13. The man who is principled in spiritual good is a moral man and also a civil man; while the man who is not principled in spiritual good, appears as if he were a moral and civil man, but still he is not so. The man who is principled in spiritual good is a moral and civil man, because spiritual good has in itself the essence of good, and from this it has moral and civil good. The essence of good cannot come from any other source than from Him who is Good itself. Give to thought its freest range, exert it to the utmost and inquire whence it is that good is good, and you will see that it is from its esse (that is, its very being), and that this is good which has in it the very being of good; consequently that this is good which is from Good itself, that is, from God; and consequently that good, which is not from God, but from man, is not good.