_Other_ than the cults of those (quasi-)theistic entities to whom it is attributed? Hrrmmm... Well, one can add Yelm and Rashoran(a), but that's largely a nicety. It's misleading to think of each as having any sort of unitary Cult, though. Illuminants are organised in something more akin to 'schools' and 'orders', who can quite happily differ vastly from each other in almost any given particular, though would all attribute one of the above beings as the ultimate source of their Illumination. I'm not sure, therefore, if your question is intended to be about the different schools, or about the different 'sources'.
On Arkat: Greg has stated rather vehemently that Arkatism is _not_ Illumination, per se. One can argue endlessly about in what sense the Big A. himself was or wasn't illuminated, but all of the manifold traditions which have followed him have an understanding of the Arkati Way which differs considerably from that of Illumination, and which _they_ certainly do not consider to be akin to Nysalorian Illumination, to which they're opposed as something of a Core Belief.
On the yet broader question of 'enlightenment'... Another time, another post, perhaps. ;-)
Slan libh,
Alex.
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