Malkuth, or Shekhinah is the tenth of the sephirot in the kabbalistic tree of life. It sits at the bottom of the tree, below Yesod, in Jewish Kabbalah it is known as the Moon.

Non-Jewish Kabbalah

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Malkuth is seen as the Earth, the receiving sphere of all the other sephirah above it. It is like the negative node of an electrical circuit. The divine energy comes down and finds its expression in this plane, and our purpose as human beings is to bring that energy back around the circuit again and up the tree.

Some occultists have also likened Malkuth to a cosmic filter, which lies above the world of the Qliphoth, or the Tree of Death, the world of chaos which is constructed from the imbalance of the original sephirah in the tree of life.

In some systems, it is equated with Daath, knowledge, the invisible sephirot. There are two trees, one which shows Daath but not Malkuth, and the other which shows Malkuth but not Daath. This is likened to the 'Fall', in which the apple of knowledge is taken from the tree, and humanity 'falls' from paradise to the kingdom of Earth.

In comparing with Eastern systems, Malkuth is a very similar archetypal idea to that of the Muladhara chakra, in Shakta tantra, which is also associated with the Earth, the plane in which karma is expressed.

References

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• Lessons in Tanya

Kabbalah | Hebrew words

Malkuth