The ogdoad described by Gnostic Valentinus ( Gnostic ) | Valentinus in the 2nd century AD ( with the first two named Propator and Ennoia )

In 1913, Crowley composed the Gnostic Mass while in Moscow, which he described as being the Order ’ s “ central ceremony of its public and private celebration .” In 1914, soon after World War I broke out, he moved to the United States of America.

'" They appear also in the Christian Gnostic text On the Origin of the World, described as " dragon-shaped angels ".

He is also described as " lustrous ", which may reflect the Gnostic association of Cain with the sun.

Marcion is sometimes described as a Gnostic philosopher.

The Gnostic text describes the ascent of Paul through various stages of Heaven, with Yaltabaoth ( described as an old man on a throne ) attempting to prevent further ascent.

The emanation of the Pleroma and its godheads ( called Aeons ) is described in detail in the various Gnostic tracts, as is the pre-creation crisis ( a cosmic equivalent to the " fall " in Christian thought ) from which the material world comes about, and the way that the divine spark can attain salvation.

Religious organizations include the groups described below.

In the case of phospholipids, the polar groups are considerably larger and more polar, as described below.

These groups have been described as inferior, deprived of all political power, have a specific occupation, are hereditary and sometimes despised by others.

In mathematics, the classification of the finite simple groups is a theorem stating that every finite simple group belongs to one of four categories described below.

In the years following her artificial feeding conditions at Gombe, Jane Goodall described groups of male chimps patrolling the borders of their territory brutally attacking chimps which had split off from the Gombe group.

Examples are the product of sets ( see Cartesian product ), groups ( described below ), the product of rings and of other algebraic structures.

Elton defined ecological relations using concepts of food chains, food cycles, and food size, and described numerical relations among different functional groups and their relative abundance.

Although the pre-war establishment had been split by the Civil War, both of the opposing main factions regarded all radical groups as agitators for change, and they are described as such in the Historical Collections of John Rushworth that document events of the early period, and by the Journals of the House of Commons which cover the period of the Republic itself.

Shia groups which are often considered fundamentalist in the western world generally are not described that way in the Islamic world.

While the description of strong and weak interactions within the Standard Model is based on gauge symmetries governed by the simple symmetry groups SU ( 3 ) and SU ( 2 ) which allow only discrete charges, the remaining component, the weak hypercharge interaction is described by an abelian symmetry U ( 1 ) which in principle allows for arbitrary charge assignments.

" All we can say safely ," says Walter Pohl, " is that the name Huns, in late antiquity ( 4th century ), described prestigious ruling groups of steppe warriors.

The groups will normally be closed once the work described in its charter is finished.

The groups in the film all oppose the Roman occupation of Judea, but fall into the familiar pattern of intense competition among factions that appears, to an outsider, to be over ideological distinctions so small as to be invisible ; " ideological purity ", as Cleese once described it.

It has also been suggested that she was closely tied to Irish männerbund groups ( described as " bands of youthful warrior-hunters, living on the borders of civilized society and indulging in lawless activities for a time before inheriting property and taking their places as members of settled, landed communities ") and that these groups may have been in some way dedicated to her.

The various non-state paramilitary groups involved in the 20th century conflicts in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland, such as the various Irish Republican Army groups and loyalist paramilitaries, could also be described as militias and are occasionally referred to as such.

The paramilitary groups were described as " the military arm of the Democratic Party " and were instrumental in helping secure Democratic victories in the South in the elections of 1876.

These groups should not be confused with the similarly named Union of Orthodox Rabbis ( described below ).

Another replication came from Ronald Inglehart's research into national opinions based on the World Values Survey, although Inglehart's research described the values of countries rather than individuals or groups of individuals within nations.

One of the key concepts in chemistry is that all chemical compounds can be described as groups of atoms bonded together and chemical reactions can be described as the making and breaking of those bonds.

There was also a process that has been described as the " feminisation " of rock and roll, with the charts beginning to be dominated by love ballads, often aimed at a female audience, and the rise of girl groups like The Shirelles and The Crystals.

In 1994, Camille Paglia described some feminist groups as " Stalinist " for engaging in what she describes as censorship and quashing of dissent.

One wife, described by a New York psychologist, so dominated her husband that she actually placed their sexual relationship on a schedule, writing it down right between the weekly PTA meetings and the Thursday-night neighborhood card parties.

" He spoke about ... such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes " she said, adding that on several occasions Thomas graphically described " his own sexual prowess " and the details of his anatomy.

" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.

It has been described as the arrival of the expression of raw female sexual desire in pop music.

Rabbinic Judaism does not believe that the preceding verses refer to what is nowadays described as a homosexual inclination, nor do these verses refer to lesbian sexual activity.

" Invert " described the opposite gender roles and the related attraction to women instead of men ; since women in the Victorian period were considered unable to initiate sexual encounters, women who did so with other women were thought of as possessing masculine sexual desires.

As described by critic Jon Savage, the band members " embodied an attitude into which McLaren fed a new set of references: late-sixties radical politics, sexual fetish material, pop history ,... youth sociology ".

In 1981 an article published in American Journal of Psychiatry described paraphilia as " recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors generally involving:

James S. Packer described him as malignant and ferocious, slaughtering his enemies with a private army, while Walter Ullmann described Sergius as a typical representative of the House of Theophylact, concerned with power and sexual liaisons.

The phrase " rocking and rolling " originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe the spiritual fervor of black church rituals and as a sexual analogy.

He saw Africans as inferior to Whites especially in regards to their intellect, and embued with unnatural sexual appetites, but described Native Americans as equals to whites.

Douglas Haldeman has described William Masters ' and Virginia Johnson's work on sexual orientation change as a form of conversion therapy.

In Homosexuality in Perspective, published in 1979, Masters and Johnson viewed homosexuality as the result of blocks that prevented the learning that facilitated heterosexual responsiveness, and described a study of 54 gay men who were dissatisfied with their sexual orientation.

The book was entitled " Safe Sex in the Age of AIDS ", it had 88 pages and it described both positive and negative approaches to the sexual life.

It is described as a disorder of sexual preference in the ICD-10.

Thus, sex education may also be described as " sexuality education ", which means that it encompasses education about all aspects of sexuality, including information about family planning, reproduction ( fertilization, conception and development of the embryo and fetus, through to childbirth ), plus information about all aspects of one's sexuality including: body image, sexual orientation, sexual pleasure, values, decision making, communication, dating, relationships, sexually transmitted infections ( STIs ) and how to avoid them, and birth control methods.

Consensual crimes are sometimes described as crimes in which the victim is the state, the judicial system, or society at large and so affect the general ( sometimes ideological or cultural ) interests of the system, such as common sexual morality.

In 1858, he had observed conjugation in the alga Spirogyra, and in 1861, he described sexual reproduction in the fungus Peronospora sp.

The film is described, by scholar Tony Howard, as the first adaptation to confront the play's disturbing sexual dimensions.

The composer described it as the celebration of the triumph of the human spirit through sexual and holistic balance.

" Sharp Blue " is described as a utility drug, as opposed to a sensory enhancer or a sexual stimulant, that helps in problem solving.