The youth-fill education of Muad'Dib, while he was yet Paul Atreides, during hts first fifteen years on Caladan was m many ways remarkably extensive in others severely limited He lacked playmates for obvious security reasons, and he never afterwards felt at ease with anyone of his own age except Chani He was never exposed to the society of the Caladan peons, the pundi nee farmers although he often expressed curiosity about their customs and may have learned something of their religious practices, which in many ways were surprisingly similar to those of the Arrakis Fremen His father, the Red Duke Leto Atreides, was not, it is thought greatly religious, maintaining the polite indifference of his class His mother, Lady Jessica, a Bene Gessent adept, trained her son in prana-musculature and bindu nervature control, taught him the Litany against Fear and undoubtedly passed on to him some of the wisdom embodied in the Azhar Book However her interest m power, somewhat narrowly conceived, her driving ambition (little though she understood it), and her habitually rigid self-control may have inhibited the natural expression of maternal love From two of his companion teachers, Gurney Halleck and Dr Wellington Yueh, the young Paul imbibed much of the language and spmt of the Orange Catholic Bible Gurney Halleck, a troubadour as well as a wamor, had a quotation for any occasion ready on his lips Dr Yueh's black reputation in history should not obscure his value as a teacher and his personal kindliness, his was the softest influence on his pupil, a ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE 411 ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE religious influence m (he old Ortho-Catholic spirit It was Yueh who presented to Paul the inspired gift of his personal copy of die O C Bible in a space traveler's edition, as they were about to depart from Caladan Paul would later recall this "exposure to the O C Bible at a critical moment" What was it in the gift of this little book, printed on filament paper, that sarred Paul's terrible purpose? It is recorded that he felt its importance for him almost at once A cun-ous accident occurred while Yueh was showing his pupil how to operate the book Paul was meant to begin reading at Kahrna 4611 but he opened the work at die favorite passage of Yueh's Bene Gesserjt wife, Wanna This text (Blake Skul Vis 99) suggests that we may all be deaf and blind to another world about us, Paul's imagination may have been stirred then and later by the thought that he might be the first man chosen to break through to such a wider perception The text Yueh asked him to begin reading, "From water does all life begin," also recurred to him later Two things may be said here concerning Paul's "terrible purpose" First, and most obviously, he quoted the text when, after his duel with Jarms, he was troubled at having to accept fl" water from the Frcmen's dead body, Paul may well have had some prescient intuition of this moment Second, and more subtly, it may be that the text, in its association of the key terms Water and Life, combined subhminaUy with Wanna's text to suggest that in the one idea lay the means to die other Later he would not be able to resist (he challenge of the Water of Life (itself, albert in a context different from that of the Piemen nte, an OC Bible symbol) Yueh made a compact with.