In the Gnostic literature mostly derived from the Nag Hammadi Library, it is written that three types of humans existed from the beginning. They were the different offspring of Eve, two of whom were of Archontic origin, Cain and Abel. Some believe that these were also known as the Serpent Seed. The third and fourth offspring of Eve and Adam were Seth and Norea. It is the latter two — the Norea and Sethian “incorruptible race” — that are often mentioned as being the humans associated with the pneumatic or spiritual race. The spiritual race are those who have a greater degree of spiritual “remembrance or gnosis” of their eternal origins.
If this is true, then some Gnostic researchers say that one third of the human race is of the original pneumatic race while two thirds make up the psychic and hylic races.
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