AC 7437 - how affection effects

AC 7437 [2-3]
As regards thought from evils to falsities,
be it known that they who are in evils
cannot do otherwise than think from them to falsities;
for evils are of their will
and consequently of their love,
and falsities are of their thought
and consequently of their faith.
For what a man wills, he loves;
and what he loves, he confirms and defends;
and evils cannot be confirmed and defended
except by means of falsities....

It is the same also with those who are in a state of good,
in that they cannot do otherwise than think from good to truths;
for good and truth are conjoined,
and also evil and falsity,
insomuch that he who knows that any one is in good,
can know that he is in the truth of his good;

and that he who is in evil is in the falsity of his evil;
and that he is in this falsity
in proportion as he excels in the gift of reasoning and perverting,
and also in proportion as he is in the fear of
the loss of reputation for the sake of gain and honors,
and in proportion as he desires to be in the freedom of doing evil.
Strange to say,
after such persons have for some time defended evils by means of falsities,
they at last persuade themselves that evils are good,
and that falsities are truths.