The sign of the cross and Orthodox prayer are capable
of killing microbes and change the optical properties
of water - a study
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=1173Moscow, March 17, Interfax - Scientists have proved
experimentally the miracle-working properties of the
sign of the cross and prayer.
‘We have ascertained that the old custom to make a
sign of the cross over food and drink before a meal
has a profound mystical meaning. Standing behind it is
the practical use: the food is purified literally in
an instant. This is a great miracle, which happens
literally every day,’ physicist Angelina Malakhovskaya
said as cited by the Zhizn newspaper on Friday.
Malakhovskaya have studied that power of the sign of
the cross with the blessing of the Church for nearly
ten years now. She has carried out a great number of
experiments, which have been repeatedly verified
before their results were made public.
She has discovered in particular the unique
bactericidal properties of water after being blessed
by an Orthodox prayer and a sign of the cross. The
study also revealed a new, earlier unknown property of
the Word of God to transform the structure of water,
increasing considerably its optical density in the
short ultra-violet spectral region, the newspaper
writes.
The scientists have verified the impact the Lord’s
Prayer and the Orthodox sign of the cross make on
pathogenic bacteria. Water samples from various
reservoirs - wells, rivers, lakes - were taken for the
research. All the samples had goldish taphylococcus, a
colon bacillus. It turned out however, that if the
Lord’s Prayer is said and a sign of the cross is made
over them, the number of harmful bacteria will
decrease seven, ten, hundred and even over thousand
times.
The experiments were made in such a way as to exclude
a possible impact of mental suggestion. The prayer was
said by both believer and non-believers, but the
number of pathogenic bacteria in various environments
with different sets of bacteria still decreased as
compared to the reference templates.
The scientists have also proved the beneficial impact
that the prayer and the sign of the cross have on
people. All the participants in the tests had their
blood pressure stabilized and blood indexes improved.
Strikingly, the indexes changed towards the healing
needed: hypotensive people had their blood pressure
raised, while hypertensive people had it reduced.
It was also observed that if the sign of the cross is
made offhandedly, with the three fingers put together
unscrupulously or placed outside the necessary points
- the middle of the forehead, the center of the solar
plexus and the recesses in the right and left
shoulders - the positive result was much weaker or
absent altogether.
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