¨You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war.¨
The Fremen said of Muad´Dib that he was like Abu Zide whose frigate defied the Guild and rode one day there and back. ´There´ used in this way translates directlyom the Fremen mythology as the land of the ruh-spirit, the alam al-mithal where all limitations are removed.
The parallel between this and the Kwisatz Haderach is readily seen. The Kwisatz Haderach that the Sisterhood sought through its breeding program was interpreted as ¨The shortening of the way¨ or ¨The one who can be two places simultaneously.¨
But both of these interpretations can be shown to stem directly from the Commentaries: ¨When law and religious duty are one, your selfdom encloses the universe.¨
Of himself, Muad´Dib said: I am a net in the sea of time, free to sweep future and past. I am a moving membrane from whom no possibility can escape...
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The Bene Gesserit program had as its target the breeding of a person they labeled ¨Kwisatz Haderach,¨ a term signifying ¨one who can be many places at once.¨ In simpler terms, what they sought was a human with mental powers permitting him to understand and use higher order dimensions.
They were breeding for a super-Mentat, a human computer with some of the prescient abilities found in Guild navigators.
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-Dune
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