The Bene Gesserit (/ˈbɛniːˈdʒɛsərɪt/BEN-ee-JESS-ər-it) are a key social, religious, and political force in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. The group is described as an exclusive sisterhood whose members train their bodies and minds through years of physical and mental conditioning to obtain superhuman powers and abilities that can seem magical to outsiders. Acolytes who have acquired the breadth of Bene Gesserit abilities are called Reverend Mothers within the organization's ranks. Some of these fictional powers are analyzed and deconstructed from a real-world scientific perspective in the book The Science of Dune (2008).
Sometimes called "witches" due to their secretive nature and misunderstood powers, the Bene Gesserit are loyal only to themselves. However, to attain their goals and avoid outside interference, they often screen themselves with the illusion of being loyal to other groups or individuals. Their every move is calculated toward a result. As the skills of a Bene Gesserit are as desirable as an alliance with the Sisterhood itself, they are able to charge a fee to school the women from Great Houses, and install some of their initiates as wives and concubines to their advantage. In 1965's Dune, the Princess Irulan is quoted (via epigraph):
Emily Watson as Valya Harkonnen in "Dune. Prophecy." ... "Dune ... The HBO prequel series focuses on the origins of the Bene Gesserit, the shadowy organization responsible for a breeding program meant to bring about a messiah known as the Kwisatz Haderach.
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(This is the same breeding program the Bene Gesserit are using 10,000 years later to try to achieve their goal of producing the chosen one known as the Kwisatz Haderach, an unparalleled Bene Gesserit ...
The cult’s plan was to marry the female Atreides heir to Feyd-Rautha, and together they would birth the Kwisatz Haderach, or Chosen One...Paul is believed by many to be the Kwisatz Haderach and is ...
'Dune 2' ...Part Two." ... Before they were orchestrating the birth of Paul Atreides, who was meant to be a superpowerful being known as their Kwisatz Haderach, the Bene Gesserit were simply a sisterhood – albeit one with lofty ambitions. "Dune ... "Dune ... "Dune.
The religious order had spent millennia matchmaking to create the Kwisatz Haderach, a figure they want to crown as emperor and then control, and with their long black robes and inscrutable plans for ...
And, when the Bene Gesserit messiah, the Kwisatz Haderach, appears, humanity will be primed to follow him ...Paul Atreides, born a generation early, will take on the mantle of Kwisatz Haderach to get ...
In our world, most Dune lore is known ... But then this motherfucker named DesmondHart walks into Dune. Prophecy and everything changes ... Prophecy ... He’s the start of the Sardaukar ... Dune ... He’s the Kwisatz Haderach (sorta) ... Maybe he’s the proto-Kwisatz Haderach.
These space witches are running a gigantic, generations-long breeding program to guide all the great houses and eventually put the perfect person, or Kwisatz Haderach, on the Imperium throne and under their control.
... the films vie for gains of their own within the emerging political structure, even as the sisters begin to develop their emerging mental powers and plot the great work to produce the Kwisatz Haderach.
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Prophecy, and it's absolutely epic ... Set 10,000 years before the birth of Paul Atreides, the spin-off show will focus on the founding of the mysterious Bene Gesserit, an order of powerful women who orchestrated the creation of the Kwisatz Haderach ... ....
