The term ' Spacing Guild" SPACING GUILD OPERATIONS SPACING GUILD OPERATIONS was a name offered fof convenience to those it served, among its members it was known as the Corpus Lummis Pratnttntuaitis, which may be translated "Hie Union of the Foreseeing Eye'% its motto was Quilibet Quohbet, Quandohber "Anything, anytime, anyplace " Composed m part of members genetically engineered for special sensitivity to melange, the CLP, hereafter referred to as the Guild, produced Navigators and Steersmen whose prescience enabled mem to guide spacecraft through hyperspace without die computers tabued by the Butlenan Jihad Beyond these specialized members, it included ancillary personnel, all of mem making up a closed society of an unknown homeworld whose heighhners maintained and regulated trans portation between planetary systems The Guild held the civilized worlds together until the invention of Ixian navigation devices in 14132, when the Guild monopoly was broken For millennia its power was great, m one case even naming the successor to the Golden Lion Throne Only when die Atreides came to power was Guild influence checked through control of the melange they required DISCOVERY AND USE OF MELANGE A historical puzzle that has resisted solution for tens of thousands of years is how the Guild discovered die navigational uses of melange (It is probably the best known of all historical mysteries, from the Kaitainan proverb at the head of the chapter on the Accompamtive Case m R V Yun's Galach First Book, used by thousands of students on scores of worlds Gwipoot gwigiltzun, gwinau gwisptitim, Gwipoot gwigihtim gwinau gwispiizrni "Without Guild, no spice, without spice, no Guild") Disregarding fantasies such as the claim mat melange was a gift from aliens desiring the reunion of humanity, we are left with only two serious possibilities independent discovery by the Guild, or a disclosure from the Bene Gessent F.