That the Holy Spirit flows from the Son and this from eternity.
The
same Doctors, moreover, also employ the term ‘outflowing’ to
demonstrate the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Son. For
Athanasius in his discourse on the Council of Nicaea, speaking in the
person of Christ, says: “I send Apostles into the world, not in the
power of man, but in the power of the Holy Spirit flowing out of my own
essence.” 
And in the same discourse: “If it is not to be believed and preached
of the Holy Spirit that he is the truth of the Father and Son,
coessential with both, flowing out of their essence, how in the divine
creed of saving baptism does God the Son, our Savior, count him with the
Father and Himself as cooperating to effect our salvation?”
And in his letter to Serapion he says: “The Holy Spirit caused it to
be believed and proclaimed by the Fathers at Nicaea that the Son is
coessential with him, as it were God flowing out of his essence.”
And Cyril in the Thesaurus says: “When the Holy Spirit is poured out on us, he reveals us configured to God; for he flows out of the Father and the Son.”
From this it is also established that the Holy Spirit is eternally from the Son, precisely in having the divine essence from him.
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