ous ' 'We strive for one who ends our strife But in our striving, we work for that which will work against us Only by not knowing where we go tan we advance When we have found our future, we will be embedded m time as the fly is m the amber" Later Voices, however, speak disparagingly of Voice Sedihous calling her an 'Unheard Non-Breeder" Though the Sisterhood became heavily dependent on thought machines, one branch remained devoted to mnemonic records- preserving the Summa and the Mikkro-Fishedotte through the Butlenan Jihad Other ancient \olumes such as the Azhar Book and the Panopha Propheticus were likely protected in the same v> ay R M Treac suggests that the Founding Legends always assumed to be apocryphal, may actually be historical For example, she notes that the Voices from this period consistently refer to Wallach IX as the Mother World, 'as if that planet had always been dominated b; Bene Gessent A Voice Sabhaatha from a period well into colonization reports that the Sisterhood used thought machines to program an early missionary group sent to newly inhabited planets as cultural ecologists, but whose real purpose was to implant protective myths the Missionana Protectiva, tor luture breeders Throughout this period, the Sisterhood con tinued to dominate the programming for colonization, carefully establishing breeding charts and programs, though it tried with mixed success to retain a public image as a religious teaching order The noted cultural ecologist Combos Maliaronno theorizes that the Bene Gessent recogm?ed the relationship BENE GESSERTT HISTORY BENE GESSERIT HISTORY between ecology and social vitality, thus ehoos ing positive though varied ecological settings for the breeders From her work with the Voices tapes Maharonno surmises that off shoots of southern Terran cultures were particularly well situated on semi-and and and worlds, being historically compatible with the harsh climates and productive of hardy new cultures She finds evidence that the Zensunm Wanderers and their descendants, the Fremen, inhabiting worlds drawing on their socio-ecological heritages, produced particularly vital breeding groups (vital enough to be eventual breeders of the Kwisatz Haderach) Maharonno also argues thai temperate worlds produced more sophisticated but less hardy breeders, the Atreides being an exception rather than a norm She is also studying Voice Mahtmka from the Chapter House on Dendros because that purely agrarian world also produced hardy breeders THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD From the records in the Rakis Hoard authenticating the Voice commentaries, we are now sure that Bene Gessent of Hidden Rank Jehanne Butler was the instigator and early leader of the Butlenan Jihad [See Harq al Ada's The Butlenan Jihad Lib Conf Temporary Series 28 or R Silk's The Emergence of Jehanne Butler (Thor Valkyrie) far older and newer views less certain of the Bene Gessera role in the Butlenan Jihad -Ed} Voice Mahanmh gives information about the cu