That the Son is the author of the Holy Spirit.
It
is also established from the aforesaid Doctors that the Son is author
of the Holy Spirit. For Athanasius in his letter to Serapion says: “The
Apostle attributes what the Spirit works and effects in him to the Son,
his author, as the Son attributes to God the Father, his author, the
works he performs.” 
Authority of one person in relation to another among the divine
persons only exists insofar as one is from another eternally. Hence, the
Holy Spirit is from the Son eternally.
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