As the dune world's most mysterious organization, the Bene Gesserit sisterhood dates back to the "Badrian Jihad", and some even believe that they were born in the era of Earth before humanity began to colonize space. Originally a group of nuns who pursued pure faith, there was a considerable shift in human faith after the end of the holy war, and the Sorority followed the trend to revise its own doctrine, still believing that the Messiah who redeemed mankind would eventually come to the world, but the difference was that they felt that this process could be accelerated by some eugenic method.
After the jihad, the Beni Geiselit Sisterhood was influential in the remote astral regions, especially those at the bottom, including, of course, the Freemans who lived on the desert planet Arrakis. So when the "spice" was suddenly discovered here, the Beni Geiselit Sisterhood was almost the first organization to come into contact with and use this mysterious substance. Subsequently, as the role of spices was further developed, the Sorority developed more complex and mysterious rituals accordingly, and they found that the substance could not only prolong human life, but also bring amazing enhancement effects to the human body, especially in terms of spirit and willpower.
Believing that the savior of mankind would come to earth through the womb of a woman, the Members of the Sorority did not shy away from sexual matters, and they regarded the collection of excellent male genes and the cultivation of the perfect next generation as their most sacred mission. This program has lasted for thousands of years and dozens of generations, and the offspring born through this program are all women, and the best of the offspring will be selected as new members of the sorority, so basically they are somewhat related within themselves.
Over time, they found that memory inheritance occurs among related members, and that members of the next generation can obtain most of the memories of the previous generation under the reinforcement of "spices". This gave the Beni Geiselit Sisterhood a unique advantage in the transmission of knowledge, and many of its members were quite knowledgeable, and these people were soon honored by the major nobles and even the emperors as guests of honor and advice.
This memory inheritance is limited to the mother's line, and the paternal memory cannot be completely passed on to the next generation of women, they believe that mainly because the two X chromosomes carried by the woman cannot access the memory of the other Y chromosome of the male, so the sisterhood determines that the Messiah who will ultimately redeem humanity must be a male.
After the contact with power, the Sorority became more and more secular, and the use of religious means to interfere in the internal affairs of the Empire became commonplace, although they claimed that their ultimate ideal was still to guide mankind to the path of stable development, but in fact they were more focused on their own interests, and the Sorority gradually deviated from its original goal and evolved into a pseudo-religious organization.
By the time the Dune Main Story takes place, the main contradiction within the empire comes from the power struggle between the major nobles and the emperor (such as the centuries-long feud between the two major families of Haknam and Ertridi), which did not affect the expansion of the Sorority's power, and they adjusted their goals in a timely manner, hoping to cultivate an heir who was both of several major family bloodlines and easily controlled by the Sorority, who led the major nobles to challenge the current emperor and eventually control the entire empire.
The original person to implement the plan was Gaius Helen Mohim (the sorority mother in the film), who had taken a fancy to Vladimir Harkonnen, the youngest son of the Haknan family, who had not yet inherited the title. The young Baron Haknon was quite handsome and personable, with red hair and near-perfect physique, except that he was gay, and Guyus played some tricks (using "secret language") to get the other party to have a relationship with him.
However, the first child of the two of them, because it was not genetically perfect, was ruthlessly killed by Gaius's mother after birth, and Baron Haknon, who learned of this news, fell into rage and raped Gaius, allowing her to re-conceive her own child, which was later Paul's mother, Mrs. Jessica.
Then, in order to punish the baron for his rudeness, Guyus imposed a rare virus on him, destroying his pituitary gland, making him irritable and unable to control his desire to eat, and the baron became obese and ugly.
As for Mrs. Jessica, her perfect genes became the focus of the Sorority's cultivation, and their plan to cultivate the successor of the Empire was steadily advanced. Originally, Gaius's mother intended jessica to give birth to a daughter for Duke Leto Ertridi, and through this girl, she was married to a male member of the Haknan family, and finally gave birth to a male heir who met the requirements. However, Because Jessica fell in love with the Duke of Leto, she secretly controlled her pregnancy and gave birth to a son for the other party, and the Plans of the Sorority were completely disrupted.
It wasn't until Paul Ertridi passed the Gom Jabbar test of Gaius's mother, making her realize that the unplanned boy might be the real Messiah, that the film mastermind used the Sorority's power to pressure the Hakenam family to spare Paul and Jessica when attacking the Ertridy family.
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