In Christian liturgical practice, there are many different ranks of consecrations. For example, water blessing, consecration of a car, apartment, body crosses, icons and so on. On certain special days, blessings of honey, fruit, kutia, and salt may be blessed. This tradition is very rare. It takes place in few temples on Holy Great Thursday.
Thursday salt is called a specially prepared and consecrated salt. Such a rare tradition takes place after the end of the Divine Liturgy on Holy Thursday, when the Church remembers the Last Supper. This custom is very ancient. In modern times, it is difficult to find a temple in which the consecration of such salt is carried out. It is known that in a Russian monastery on the holy Mount Athos, monks specially made salt in ovens, and then priests recited certain prayers for the blessing of salt.
Blessed quaternary salt was used as food, and they could also sprinkle a threshold on it to drive away unclean forces. Recently, a lot of mystical superstitions have entered the minds of people. This leads to the fact that Thursday salts begin to ascribe magical properties. It is no coincidence that some sorcerers and magicians use the Thursday salt for their own purposes. Since there are few places where the rite of blessing is performed, some psychics recommend that people themselves bless the salt on Holy Thursday night. There are many different sanctification practices, but they have nothing to do with the Christian understanding of the Thursday salt.
Quartet salt cannot be used in various rites of sorcery and magic, as well as used in fortune-telling. The Christian needs to remember that the true sanctified quaternary salt is ordinary salt that has been sprinkled with holy water. At the same time, divine grace descended on the product itself - no more. In the Christian tradition, almost any thing can be sanctified at any time, so salt is no exception. In this regard, the practice of blessing salt on Great Thursday is lost and does not have such widespread use.
