Many thousands of years ago there is an alien race was on the brink of destruction. They detached their souls from their body, stored them in these ships, and made some beings that would go to other planets and populate them with vessels that this alien race could be reincarnated in. These beings are called the “Seeds of Life”.


Two of these ships land on primordial earth. The first Seed of Life, Adam, arrives. The second Seed of Life, Lilith, arrives shortly after. Each of these ships are accompanied by a self defense weapon. In the series they are referred to as the “Lance of Longinus” by humans (they look like spears). Lilith’s is damaged or destroyed in her impact with Earth.

There is a rule in their programing that only one Seed of Life can be active on a given planet so the Lance of Longinus automatically incapacitates Adam.

Lilith starts producing offspring and that’s basically all life on Earth.

Eventually Adam’s body is discovered in Antarctica. They remove the spear and he starts to wake up.

Someone tries to “connect” with it. While there is some debate, this basically means shedding their physical form and merging their soul with Adams. It doesn’t go so well- Adam begins to explode- they try to shove the spear back in but it’s too late. Antarctica explodes- wiping out all life in a huge radius (down to the microscopic level). This is that “Second Impact” thing they are talking about.

As the result of the explosion Adam’s body and spirit were separated. The body is that gross fetus thing that Ryoji (the scruffy looking spy guy) sneaks out. It’s spirit goes into a vessel (Kaworu) and SEELE controls both.

In simple term the angels, the children of Adam, start being born and seek to wipe out humanity and Lilith.


This group called “SEELE” has this plan. They basically got ahold of the instruction manual from one of the Seeds of Life’s ships. They call this the “Dead Sea Scrolls”. They understand, more or less, what’s going on. They hatch this plan- they want to have all of humanity shed their physical form and join together with Lilith. This is that “Human Instrumentality Project” they talk about. “Instrumentality” is the term they use to describe “all of humanity as souls, merged together”.