The Seba library treats Malchuth in 7 passages, across 2 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Edinger, Edward F.).
I could only think continually, 'Now this is the garden of pomegranates! Now this is the marriage of Malchuth with Tifereth!' I do not know exactly what part I played in it. At bottom it was I myself: I was the marriage.
Jung records a visionary near-death experience in which he directly identifies himself as the hierosgamos of Malchuth and Tifereth, treating the Kabbalistic union as a lived psychological reality rather than mere symbol.
, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1963thesis
Malchuth is also called moon (Kabb. denud. I, 1, pp. 195 and 501). Other cognomens are house and night, and in Joseph Gikatila (Shaare ora) fountain, sea, stone, sapphire, tree of kn
Jung catalogues the multiple symbolic cognomens assigned to Malchuth in Kabbalistic literature — moon, house, night, fountain, sea, stone, sapphire — establishing it as a multivalent feminine principle.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955thesis
Malchuth is called the 'statue' when she is united with Tifereth. Genesis 28: 22 runs: 'And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house.' The stone is evidently a reminder that here the upper (Tifereth) has united with the lower (Malchuth).
Jung equates Malchuth's designation as 'statue' in the Zohar with the moment of her hierosgamos with Tifereth, drawing a direct parallel to the lapis philosophorum as a union of male and female.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955thesis
Yesod is called Friend, for he unites two lovers and friends; for through him is effected the Jungian of Tifereth and Malchuth.
This passage identifies Yesod as the mediating sephirah that enables the conjunction of Tifereth and Malchuth, structurally homologous to the alchemical mediator between solar and lunar principles.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955supporting
Malchuth, 220
Edinger indexes Malchuth within a chapter on the coniunctio, situating it among the major symbolic registers of that alchemical and Kabbalistic concept in his psychotherapeutic framework.
, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, 1985supporting
Only through objective cognition is the real coniunctio possible.
In the passage immediately following his Malchuth vision, Jung reflects that the marriage experience disclosed to him that true coniunctio requires withdrawal of projection and attainment of objective cognition.
, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1963supporting
kabbalists interpreted it as the Jungian of Yahweh with his exiled feminine essence, the Shekinah. The Song of Songs speaks of 'love strong as death' (8:6), an allusion to the fact that the coniunctio is outside of time.
Edinger frames the Kabbalistic hierosgamos — the reunion of Yahweh with the Shekhinah, the feminine principle to which Malchuth belongs — as a paradigmatic coniunctio image within the broader alchemical and scriptural tradition.
, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, 1985aside