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COW OF PLENTY, "DAPPLE-SKIN"

A symbol of the buddhic-nature which operates within, as it were, the astral-nature of desire, sensation, appetite, and instinct. The pure within the impure (spotted).

"He (Vasishtha) called the cow of spotted skin, all spot without, all pure within... With sumptuous meal and worthy fare; be thine the banquet to All these prepare... (viands and drinks), O cow of heavenly power, rain On down for me in copious shower. Her mine offerings which ascend to Gods and spirits all depend; my very life is due to her, my guardian, friend, and minister. The feeding of the sacred flame, the dole which living creatures claim, the mighty sacrifice by fire." – GRIFFITH, The Ramayan, Vol. I. pp. 226–8.

The forces of the lower planes (Vasishtha) operate outwardly in the manifest imperfections of life, which express the fact of the essential perfection of the archetypal spiritual pattern within. Through the buddhic activities nourishment for the soul is prepared. Goodness, love, and truth are the gifts of the Spirit bestowed on the aspiring mind. On Wisdom depends the transmutation of the offerings of the qualities at her shrine to the ideals. The life of the soul is to be found in its intimate relation with the spiritual forces which raise and develop it. The qualities which have in them the divine germ claim from Wisdom the purifying and perfecting of their natures.

"Hail (the seven kine and their Bull) ye who give cakes and ale, and splendour to the souls who are provided with food in the underworld, grant ye cakes and ale unto the Osiris Nu; provide ye him with food, let him be in your following, and let him be born upon your thighs." – BUDGE, Book of the Dead, Ch. CXLVIII. p. 481.

Here, Wisdom is expressed through all the highest emotions and faculties, and it is the Higher Self (the Bull) which fructifies them. The "Osiris Nu" is the indwelling God—the Christ-soul—coupled with the name of an individuality "Nu." The Christ can only be born within the highest emotions, and must be nursed and nourished by them.

See Also

ALMSGIVING
BANQUET
BULL
CAKE
CLOUD
CREATURES
FEAST
FIRE
FOOD
FRUIT
MILK
RAIN
SACRIFICE
SEED
SPOTTED
VASISHTHA
WEALTH-SHOWER