37. Since good is not good, as was said above, unless it is united with truth, it follows that good does not exist before it is so united. Nevertheless it continually wills to exist; and therefore, in order that it may exist, it desires truths and procures them for itself; and from them it derives its nourishment and its form. This is the reason that, so far as any one is principled in good, so far he loves truths; and similarly, he so far loves truths as he shuns evils as sins, for so far he is principled in good.