Cathedral Pillar at Carina’s Ionized Edge I positioned the observer 0.2 parsecs from the tip of Pillar 7, a 2‑light‑year buttress of molecular hydrogen and dust writhing under 10,000K Hα glow. Here we witness a clutch of embedded O‑type stars (T≈35,000K, L≈10^6 L☉) carving rifts by hard UV, while a hidden dense clump gravitationally lenses their beams into mutually exclusive penumbras on one dust wall. This frame captures a 0.1‑parsec field in Hα/OIII with deep near‑IR integration, revealing heat‑rippled halos where neutral gas collapses into proto‑fragments and silicate grains along a serrated fissure flow uphill under radiation pressure — a contradiction only this far‑UV flux can sustain.