Malkuth

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The 10 sefirot and the 22 paths of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life that connect them together form the 32 Paths of Wisdom. The yellow Path of the Flaming Sword indicates the order of the creation of the sefirot from 1 - 10.

Malkuth or Malchut (Hebrew: מלכות "kingdom") is the tenth and lowest sefira on the Tree of Life of the Kabbalah. It alone stands for the sensually experienceable physical world (Assiah), in which the I awakens to I-consciousness. In Kabbalah, it is also equated with Shekhinah (Hebrew: שכינה), the Kingdom of God on earth, understood as the "indwelling" or "dwelling place" of God (YHWH) in the people of Israel.

Malkuth forms the tenth path of the 32 Paths of Wisdom and is also called the radiant intelligence.

„Now let us listen more closely to such an ancient initiation, for example an Essaean initiation of pre-Christian times. This Essaean initiation was also connected in a certain way with the fact that the I-feeling had been tuned down. That which gives man his I-feeling in our earthly existence, that which looks out on outer perceptions, had to be suppressed at that time. You need only look at the most trivial things in everyday life and you will say to yourself: In that different state where man is in the spiritual world during sleep consciousness, he does not have his I-feeling; he has it only in daytime consciousness when he is distracted from the spiritual world and his gaze goes out into the physical-sensual world. So it is with the present earthly man, and also with the earthly man for whom the Christ has worked on earth. For the other world, the I is not at all awakened for the normal conditions in the human being of the present time on earth. The Christ-initiation should consist of the I remaining awakened in the higher worlds in the same way as it is awakened in the outer world.

Now look very closely - just so that we can characterise something with it - at the moment of waking up. This moment presents itself to us in such a way that the human being comes out of a higher world and submerges into his physical body and etheric body. In this moment of immersion, however, he does not see the inner processes of the physical body and etheric body, but his perceptive faculty is, as it were, diverted to the surroundings. Everything to which the human gaze falls at the moment of awakening, everything that the human being overlooks, whether with the physical perception of the eyes or with the physical perception of the ears, or whether he reflects on it with the intellect bound to the physical organ of the brain, everything that he perceives in the physical environment, is called "the kingdom", Malkuth, in the language of the ancient Hebrew secret doctrine. So we could ask: What was connected with the expression "the kingdom" in the ancient Hebrew language? Everything was connected with it in which the human I could consciously dwell. This is also the most precise definition of what was associated with the expression "the realm" in ancient Hebrew: that in which the human I can be present. If we hold fast to this expression, we must say that what is meant by "the realm" in ancient Hebrew is first of all the world of the senses, the world in which the human being is in a state of wakefulness with complete maintenance of his I.“ (Lit.:GA 123, p. 146ff)

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
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