“We bless,” says S. Basil De Spiritu S. c. xxvii., “both the water of Baptism and the oil of the Chrism, and moreover the baptized (βαπτιζόμενον) himself.  From what written commands?  Is it not from a secret (σιωπωμένης) and mystical tradition?  Again, the very anointing with the oil, what word of Scripture taught that?  And the dipping the man thrice, whence came it?  And all the other accompaniments of Baptism, the renunciation of Satan and his angels, from what Scripture came they?  Come they not from this unpublished and secret teaching, which our fathers guarded in a silence with which no prying curiosity might meddle, having been well taught to preserve the sanctity of the mysteries by silence?  For how could it have been right to publish in writing the doctrine of these mysteries, which the unbaptized are not even allowed to look upon?”