astrolatrie

Updated: May 5, 2025

But Fetishism is only the initial step in the process of our intellectual development; and it passes into Polytheism, not suddenly and per salium, but slowly and gradually, through the intermediate stage of "Astrolatrie," or the worship of the heavenly bodies.

James Buchanan - Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws