Descartes states that truths may have a nature or essence of themselves of being true and independent of the thinker.
While thinking about the independence of these ideas of external objects (Mathematical Truth), Then Descartes realized that he is just as about God as he is about these mathematical ideas as both of them have an essence and independent of the thinker.
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Summary of Meditation V. Of the essence of material things, and, again, of God, that He exists.
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