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The Human Instrumentality Project is one of the main plotlines in the Neon
Genesis Evangelion original series. However, other than a few speculative
mentions, there isn't concrete information as to what purpose it serves.

What purpose does the Human Instrumentality Project serve, why is it
necessary, and what part does it plays against the Angels (if any)?


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What is the purpose of the Human Instrumentality Project?


The ultimate goal is to unite all the individual souls of mankind into one
singular being.

This would create an existence where nobody existed individually, but as part
of a whole.

This way, the flaws in every living being would be complemented by the
strengths in others, thus erasing the insecurities in people's hearts.
Creating the ultimate, god-like being.

To achieve Instrumentality, the merging of Adam and Lilith, resulting in the
Third Impact, is required.

Both [Seele](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Third_Impact#Seele.27s_version) and
[Gendo](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Third_Impact#Gendo_Ikari.27s_version) had
their own idea of instrumentality. Neither was
[realized](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Third_Impact#Actual_Third_Impact).


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Angels are trying to merge with Adam to restore their power on earth. The
Ancestral race sent Adam to colony planet Earth with his seeds (the Angels).
It was due to the First Impact that Lilith got in Adam's way. She was on her
way to another planet and crashed on Earth, stopping Adam. Now, Adam and his
descendants just try to reclaim earth from mankind - the seed of Lilith.

Seele accepted that the humans do actually not have the right to live on earth
due to the information they got out of the Second Impact (Reawakening of Adam)
and the Dead Sea Scrolls. But they do not want to kill all humans either. So
they try to bring together Lilith and Adam in order to develop a new entity
that absorbs all humans into one godlike entity (similar to the Angels -
Humans are viewed as the final Angel Lilin). In this form humans have actually
the right to live on Earth because they are created by the unity of Lilith and
Adam. In order to achieve this Seele wanted to merge Kaworu, an Angel and the
carrier of Adam's soul, with Lilith. This would be the Third Impact. The whole
plan is called the Human Instrumentality Project. Gendo just wants to reunite
with his dead wife, Shinji's mother, which is "his" idea of the Human
Instrumentality Project. He injects himself the embryo of Adam in order to
merge with Lilith. Some years ago, his wife tried to merge with Lilith in
order to revive her and disappeared in the process (but she still exists
inside Lilith's body). Gendo is later killed by Rei (a humanlike clone of
Lilith/Gendo's wife). He sacrified and abandoned his son Shinji to the Angels
in order to achieve his goals which was not the will of his dead wife who
punished him through the hands of Rei (her "daughter" if you want to put it
like that).


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