So....of course it is represented by the mouth and the womb!
Malkhut personified is King David.
If we were to draw all the traits that we've spoken of (and some we didn't speak of) it would be listed like this:
Keter (crown)
Chochmah (wisdom)
Bina (understanding)
Daat (knowledge)
Chessed (lovingkindness)
Gevurah (restrain, strength)
Tiferet (beauty, compassion)
Netzchak (perseverence, dominance)
Hod (humility, splendor)
Yesod (foundation, sexual purity, creativity)
Malkhut (kingship)
Malkhut is clearly at the bottom. In every sphere or world that we deal with, malkhut is at the bottom. Things channel from the top downwards to Malkhut --malkhut itself has nothing of its own to actually give over. However, malkhut becomes keter. Yep, it can be seen as a line (in which case we would need to call malkhut and keter two different words, or we can see it as a circle in which malkhut and keter are one and it closes the circle). Rather than a circle, a better word for this would be a spiral because the "keter" means its been brought to a higher level. The game level went up. We're running with the big(ger) boys now! (sounds familiar?)
Just like King David started off lowly and hated (his family discriminated against him because they thought he was illegitimate), he worked on himself and worked and worked and prayed and prayed and came closer to God and arose to become the king of Israel.
So to just as malkhut represents youth, or beginning or lowly etc. It becomes keter -which means crown. Keter is the farthest end of the border. If we think of it in terms of our own selves, our own mind, keter is the boundary that our logical thinking can take us. After that, we rely on faith. Everything we can learn and know through logic and understanding (mathematics, science, etc) we ought to learn, but at a certain point, there are things that we can only rely on faith.
From keter, from the very edge of our knowledge, to get anything from beyond that requires that God just gives it to us. Our own mind can not be used because its reached its limit.
Looking at it from a different perspective, its the difference between wearing a crown and not wearing a crown.
A Beautiful BW owned a big beautiful mansion. She was extremely shy, however, and could not ask anyone to help her to maintain the place. Thus, every day she would be seen dusting and sweeping. Shining the windows, etc. A visitor in the town came across her mansion and observed the BW cleaning diligently. The visitor approached her and asked, "Pardon me, I see you are a diligent servant here! Can you direct me to the Mistress or the Master of this mansion?"
Had this women not been afraid to "wear her crown" She would put all her traits to better use. Her lovingkindness (towards herself) would keep her from straining herself to clean. Her gevurah would strengthen her to hire maids and stay on top of them. Tiferet would make that balance just. Hod /humility would guide her to remember that its all a gift from God, but her netzach /dominion/perseverance would push her to maintain things in proper order -not slacking and God forbid, breaking the border between her and the maids, for example. Her yesod would be used to find creative things for her home --and all this would cause the malkhut -her Queenliness to rise to the level of keter /crown.
With all the divestiture and empowerment going on in the black blogosphere, I sincerely hope that the goal is not to just be "on top". On top of what? If we are just substituting who's on top then things will not be any better for anybody. The same system of hurt will continue (I guess the good thing would be that BW wouldn't be hurt). It is my hope that when BW empower themselves, it will be with a godliness that I think power was originally intended to be with.
At times I feel chagrin to show these wonderful attributes and to say "look were it got him! He became a king!!!" The goal should not be just to be on top --however, to placate our lustful /evil desires (which everyone has) knowing that this goal could be among the benefits is a necessity.
I guess I'm saying don't forget to wake up the good inclinations within us. The inclination to godliness, to goodness, to love, etc.
Another word on Malkhut. It is personified in King David. King David used his mouth to produce the book of Psalms. Many later used these Psalms to elevate themselves, to meditate, etc. If only we know the true holiness in those words and what they could do! Prayer is an important tool. Nowadays, its being packaged as "speaking out to the universe" what you want and it becomes. But pray nonetheless. And even just to pray, a bit of boldness is needed. (1) to overcome the awkward feeling that you are talking to nothing(ness) and (2) to realize that a mere mortal, a creation -something created right after plants and beasts, something created and that is messing up so badly with physical desires can actually come before a Being so pure and good and that never "messes up" to make requests. Oy vey! But we must fortify ourselves and pray anyway.
In Summary, this concludes period between Passover and the upcoming Holiday of Shavuot. This was a period of self reflection and rectification so that we would have merited the past blessings and position ourselves to receive more blessings. Each attribute /character trait was examined and seen where a fix up was needed. Now we can move on as better, leaner meaner fighting machines (lol) and step up for more blessings!
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