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>saying that the Holy Spirit goes *through* the Son,
St. Gregory Palamas calls this blasphemy too if you want to say the Spirit receives _origin_ through the Son in a mediated way. Only the uncreated energies are manifested eternally through the Son, from the Father and in the Spirit. So the Father loves the Son in the Spirit, the Son reciprocates the Fatherly love back in the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit loves the Father through the Son in eternity. But only creatures receive existence through the Son (John 1:3).

>However, for this reason, we will not consider that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, for we would rather dishonor Him than glorify Him, reckoning Him among those [creatures] who received being through the Son. Therefore, we consider Him in a special way and eternally emanating from the Father alone, just as the Son is born [in a special way and eternally]. And believing in this way, we will glorify Him and worship [Him] with the Father and the Son.

>but it’s not the root of all evil
It's called explicitly satanic many times by Orthodox saints. St. Palamas says that even a slight error in God leads to great errors in everything else, which is a plainly demonstrable truth.