Matthew 25:32 Meaning Before Him All the Nations Will Be

The nations gathered are the many states and impulses within a person, the whole population of feelings and drives assembled before the discerning self. To separate them is the inner work of discrimination, awareness sorting its own contents by their quality rather than judging people in a distant world. The sheep are the gentle, following energies, the parts of a person that yield to the higher current and move with it. The goats are the willful, self-butting impulses, the appetites that climb and resist and push against the finer nature. The shepherd is the awakened self, the presence that knows one from the other in its own field.

What takes place is a sorting inside one person: the discerning self weighs its own impulses and divides the yielding from the resistant.

All nations: the many states and impulses within a person, the full population of feelings gathered for weighing Shepherd: the awakened self that knows and sorts its own inner contents Sheep: the gentle, following energies that yield to the higher current and move with it Goats: the willful, self-butting impulses and appetites that resist the finer nature