What really is a blessing?

I have pondered long and hard about this and I have arrived at some interesting conclusions.

1) A blessing is something that is written upon something else.

Think of a piece of paper. The paper is nothing more than that until it is blessed with writing. It can make it a note, a story, or even a book.

2) A blessing writes a message onto the spirit.

There is a spiritual essence/energy that exists with everything. It's what the entire world is made of. In the book "Hostage to the Devil", Malachi Martin says that "spirit is the basis of all reality" it "would not only be boring without spirit; it would have no meaning whatsoever."

3) A blessing covers, but yet reveals.

Think of it as a gift. In my taking a reiki class, I was "attuned" but when you look at the sign language for "bless" you see that it's a combination of something being blown into and laid upon. This is basically (and from a very basic level conceptually) what happens during a reiki attunement.

4) It changes the nature of the thing being blessed.

When it comes to things like blessing food, it's been researched that blessing the food will change its qualities to something that is more beneficial than before. In some cases it changes the pH from acidity to alkaline

5) It never goes away.

If you are blessed with a child, that stays with you for your entire life. The bible even claims that a blessing can exists for generations.

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6) It gets passed on from parent to child.

If you are blessed with beautiful eyes or naturally curly hair, that gets passed on to your descendants.


I am going to consider the topic more, but I am sure that intent is a part of the whole idea of blessing, which in cases of ill-intent show that a curse works in much the same way. Just take the concepts and apply the negative to them

I am looking for what can take away a blessing. Currently I have not seen anything that does so and I am sure to be questioned as to why I would want that sort of thing to be done.

If a blessing is done as some kind of binding, then even with positive intent, the result may be unwarranted. This is concerting to me, as I perceive it should be my choice whether to receive a blessing or not.

To that I will consider it further.