House Corrino schemes to return to the throne, while the Bene Gesserit make common cause with the Tleilaxu and Spacing Guild to gain control of the spice and the children of Paul Atreides.

He seizes power from his regent mother and allies with the Bene Gesserit, who promise to marry him to Ghanima and support his bid for coronation as Emperor.

The novel chronicles the continued struggles of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood against the violent Honored Matres, who are succeeding in their bid to seize control of the universe and destroy the factions and planets that oppose them.

The Bene Gesserit still find themselves questioning the Golden Path of humanity set by the God Emperor Leto II.

Now they must survive the Honored Matres, whose reckless conquest of the Old Empire threatens Bene Gesserit survival.

The situation is desperate for the Bene Gesserit as they find themselves the targets of the Honored Matres, whose conquest of the Old Empire is almost complete.

The Matres are seeking to assimilate the technology and developed methods of the Bene Gesserit and exterminate the Sisterhood itself.

Now in command of the Bene Gesserit, Mother Superior Darwi Odrade continues to develop her drastic, secret plan to overcome the Honored Matres.

The Bene Gesserit are also terraforming the planet Chapterhouse to accommodate the all-important sandworms, whose native planet Dune had been destroyed by the Matres.

In Bene Gesserit captivity, Scytale possesses the Tleilaxu secret of ghola production, which he has reluctantly traded for the Sisterhood's protection.

The Bene Gesserit have two other prisoners on Chapterhouse: the latest Duncan Idaho ghola, and former Honored Matre Murbella, whom they have accepted as a novice despite their suspicion that she intends to escape back to the Honored Matres.

Lampadas, a center for Bene Gesserit education, has been destroyed by the Honored Matres.

Before doing so, he reveals Rebecca, a " wild " Reverend Mother who has gained her Other Memory without Bene Gesserit training.

Lucilla is then " betrayed ", and taken before the Great Honored Matre Dama, who tries to persuade her to join the Honored Matres, preserving her life in exchange for Bene Gesserit secrets.

Meanwhile, Murbella collapses under the pressure of Bene Gesserit training, giving in to " word weapons " that the Bene Gesserit had planted to undermine her earlier Honored Matre identity.

Murbella realizes that she wants to be Bene Gesserit.

Odrade believes that the Bene Gesserit made a mistake in fearing emotion, and that in order to evolve, the Bene Gesserit must learn to accept emotions.

Odrade next calls a meeting of all the Bene Gesserit, announcing her plan to attack the Honored Matres.

Under cover of Odrade's diplomacy, the Bene Gesserit forces under Teg attack Gammu with tremendous force.

* R 4. 23 – Ne lucem Bene in B flat major

In the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Brian Herbert and Anderson it is revealed that the Sorceresses of Rossak, who possess destructive telekinetic powers existing only in females and have a breeding plan to create more powerful telepaths, had been the predecessors of the Bene Gesserit.

In the Prelude to Dune ( 1999 – 2001 ) prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Anderson, it is noted that the founder of the Bene Tleilax had been a Master named Xuttuh.

The ancestors of the Bene Tleilax are featured in the Legends of Dune ( 2002 – 2004 ) prequel series by Brian Herbert and Anderson.

In the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ( 1999 – 2001 ), Project Amal is an early attempt by the Bene Tleilax to create synthetic melange in order to eliminate dependence upon Arrakis.

Herbert, who was ghostwriting a newspaper column on the general semantics whilst completing Dune, details the ‘ Bene Gesserit ’ mental training method which includes hyper-acute sensitivity, powers of projecting mental will onto others, and even eugenic control of reproduction – ideas not far away from the claims of L Ron Hubbard ’ s Dianetics.

* Carmelo Bene ( 1937 – 2002 ), actor, film director and screenwriter

* Globo Thermo Tour 2009 ( w / Robert Kelly and Al Del Bene ) – In a Shave Magazine review of the Globo Thermo tour, Jake Tomlinson expressed that " his live performance quite enjoyable ", and gave the concert 4 out of 5 stars.

The famous Fazekas – Göröcs – Bene – Dunai II – Zámbó attacking formation, invented and led by manager Lajos Baróti, scored dozens of goals, attracted thousands of football fans both in Hungary and outside the country.

Following on from this, a research article that was compiled with the help of the Minorities Research Group was ' On the Genesis of Female Homosexuality by E. Bene ' for The British Journal of Psychiatry, September 1965, pp. 815 – 21.

Prague became an active center for the Haskalah in the nineteenth century, and the best known among the Haskalah writers there was Jehudah Loeb Jeiteles ( 1773 – 1838 ), author of witty epigrams (" Bene ha-Ne ' urim ") and of works directed against Hasidism and against superstition.

Ferenc Bene ( 17 December 1944 – 27 February 2006 ) was a Hungarian football ( soccer ) player of Újpesti Dózsa, who was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Using the pseudonym " Belcanto Bene ", Benecke was a member of the German punk band Die Blonden Burschen between 1989 – 2000.

Further afield, in India the Telugu Jews claim descent from Ephraim, and call themselves Bene Ephraim, relating similar traditions to those of the Mizo Jews, whom the modern state of Israel regards as descendants of Manasseh.

It aims to create a superbeing that can tap into abilities even the Bene Gesserit cannot, a being whom they can use in order to gain more direct control over the universe.

Later in Heretics of Dune, the Bene Gesserit plan to use Reverend Mother Sheeana's ability to control the great sandworms to build her into a religious figure around whom they can fashion a mass devoted following, uniting many factions in the universe under the Bene Gesserit and against the forces of the Scattering.

Leto and Kailea grow apart, and after the arrival into his household of the Bene Gesserit acolyte Jessica, whom Leto finds attractive, Kailea takes matters into her own hands by attempting to kill Leto.

Jessica gives birth to Leto's daughter, Alia ; whom the Bene Gesserit call an Abomination because Jessica, while still pregnant, underwent the ritual spice agony, thus inadvertently awakening Alia to full consciousness in the womb.

The very superbeing for whom the Bene Gesserit had schemed and waited becomes the instrument by which their order is diminished.

Among the returning people, the Bene Gesserit finds its match in a violent and corrupt matriarchal society known as the Honored Matres, whom they suspect may be descended from some of their own sent out in the Scattering.

The very fact that no one spiritual thinker can be identified as the movement's founder ( names linked to the movement include Amaury de Bene, Giochinno de Fiori and Meister Eckhart, all of whom, at different times, were cited by individuals proclaiming their adherence to the Heresy as the originators of their beliefs ), or claimed to be so, indicate how disparate a movement it was.

When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").

Murbella saves as much of the Bene Gesserit force as she can and they begin to withdraw to Chapterhouse.

The Bene Gesserit intends to use a Tleilaxu-provided Duncan Idaho ghola to gain control of this sandrider, and the religious forces of mankind who they know will ultimately worship her.

In Heretics of Dune the Tleilaxu supply the Bene Gesserit with a Duncan ghola they have altered in many subtle and hidden ways, including the addition of submerged Mentat abilities.

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 females from Great Houses, and install some of their initiates as wives and concubines to their advantage.

To this end, the Bene Gesserit have subtly manipulated bloodlines for generations, using breeding sisters to " collect " the genes they require.

Fifteen hundred years later in Heretics of Dune ( 1984 ), the Bene Gesserit have regained their power and relocated to a hidden homeworld they call Chapterhouse, and the spice cycle has been renewed on Arrakis, now called Rakis.

In Chapterhouse: Dune ( 1985 ), the Honored Matres begin to destroy all of the Bene Gesserit-controlled planets and enslave the populaces of the other planets they conquer.

The ultimate goal of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, up to the end of the novel Dune, is the creation of a male Bene Gesserit they call the Kwisatz Haderach.

They intend to achieve this superbeing through a massive human breeding program, which they have conducted for countless generations ; using careful manipulations of relationships and breeding sisters to " collect " key genes, the Bene Gesserit have controlled and finessed bloodlines through the ages.

Under extreme conditions, a large community of Bene Gesserit will practice Extremis Progressiva, a mass sharing of ego / memories with each other to spread all the ego / memories amongst everyone ; thus, if one survives, they all survive.

In ' Appendix A ' of Dune, Herbert wrote that the Guild, along with the Bene Gesserit order, had been responsible for the standardization of religion in the Dune universe ; they promoted the adoption of the Orange Catholic Bible and offered protection to the dissenting theologians who created this book.

The horror of the pre-born — the reason the Bene Gesserit call them " abominations " — is that they are easily possessed by the ego-memories of their ancestors.

When Bene Gesserit awaken to their " other memories " in the ritual of the spice agony, they are adults with fully formed personalities, and can withstand the inner assault of their forebears ; the pre-born have no such defense.

Much to the frustration of the Bene Gesserit, they do not control Paul, and the events of the coming millennia leave Jessica noteworthy as a figure of history who committed a great wrong ( according to the Bene Gesserit ); in the coming centuries, for a Bene Gesserit to choose her love over the instructions of her order is known as " the Jessica crime.