he Mentals (founded in 1234) who sought to replace machine thought with perfect human logic While the Sisterhood employed many of the same analytical methods as the Mentals, the order argued that the universe could not be completely or accurately under-Stood through isolated objective analysis Such analysis was useful in individual events, but synthesis was gained through intuitive interpretation Throughout this period, though, the Voices agree that though the overt image of the order was that of service the actual objective of the educational and breeding programs was to gain control of the power bases of the empire The ancient desire for a humanity united by an active male conscious ness apparently had been forgotten, sub merged in a single minded objective of breed mg a Kwisatz Haderdth who would rule the empire As Xlecthian of Ix said early in the God Emperor's reign The problem of get ting what one wants comes m discovering too late what one has asked for In her Commentaries to the Voices Our Lady and Mother Ghamma discusses the irony that both the jihads in our history were begun by Bene Gessents but she also points out the differences between the two women Jehanne Butler began with a well-thought-out purpose and with the full support of the order but Lady Jessica, Our Lady's grand mother, deviated from the order s plans disrupted its purpose, worked against her own mother Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam and began a course of history which BENE GESSERTT mSTORY BENE GESSERIT HISTORY eventually deprived the Bene Gessent of most of its power Our Lady and Mother adds that the motherhne of the God Emperor had been obscure until her work with the Voices Leto II refused to acknowledge his connections with an order he so clearly detested, and Our Lady adds that her discovery was further hindered by the suppression of Mohiam's Voice by the Voices of both Jessica and Paul When Lady Jessica produced a male rather than the prescribed female child, the order discounted the birth, even though Jessica's daughter would have been bred to produce a Kwisatz Haderach More importantly, when Mohiam tested her grandson with die gom jabbar, discovering an unusual degree of strength in him, she kept the te&t resuUb a secret, giving the Sisterhood no warning that a potential Kwisatz Haderach was among them [The Emperor Paul confirmed the gom jabbar test, but we have only the word of the Bene Gessent that the J? M G&ius Helen Motuam did not report as results Why should she not have informed her order about the possible success of a twenty-thousand-year plan7 One need not be overly skeptical to suspect that the B G failure to co-opt Paul is here being extenuated by making a scape goat of Gatus Helen Mohmn -Ed ] Thus Maad'Dib's power came as a surprise to the order, and its attempts to control his breeding proved completely ineffectual Our Lady, in her Commentaries, is quite critical of fee Sisterhood One must understand the stance of the Bene G