"Kwisatz Haderach" is the name of a prophesied messiah in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe.
In Terminology of the Imperium, the glossary of the 1965 novel Dune, Frank Herbert provides the following definition:
KWISATZ HADERACH: "Shortening of the Way." This is the label applied by the Bene Gesserit to the unknown for which they sought a genetic solution: a male Bene Gesserit whose organic mental powers would bridge space and time.
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"Kwisatz Haderach" is the name of a prophesied messiah in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe.
In Terminology of the Imperium, the glossary of the 1965 novel Dune, Frank Herbert provides the following definition:
KWISATZ HADERACH: "Shortening of the Way." This is the label applied by the Bene Gesserit to the unknown for which they sought a genetic solution: a male Bene Gesserit whose organic mental powers would bridge space and time.
The Kwisatz Haderach is also known as "the one who can be many places at once" in the texts.
The Bene Gesserit hoped to create a male who could survive the ritual spice agony that changes a female acolyte into a Reverend Mother, a male thus capable of absolute powers of prescience, able to predict all possible futures and to cause select threads of time to be realized through manipulation. A female Bene Gesserit was limited:
She ... was confronted immediately with a cellular core, a pit of blackness from which she recoiled. That is the place where we...
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