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Out of context: Reply #903
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— Shechinah
As you can see, we have to continue reciting the invocation and start again from the very bottom ofthe Tree of Life, beginning with Malkuth. Thus, we say: “Spirits of Malkuth, lead me betwixt the two pillars, upon which rests the whole edifice of the temple.”
The spirit of Malkuth is what in Kabbalah is called the Shechinah, who is our own particular Divine Mother, which we have within. Sephirah is the Cosmic Mother, but Shechinah is our own particular, individual mother.
Remember one of the ten commandments: “Honor your mother and father.” That commandment does not relate to the physical father and mother, although we have to respect them. That commandment relates to our inner Abba and Aima, Jah, Father and Mother, within. Thus, Shechinah is our own particular Divine Mother, which we have within. We have to discover and visualize her. She is our individual spirit in Malkuth, our philosophical earth; yet, the feminine spirit of Malkuth, the planet Earth, is Mother Earth. In this day and age, many groups are worshipping Mother Earth; the Divine Mother Earth is indeed a being that exists in the fourth dimension. But we have to gain the right and the bliss of seeing her in a rapture or Samadhi. The Divine Mother Shechinah is the spirit of our philosophical earth, our physicality. The Invocation of Solomon says “spirits” because we are addressing the Shechinah of men and women, and the Elementals Gods of Mother Nature.