That the Son also originates the Holy Spirit.
From
these authorities it is also proven that the Son originates the Holy
Spirit. For Athanasius in his discourse on the Council of Nicaea says:
“The Son himself, naturally and eternally of himself qua God, in
spirating originates the Holy Spirit.” 
And in his letter to Serapion he says that “the Son works in the Holy
Spirit originated by him naturally, as in his own power.”
It hardly seems proper to restrict this to the temporal procession;
for someone is originated of him from whom he has his being; for to
originate means to give someone origin.
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