cultus

Furthermore, with the death of Albert Pike the cultus of Lucifer is said to have undergone a significant transfiguration.

Finally, no religious cultus of any kind is performed at its meetings, and no woman has ever passed its threshold.

In the religious cultus an earlier degree of culture comes to light a remnant of former times.

It does not help us much to fall back on the Latin word, Cultus, for we understand that the meaning is the same.

As M. Comte's religion has a cultus, so also it has a clergy, who are the pivot of his entire social and political system.