Mat 13:48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.

At first, I was a little confused about why Christ explains tha the fishermen came to shore and sat down. Christ doesn't say anything without a purpose. Then I realized he was using the shore as another symbol for earth, the element signifying relationships and the sitting down was also a part of indicating that the relationship among the men took place before the sorting.

This parable is actually a different version of the element cycle net>fish >fishermen > sorting. Net is the spirit, the power of spirit. Fish is the body, the physical that it gathers. The fishermen on the short is the emotional relationship that arises from the physical work together. The sorting or judgement is the intellectual activity that must be done to get the benefit of the cycle.

Though it goes through the whole cycle, this parable is still mostly focused on the physical sorting or judgment of things. Here, "good" is a term that means "beautiful," and "bad" is a word that really means "rotten." The previous two parables about treasures in fields and pearls were more focused on emotional and intellectual sorting.

Symbol translation: Which, when it [the spirit] was full [of the physical], they came to shore [to the nurturing earth of relationships] and sat down [joined together], and gathered [intellectually selected] the good [physically] into vessels, but cast [intellectually rejected] the bad [physically] away.

"Full" is plêroô , which mean "to fill," "to fulfill," and "to fill full."

"Gathered" here is sullego, a term meaning "gather," "collect," and "come together." It is specifically means collecting something for use. Matthew uses the word to mean a selective choosing rather than an indescriminate gathering.

"Good" here is the usual kalos, "beautiful," but "bad" is sapros, which means "rotten," "putrid," "stale," and "worn-out."