“Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the…”

Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory

Basil of Caesarea · On the Holy Spirit (De Spiritu Sancto) · NPNF2 VIII, De Spiritu Sancto, Chapter XV, 36

What the treatise is finally arguing for, put as a list rather than a syllogism: if all of this comes through the Spirit, the Spirit is not a creature. The passage was read at the Council of Constantinople’s side of the fourth-century argument and is why the creed of 381 says of the Spirit that He is worshipped and glorified together with the Father and the Son.