ato links to the Bene Gessent term Kwisatz Haderach THE BENE GESSERAT From Voice Vanghu conies the account of a near savior in her era, a man from northeast of the Great Sea the result of twelve centunes of careful breeding He conquered much of the territory surrounding the Great Sed, reuniting gene-camers separated for centimes During his empire, a great library was established staffed by southern women trained for mnemonic breeding chart retrieval These women inte grated the lost charts into their own, forming the tradition which later became the Bene Gessent Sumtm When the empire collapsed with the death of its emperor, commumca tion survived among a core of Mothers who continued to direct the reestablished breed ing charts This core was eventually directed by a unit from a northwestern territory, a unit originally outside of the coalition but a part of the power structure which would later dominate the same geographical area Voice Cornelia tells of what must be the prototype Bene Gessent group She cites the political oddity of her society, a republican form of government granting citizenship to aristocratic women, as the major reason these gene earners were able to organize a cohesne and lasting structure Her group was named the ' Bene Gesserat, ' a pun which publicly la beled them a service group, devoted to bear rag and reanng good citizens But to the members the name meant women who 'bear well " who strive to breed a savior, a living god to activate the female/mate consciousness of the past, the present, and the future These women seem well aware of the pohti cal power of such a person, a power which would eliminate both internal and external threats to their nation The next Voice Claudia details the Bene BENE GESSERTT HISTORY 121 BENE GESSERIT HISTORY Gesserat's elaborate training program for women who, with their military husbands, would colonize conquered territory These "mis sionanes" contacted a northern family unit which had retained active consciousness within selected men as well as within women Though Voice Claudia's nation enslaved the new-found unit, their bloodlines were introduced into the breeding charts From what Voice Cldudia explains of die Beoe Gesserat's intricate political and educational structures, it is understandable that they would domi nate the more loosely structured coalition of gene bearers Voice Claudia also describes the history of a potential and probable, active-trait male in her territory He declared himself a living god-emperor, and through marriage to Bene Gesserat Livia produced several generations of active-trait males One appears to have been the first known Abomination, a man who heard "voices" and claimed to be both male and female, but whose actions were so perverse that Voice Claudia refuses to describe them She does say, however, that the Bene Gesserat then prohibited certain memory* transference practices and began new training procedures to safeguard active females against