That the Son is also source of the Holy Spirit.
It
is established from the same authorities that the Son is source of the
Holy Spirit. For Athanasius in his discourse on the Council of Nicaea
says: “Just as the Spirit is in the Son as a stream in its source, and
just as the Son is in the Father as splendor in the sun of glory by
nature, so by the grace of the Holy Spirit the elect are in the Father
and the Son.” 
And in his letter to Serapion he says: As a fountain and as light the
Son is indeed with the Father; of this fountain and light the Holy
Spirit is the true stream and the splendor of eternal glory.” And in the
same letter he says: “For the Holy Spirit does not work in God, the
Christ and Word, namely, in his natural source.” And further on: “The
begotten Son and source of the Holy Spirit, between whom he holds the
middle place.”
And Athanasius in his sermon on the Incarnation of the Word says:
“David sings in the psalm (35:10), saying: For with you is the font of
life; because jointly with the Father the Son indeed is the source of
the Holy Spirit.”
From this it is also proven that the Son is the principle of the Holy Spirit as one existing of him eternally.
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