Irenæus I.
vii. 5: “They (the Valentinians) conceive of three kinds of
men, spiritual, material, and animal.…These three natures are no
longer found in one person, but constitute various kinds of
men.…And again subdividing the animal souls themselves, they say
that some are by nature good, and others by nature evil.”
Origen on Romans, Lib. VIII. § 10: “I know not
how those who come from the School of Valentinus and
Basilides…suppose that there are souls of one nature which are
always safe and never perish, and others which always perish, and are
never saved.”