The consecration of the ointment is compared by Cyril to the consecration of the Eucharist; after the invocation of the Holy Ghost it is no longer simple or common ointment, but a gift (Χάρισμα) of Christ, and by the presence of the Holy Ghost is able to impart of His Divine Nature.  And this ointment is symbolically applied to thy forehead, and thy other organs of sense207.” The ears, nostrils, and breast were each to be anointed, and Cyril explains the symbolical meaning in each case by appropriate passages of Scripture208. The consecration of the chrism could be performed by none but the Bishop, and he alone could anoint the forehead209, Presbyters being allowed to anoint the breast, but only with chrism received from the Bishop210.  The several ceremonies are thus explained in the Apostolical Constitutions211:  “This baptism is given into the death of Jesus:  the water is instead of the burial, and the oil instead of the Holy Ghost; the seal instead of the Cross; the ointment is the confirmation of the Confession212.” In like manner the chrism is explained again, “The ointment is the seal of the coven- ants213,” that is, both of God’s promises, and of the Baptismal vows. The members to be anointed were not the same in all Churches, but everywhere the chief ceremony was the anointing of the forehead with the sign of the Cross.  This is what Cyril calls “the Royal Sign214,” and “the Royal Seal to be borne upon the forehead of Christ’s soldiers215,” and again, “The Seal of the fellowship of the Holy Ghost216.” These last were probably the very words pronounced by the Bishop in making the sign of the Cross on the forehead, for by Canon 7 of the Second General Council at Antioch (381), converts from heretical sects were to be “sealed or anointed with the holy ointment on the forehead, eyes, nostrils, mouth, and ears.  And in sealing them we say, ‘The seal of the gift of the Holy Ghost.’” An additional prayer to be said by the Bishop is given in the Apostolical Constitutions217:  “O Lord God, the Unbegotten, who hast no Lord, who art Lord of all, who madest the odour 207 Ib. § 3. 208 Myst. iii. § 4. 209 Apost. Const. iii. § 16:  “Let the Bishop anoint those that are baptized with ointment (μύρῳ).” 210 See the authorities in Bingham, Ant. xii. c. 2, §§ 1, 2. 211 iii. 17. 212 Const. Apost. vii. c. 22. 213 Ib. vii. c. 43.  Cf. Cat. iii. 17. 214 Cat. iv. § 14. 215 Ib. xii. § 8. 216 Ib. xviii. 33. 217 vii. c. 44. 42 Ceremonies of Baptism and Chrism.