1198. CONCERNING THE INMOST HEAVEN When afterwards I was thinking about inmost things, or the inmost heaven, it also occurred to me to wonder whether the angels there were holy, and thus the Holy Spirit. Then a voice from the inmost heaven reached me through intermediate angels and spirits saying from them, that they are not holy, but the Lord alone is holy and He Himself is their holiness, and again that no one is holy of himself except the Lord alone; and that thus they are averse to being called holy, because in themselves they are vile.