ails the work done with early thought machines which the Sisterhood saw as an expedient means of streamlining the programming of its breeding programs The Mother House kept its own mnemonic records of the charts, into which the machine-programmed breeding charts were integrated, allowing more complex experimental breeding patterns Voice Sierre Kaikifani describes at length the infiltration of the controllers of the thought machine by the Sisterhood She was the chief programmer for the offTerran exploration undertaken by a political coalition of the northern, southern, and western powers From her commentary, it appears that the Mother House, through Voice Sierre and other worn en like her, used the expedition to develop the eventual seeding and breeding plans for off Terran colonization Voice Gfenoa Riche tells of the first global attempt to regularize the structure and training of the "Benc Gesscnt," as it now was named Since Watlachta had lost its name and political integrity, an extensive under ground network of women working within their separate political jurisdictions developed centers where breeders were educated, where breeding charts were maintained, and where new skills such as psychohnguistic analysis were developed At this time the southern unit had emerged from its millennia of politt cal stasis to compete as an equal political power strengthened by control of a major energ) source Thus the women of the south were finally free to join the Sisterhood as active participants Another interesting point made by Voice Glenna concerns the process used for memory activation among the Reverend Mothers of her time Apparently a rapidly developing chemistry simplified the physiological and psychological memory transferences Until then, transferences were controlled primarily through non chemical physiological and psy chological training techniques Lnfortunately for our purposes, the major portion of this tape is still being studied by chemical ex perts at the Chapter House on Ix The por tion of the tape available to us does include Voice Glenna s description of a radical southern Bene Gessenl unit which developed a chemical stimulant to activate latent males, and in the process produced a savior figure who led a jihad to rid the world of "corrupt Modern Infidels ' After years of devastating war in the southern territory the Mother House finally directed an assassination which eliminated the core of the jihad Voice Glenna also comments, on a northern radical unit which sought a chemical process to activate the male memory within an active female This unit argued that men were extraneous unsuitable saviors, having failed in this role over the millennia of the family s development They planned to collect flash-freeze, and store breeder semen and then to eliminate men completely The Mother House dispatched this unit before they could implement their theory Much time was needed to complete the global network, during which women gdmed some public power, even governing for brief periods here and there For the Mother House this was a time to establish strong educational units m politically powerful societies The BENE GESSERIT HISTORY BENE GESSERIT HISTORY schools developed basic training used by the Bene Gessent for millennia, well into our own time, in an interesting combination of eastern, southern and northern training techniques Reverend Mother Cassms Ida Treac, Director of Educational Analysis at the Archives, offers her interpretation ot Voice Glenna's information Treac primarily compares the philosophy of ancient and modem techniques, noting that training programs in the Archives refer obliquely to apparently the same sources Voice Glenna dibuis,s>es" Also, Treac notes that the implantation of chapter houses within educational mstitu lions was continued by the Bene Gessent into the empire We surmise that such an activity may still prevail today But Treac takes this opportunity to dispel a longstanding folk myth ' Neither our records nor the Book of the Voices links the Bene Gessent m any way with Terran-based, male-oriented educational institutions administered by the ancient Jhesuits, no matter what die records of the Holy Church purport.