Chain had born twins The twins had not been m his vision at all Muad'Dib gave up Cham and power m order to leave his people free He chose the path that he believed would ensure peace and security and certitude for his species But in selecting the single narrow path that he could see vividly, the Kwisatz Haderach wedged out all the other options, removed them from even his peripheral vision Because this narrowing brought a flood of detail, ATRE1DES PAUL 94 ATREIDES PAUL and because the foeus on one comdor of time blurred the existence of other corridors, he became unable-in spite of the fantastic power he did possess'-to see the broader context of infinite temporary strands He thought he had squeezed them together, but he had really just pared them away The Kwisatz Haderach's last years were spent playing out the game his choice had designed He watched Alia submit to the inner voice of the Baron Harkonnen, watched the Quizarate and empire constrict their subjects in the tentacles of their own survival He had sought peace, he had tried to "close down the cycle of wars " Only later on did Leto II, in contrast, perceive that to exert purposeful control over Time was to succumb to the Great Temptation to Know All, and by knowing All to possess All Power Leto chose to deflect civilization from his father's incorrect path He usurped the future that the Kwisatz Hadcrach selected and strove to reestablish Accident as the cornerstone of Universal Time We do not understand just BOW the Kwisatz Haderach actually "operated" The Bene Tleilax experiment left no substantial clues, for instance They may have shut down their project because the prototype failed their "human" test, or because it disobeyed them, or because it had no ancestral memories Nor is the nature of ancestral memory entirely clear The Bene Gessent considered it essential, but Paul did not possess it Alia did, but she was not a Kwisatz Haderach Leto fl brought ancestral memory under coatral, but his voices instructed him to avoid the abyss of prescience-addiction and the route of Kwisatz Haderachism The entire episode of the Kwisatz Haderach is strewn with this kind of inversion of expectation and outcome The schools of the old Impenum are still foil of disputation on this whole matter Obviously, we can not sift all these questions to the bran-whether knowledge of the future constrains us necessarily to do a thing ("necessarily" meaning simple compulsion), or whether free choice is granted us to do a dung or not to do it, although the outcome was foreknown, or whether foreknowledge constrains not at all except by a conditional necessity We are completely certain of only one thing neither we nor our descendants can possibly experience the Kwisatz Had erach s prescience Our culture is reflexively scared of the temptations that lead to prescience addiction Also the exact matrix of genetic variables and conditioning environ ment that produced Paul cannot happen again