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 purple candle is burned for power, mastery and psychic ability.

Uses in the Work

A tall ritual pillar for long rites, temple work and devotional flame. Purple belongs to Jupiter: command over spirits, spiritual authority, expansion and psychic power. Burn it on a Thursday in the hour of Jupiter. Use pillars as the two pillars of the temple, black for Boaz and white for Jachin, or set them at the four quarters. Carve sigils deep into the wax, since pillars burn long enough for the work to settle.

Pairs Well With

Brass Taper & Pillar Candle Holder; Candle Carving Set; 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.