Thank you. Very illuminating. But now you have raised new questions....

> There are several different scenarios for Third Impact depending on how it
> is triggered, who or what is at the center, etc. - Seele's desire was to
> merge mankind into an Eva and use it as an ark to ascend to heaven. Adam +
> the Lance were their original choice to trigger impact
This means that, for Seele, merge mankind all together is "Heaven", right?
So they want  Eva01 (with S2 engine, so a deity) instead of an Angel or
Lilith for triggering 3rd impact. This is because they think
they can control EVA01, right?

> , but losing the lance
> changed their tools - They wanted an empty Eva (without human soul) to be
at
> the center so there would be no deviation from their control. The Eva
series
> felt a dead Auska and Unit 1 would be a reasonable substitute. Seele is a
> death cult and the death of mankind is an acceptable final outcome to
them.
> However, even when Shinji and Unit 1 become the center, Selle still
rejoices
> at the end of mankind as it is currently structured. Ultimately they come
to
> accept Third Impact, even though it does not meet their goals. Although it
> wasn't their original scenario, it was acceptable to them.*  The Lance
could
> regenerate an angel and in their scenario could be used to trigger their
> desired Third Impact - the loss of the Lance meant they had to substitute
> the empty Eva and the Eva series for  Adam and the Lance.
OK.
At the end, Rei/Lilith was not in their plain.....
so how they can cause 3rd impact without Adam (or surrogate) and Lilith (or
surrogate), just only with EVA01 deity (with a human soul)
and EVA05 (simil angel, no soul but with S2)
And a new question? What is the S2 engine in the EVA05? Is original or an
artificial one?

> Gendo saw the human race as a flawed but independent creation. Internally,
> the flaw of mankind is it's separation from others. His vision was to
merge
> with Adam/Rei/Lillith and guide third impact with his own vision of
mankind
> reborn (living and dead) merging their souls. Man would be reborn in
almost
> identical form, but with the living and dead able to communicate (and
> various people merged at their cored - this is what Shinji saw when he was
> absorbed by his Eva - he could be merged with Misato/rei and Ausaka.

So Misato, Yui, etc are still "alive". If so, when Shinji (in the end)
re-separe the souls of mankind, a could have bring back them to life.
Why not?

Final question: what happened, after all, to EVA01? Now is a deity (soul +
S2), what will be its desiny?

Thank you again