DLW 146 - The Holy Spirit Is the Emanating Divine

DLW 146

People call the Holy Spirit the emanating Divine,
and yet no one knows why it is called emanating.
People do not know
because they have not known before
that the Lord appears to angels as the sun,
and that from that sun emanates
warmth which in its essence is Divine love,
and light which in its essence is Divine wisdom.
As long as this remained unknown,
people could not but suppose
that the emanating Divine was a distinct Divine entity,
which is also the reason we find it said
in the Athanasian doctrine of the Trinity
that there is one person of the Father,
another of the Son,
and still another of the Holy Spirit.

Now, however, when it is known
that the Lord appears as a sun,
a proper idea may be had of the emanating Divine
which is called the Holy Spirit -
namely, that it is inseparable from the Lord,
but emanates from Him
like heat and light from the sun.
This, too, is the reason
that the more love and wisdom angels possess,
the more Divine warmth and light they have.