the possibility of personality "possession Voice Oaudia recited the "Prohibition against Abomination" "In the male and female consciousness there reside personalities of such evil and such power that they endanger the species They stand ready to dominate any untrained soul When one's soul becomes dominated, possessed by such an ancestral evil, one beeosjes an Abomination, a fleshly house inhabited by a monster Immediate death is the only release for such a soul The order will take precautions to guard a bloodline while extinguishing the power of the Abomination " The period when the Bene Gesserat was active seems unusually wett populated by tnbal "saviors " From the southern unit came a savtot strong enough to produce disciples who proselytized deep mto the northern territories tater Voices continue reports of his power, but our analysis of this entity is inhibited by the Holy Church's impounding all references made to this figure m the tapes that have been translated Guard Bible spe ciahsts are the only people allowed access to these translations Another active male is reported by Voice Morfudd to have known both the ancient past and the distant future His hneage shows a conjunction of the Bene Gesserat lines with the newer northern family lines This particular male, Voice Morfudd tells us, rejected the role of savior, choosing to be an adviser to a king rather than the king himself (she notes social prohibitions against his taking power, being outside the regularized marriage lines of either group) Voice Morfudd tells strange stones disputing this man's "death," dormancy mjths like those told of Leto II in the Holy Books of the Divided God She also notes that his powers were transferred through folk myth to the leader whom he served a man known for millennia in his culture as The Once and Future King '' Ghappato surmises from the Voices after Morfudd that these reincarnation and resurrection myths reflect a family group within which an active male strain existed for many centuries, at least When the gene alogies transmitted by these Voices are incorporated into the Summa breeding charts Bene Gessent Archivist Re\erend Mother Maunus Ins gCopaleen hopes to be able to trace some of the more influential lines into the active lines produced by our empire, perhaps even to Leto II himself The next dozen or so Voices report an extensive period of female subjugation m both northern and southern cultures The southern culture was ruled by a heavily patn archal family empire its women s breeder groups functioning primarily through a hareem system built on communication links within extended families Any hope of these gene-camers for overt influence m their society was frustrated for several millennia But within the hareem, this group continued an extensive, though covert, training and breed ing system The northern unit had less success in maintaining contmuitv during this period When the empire governed by the Bene Gesserat s nation collapsed the