Whose fulness--'like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down unto the beard: even unto Aaron's beard,' [Footnote 600] --came down upon the apostles and their disciples: who preached the mystery of the Cross through the four quarters of the world, the Lord working with them. The white covering doth typify the joy of immortality: concerning which the Son exulteth, saying unto the Father, 'Thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.' [Footnote 601] [Footnote 600: Psalm cxxxiii (_Ecce quam bonum_), 2.] [Footnote 601: Psalm xxx (_Exaltabo te Domine_), 12.] {175} APPENDIX A CHANCELS 'The temple of old was divided into two parts by a veil hung in the middle thereof. The first part was called the Holy Place, but the inner part the Holy of Holies. Whatever part then of the office of the Mass cometh before the secret [Footnote 602] is performed as it were in the outer place: but the secret itself within the Holy of Holies. There were in the Holy of Holies the altar of incense, the ark of the testimony, the mercy-seat above the ark, and over this two cherubims of glory with their faces looking towards each other. Herein the high priest entered alone once in the year, having the names of the patriarchs written upon the breastplate of judgment and the shoulderplates, and bearing a censer of burning coals and blood, and incense, which with prayer he placed in the thurible until the cloud of incense covered him. [Footnote 603] [Footnote 602: After the _Sanctus_, which, as we shall find, was performed with the full choir and the accompaniment of organs, came the _secret_, which embraced the whole _Canon of the Mass_, performed by the celebrant alone, and the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. 'It is called the secret because these things be hidden from us, since the nature of man can in no wise fully comprehend so great a mystery: for the denoting of which it is rightly performed secretly. To signify the same also, the priest when entering upon the secret is veiled as it were with the side curtains.' See other mystical reasons adduced in the remainder of this passage, Book IV, Chapter 35, and in Chapter 39 an account of the side curtains. Upon the use of these see also the _Dublin Review_, vol. x, p. 339. ] [Footnote 603: See Leviticus xvi; Exodus xxviii, xxxix, and xl.] {176}