read that the celebrated Merlin was immaculately conceived by a nun, daughter of a king of Great Britain, and that he foretold the future more clearly than Tyresias CX, do not say with the masses that he was the son of an incubus devil, ...
Vinculum quoddam gratum vincto, quoddam ingratum, sicut quo bubo trahit mustellam, lupus detinet etc.; incubus spiritum rationalem, daemon energumenum occupat etc., gallus leonem, mugil navim.
Much of that higher spiritual energy which man pours forth cannot react upon him while in earth-life, for until his higher principles are freed from the incubus of the flesh, they are unable to respond to these far finer and more subtle vibrations.
 See also: Spirit, Ritual, Occult, Evil, Magic
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