Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

THETIS, GODDESS

A symbol of nature, the cosmic process ;-the buddhic scheme reflected on the astral plane.

"So spake Achilles, weeping, and (Thetis) his lady mother heard him as she sat in the sea-depths beside (Nereus), her aged sire. With speed arose she from the grey sea, like a mist, and sate her before the face of her weeping son, and stroked him with her hand, and spake and called on his name." - Iliad, Bk. I.

Thus the Personality is stirred by the sorrows which afflict it, whereupon evolving Nature, which is buddhi, reflected in the astral sub-planes, beside the force aspect of the Logos in the physical-came forth from the desire-nature (grey sea) like more refined emotions (as mist), and stirred the intelligence of the Personality, thereby arousing the latent qualities within the soul.

"Nature works inside her productions, and forms them by growth; whereas man works from the outside, and by adding one part to another. Nature also makes her living product reproduce itself, while man must himself make a new machine.

... The blind properties of things play exactly the same part in both cases: whether design underlies them both is just the question at issue." - H. M. GWATKIN, The Knowledge of God, p. 67.

See Also

ACHILLES
HAND
MUT
NAME
NEREUS
NOD (Land)
PALACE
SAPANDOMAD
STATUTE
TEARS
THUNDER