The Positivist calendar

The principle of the Positivist calendar (available in full on Gallica) is to pass through a "concrete worship of Humanity in order to prepare the West for abstract worship, the only definitive one." (Positivist Calendar).

Concrete worship is structured in three types: monthly, weekly and daily. Comte specifies that "the practice of concrete worship may perhaps encourage the useful habit of describing these three degrees of veneration, using denominations that are now sociologically available: gods, heroes, and saints."

Concrete worship can be outlined as follows:

The 13 months are detailed in the table below.

A note about italic names: "as these third-order examples are more numerous than the days of the year, I could include all names deserving a certain Western glorification only by means of an additional device. It consists in pairing a daily type with an accessory name intended to replace it every three years, by analogy, though with lesser title." In short, every 4 years, the names in regular type should be replaced by the names in italics. Comte does not specify whether these substitutions correspond to leap years.

Note that colors correspond to the first type, second type and third type.

As for the blank days, Comte writes:

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Complementary day: General Festival of the DEAD

Additional day in leap years: solemn condemnation of the three main retrograders (Julian, Philip II and Bonaparte), but only during the first half-generation.

After these first four celebrations of the Festival of the Reprobates, this exceptional day will take its final purpose in abstract worship.

And, to conclude, here is a diagram of what this famous abstract worship would look like: