§ 2.  Chrism.  When spiritual blessings so many and so great have been ascribed to Baptism, in what light, it may be asked, does Cyril regard the Unction which follows?  Does he treat it as being merely an additional ceremony subordinate to Baptism, or as having for its own proper grace some special gift of the Holy Ghost?  We find no answer to this question in the earlier course of Lectures Upon the supposed allusion to Chrism in Cat. xvi. § 26, see below, p. xxxiv..  But that Chrism was not regarded by Cyril as a mere accessory to Baptism, as Milles thought Note on Mystag. iii. § 1., may be safely inferred from the fact that in announcing the subjects of his Mystagogic Lectures, he mentions first Baptism, then “the seal of the fellowship of the Holy Ghost,” and then “the Mysteries at the altar of the New Covenant Cat. xviii. § 33.:”  and this inference is fully confirmed by his language elsewhere:  “Ye have heard enough of Baptism, and Chrism, and partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ Mystag. v. § 1..”  A mere additional ceremony of Baptism could not have been so independently placed between the two sacraments, and, as it were, in the same rank with them.