d ovum We wish to breed and BENE GESSERIT HISTORY 126 BENE GESSERIT HISTORY capture psyches, an accomplishment possible only through human to human interaction ' The Sutnma shows that the Bene Gessent continued its breeding program after the Ji had through planned marriage and selective concubinage, soon controlling the breeding lines of the Major and Minor houses which developed during the Impenum Details of the post-Jihad reorganization of the order into a publicly acknowledged, influ ential agency are given by Voice Reverend Mother Tercitus Mananna Clanque The reorganization made public the primary ranks of the order, but the Sisterhood continued to use Hidden Rank as needed Some of the more important chapter houses became well known empire research institutions (the Komos Chapter Houie was reorganized as the Primary Research and Genetic Sciettce Institute on the newly named Ix) But the political strength of the Bene Gessent m its new public role came not so much from its educational institutions as it did from its ideology of "hu-manness' The Sisterhood gained access to political centers by serving as "truthsayers " During the Machine era, leaders depended totally on "he-detectors" to determine veracity m any negotiation With the toss of these machines, and as Voice Clanque adds, "with no reestablishment of human trust," the Bene Gessent tnilhsaymg training made die Sister hood a necessafy pan of all major, and most minor, political and economic meetings The Bene Gessent was employed m this service within every major House and later also became involved with the Guild As Voice Clanque notes, there were few secrets from the Bene Gessent She adds that the order also made public its ' gom jabbar * test as a means of insuring that no machine-bred am mate were allowed to masquerade as humans The public remained hostile to these machine breeds for centuries a condition that allowed the Sisterhood more freedom to test its own breeding line for sensitivity and for Kwisatz Haderaeh potential The details also, of the Bene Gessent activity in the C E T and the influence of the Azhar Book on the Orange Bible are discussed by Voices who participated m the work Fatha Mecq expert on the Guard Bible contends that remnants of the Sisterhood s influence can still be found in the Holv Church (see her monograph Azhar Echoes for Toda;' Sofia 489 191 250) Later Voices also claim that the Bene Gessent was known throughout the Impen um as a religious service and teaching order women devoted to truth and virtue whose mission was to lead society out of the holo caust following the machine era into a new era based on the combined powers of intellect and intuition Late in the second Impen al millennium, the Sisterhood added an amendment to its Creed ' Reserve an attitude of distrust for anything that comes m the guise of logic " This addition carne partly in re sponse to machine thought but also as a counter to a new, competitive teaching order t