Edna Lister created this Bible study outline for May 27, 1934. Scripture: Matthew 25:31-46.

All thoughts are either constructive or destructive, yet you must bring them all before the judge of conscience, to be self-reviewed. "All the nations" are different states of consciousness, positive and negative, ranging from good to worthless.

Using your mental faculty of discrimination, you set the sheep on the right, and goats on the left. Sheep represent mild and guileless inheritors of the Father's kingdom "before the foundation of the world."

The "hungry" are hungering to lift all things into the Light. The "thirsty" are trying to partake fully of life.

The "stranger" has left himself out of God's kingdom. The "naked" lack their robes of spiritual radiance because they have misspent their soul substance.

The "sick" are negative in their attitudes toward life, weak from lack of contact with the Source of all life. The "prison" describes souls who have held back, living in a house of bondage to fear, carrying a crust.

Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? – Matthew 25:37-39.

Usually, you are unconscious of being yourself. The Lord's advice on how to be conscious is, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." – Matthew 25:40.

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. – Matthew 25:41.

The goats are resentful souls, rebellious against God, and life. Their conscience eventually curses them to the eternal fire, burning them about what they have left undone, until they feel unclothed, hunger to lift, and thirst for truth.

Lift your thoughts to an altar of fire, knowing that nothing is lost. Let them "burn forever" until you purify your thinking, until it is clear and clean.

You are learning that now is the Day of Judgment, each night and day. The dividing line is your discrimination faculty unfolding as you lift and choose each night.

How have you applied love, praise, desire, imagination and the spoken Word? So shall you be sons and daughters of God "from the foundation of the world," in your place.

Edna Lister created this sermon outline for December 1, 1935. Scribe: Ruth Bender. Scripture: Matthew 25:31-46.

This parable refers to the embodied rational soul, that conscious part of you. The nations represent the faculties and organs of the physical body.

"When the Son of man comes" represents soul consciousness. Angels symbolize your higher thoughts. The throne represents the head centers of consciousness, the pineal body and pituitary gland, for example.

Sheep represent the faculties, meek, mild, and childlike, raised and freed from subconscious control. Goats are tough, worldly thoughts, or may symbolize actual rough conditions in life.

You inherit the kingdom because you have regularly cared for the stranger when he was hungry, thirsty, naked, sick or in prison. You caring must be customary.

So, you must minister to others so often and for so long that your service becomes an unconscious act of doing. Your motive must be that your love is of God for God, which is real charity.

Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. – Matthew 25:41. "Cursed" represents negative thinking, desires, and imagination.

You may choose between everlasting punishment or eternal life, the life triumphant, the life victorious, life of the living. Your dreams do come true.