Across the depth-psychology corpus, ‘blessing’ operates simultaneously as cosmological conferral, psychic endowment, and eschatological promise — each register revealing distinct theoretical commitments. The richest material concerns blessing as a substance-like power: Onians demonstrates that in ancient Jewish and Near Eastern thought blessing was conceived as a liquid outpouring of fecundity, indistinguishable from seed, dew, and generative spirit. Moore, reading archaic kingship, extends this logic: the sovereign’s ordered cosmos is itself the vehicle of blessing, abundance flowing from creative act rather than arbitrary divine favour. In the I Ching tradition as rendered by Ritsema and Karcher, blessing (fu) denotes heavenly gifts aligned with spiritual goodwill — a cosmological currency transacted through receptive acquiescence. Christian and Orthodox sources (Philokalia translators, Thielman, Coniaris) reframe blessing as both eschatological inheritance for the faithful sufferer and sacramental dispensation bestowed through priestly or divine mediation. Esthés introduces a decisive depth-psychological twist: the ‘too-good mother’s blessing’ becomes a psychological liability when it attaches the soul to the topside world, barring entry to the wilder, instinctual depths. The corpus thus reveals a fundamental tension — between blessing as cosmological gift sustaining life and fertility, and blessing as a potentially constraining benevolence that the individuating psyche must examine, relativise, or even resist.