#23
Ritsuko:[...]However the vessel which truly contains a soul is Rei.
Only she has a soul.
None of the other vessels have a soul.
There was nothing within the room of Gauf.
These Rei-like things here don't have a soul.
Nothing but vessels.
So I'll destroy them, because I hate them.
All the vessels (clones in the aquarium) are soulless except the vessel known as Rei. Why? Because "There was nothing within the room of Gauf". Knowing that Rei's soul is Lilith's own, to say that the place where Rei soul came from is now empty, means that Lilith doesn't have a soul. Thus, Lilith is (at least in the context of this quote) the room of Gauf.
There are 3 mentions of this room throughout the series, and only this one can be directly related to Lilith. One happens during 2I in Antartica, no Lilith there. And the last one is from EoE and could be indirectly related with Lilith.
EDIT: One more thing. If the Chamber of Gauf got empty after Rei got a soul, that couldn't have happened before 2004. All the pilots were born before that. Thus and again, the soulless children theory goes baseless.
Originally posted on: 15-Oct-2005, 01:38 GMT