2706. Further I was told that such lusts, and the practices of such lusts, are what are meant by sins against the Holy Spirit [Matt. 12:31, Mark 3:28-29, Luke 12:10]. For the holiness of the angels is founded, as said, in marriage love, and in innocence, which are the starting points of all spiritual and heavenly loves and feelings of goodness, thus of societies in the heavens. And since such lusts are contrary to the first principles of holiness, therefore these in the first place are meant by sins against the holy spirit.