Kwisatz Haderach means' 'Shortening of the Way," the label applied by the Beae Gessent to the unknown for which they sought a genetic solution a male Bene Gessent whose organic mental powers would bndge space and tone, fulfilled by Paul Muad'Dib Atteides The reconstructed saga of the Kwisatz Haderach has proved to be a revelation This phenomenon was designed by a culture mat hated accident and worshipped prophecy He gradually became proficient-in a narrow context-with the psychology of temporal relationships He became addicted to prescience implausible as it may seem, his obsession actually led him to deny randomness "Knowing" more than anyone^vcr had, but thereby closing his senses to what he ignored, the Kwisatz Haderach committed his species, our species, to "certitude " The arrogance of ignorance prompted this disastrous (but, under the circumstances, noble) choice After it was recognized and the beginnings of its consequences had been undone by Leto n, the Kwisatz Haderach's choice turned out to have generated that broader awareness of temporal relationships which is the basis of our civilization To understand the episode of the Kwisatz Haderach we need to explore his ongin, his career, what he understood and what he was contextually unable to understand Paul Muad'Dib Atreides' accomplishments can be explained in terms of his outdated conception of temporal relationships, and his error can be understood m terms of the more inclusive notion which Leto II's corrective actions left for us The quest for the Kwisatz Haderach may have been the longest single minded project in human history The Bene Gessent appears to have been the oldest continuous purposeful organization, and its purpose was to create a "human" who could tap both female and male reservoirs of ancestral memory At some point along the millennia of Bene Gessent history, their breeding program fo cused on power Thereafter they sought the perfect human, total male as well as total female, in order to control events and impose the Bene Gessent version of destiny on humankind The Kwisatz Haderach, who was for ages a goal sought for his own sake, became a means to a narrower end The Bene Gessent records are not entirely clear about just how this was to be achieved The assumptions appear to have been so basic and to have evolved