Bene Gesserit

[Mahdi]

There hasn't been much going on latley in the Duniverse, but I saw an article posted on the Dune Emperor forum which I thought you might find interesting. It tells the true meaning of the Bene Gesserit and Kwisatz Haderach:

Bene means Sons, now it also can be used as a begining to a name of a comunity, as the Bene Geserit (the Bene Geserit include also males, only they dont go through the Melange turtures). In the Hebrew version of the Dune books it says Bnot Geserit meaning Doughters of Geserit.

...Geserit, if you pronuance it as Gesherit... Gesher means Bridge in Hebrew, so it fits the Kwisatz Haderach.

Kwisatz Haderach - Should be pronuanced as Kfitzat Haderech, it means A Jump in the Road (or in the journey), FH probably meant it as A Jump in the Journey of the evolution of mankind, which was exactly what the Bene Geserit were hoping to achieve in Paul.

This was posted by Cypher in reply to "Dune Encyclopedia". You can read the entire post there. I have edited the above quote a bit without removing any of the relevant info.