Uncomfortable parallel I just realized about Cerberus

I've always quite enjoyed the missable line when TIM dies in ME3: "There, Earth... I wish you could see it like I do, Shepard. It's so... perfect."

It is kind of undecipherable at first because it's so vague and strangely said not to mention out of context. But it makes sense for two reasons.
1) That TIM is about to draw his last breath and it's known that dying people talk in "symbolic language" because they're becoming unconscious and they subconscious ideas spring forth.
2) It fits the mentality and longtime goal of Cerberus and TIM's ideals. He wants the best for humanity. He wants to evolve us, and looking at Earth he's reminded a final time what he wanted before he fails.

If you ask Miranda Lawson in ME2 and several other occassions she mentions the slogan of sorts for Cerberus, that their goal is "The Advancement and Preservation of the Human Race".

Now this is where it gets interesting. In the comic Mass Effect Evolution drafted by Mac Walters and penned by John Jackson Miller from Darkhorse, we're told an origin story of TIM and Cerberus, his friend Paul Grayson and desireable female Eva Coré, in certain encounters during the First Contact War with strange glowing artifacts that both TIM and Grayson feel drawn to, that ultimately leads to Paul Grayson's demise and TIM getting those eye-implants. The comic ends on a time-skip that shows us TIM starting up his office at Cronos Station as he looks out his window and sets out to preserve and advance humanity, which is an idea he had become obsessed with ever since encountering those artifacts. They reminded him of the massive uplift when humanity found the Mass Relays and ponders if there is more out there that can lead humanity to their next step. Enter Cerberus and we pretty much know the rest of this story.

However there is one detail that always bothered me. When inviting James to the cabin in ME3 he mentions his mission that failed on Horizon again and explains that it went wrong when a "Cerberus spy working with the collectors" gave away their location to the collectors.

Apparently if that's true Cerberus have always had at least some moles playing into the Reapers hands. It later goes completely off the rails as TIM is getting obviously indoctrinated throughout ME3 by sticking around Reaper technology for too long. The catch however is, this isn't the first time he's been around Reaper tech. The artifacts that gave him those strange eyes were very possibly Reaper tech as well, only they were discovered way back when, and it was conspicuously after that encounter that he got hell-bent on the idea that started Cerberus as an organization.

This is when it strikes me, that a certain development in ME2 reveals something about Cerberus that has probably been there the entire time without anyone realizing it...


Remember, the Catalyst uses these words specifically: "Preserve in the form of a Reaper" and his as well as Saren's (indoctrinated mind you) goals are to advance the harvested species by ascending them to synthetics aka Reapers, and the Reaper ideal is to reach Synthesis, which advances all life into a new form of life.