ading } In the separate sub-section reserved for the O C B are a complete set of the vario rum edition and a copy of the Orange Ltiurgt cat Manual Researchers were delighted to discover the only known complete collection of the Commentaries of the Commission of Ecumenical Translators (GET) akmg with a large volume of working notes and drafts that were long thought destroyed by the C E T While the public histories of the Bene Gessent indicate that the Sisterhood used the penod of the O C B to refine its own philosophies and practices, especially the Missionana Protectiva, the Bene Gessent copies of its C E T holdings are filled with notations and cross-references suggesting the Sisterhood's malevolent collusion in the chaos and panic that surrounded the preparation and release of the 0 C B However an) firm conclusion must wait unul the Ixian collators and analog retrievers can compare the O C B situation with the Sisterhood s own records The lack of organization of the Atreides Collection seems directly related to the nse of that house and indicates the truth of the contention that the Bene Gessent had viewed that conflict as just another among similar power straggles Atreides records are much more carefully catalogued following the fall of House Comno This changed attitude supports other information pointing to a Uek of conscientiousness in the entire affair and ex plains the minor attention given to the Rever end Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam's vague report on Paul Atreides extraordinary performance under the gom jabbar Among the later, better-kept records are the numerous studies of Pnncess Irulan Comno, herself a product of the school on Wallach IX Also included in the Atreides portion of the Xenocultural Collection are the wntmgs of Harq al Ada-The Holy Metamorphosis The Book of Leto, The Dune Catastrophe and The Story of Liet-Kynes-as well as the invaluable recordings and brief memoirs of Paul Atreides, the Hayt Chronicles (Duncan Idaho 10208 ), and The Book of Ghamma pipbably wntten by the young Leto II 2 Many other volumes in the adjacent sec tions of the Xenocultural Collection are devoted to historical and analytical studies of all aspects of major events and institutions, including a definitive history of the development of the Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles, compiled and edited by Reverend Mother Sapphos Swene Altar, an expansive stud} f House Harkonnen by Lady [Demos] Obnc Harkonnen (a Bene Gessent of Hidden Rank) and even a fully annotated and conected version of the discredited Pirate History of the House Comno The existence of the Xenocultural Collection shows that the Sisterhood fanatically followed me edict to know thy enemy One may only speculate that their perspective on "alien" knowledge may have led to an intellectual isolationism contributing to their fall from power Nonetheless, Leto H often laughingly referred to the Xenocultural Col lection as "that ghafla dump " BENE OESSERIT 1JBRARY BENE GES