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 white candle is burned for purity, blessing and spirit contact, and it can stand in for any colour.

Uses in the Work

A tall ritual pillar for long rites, temple work and devotional flame. White serves every purpose. It stands for illumination, consecration, purification and the Morning Star aspect, and it can substitute for any other color in a pinch. Burn it on a Monday or Sunday. 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.

What You Receive

Burn it to help invoke peace, purity, and protection. Thick candles may need their bases shaved in order to stand perfectly upright. 9″ x 1 1/2″.