Religion is the lowest stage in the development of knowledge, and is therefore the result of the mental rectitude, fear and awe that primitive man experienced when viewing the wonders of nature. - Auguste Comte (1798 - 1857)

The term ecclesia comes from the Greek (ἐκκλησία ekklēsía) and means assembly.

The Ecclesia Luciferi is a spiritual immaterial Luciferian assembly or convocation to which anyone can belong at will by virtue of understanding and acknowledging its ambiguous teachings as their own.

Ecclesia Luciferi can best be described as a spiritual satanic sect. It is a spiritual entity arbitrarily emerging from a satanic system of unbelief.

The definition of a sect should be taken as that which states that the sect contests, in contrast to the institutionalised church, a particular social order and pursues its own religious and ethical ideals, and that the way to perfect itself is not through sacraments but through personal experience.

Man is a herd animal, which is why it is important for many, including Satanists of various kinds, to belong to an organisation, a group, a church. People of different religions and denominations, including satanists, often define the church mainly or exclusively by their active participation in the structures. And while this human need to be part of a flock of some kind is understandable, the Ecclesia Luciferi symbolises an egoistic individualism that places the greatest importance on self-interest and reliance on the self, and an individualistic elitism, which recognises that what distinguishes members of the elite from the rest of society is the desire to establish oneself as a distinct and unique individual. Such an individual sets patterns of behaviour for himself or herself, rather than adopting them from the crowd, which is considered secondary and mindless.