This cultus has been destroyed, struggling unsuccessfully against foreign and more vigorous systems of religion and society.
XV The Cultus of Blessed John Ruysbroeck Numerous pilgrims now wended their way to visit Ruysbroeck's tomb.
December 9, confirming the cultus "shown from time immemorial to the Venerable Servant of God, John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular, called the Blessed.
The Musical Cultus of the Present Day, 687 Supposed Changes in the Moon.
The French Republic and the Catholic Church, 561 Musical Cultus of the Present Day, The.
The ancestral cultus of the dead under the shelter of Confucianism, the rites of Taoist and of Buddhist priests, are strangely blended.
The cultus of the dead is practised in every home, and around the incidents of life and death have gathered various Buddhist and Taoist rites.
Greece and Rome the cultus of the dead acquired, as in India and China, immense social significance.
Hence, it was argued, came the cultus of beast and bird and tree; hence the altar and the idol; hence the animal sacrifice and the sacramental meal.
But this also lies at the base of wide-spread popular belief and custom, where the propitiation of spirits, the cultus of Mother Earth, and the veneration of village deities, engage much more attention than the higher gods of Hinduism.
The title of "religion" has sometimes been denied to their cultuson the ground that it contains "no set of dogmas, no sacred book, and no moral code.
In its development, however, the cultus is almost wholly Japanese.
That this cultus was quite general in pre-Buddhistic Japan, as in many other ancient countries, is certain from the proofs of language, literature, external monuments and relics which are sufficiently numerous.
The cultus has been known in the Japanese archipelago from Riu Kin to Yezo.
The worship of Serapis was patronized by the court with the very object of affording a mixed cultus in which Greek and native might unite.
In a word, I absolutely identify the "brandy and water scenes" with the Bacchic cultus and all that it implies.
Even the gods of Nature inspired reverence and secured a cultus only as they influenced the well-being of man.
The wildest fairy-story thus leads easily to a little drama not without its human charm and moral inspiration; while the legend is attached to the cultus, and the cultus is intertwined with the practice and sanctions of daily life.
If these, through successive generations, maintain a traditional cultus of the Servant of God and eventually demand his canonization, the process is usually entered upon.
The former cultus was once more revived; the friary and church rose from their ruins and the shrine of St. Bonaventure regained its old-time splendour.
The Jewish cultus is often brought very close to the heathen by Gentile Christian writers: Praed.
The Church Fathers have also noted the likeness of the cultus of Mithras and other deities.
The older a religious tradition or cultus is, the more worthy of honour, the more rich in thoughts of God it is.
The union of mystery-cultus and school is just, however, their characteristic.
Side by side with this religiouscultus of the emperor was a willingness to surrender all political power into his hands.
As an excuse for his own free language he says, Quid si scripsissim Mimos obscaena iocantes Qui semper vetiti crimen amoris habent; In quibus assidue cultus procedit adulter, Verbaque dat stulto callida nupta viro?
Evidence is not wanting to show that the mediæval magical cultus owes its conglomerate character to something more than the accidental mingling of races, or the spontaneous action of polytheism which I have noticed.
In the XIIth, XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth centuries, this idolatrous cultus was not extinct.
Thus diablerie lay beneath such orderly institutions as, for instance, the national cultus of ancient Rome, like the volcanic fires of Vesuvius under the rich vineyards which they have in part created and for a while sustain.
The cultus of Diana in Italy, though substantially of a benignant character, seems to have been early qualified by the sterner rites of Thrace, where bloody flagellations had been accepted as a compromise for human sacrifice.
In our own century Auguste Comte has striven to revive the cultus of unique standards and to re-establish the empire of selective canons.
Up to the very last, they formed a portion of the cultus of the vintage-god, to whom the theatre was consecrated, and at whose yearly festivals the plays were acted.
By worship is meant either cultus in genere, any honour expressed to another; or some special act of honour.
Cultus is always distinguishable from industry, even when the worshipper's motives are most sordid and his notions most material; for in religious operations the changes worked or expected can never be traced consecutively.
We are too much inclined to impute an abstract and ideal Christianity to the polyglot souls of early Christians, and to ignore that mysterious and miraculous side of later paganism from which Christian cultus and ritual are chiefly derived.
Why has man's conscience in the end invariably rebelled against naturalism and reverted in some form or other to a cultus of the unseen?
The earlier Hebrews, as their own records depict them, had a mythology and cultus extremely like that of other Semitic peoples.
To begin with, we must note that the ancient Central-American cultus of the Sun and Moon, considered as the two supreme deities, was by no means renounced by the Aztecs.
It was with this cultus especially that the symbol of the Mexican cross was connected, as indicating the four points of the horizon from which the wind might blow.
This seems to refer to the quasi-subterranean cultusof Pachacamac, the internal fire, the first revelation of whom must have been a volcano hurling stones in every direction.
What happier method could have been found of teaching the subject populations, while still maintaining their traditional forms of worship, to regard the imperial cultus patronized by the reigning Inca as superior to all others?
There is positively a child-cultus in the great French cities, and especially in Freethinking Paris.
Me go," Cultus George said very quickly, before the rope could tighten.
Cultus George shrugged his shoulders, his face twisting tensely in a sullen and incredulous grin.
Neither Smoke nor any man there glimpsed what lay in Cultus George's brain, behind his attitude and prompting his attitude.
Cultus George, a big strapping Circle City Indian, leaned distantly and dourly against the log wall.
With a great heave of the chest, Cultus George got his first breath.
Nor wasCultus George any less astounded when he felt the noose tighten with a jerk and swing him off the floor.
A restless shifting of the group took place, forming a circle in which Smoke and Cultus George faced each other.
Grumbling at the shortness of the punishment, the men on the rope lowered Cultus George to the floor.
More bluff, Cultus George decided, and passively permitted his hands to be tied behind his back.
In the storm-center Cultus George stood imperturbable, while Smoke thrust back the fiercest and shouted: "Wait!
Close at his heels we see the dog, prince of another genus: and in him, too, we see dumbly testified the same cultus of an unattainable ideal, the same constancy in failure.
It is no especial cultus of nature and veracity, but a mere whim of veering fashion, that has made us turn our back upon the larger, more various, and more romantic art of yore.
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