shigawire voice pattern recordings was made by Ghamma as she let the Voices of her memory lives speak through her Over 2,400 voices have been discnnu nated thus far, some speaking in languages which may never be translated, for some Terran languages were apparently never incorporated into Galach The Bene Ges^ent itself has teams of specialists in ancient languages working on translations Ghanima's project took her over two hundred years of patient work and it seems to be her major contribution to Leto's library That the voices are genuine is probable, such an extensive forgery being an almost prohibitive task Positive comparisons of the Book of Voices patterns of Lady Jessica Paul Muad'Dib, R M Gams Helen Mohiam, and Lady A mini with authentic shigawires of their voices ap pear to support the validity of the collection Much of the work done so far on The Book of Voices has been supervised by Anna Judehic with the help of anthropolmgimt Maro Ghappato and psycho-mythologist Mees Pentamettare Also Of interest to historians is The Welbeck Assessment, the annual Bene Gessent overview of the state of the Impenum The only form of this compendium previously available was The Welbeck Abridgement available m the Chronicles reference section R M Mcaam has opened the Welbeck room con taming the volumes from Shaddam IV through Leto H for study Judehic and R M Treac were shown the Aator Book Index and the Panoplia Propheticus Index but they were not allowed access to the holdings Since the Azhar Book is con tamed m three rooms and the Panoplia ProphetKus fills two rooms, obviously the volumes m the Library's General Collection are merely selections from the original The I Azhar Book Index shows entries through the Holy Church into present theology indicat ing that rather than being a historical document, this is an open ended collection And though the Missionana Protectiva was supposed to have ended long before the Atreides time the Panoplia Prophettcas Index indicates that it too is an open-ended current collection Hadi Benotto Director of the Dar es Balat Project, has requested that both collections be opened for research Judehic noted the curiosity that the Tleilaxu Godbuk Index was with the other two indices-a strange associa tion since the Bene Gessent Library has this item included in its Xenocultural Collection When questioned about this idiosyncrasy R M Moiam refused comment finally in the Research Section is a Medical Index which lists intriguing entries such as The Medical Aspects of Melange Rejection Cellular Activation and Regeneration Celiu tor Restructuring The Cases ofDiincan Ida ho and Hwi Noree and Cellular Interchange Leto II Benotto has also requested that bio-medtcal engineers be allowed access to this material The Bene Gessent Archivae holds the se crets of all of our pasts Is the order c^n be persuaded to open its resources to academic scholarship our culture could benefit from its own past We could more easily discnnu nate between what we now think of as myth and what is actually history J A C Further references R c, LIBRARV B r HISTORY Maro Ghappato Miraculous Voices at Rak s (Diana Synonym) BENE GESSERTT CHAPTER HOUSE The Bene Gessent Chapter House on Wallach IX is all that remains of a once extensive network of twelve chapter houses multiple branch sisterhouses and a complete educational system This network was governed by the Mother House on Wallach IX and functioned from centuries before the Butlerian Jihad until the reign of Leto 11 General mforraa tion foand m the Chapter House Library for example The Founding Legends and special ized material from the Bene Gessent Ar chives (transmitted through Reverend Moth er Cassius Ida Treac Director of Educational Analysis for the Archives) describes Bene BENE OESSERTT CHAPTER HOUSE 114 BENE GESSER1T CHAPTER HOUSE Gessent facilities on all of the House Major worlds and on some House Minor worlds This empire-wide institution flourished until Leto confiscated the goods and property of all the chapter houses except die one on Wallach K and then closed the Mother House itself The Founding Legends as weH as the Papers of Incorporation indicates that the initial Bene Gessent complex was located on Wallach IX The planet itself originally was colonized by an early form of the Sisterhood connected in some obscure way with the agency responsible for the planet-seeding enterprise Apparently the initial facilities housed no more than 12,000 people and accommodated a small space flight station, a record holding facility, a thought machine complex, training schools for mytho-expan-siomsts (an early version of the Missionana Protective7), cultural ecologists.