Description

Origin & Traditional Use

A pillar candle is a thick, free-standing candle that burns for many hours, the traditional altar candle of churches and temples. Pillars suit long workings and are often carved and dressed over several sessions. In candle magic a black candle is burned for protection, banishing, binding and work with the dead.

Uses in the Work

Use it as the left-hand pillar of the temple, as a long-burning flame through multi-night workings, or as a devotional light for chthonic and infernal powers. Carve sigils deep into the wax, since a pillar burns long enough for the work to settle.

Pairs Well With

9″ White Pillar Candle; Brass Taper & Pillar Candle Holder; Banishing Oil – 1 oz

Lore

Boaz and Jachin, the black and white pillars of Solomon’s Temple, stand on the threshold of every Masonic and Golden Dawn temple. They mark the polarity the initiate passes between.

What You Receive

Thick candles may need their bases shaved in order to stand perfectly upright.