Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

COW 

A symbol of Wisdom, or the functioning of the buddhic plane activities, that inner nature of the soul which feeds, as it were, on “grass and the herb of the field," i.e. is nourished on the lower growths and affections, which it transmutes within itself into the higher emotions (milk and butter), the sustenance of the evolving soul.

"The beneficent cow fed upon plants." - Vendidad, V.

The buddhic nature in its receptive and transmutative functions.

"Harm not the inexhaustible, wide-ruling cow,' the cow is indeed wide-ruling, and the wide-ruling is food, and accordingly the cow is food." - Sata. Bráh., VII. 5, 2, 19.

"Cow, the prolific image of the all-mother goddess Isis." - APULEIUS, Metam., xi. 15.

"Like unto a mother, a father, a brother and other relatives, the cows are best friends, in which medicines produced. They give food, they give strength, they likewise give a good complexion and happiness; knowing the real state of this, they (the Brâhmanas) did not kill cows." - Sutta-Nipāta, 295, 296.

See Also

AUDUMBLA
BUDDHI
BUTTER
FLAYING
FOOD
HATHOR
HEIFER
ISIS, GODDESS
MILK
MOTHER (Divine)
PLANTS
SOPHIA
VACH
WEALTH SHOWER
WISDOM