Nicola Staff asked 4 years ago
The fact that people are using holy water with expectation of benefit and blessings from the divine gives the divine realm the latitude to remove any negative component that might get in the way of delivering a benefit. Certainly from a scientific perspective, applying holy water to wounds or ingesting it on the part of an individual with a compromised immune system or who already is weakened by an infectious disease would carry risks, but this is discounting the power of the divine to overcome any obstacle. So here again there is the question of belief quotient. If the belief quotient is not 100%, this may be one way in which the benefits are lessened if there is an adverse consequence because the water is not pure biologically in being contaminated with harmful bacteria, for example.
This is a complicated subject and will depend on the individuals involved in the scenario as well as what is actually in the water, because who receives it and what condition they might be in with respect to their own immunity, and the level of their belief quotient and worthiness of the self as they perceive it, will all be factors in what happens. The divine can work miracles but it is better to not be reckless. There are limits to our ability to override human choices. If people put themselves in harm’s way, even through ignorance, we cannot always keep them fully protected. So what we would say about this is that the track record is a good one, that people have not been so harmed by holy water that it has come to have a bad reputation as a risk. If people were being harmed with the level of use of this ritual, it would have been noticed well before now that something happens to those from attending church services and using this blessing, or the ingestion of holy water for the sick, and so on, and particularly as a preventive measure. The reason there have not been concerns raised heretofore is that, for the most part, the divine can override an adverse consequence and this is part of our being conscientious to carry out the pure intention of the humans using this in a ritual for benefit. So we are not party to worsening things. There will always be a potential inherent risk and, in some cases, individuals with vulnerability and low belief quotient may have a side effect from its use, but this indeed will be rare because in almost all cases there are sufficient intentions from the human side and belief quotient to prevent adding insult to injury through our energy being taken up in holy water by believers of the ritual.
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