In nearly all conversions in middle life, or dramatic returns from scepticism to traditional belief, a large, part is undoubtedly played by forgotten childish memories and early religious discipline, surging up and contributing their part to the self's new apprehensions of Reality.
If, then, the cultus did nothing else, it would do these two highly important things.

It would influence our whole present attitude by its suggestions, and our whole future attitude through unconscious memory of the acts which it demands.

But it does more than this.

It has as perhaps its greatest function the providing of a concrete artistic expression for our spiritual perceptions, adorations and desires.

It links the visible with the invisible, by translating transcendent fact into symbolic and even sensuous terms.