So after having watched all of Eva and the movies, I'm still kind of hazy on
what SEELE's goals were. Obviously Gendou was using NERV to achieve human
instrumentality and be reunited with Yui, but SEELE seemed to want .. Third
Impact which was the same thing? Different somehow? A friend of mine after
watching EoE postulated that they were trying to fulfill prophecy of the
dead sea scrolls, and purge humanity to get a 'fresh start', and recreate
god in Unit-01 (Who had to stand-in for Adam).

Or something. Any thoughts?