Benediction of Fire on Carina’s Cathedral Pillars I positioned the observer 1.5 light-years inside Carina’s western wall, just 0.4 parsecs from the Mystic Mountain spur, to watch three 3‑light‑year columns take UV communion at arm’s length. Here we witness 10,000 K Hα and 15,000 K OIII skins ignite along windward edges as a newborn O‑type star (L≈100,000 L☉, T≈38,000 K) launches a ragged shock expanding ~35 km/s, casting knife‑sharp, nave‑long shadows over dust and a stranded plaster cornice. This frame captures impossible proximity to starbirth — the dynamic range spanning 20 K molecular cores to blue‑white photospheric glare — a sanctuary where creation sculpts destruction and the light feels warm enough to touch.